The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-04

runs the Charleston and Memrlss railroad, its ava
rage distance from the line dividing that State from
tennessee being about twenty miles The Tennessae
| river runs through Alabama in about the sarno a;
reeuon, winding about little more than the ra;l-
ROAD hne and crossingit in several places. Whom
| MOOD started on his new movement he ken+ so,.h
OF the railroad and river, having the rasarvoa ,
viege OF crossing either at any point he found
| Venent. When Sherman found he ooula M. oo.h
nm after his last effort at Lafayette he turned north
and went TO Chattanooga, from xhenco bo s+o.o, -,
Inc same line with Hood, except that he is marching
on the north side of the Tennessee with the bone or
meeting the Confederates at the point they shall at
tempt TO cross The railroad line mentioned having
been destroyed he is compelled to foot it over
| mountainous and barren country. He placed
Thomas at Bridgeport, with corps to guard that
point, and, on the 18th, Sherman himself with the
main army, making for Gunter's landing, to
stop Hood there. As Hood was within nights
march of that point the 22d ultimo it is pretty
certain that he could have crossed if the river was
not too high, without any interference from his an
tagonst.
Sherman has been making strenuous efforts to re-
lay the track from Chattanooga to Atlanta so that
ne may getnway the cars, engines, guns sd materials
left in the city after the successful destruction of the
road by our forces. To cons,mmate this end he has
been making temporary track on the timbers cut
from green saplings and trees along the road. Our
cavalry, however, have been annoying his working
parties to very considerable extent and materially
retarded the work and the use of the road They
dash in at all points along the road, and after cut
ting and destroying places of the most importance
disappear to pounoe it at some fir-distant point
INy
prevented, up to the present time, from receiving
any communication with Atlanta.
The correspondents with Hoods army agree that
no general fight need be expected Immediately, as
Sherman is too far behind and has transportation
to march with rapidly. Very large supply trains
have been passing up to Hoods army for the last
fortnight. The enemy, under Fitzpatrick, have made
several desperate efforts to capture these trains but
thus far, unavailingly Wheeler is keeping them in
check raid, however. is anticipated upon the
Alabama and Tennessee railroad in the direction Of
Selma.
Some of the Yankee. garrisons recently captured
inNorthern Georgia raw recruits, in camp of in
structon, who had not yet had issued to them
FROM MOBILE
III this quarter there is said ba considerable ac-
tivity, though at loss 10 know what il |
could be about, unless it he the extremely un- |
healthy state Of that region this season OF the
year. |
MISSOURI.
The Yankee press, at last, have Price out Of the
way, but howl about his four hundred WAGON loads
Ut pluHder Pleasanton said Price~ had burned |
these up 70 keep him from, getting them and his |
ten thousand horses gotten in Missouri from the |
= fee labor" Yankee squattersl settlers OF the
State.
The Ola General i not done with them yet They
will hear from him when they least expect it.