Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-11-23

4 n AcbtSf 10 tue DOsLOn SOQrnai, iron
Marietta, Georgia, gives the following gos
siplng account Of the condition Of th,
! state and its people: 2 .'1f. I'D
} iraQ r9giA DEsKRrEp rILLAsR.
spent two days at Dalton, Georgia
} Whoever wishes to lave viVed eencep
} tion OF the devastations wrought by wa
can obtain is BY . visit 10 Dalton. Wher
came from the front, some weeks since
thought it had the most desolste Iool
Of any place had ever seen; for the de.
pot is partly burned down, the Offices ar,
shut, there are no signes Of trade; anc
} close beside she railroad are two lsrer
hotels, several stores and more than /
dozen houses, without doors or window
glass, open. bearing the marks of violence
and long dssertion, and tenanted. b,
no living soul. Only the basement o
one hotel is occupied by the cook house
and bakery of the Sanitary Commission
the agents Of which. when train of sick
and wounded soldiers arrive, hurry oul
with baskets Of buttered bread, and pals
full Of smoking coffee, to supply theii
wants. o-. .-,..t,.- -
But when you travel through the town
the scene presented is more melancholy
still. 1t was brisk business place once;
There Is q long street of stores-but they
are all open, empty, dirty; the shelves
without single article on them; the
counters hacked, sometimes broken down
and always filthy; all but half dozen
three ocsupied by suffers with scanty
stock, which they sci. to the soldiers and
citizens, a. one Of them truly said, Every
dear, for cash." the Others by few fam.
lilies of refugees who have lately come In,
and whose lank, yellow, tobacco chewing
and snuf-dipping women only serve t.
make the desslation more 5hideous and
Il il the same with the dwellinks.-
Not many of the old citizens remain, and
what few are still there will soon be or
dsred of, for their husbands are in the
rebel army, and General Sherman. it is
rumorsd, has ordered all such people to
be sent to Dixie 20 be cared for by their
legal protectors. The greater part Of the
houses ara occupied by the poor white
trash' from Northern Georgia, who have
recsntly come down in considerable num-
bsrs to join Home Guard regimeat
which they sre organizing now. Who
ever comes TO town takes the frat empty
house he finds, and there are still enough
and to spsre.al ii i0 i5uats- - 6.
There were large numbers of colored
people here before Wheeler,s recent raid,
but thatseared them away further North.
s.isJ iA TEE CoLoRED TKsoPs. st i1
1t waa at Dalton that the first fight oc-
cured in this department between the n
gro troops and the rebels Many of
Whesler,s men had relatives in Dalton
wives, sisters, and other kinsfolk-who
were eompelled to see the mortifying
sight Of the sons of the South driven out
Of town at q double quick, if not at
triple quicker, by the negro regiment -
But this il not the only Humiliation they
have had to endure. Some of the sol
diers that garrison the town were form
srly held as slaves within il, and now
they can order their old mistresses aud
young missusses" to halt and show their
passssl No New Euglander can imagine
how CALLING such . state Of things must
bel
There were only three or four loyal
men in Dalton, and they were obliged to
hes.- but they have since returned Let
me say again that the testimony seems
uniform As to the fact that the poor
people we're almost uniformly loyal, and
were either sosxed or conscripted into
the rebel ranks. This war, therefore,
emphstically and eminsntly. is slave
holdsrs' insurrsstion. g., a9f-
AvoIcE FROM TIE TooXBs.
1t was near this place that Ex-senator
Toombs made his famous boast-or, to be
more accurate, one of his famous boasts
that he would agree to drink all the
Yankee blood that would be spilled dur
ing the war, Tie thought that the Yam
kees could not be whipped into fight.J
And yet, the people here say he has new
sr been in any fight. /
The rebel army eacamped at Dalton
last winter. The Union lady at whose
house ! stayed never heard any of their
officers boast what they could do-prob-
ably experience had taught them to be
less sangine than. they once were. The
only person whom she heard utter great
threats was qusrtermsster, who was for
war to the-knife, and forever.
TIE GEORGIA TRsoPs.
Nearly o regiment of the poor whites
Ito be known as the First Georgia infant
ry-is already organized. An attempt is
being made to have the government ac-
cept another regiment as home guards
IOF Special. Uuty III tuC nuly bOIbhCih
counties, where the loyalists-nearly the
whole populatIon-hsve been cruelty per-
secuted by the rebel authorities. The
whole aVowed purpose Is revenge. They
wish to have the power to hang, shoot
and destroy, in retaliation fer the wrongs
they have endured. They wish in other
words, to be federal bushuhaskers, sup
ported, armed and equipped by the ma
tional government. e.. .ciI- r.-
These poor people are very yindictive;
they are ignorant. too; but their misfo:-
tunes have taught them the whole phi
losophy of the rebellion. They never
talk of rebels, but these "big nigger hol-
ders;" who, they say, must at all events
be killed, and their estates divided up,
or the Union will never be secure.
"You can't get principle out of a man
unless you kill him, " said one of them to
me. 80 .,.. ..-, ---...l. -.--..
That's fact" said the other, ''you
must kiln man to get the principle out
of him. .fgII--. -.-,-- f......
The frst speaker went on to show that
the 'big niger holders" were Thorough.
ly aristocrstic; that while the land and
labor the poor must necessarily be driven
to the sterile mountain districts; and. as
q consequence, that tie same class who
brought on the rebellion would be again
in power, and constitute the state, and
/ reproduce the present state Of things in
lSfsT ysAys.a Fer, he said, this war has