New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-22

The Rebel Gen. Hood cries out with indigna-
ton at the order Of Gen. Sherman sending away
tho few remaining inhabitants from Atinnsa.
He says ait transcends in studied and ingenious
cruelty all acts ever before brought toiiny atlcn-
lion in the dark history Of war"
Hood hayi-.sbeen whipped and oot- generated.
now assumes he role of martyr. Like parson
Nasty. pastor in said church in charge he
understands the importance Of the marty.
The prctensc H. ingenious; tie occasion Is favor
able; it will powerfully appeal to the sympaihies
Of Northern CoppcThoad5 agains, the baTtarsn
of Lincoln and his butcher" generals; 1t VIII
help tho election. To those who are familiar
with Tie conduct Of the Rebel generals and their
army during the late campaign in Georgia. The
virtuously indignant attitude of Hood is lu-
dicrous. Not Atlanta only, but every village,
town and hamlct-ucarly every house from
Rincgold 10 A.lau,a-was swept clean OF i,s in
habitantE dunng the running fight into Georgia
by compulsory orders Of the Rebel generals No
cn,reaties, 10 arguments suliccd for those who
wished to rcma;n hy their homes. They were
denounced as Liucolui,es and traitors II
thoy dared 10 hint that they preferred
their homes and the risks OF the Yankees
advent to following the fortunes Of the retreat
ing Rebel Army. II they persisted, their iarus,
houses and barns were always stripped, making
il impossible for them 10 live. The universal
pretext for the outrage was" If we don't take
your stock, your bacon, your corn, the Yankees
will get it." Not an able.bodied white man or
negro was left behind from Bulzard's Roost to
the charlottesville. For weeks before Gen. Sher-
man reached Kenesaw, and captured Marietta,
the whole OF Middle Georgia was densely popu-
lated by refugees from towns along the route
pursued by The two armies. Resacca, Calhoun,
Adairsylllc. Rowe, Cartervilc, Kingston, Cas-
Vile Dallas, Alatoona, and finally Marietta and
Atlanta were swept as with a broom. Old men
and women, invails and cripples we're about
tho only human beings lcf; behind, and those 9
in nearly every instance, had to he supplied
with food by the army commissaries to keep
them from starvation. II was part Of their
policy to cripple the Union Army by leaving
this class to be fed out of its commiSsarat.
Scores of people who concealed themselves
to escape being driven from ihcir homes
state that first persecution, then threats, and
finally force was used to compel them to fall
back. This Of course, obliged each family to
carry with them most or ali their provisions
thus accomplishing several objects Of great i'm
poriance to The Rebel leaders--kcepng the peo-
pie from holding any intercourse with the
"Yanls," and depriyiDg our forces OF any food,
aid or comfort from a resident population.
They found all towns, all faun-houses, along the
route swept and garnished by the Rebels be-
fore they arrived. Thousands of people would
have remained at their homes if they had been
permitted to do so by the Rebel generals III
Johnstons army.
The same wholesale expulsion Of the people
AID negroes Was carried out in Atlanta.
Nothing but the sudden and unexpected evacua.
ton of the place by Hood accounts for tho larger
number of families found here than at Marietta
aud other places. But they are chiefly the
families of men who are in the Rebel Army,
or who, from fear or compulsion, have gone
south.
1t would no doubt please Gen. Hood if Gen.
Sherman would now consent TO feed this deserted
and dependent crowd, and permit them to re-
main whore. - i'll hundreds Of cases heretofore.