Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-06-10
WAR ITEMS.

The Nashville Times has Intelligence that
there are no earthworks at Atlanta, uness
they have been made within the past month.
There are a few batteries and line OF rifle
pits. Chattanoocbe hight, which are eight
miles this side Of Atlanta have been well for
tilted near the point where the railrotd
crosses the river, but they can easily be aank-
ed. The abandonment oi Dalton cast deep
gloom over many rebels who had before been
confident Of success. 1t was expected that
Johnston would make d stubborn and trium-
plant resistance there, if any place, Major
Moore, Of Johnston's staff SAID few weeks
ago " If we can't hold Dalton, we may as
well give up, for we can't hold any place
Johnston is conseriptng with merciless
riSor. Men with one hand, one arm, one
leg, or otherwise manned, are conscripted,
and put on duty in hospitals, so as to allow
able bodied attendants and guards to 60 into
the ranks. Great indignation exists in At
lanta and in the country round about at this
cruel oppression, and many Of the people
wish to see Johnston defeated, so that they
may be rescued from an oppression so remor-
seless and horrible. The region which Gen.
Sherman is now approaching is the great
manufacturing region of rebeldom. Years
before the rebellion, large amount Of North
ern capital was invested in iron furnaces and
cotton factories, and it has been a windfell to
the rebels
1t is estimated, unoffically, that the cap
lures made by the federal army during the
advance of Monday to Bethesda church num-
bered four thousand, and 1t is thought at the
war department that our loss does not exceed
one thousand.
The battle for the possession Of Hanover
Court House, on Saturday last, appears to
have been one Of the most terrific cavalry
hghts during the wal for, according to the
Washington National Republican, the rebels
were driven from their position, leaving ne
thousand men, killed and wounded, upon the
field. Our loss was about three hundred
killed and wounded, of which number fifty
were officers This last fact shows that our
officers were in the thickest Of the conflict"
Rebel pickets say that during Sherdan's
great raid Filz Hugh Lee thought he had
completely cut off bis retreat aud sent word
for jeff Davis and Gen. Bragg to ride out
and witness the sport OF capturing the Yam
KEGS. Mr.. Davis, accompanied by Gen.
Bragg, did ride out. When he arrived, the
9Th New York and 18th Pennsylvanis, of
Devin s brigade, Torbett's division, were dri-
wing the rebels from Meadow Bridge. They
came to see how fast the Yankees could run,
and behold, their old Virgnians were too
fieet-iooted; for the Yankees pursued them
hard, but could not overtake them.
The Herald's correspondent with the James
river fleet says deserter from the rebel ram
Richmond states that Fort Darling mounts
fifty guns, and is considered impregnable to
gunboats. Three rebel iron cads are now
lying below the fort, preparing to attack our
feet, aided by several freships and a num-
Der of Internal machines. The freships are
to be drfted down to our vessels in flames
closely following will be host of torpedoes
to explode on striking our gunboats, and in
the excitement the rebel iron clads are to
make an attack. The rams are plated eight
inches on three feet solid oak, and each
has a beak several feet long, with power
fol submarine battery attached
There was narrow escape from a terrible
disaster at Resaca on the evening of the Oath.
While thunder storm was raging, stack
OF hxed ammunition, amounting to forty or
NIFTY tons, was struck by lightning and the
powder burned in several boxes of rifle car
trldges but, fortunately, it did not commu-
ni'ate with the vast heap Of loaded she'll
The Herald's Fortress Monroe dispatch.
says kautz was to have started on an impor-
tant mission on the night Of the ID. The
destination was a point of most vital impor-
lance to the enemy, and would assist Gen.
Grant materially.
When Admiral Porter's feet went up Red
river 1t seized all the cotton to be found and
cent IL TO New Orleans as naval prize "
Gen Banks had issued an order for the seiz
ure Of cotton belonging to rebels and the reb.
Ell government and purchase Of the staple
from loyal men, all to be sold at auction and
the proceeds placed in the United States
Treasury This is the honest way to do it.
Since Grants hanking movements, f" flank. (
ing is the term used by the soldiers to de.
scribe almost everything. A brave fellow the
otter day told correspondent that he saw a
shell coming but, hadn't time to flank it,"
The shell had thanked him and taken off one
of his arms.
A Fortress Monroe letter to the Boston
Herald says that duringa rebel attack on
Gen. Buffers rifle pits on the % inst, nearly
all OF two companies Of the 7th Connecticut n
regiment armed with the Spencer repeating
rihe' we're taken prisoners. We captured 4
two hundred rebels, and a considerable num-
Der OF the killed and wounded of the enemy
were left in our hands.