Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-09-12
IaTK REBEL NEWS.
The FAN of AtIauta---The Place OF NJ
Consequences.

From the Richmond E1amipsF, sept =
It's notifying certainly to have been
Obliged to abandon Atlanta to the Yankees
not that we attach any especial value 70
the place, but that they do. The reverse Is
not so much material as moral, and ATTAIN {
ia was never strategic point, so much as
a point of honor. 1t was once, to be sure
called the "Gate City;" but that gate has
long been off its hinges; and is one of those |
e Messages that lead to nothing" 1t would
surely have been entertaining to witness
the disappointment of Shermsns officers,
and especially of the eloquent press CORES
pondeats, on entering the streets OF that
aoltv,n whose possession has cost them suen
aoods of blood. They had evidently form
ed q rather grand idea of the place, and
one correspondent, in composing has letter
announcing its fall and the entry OF the
Federal army, shout three weeks before II
did fall, described the tramp OF the col
uunns through the "sombre streets, ana I
the Stars and Stripes floating from its tow
ers and domes. Now, In fact Atlanta |
was a sort Of a place which would be catl'
| ed Gcity" nowhere else than upon
! this continent; no doubt it was
/ intended TO be city. The streets are
there, chiefly shaded by original growth.
1t was one Of these raw and lnchoate
! Hcities" which have besn advertised and
gotten up by speculators in lots, at various
| 1oints Of railroad Intersection. The reader
| knows Weldon everybody knows Weldon
but too well. Now atlantis was but an
other and little larger Weldon. The cea-
tire and heart of the place was great
gloomy shed into which, at various hours
4 of dAy and Ii ht, the locomotives OF four
railroad companies rush with dreadful
shrieks. As Weldon has two miserable
] hotels close by the railroad, so Atlanta had
three, also miserable and squalid, and also
near the railroad shed-but all at one side
Of II. whereas those of Weldon are at the
two opposite sides. Before the war there
was very little sign of life in the dreary
place. except when trains came in or wenf
! out: everybody coming in demanding ur-
gently when he gould haye an opportunity
Of going away again; and those WHO had
been Obliged to remain two hours, eagerly
Fastening to departing train-for nobody
seemed to stay in Atlanta one moment
longer than absolute necessity compelled
him. insomuch that one cannot help sur
missing, now the Yankees are there, that
they will be In hurry 20 evacuate. Many
/ is the traveller who has passed from two 70
flour miserable hours In that "Gate City,
and to him, looking forth from the hotel
porch upon the city that sprawled around,
It seemed to be 9 mere collection of bar
rooms billiard saloons and 2 BARRIERS
shops, with lew lottery offices.
ATLANTA-How TO BRING OUT THE REBEL
STRENGTH.
fFrom the Richmond Sentinel Of the 7th
Our people see in these calculations Of
the enerny's officials the necessity of rrlly-
ing our strength, and administering to
: them the lessons which hard blows Teach
! even to dolts and braggarts. We shall
have to fight the harder for the encourage
ment which Atlanta has given the enemy;
. but little more activity, & sterner cour-
aga 9 rekindled resolve, will soon bring US
to rights again. And our armies, too,
must be strengthened and supported. The
/ statistics we published the other day, show
that we have an abundance of men to
r make and maintain larger army than
9 the enemy ever brought against US, or ever
' will. We must bring out these men,
f There must be no skulking or hiding, and
g none must be allowed. The youths who
: are arriving at the military age, must NOT
f be detained from the post of duty and Of
? honor by the tricks and expedients OF mis-
taken friends. They must be sent to the
: field with fathers injunction 70 be brave
and true, and with mother prayer that
/, God will preserve them, and make them
I sons to be proud Of The enemy are
: this day enforcing their draft
{ and conjuring their people to sub
5 NIT to it, by assurances from high quarters
that this Confederate people, in whose veins
' the blood courses as proudly, and whose
J heart is as brave and arm is as strong as
. ever, is almost conquered nothing more
, being needed than to send comparative
handful more of men to crush Us down,
: and keep US 50 foreverl
Let our country answer the libel and the
5 falsehood by shout Of defiance, and by
, the CLEAN of their armor. Let US be ready,
with .our new men, for this new horde
when they come. They will come to take
: the places Of the cid warriors-the three
years men and othere-will our brave
. bows who have been burning to be seven
! teen and eighteen, shrink from the contest
3 with thee2 Will our reserves count il a
! hard thing to stand, if need be, besides our
> glorious veterans now in the feld2 We
f must all arouse our manliness, and knit
shield to shield, and teach the braggart
Stanton that the fight is but fairly begun I
! A thousand maledictions on the head Of
him, young or old, who fails in his duty to
: his country nowl The praises of history,
the reward of an approving conscience, the
/, favor Of Heaven will be his who shows
/ himself patriot and man. E
: THE REBEL VIEW OF THE PRUDENTIAL
t .rs ELECTION,
, IFrom the Richmond Examiner.1
Tee South is to act the controlling part
r Of the Northern election. The issue of
November, is to be decided by the armies
: of Virginia and Georgia. LincoIn's whole
/ hape OF reelection begins and ends in nil
| itary success. Without some decided
t achievement by Grant or destruction Of
' the Georgian army by Sherman, every
, State at the North will cast its vote
, against him, except Vermont and Massa-
chusettS. The onus Of success is upon him.
r The success must not be moderate; but
r great enough to promise decisive inAu-
. ence in securing the objects for which he
| | Is conducting the war. If he fails to ac-
: complish something worthy of the great
, exertion he has made in the campaign, he
. will be beaten at the polls, and new par
l. 49, - ha