The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-09-10
Latest from the South
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REPORTED CAPTURE OF
DUVALL'S BLUFF.
Two Gunboats and Seven Transports
Captured by the Rebels,
HOOD DEFEATED BY THE
GENERALSHIP OF SHERMAN.
Reported Capture of Moseby.


We have received files of Richmond papers to
the 9TH inst which contain the following interest
ing news
THE REPORTED CAPTURE OF DUvALL's BLUFF,
ARKANSAS.
From the @fo5Hc Register, SeptsmJsr5 ..
A special despatch to the Register from Sena-
tobia to-day says -
Scouts report the capture of DuvalPs Bluff,
Ark, with two gunboats and seven transports.
General Grierson, with cavalry and artillery,
has gone across the river from Memphis
Twelve transports, loaded with troops, passed
down the river from Memphis on Friday night.
Their supposed destination is White river.
The circulation in Memphis of the Metropolitan
Record, Freentan'S Journal, and Chicago Tribune
has been prohibited.
Nothing new below. Three Yankee vessels
are OIL Dog river bar.
TIE POSSESSION OF ATLANTA THE FRUITS OF
sHERMAN's OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES As TO
HIS PLANs-DEsPATCH FROM GEN. HOOD, ETC.
From he Richmond Eramiaer, September7
The most interesting item of news received
yesterday is the following despatch from General
Hood
LovEJoY, September 5, lS64.-General Bragg
The enemy Withdrew from my front in the direc-
tion of JOnesboro last night.
J. B. HOOP, General.
Sherman may have withdrawn to Jonesboro
with the intention of remaining there until his
railroad communication can be completed up TO
him; or he may be projecting another extensive
flank movement similar 10 the one which has
Just given him Atlanta without general engage
ment. He may try to throw heavy body of his
troops between Hood and Atlanta 1t is plain,
from his recent operations, that il is more an
object with him TO throw himself in Hoods rear
than to storm positions. He no doubt reasons,
that could he succeed in etlectng lodgme ent be-
tween Hood and Macon, Hood would be com
PEELED 10 attack him, or abandon Macon without
a blow. A very few days will disclose his plans
We hope our general will penetrate them still
earlier.
THE EVACUATION OF ATLANTA.
We have learned little in relation to the aban-
dOnment of Atlanta which the intelligent reader
might not have inferred from General Hoods
official despatch, published on Monday. 1t APP
peared from that despatch that Atlanta had
been abandoned suddenly and in the night, and
the inference was inevitable that everything in
| the way of stores and munitions of war, except
what our men could carry on their backs, had
been destroyed prevent falling into the hands
| of the enemy-stOres had TO be burned, ammuni-
| tion blown up. Such was the case.
We have what we deem authentic information
| that our whole loss in killed and wounded in the
fights at Flint river and the next day at Jones'
| boro was not thousand men, killed and wounded.
| This fact has one bad aspect. Those fights lost
us Atlanta, and the small1ess of our loss in
! killed and wounded, proves Rhat by generalship
| alone the enemy got possession Of the city, in
| defence OF which Hood had intended, as all the
world knows, % deliver a desperate battle. The
fact is, while Hood thought the bulk Of the Yam
|
! miles in his rear, on the Macon road We hope
he will be on the lookout for a repetition Of the
| movement.
| THE REPORTED CAPTURE or MosEBY.
| From The Richmond Examiner September 7.
For several days a report has been geing about
| 10 the effect that Moseby, our prince of gueTas,
| had been captured by the enemy. We have been
unable TO discover any foundation for the story,
| and think if il had been true, we should have
heard it through the Northern papers if not
| through other sources.
| THE EXCHANGE OF NAVAL PRISONERS.
From the Richmond Examiner, SepL7
The Mobile Register announces that onr Ex-
| change Commissioner has received word from
| the Federal Exchange Agent at New Orleans,
that the surgeons brought there with the prison.
| ers from Mobile bay, are ordered to be sent to
| Pascagoula on the first flag. .of-ruce boat.
We are told that the Commissioners have ar
| rived at perfect understanding with regard to
the exchange of the naval and Fort Gaines pri-
! sOners, and that in the course Of two or three
| weeks, as soon as prisoners can be delivered on
| both sides, we may expect 10 see our gallant
| boys return.
| THE COMMANDMENT OF PETERSBURG CONTINUED.
| AN ENGAGEMENT LOOKED FOR on THE SOUTH
| SIDE RAILROAD, ETC.
| From the Richmond Erambsr, SEPT. Z.
The Petersburg. papers of yesterday report
nothing new in the situation Of affairs. The
enemy keeps up his sheling as usual. On
Sunday night 1t was furious. This elected a
| response irom our guns, and they opened rapidly
| fTom Fort Malone on our right 70 the AppOmat-
| tox on our left The boInbardment was terrific,
| and the cannOnading was heard TO a great dis
| tanoe in the country. Many citizens could not
resist the belief that general engagement was
| pending, and quickly hurried into the streets.
| At one o'clock, however, the sound of the last
gun ceased, and all Was again quiet on the lines.