Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-12-01
GEN. sHERMAN's ADVANCE IN GEORGIA.
REBEL ACCOUNTS.

We have the best authority for stating that Gov. Brown
has received dispatches from Gems Cobb and Wheeler,
stating that Sherman had burned Rome and Marietta de-
stroyed the railroad behind him. and with five army corps
marching towards Macon. Wheelers cavalry at last
accounts had been driven in at Jonesboro and the place
occupied by Shermans army We give these facts not to
alarm the public but rather to prepare them for any
gency 1t is thought that Shermans march will be ia the
direction of Savannah.
From the augusta Sentinel Of the 18Th.
A gentleman who arrived on Thursday evening from
Stone Mountain reports that the Yankee column moving
down the Georgia railroad divided at Decatur one half
going down the Covngloa road and the other the Rock
bridge road.
At Stone Mountain they burned all the unoccupied
houses comprising twothrds Of the town, and
laying waste the country they progressed They march
in hollow squares their trains in the centre They united
at Bakers Mill Cevington, and il not known
whether they would strike for Eatonton Athens This
gentleman says that the view from the summit of Stone
M0untin of the conhagrat0n of Atlanta was awful be-
yond description The Gate City was an ocean Of fame
as the fiery rose and fell throughout its whole
extent
Passengers on the Georgia railroad last night reported
that about hundred Federal cavalry made their ap
pearance at School Circle Thursday and burned the
Ioroad platform 1t not believed that they have
camped ut Old Shefslds Wednesday night. 1t
reported that they have burned Monticello and Hills
boro, which. if true, indicates clearly that they design
tapping the Central railroad Gordon or some other point
The passenger train the Georgia road yesterday only
came from Union Point.
From the Macon Intsltigsncer
The latest reliable intelligence from the front in Geor
ga have received from gentleman who left Griffin
Wednesday night at ten o'clock Gen. Wheeler fought the
enemy who was advancing with force estimated at from
twenty-five to thirty thousand two columns one on the
McDOnough the other the Jonesboro road at Bear
creek, tens miles above Griffin until late in the evening"
when be fell back to Griffin and passing through that
city its right when our informant left Onr infantry
forces falling back to Barnesvle. 1t is probable at
the time write, that Sherman occupies Griffin and will
rapidly demonstrate upon Macon, and perhaps Misdge
1t reported that Sherman has applied the torch to
large portion of Atlanta and has burned JOnesboro also
also reported that he ha. destroyed the
railroad from Atlanta to the Chattahoochis and burned
the bridge at the river on that road
We learn from reliable source that Governor Browns
residence in Canton Cherokee county embracing his
modiOus dwelling house, kitchen outhouses &C. together
with his Office building were all burnt to the ground by
the vanda foe few days ago. The officer in command of
the vandas who sent to execute the work they
ruthessy and successfully performed allowed the family
who living the premises at the time only fifteen
minutes to their furniture from the house, and all
that not removed within that time devoured by
academy both the hotels and about of the best
dwelling and business houses in Canton force Of
three four thousand of the vandAs within mile
two of the town. while seventy Of the band
sent into the town. under officer with orders to burn
the house of Governor Brown the public buildings and the
houses of all who have been prominent Southern men.
1t evident that Sherman has inaugurated wnter
and that Georgia tie field which he designs
% desolate terrible crisis s therefore upon Every
in the State able to bear should rally to the
From the Sapannah Ns,os of Nooemtsr 2la.
We were in hopes last night to receive further
,ouns from above which, if they did not aay the public
anxiety would at least acquant with the true state of
lairs in which all feel lively if not painful interes
but nothing additional to the meagre and unsatisfactory
reports published in evening edition has reached us
rom any quarter. From all learn we believe that
sbermans forces the vicinity of Jones county and
hat he is moving in easterly direction, if designing
o reach Augusta or perhaps Millen. Medgevie is en-
ely evacuated all the public archives and property hay
ug been removed to place Of safety Whether the enemy
burned occupy the capital of the State not
reliably informed 1t is hardly probable that they have
the opportunity pass to indulge their malignant vandalism
The mail went out for Macon last night and of course
need expect from that quarter to-day; and the
telegraph communication is interrupted must expect
to receive of the important movement going on
through the regular channels at present few days will
reveal the extent of the danger.
From the Savannah Ne,os of None mbsr 2la
We still without reliable information of the precise
Of shermans army. The reports which we
publish from various leave to doubt that
the invading army advancing through the centre of the
State with view to reach the coast but yet we have
no certain information of the route which it will take Our
latest and most reliable advces that the enemy in
force the vicinity of Monroe and Jones counties and that
considerable body crossed the Ocmugee river at Planters
Factory seven miles west of Indian Springs, taking
direction which would indicate his purpose TO take Augusta
in his route to the seabosrd Whatever may be his designs
we have assurances that military authorities arc
actively the alert and that all possible steps srebeing
taken TO check and finally defeat movement which is
either promoted by reckless confidence by despe
alton We grated to hear that feeling of confidence
prevails among our people, which, with the unanimous
determination to aid the military at all hazards and at every
cost gives assurance of successful resistance to the
vandal invader.
The Augusta (Georgia) Consttutonalist Of Tuesday,
the 22d instant, in article the situation says
The only reliable information of the position and move
ments Of the enemy up the Georgia road h that the bridge
over the Oconee has been burned by them Their infantry
force still the Atlanta side Of that stream This bridge
is seven miles above Greensboro Up the river from il
fourteen miles 10 the Flat Shoals Crossiog and below nine
Augusta"
In urging the people Of Georgia to place all obstructons
possible in Shermans line OF advance. the Constuonalst
says:
1T 10 the duty Of the officers in command TO that his
road 10 made difficult and forage and provisions removed
and destroyed. Squads of should be securing the
country front of his advance with orders TO urge the
people first to forage and dismantle and secree