Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-11-10
LATE sOUTIIEIsN NEWS.


Richmond Dates to tho 4th Of Novem-
Bsr---speculations ON Hoods Move-
mcnts---Speeches OF Generals Hood,
stephen ID. Lee, Cheatham ana Bcnu-
regard.
From Richmond papers of Friday last
4th inst, we extract the following interest,"
ing news paragraphs:
There was a happy time with the rebel
Army of the Tennessee, just previous to
leaving Gadsden, Ala, for the onward march
against Sherman. A correspondent of the
Selma Reporter gives the following sketch
of the occasion and its incidents: sff
A large crowd, with a band of music, ap-
peared before General Hoods headquarters,
the Baptist church, and called him out
The General looked very well. He said he
congratulated us on the prospect before us.
He said our advantages are better now than
during the old campaign in Georgia. He
said there have been great accessiOns to the
army from the hospitals, convalescent
camps and men on furlough; that they
would all move off next morning for the
valley Of the Tennessee. General Hood did
not say he would cross the Tennessee, but
we all understand it. He said Sherman
could not hold Atlanta and Nashville, too !;
that in the next battle he expected to lead
his army to victory.
General s. d. Lee was called for. He said
Sherman is like the man who caught the
tartar. He sacrificed nearly all his strength
to get it, but did not know what to do with
1t after he got it. He said Sherman could
not keep up his communications long, and
that he will soon be forced to leave Atlanta,
and if he meets us on Tennessee soil or
elsewhere he will get the worst whipping
that any Yankee has got since the fall of
Fort SUMTER and VI will wipe him from
the list of Yankee officers.
The crowd then went to General Cheat
hams quarters. This General said he ap-
peared at their request, but not to make a
speech. There was time when he could
talk about the Yankees, but it makes him
mad to talk about them now, and the en-
thusiasm which he sees exhibited, justifes
him in saying he cared not for the odds that
might come against him, he expected moth
ing but victory in the next conflict.
We then repaired to the headquarters of
General Beauregard. In his usual modest
way he appeared and said he must be ex-
cused from making speech. He would
say, however, that he had come to the Army
of the Tennessee to remain with them un-
til their present campaign ends. That he
thinks he sees faces that he has seen at
Shiloh and other battle grounds, and as he
then directed them, so he expected to do in
the coming battle with Sherman.
Interesting Summary of Movements
of the Contending Armies Immedi-
ateIy Preceding the battle i'm North
Alabama.
From The Richmond Dispatch. Nov. Al
Since the transfer of the seat of war from
Georgia to North Alabama news from both
armies comes in more uncertainty and slow
ly. Almost entirely across the extreme
northern portion of Alabama runs the
Charleston and Memphis railroad. 1t is
very short distance from the line dividing
that State from Tennessee, being distance
Of twenty miles. The Tennessee river runs
through Alabama in about the same direc-
ton, winding about little more than the
railroad line and crossing it in several
places. When Hood started on his new
movement he kept south of the railroad and
river. having the preserved privilege of
crossing either at any point he found con-
yenient.> When Sherman found he could |
not catch him, after his last effort at |
LAFAYETTE. ne turned north and toent TO Chat
ta,,oooa, from shence he started on the same line |
,oith Hood, erceDt that he is marching on the
north side of ue Tennessee, soith hope Of meeting
the ConJederates at the Detnt they shall attempt
to cross the railroad line Rentioned as hav-
ing been destroyed. He is now compelled
to foot it over mountainous and barren
country. He placed Gen. Thomas at
with one CORPS. to guard
that point and on the 9th General Sher-
man himself, aoith his main army, gds max
ing for Gtinter's Landing to stop Hood there. as
Hood tods soithin nights march Of that point
on the 22d ult., ii ispTetty certain that he could
haze crossed, If the river was not too high,
without any interference from his antagon-
ist. Sherman has been making strenuous
efforts to relay the track from Chattanooga
to Atlanta, so that he may get away the
cars, engines, guns and materials left in the
city after the successful destruction OF the
road by our forces. To consummate this
end he has been making temporary track
on the timbers cut from green saplings and
ever, have been annoying his working par
ties to very considerable extent and ma
terially retarded the work and the use of
the road. They dash in at all points along
the road, and after cutting and destroying
places Of most Importance, disappear, to
pOunce on it at some distant point. BY
these active operations Sherman has been
up to the present time, from re-
ceiving any communication with Atlanta.
The correspondents with Hoods army
agree that no general fight need be expected i'm
nnedidtely, as Sherman is too far behind, and
has no transportation to march with rapid
ity.
Very large supply trains have been pass
ing up to Hoods army for the last fortnight.
The enemy under fitzpatrick, haze made several
desperate efforts TO capture these trains, but thus
far unsuccessful. Wheeler is keeping them
in check. A raid is, ho,oeuer, anticipated up
m the Alabama and Tennessee railroad, in he
direction of Selma. Some of the Yankee
yarrisons recently captured in Northern
Georgia were raw recruits in camp of in-
'truction, who had not yet had arms issued
% them.
IT is said that an earnest man is collect
ng the different varieties of osths which
he Administration agents have forced up-