Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-10-13
THE NEWS.
FROM NORTH GEORGIA.

The enemy We luoge from the report gwen IN INC
Herald Of the 10Th, have very little intelligence from
North Georgia. They cay there is no direct intelligence
from General shermans headquarters later than that
already made public.
The Herald in i.s extremity hes to depend upon the
Dnpatch of this city for information as regards :he
change of position of Hoods army. After abiding to
the cheering accounts received through Southern pa
pers the Herald adds: Gan this Boosting may look
very fine to newspaper readers in Dixie but an officer
on General Grants STAFF, directly from Atlanta, assures
one Of our correspondents at City Point Va, that not
the slightest fear Ia entertained in reference to General
Sherman's position that his army provisioned and
supplied for fifty days. aud that t Is expected he will
soon make Hood repent bis rashness In placing himself
just where he now is wherever that may be. One Of
our Washington correspondents says that Hoods
ment Is already known to be complets failure, and
hat the will not be surprised TO soon learn
Of such victory BY Sherman will result In the de-
slructon Of the entire rebel army 10 Georgia."
Why don't the Herald send reporter South and get
reliable information instead Of the above miserable
stLf which every man, woman and child In z Edmond
knows Is false.
GEN. srEARs WOUNDED.
We learn from Nsf.nsrn papers Of the 10 ID that In
shs dght Of the 7h on the Dsbysown road the rcto-
rieus General Spears was wounded. Hs hsa three
nprsrs rho, uadsr hn. We are very sorry for the
hetses.
pog JAMES p HoLeoNss
This gentleman, WAC has been Recently engaged at
Niagara making peace over!ures 70 the peace Of
the North, after escaping the pers Of wreck OF the
Doo kader, upon which he came 10 Wi mington s now
IN Richmond, locking none the worse for his trip.
THE SITUATION IN THE VALLEY.
inburg the point a. winch our telegram Of yester-
day evening says suffered rsvsrse, losing eight
guns, ia FIVE miles south Of Wood, took and .ss over
ell miles North OF New Market In Shenandoah county
We saw yesleIdsy q letter from 40 officer to prom.
neut clz.n of the Valley, soournius in Richmond,
sh.ch tsys General EAIly's army i, now thoroughly
orsanIz,a, and ready Tor another advance.
FROM THE soCTHwRsr.
We had an interview last night st the War Dspar.s
uent with one Of Breckinridges command, who left
Bristol q. IL o'clock Sunday night He reports that
wen V4ugans cavalry eit for the SLvile fight there
was psrieo stampede of the Inhabitants Of tie town,
out u soon as they learned Of the repuss Of Bubrdss
they returned. 0us forces ct lat accounts pur-
suing tne frightened Yankees. There was some eI-
element the evening he left owing to srumor that $50
Is. Tennessee bush Whackers at Travis Mill only
tour miles from Briatol.
A PORTRAIT OF BURBRIDGE, By AN ENGLISH ARTIST
We did not know what manner of Yankee our Gen.
Williams had sent flying in disgrace and confusion from
ssitvIlle until we saw q letter In the London Times
dated Clifton House, Niagara, August 18th, in which
there is given by tkilfu artist full lsng portrait
ha
poor, betrayed, down-trodden Kentucky. ither TIE
defoimy Of his person, the hideous responsiveness
Of his beastly ccuueuauce are conc alsd or altered
but he s.ardJ out from the canvas living, breath
log, loatb some specimen of moral turpitude.
The London correspop dent-evidenly an Ecglish.
m.n-says that before Barbridgs became Brigadier
he was dealer in mules and asses in which occupation
he no doubt learned III, refined modes Of cruelty he
hes anc practiced.
"Under the preterc, that they havs hsrbored que
las, tuat they have given aid and comfort 10 tie
my, or the vsguer charge that they sympathz ID With the
South he has driven hundreds of the weatbiest families
from their homes in Kentucky and told then in his
choice vsrnacuar, that they could either Go to He'll
or Oanada~ He has declared his intention 10 make Q
wholesome e1 ample OF all SscessioDsts' ard Secs
sion sympath.ers and to tolerate but loyal men
and women on the soil OF KsnnGky' He is partcu.
larry scIupulous in enforcing this law of retaliation and
will not only have eye for an eye and tooth for
tooth but two eyes Tor one eye, and three lives If be
be in the humor to exact the az the penalty for one
At Georgetown q man who had been in the Oonfed-
crate army shot, in defending himself against q mob
citizen. Toe circum stances being reported by
telegraph Gen. Burbrdge, he sent the Provost Mar
shall to the prison. where hundreds of Oonfeds-
rate soldiers were confined with orders take out the
frs. two "that came to hand' AID have them shot,
20 uufortunetes were accordingly aeleced and two
cels hastily prepared to receive their bodies
They then driven through the principal ereets Of
the li!ls town, seated each man upon his con 10 the
place Of execution. Az soon they arrived spade
was put into the baud of each, AMI he was tod to
dig bis grave. This done they were bandaged and
shot with little rerorse If they bad been wild
beasts.
When tse Confederates were at Enue'sburg an
AntiSavery member of the Leg slature shot from q
window Confederate soldier. Being followed by bis
exssperated comrades, they MORALLY wounded him.
Burbridge eelsc.ed, as before three unoendng Con-
fdsrates as realistory vicims who were ordered to
be shot after having been drawn through the town
seated upon their cofins and made to dig their own
yrsvss alter the fashion most approved by this grea,
adept the art and mystery If refined as well as brutal
torture.
The General, however, does not always wait to DO
assured Of the death Of the person whose enemy he
desires to DO revepged. Hearing that man named
Porter hid been shot by guerilas in the neghbcrhood
Of Rufsellve. iu Kentucky, he or cred Uonf dsrase
Lieutenant to DO taken out of the nearest military pri
son, brought to Russelvls and there had him pabcy
shot in the open market place. Porter cared the
siue afternoon alive and hearty, having only suffered
a aesh wound, aud Burbridgs expressed his joy that
there was loyal msn alive whom be had supposed to
BIO dead, AMI zone more Confederate in hell"