The New York herald., 1864-12-11
TIE DEsOLATION OF GEORGIA.
rHE CONDITION or ATLANTA.

rHE CONDITION or ATLANTA.
| From the Augusta Sentinel, Dec. Al
gensisman who reached this city night from H.
lautas repors that the devasstion oty
s TOO awful to contemplate All the hotels and The sscs
from Wesley chapel Peachtrse street. to Roarks
ner ON Wbreha street. have been destroyed. The Cky
| Hall and the churches around 1t DESTROYED.
Soon after the Yankees left Il the country people in s
vicinity rushed 10 or everything tncy could
| get hold or. House' broken open aud gutted.
There arc about ATTY sixty negroes aut shout sx
hundred whites in what is left OF Tho Gate city.
From the Augusta Corstitntiouslist, Dec Al
All the railroad depots burned including the Ias-
scngcr depot All the hotels, touucries railroad Shops
government works AND mills burned 1he churohes
are all uDhurt, except the Episcopal Pain g
Churches Most all of tho city havs
been burned that uuoccupied Just think Of It
city, four months ago. with population of twenty
thousand now about six hundred and seventy five
eighty men; the balance women and children.
There arc soma fifteen or twenty negroes left IN tho
place-the balance have all beensent North. They
burned all the fencing around the cemetery and mos
OF the pang around the graves bursted open the
vault belonging 10 Mr. Gordon, containing remains OF
his wife and the bodies Of three four persons,
looking for gold other valuaes they supposed
had been hid in tho vault.
rHE SITUATION At MACON.
from the Macon Confederate, Nov %
We are glad to notice that muDy our stores have
reopened aud the city again resumed something Of its
business appearance. Refugees rapidly returning
ard before the week closes expect will be
working as they did before Sherman began his march
rHE RAILROADS BEING REPAIRED.
fIiom the Augusta Sentinel, Dec. al
The Central Railroad Company have gone work In
earnest, with large force, repair their road which
N 10 running order Macon nearly to Gordon.
of he cOyn 4, m
work Immediately and repair the West Point Railroad,
which Il Is thought he completed mouths
time The Eowah rou works will be 70 sstabshoa
once. 5+5t tat.
RErosrED oursAaxs QUE rn0oPs AT M,LLRpaa-
WILLIE
A letter IN the Augusta Conaiit9sOndta OF Decsmber
B. from Medgevills, prstends give Of
unheard outrases 70 have been perpststed by
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having any ths true in apy par
ticdlsr:--
An iudi.crimpats nsnuder OF hsasss was nausursssd
Gold watches. silver plate, clohn~anything aud every
thing that could tempt cumdi'y-was stolen In their
sexes thinking 10 sxtcri By torture Cows onckeos and
horses slauthterod most wsntonly The magazine
.,s sr~ %s hssscd W. rssss and ha
broadcas Out Of the they made horse bankes.
The uost dreadful thing was heir violence 70 the
ladies' At least six suffered HE last
One young sr becamc crsyed in consequence. and has
been sent g the asylum Other ladies stripped Of
the,. garments, and in such plight, compelled play
the piano, and, 10 the eveut of refusal switched IN
mcrctuy. Let Georgi'ns remember these thrgs in the
day OF battle
Tho Yankees admirably clothed, and appointed
Facb hsd eighty rounds OF amnuniiian whie ihor
wagons contained liked material without stint. fstcns
tor forty days hid been prepared and they suffered for
| sothng.
4 Very few ,egrsss left With thsu Tho poor dark as
were desperately afraid of their s,liberotors ard
evinced desre to submit themselves to their end.r
| mercics
lady from Mlledgeviie reports grand bAI ths
nght the Yankees renamed there Most o. the negro
| wenches ia town attended but not white female o.
any class Gen. Socurn persuaded OF likely Rr bsoug
.Da TINS lady, promising her $40 mouin. that sbo
should rde 10 savannah IN carriage, aud be Ssut 10
| New York where che shn.li be ires.
We have ffcm several reliable accounts of tile
violation NJ respectable females AT dinsront points by
tbeas brutes young LADY o. - strip cd naked
her cothiug being voleaty or because OF inorms
tion gwen by ter maid thai shs had conceded ewsrv
about her rerscn one LAZY. the wife Of confederate
oicer. was LETT asmaosc Hat we scsp al The r-hcar
OF such atrocities and only put stem record "a
heighcn, possible tho Indignation Of soldiers aud
| unto cur people 10 obtstnng our Independence.
Our pcois defiant and moro united thsn sver
Some admit Of taiut Of reconstruction heretofore but
| they raise the cry of independence death Our
especially, are moro usrved than TO WORK
To svtr and TO pray for In this sense the
march Sherman to ougb Georgia will accomplish good
Another good sign the people are not depressed WREN
Dousson aud vcksburg ielI. but more hopeful OF gnA
results than hsv undar