The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-23


General J, hnston being relieved, and General
Hood receiving the command. The following
is General JOhnstOn's farewell address 20 tho
Irtops:-
J. IEADQrARrTRs AMY or II VNEssRB, July II,
ls6i.-In obedience to orders 0t the War Deptrt-
mem, turn over 10 General Hood the command
OF the Army snd Department of Tennessee.
cannot leave without expressing my admiration
Of the high military qunli'cs iJ has displayed so
conSpicDOusly y-eyery soldicry virtue, endurance
uf toll. obedience 10 orders and brilliant courage.
The enemy move bnt To be severely repul.ed and
punished. You, soldiers have never argued but
from your courage and never counted your fe lrs.
No longer your leader, will still watch Your
career, and will rejoice IN your victories To Que
~ all Z tier assurances OF my friendship, and
bid an aiiCCtiOnate farewell.
(Simed) J. T.. JnTNs roN, General.
General Hood, on assuming command, issued
the iollj wing address -
HEADaUARrBRs ARMY OF TENNESSEE, July
lS, 1854 Soldiers In obc dience TO orders from
be War Department assume command Of this
arm and department. feel The weight of the
responsibility so suddenly and unexpectedly
deN olved upon me by this position, and shall
bend all my energies and employ all my skill
10 meet its requirements. look with confidence
% your patriOism TO stand by me- and rely upon
your proves to WRIST yOur country from the
grasp OF the invader, emitting yourselves ~ the
proud distinction of being called the doliyerers
Of an oppressed people.
(Signed) J. g. HooD, General
TeeEraphic communication rith Montgomery
was suspended last night near Notasu'gl. The
interruption is supposed to have been caused by
portion of that part of the enemy who were
rrI olted to be at Taladega on Saturday. No
train has arrived to-day from West Point. The
main forces of the enemy crossed the Chatta-
hUuCbee between Ishams Ford md Rosswell,und
are slowly pushiug forward. cavalry skirmish-
ing took place this morning Gi Buck Head, six
miles from this place.
THE SITUATION.
From the Richmond Examine, Jllg ~.
Yesterday was quiet day. There was no
booming of cannon, no heavy masses of smoke
on the Southern horizon, and no exciting rumors
nom any quarter. The fact that the flags of the
Yankee shipping in James River wer0 at half
must on Monday, caused many to give credit TO
The report of Graut's death, and this topic and
the removal OF General J. f.. Johnston from the
command of the Army of Tennessee, were the
topics that chiefly occupied mems minds. Though
no one believed his death would be of any great
hencfit 70 us, yet every one won have been glad,
on general prime PIES, TO have been assured of his
| death. The Yankees think too much of him, and
that is sufficient TO make reiOco over any mis-
fortune that might belall him.
We have nothing later from our forces Opc-
| rating in Maryland than the news published yes
| rrday. Other officers and men, wounded at
houocacy, arrived yesterday; but they bring
nothing new, except that they estimate the num-
| Der OF horses OBJ aimed and scared by US in the
| rid as seven instead of five thousand.
| The oily news we have from Georgia is con-
taiDtd in the press despatch, puhlishedin another
column. From that it will be seen that affairs at
| Atlanta begin to wear serious aspect. Sherman
| al his whole army has crossed TO the east bank
| of the ChauachoOchee river, auJ his cavalry were
| skiTmi, hin with Hoods, within six miles of
| Atlanta. II Atlanta is TO be defended, battle
| must he delivered within very brief period. If
the enemy is allowed To intrench having the
| larger army he will Immediately outfank Gene
| Ia Hood or oblige him to fall back.
The eyes of the country ale anxiously turned
| 10 this quarter. The despatch alluded % says,
| The army and the public were surprised by the
| announcement of the change tof commanders" /"
| The army and the public ia Virginia have seen
and experienced such strange things in the lAst
three years, as TO have lost the faculty of being
surprised at anything done by those in authority.
| From the Richmond Er0miHsr.
