Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-10

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The News of che Fall OF Atlanta re
saeived in ESichmond-Censur Upon
the Rebel Government-HOOd
GeneraIahIp pCOndemnsd, SO. 500
q Prom the Richmond Examiner, Sept. 8. a'
The only news Of Importance we have
to announce this morning is frI-
sgsg ,. THE FALL, OF. ATLANTA .'s
After six weeks command of the Army
of Tennessee General Hood abandoned At
lanta on last Thursday night, the 1st in-
slant. An official despatch received from
him on Saturday night, the essential por-
tfons of which we give below, explains'all
that is yet known of the affair: t
.st 5-.s HEApagAnrsss, Sept. 3, 1884.
On the evening of the 30th of August
the enemy made a Judgement across Flint
river, near JoResboro. We attacked them
there on the eyeniugiof the 3lst with two
corps, but failed to dislodge them. ~
This made II necessary to abandon At
lanta, " which was done on the night of the
1st of September. 'h
Our loss on the evening of the slst was
email. .e..s sai1l1E -i-s
: On the evening of the Ist of September
Gen. Hardee,s corps, in position at Jones.
boro, was assaulted by q superior force OF
the enemy, and being uutaanked, was
compelled to withdraw during the night,
with the loss of eight guns. ds5ry sa
The enemy's prisoners report their loss
yety seyere. 'il''. ]. B. Hoop, General.
From the above despatch it appears that
the Army of Tennessee is on the Macon
railroad, somewhere south of Jonesboro,
probably at IsoVeioy's station. Jonesboro
Is, twenty-five miles south of AtlaDtai
Eoyeioy's twenty nine. From LoYejoy's
TO Macon the distance by the Macon rPad
is seventy.foa miles, . srl yi.'z ls
d Though this despatch was not made pnb-
lie till yesterday ! morning, the facts set
forth In itwete the street talk SO long ago
as Friday morning. 1t was then also re-
ported that Hoods army had been cut in
two. From the despatch it is clear that
fthis was at one time the case. When on
the evening of the let of September Gen.
Hatdse's corps, in. position as 5pnesboror
| twenty-five miles south Of Atlanta, was
ASSAULTED by q superior force of the en-
emy,'' and d'ioutfianked,.' q the enemy pushed
lin between him and Hood at Atlantis, and
that night Hood, by striking across tht
country in q southeasterly direction, man
aged to rejoin him on the railroad south o
| Jonesbor0. *. s, r43s -dia tiH q.
How it was that after attacking the enc
my with two corps" near Jonesboro, or
| Wednesday evening, only Hardee's corp
/ was. at Jonesboro, Thursday evening, u
resist the assault of the enemy, can only b
accounted Tor by supposipg that after on
attack had failed 20 dislodRe the enem.
4 Hood Withdrew one of them Is. d. Lee's) L
/ Atlanta, leaving Hardee TO bear the rbrun
4 alone. This he would hardly have done hat
/ he not miscalculated the enemy's designs
He must have believed the main body Q
lSherman's army 70 have been in front o
lAtlnntA, when In faet il was on the Film
4 river, near JonesborO, twenty odd miles {
THE South, ..i- - :.
As 10 the losses incurred on either sid'
4 IEeuetal Hood tells Us only that tour los
on the evening of the sIst (Whsn we 81
taeke6l was email" and that 'the enemy
prisoners report their loss very. severe" -
.tyHe does lot SinlFom us Whethet our loss
! ImkS vas great or smallwbeD, on the even
ling Of the lst, HGfdee, ''beiog out hAnke'
was eenpelIedl ~ wilhdtaE during 4
| night, WiIh tbe Iesstot eight gnns."s "
feel pretty Rs6re our loss on this eeeasto
!. Was not small.
This abandonment Of Atlanta, under Il
cifenmsIances, Is not good Thing, but
far, from being dispirited by II our peop
ought reyereutly to thank God that Is 70
worse, There are many persons Who hal