The expedition has also shown
how easily such things are done against an enemy
that attempts enterprises beyond his strength,
| and strips his own capital Of defenders 20 swell
his ami, sent against distant cities. Oar troops
| are charmed on the whO'e with the late cam
| Iaign. They consder that five or six thousand
| hor' es, two or three thousand cattle, and eight
| bundr, prisoners, ali brought safely across the
PO omac WXc,pt Franklin and Tyle) WAS no
ba0 result OF few days dash into Maryland.
1bty won one small bat 10, and they lived
we /; the lighting was good, the eating, aud espe-
| Gully The uInkiDg was GLORIOUS" and In short,
Mr. Linco ms Official organ declares that "the
RI bells are ilattered because they have put
Washington and Baltimore iH terror, that they
will lot hesitate 10 repeat the experiment." We
!
Possibly, ton, our Government may az last
nut OF this we are not sanguas-fnd out that It's
huty 10 its own people doe really require il 10
hunt Il lt le the enemies Of mat people, when IL
nas the power. Aud II not, thea the people them
selves Will begin 70 conclude that the worst enemy
they have 10 the Government which they esta6-
lished Tor their protection
now 70 PROTECT sourulrN RAILROADS.
IRON no Ric6moN3 Eggm'N % .LH. l5.
| OF such glorivns rumors as those which per-
vdded the tO"n on yesterday il IS best 10 decline
dihcOutse ill we know whe her they are truths or
Hly IL uSioDs OF hope. Lot II. tend 10 another
| epurt Of Il different char. fsr-that Grants
rANalTy has started on hr,h raid against the
| WcloOn Railroad.
one OF the marked peculInri les of the people
vi h whom We wrr IL, that hey pub ish their
| military intentions in new %. ers before CON.
WCuciug u cir execution. Ole of the peculiari.
les of the singular herd Of small pOlit 'ians sci
ycT us at Montgomery, is r~sOuIe dish lief in
al Information tuat comc, % them through a
/ plain, ordinary pubic channel.
| Although thr rrsul' has hun lred times proven
bat Ihe plan made puhll. in the New YORK
| paper was really the plan of tic enemy's G ner Il
u Government, they cannot comprehend the
t,ct that The enemy does so give nOtic5 of their
designs The publication is 10 them a perfect
prCOi that they are going 10 do something else.
! They could not believe that the campaign in
Virginia Was intended, chiefly because the
scheme was universally published. They pay as
little attention 20 the pau now ascribed to Grant
| by that same press. That plan is simple-tO keep
a large army close 10 Petersburg aud Lee, while
cavalry raids cut the railroads leading into Rich
mond as fast as we can mend them.
This plan will be successfully executed if the
Confederate authorities do not devise q method
Of defending the roads. IL is useless 20 resist
# the cavalry can ride 10 about the time the work
is completed and undo it in couple of hours,
They must defend the roads. They must defend
the roads by other means than the single method
hitherto attempted, because that method has
proven utterly and invariably ineifsctual-thert
has not been solitary exception in the course o
! the war.
The single method yet imagined or tried is, tC
send our Confederate cavalry in pursuit Of thu
Yankee cavalry. But, as one body of horse viii
90 ms fast as another those who have six hour
start are not Oyeraken before the goal IS reached
After the destruction Is done aud the Yankee
raiders have 20 return, they are sometimes me
! and sometimes not. When collision occurs, Ou
cavalry sometimes beats them, as they did th
other day. But the railroad is broken and tht
beating does not mend it,
| The object being the salvation of the roads /
IS clear that another means should be employed
| itWould seem 70 aR observer that OF all kinds 0
communicaliony railroad shOul be the easiest 4
! preserve and defend Steam Is stronger thai
| h0gse-fesh locomotives move faster than cavalry
and a single train can transport a large body q
troops 10 any point on the line IN few hours
But large body Of troops is not necessarv 4
| hot. 10 odt nfo lrxr