New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-10
LATE REBEL NEWS.
The Fall of Atlnnia-The Place Of No
stupid Dntchncn Buying
Yankee Rouds-War News aud Runors.


It is notifying certainly 10 have been Obliged
10 abandon Atlanta 10 the Yaukeesnot that we attach
any especial value tOsthc place but that they 90 ne
reverse is not 50 much material as moral, ana Atihna
was never a strategic point, much us pOilt OF
honor. 1t 10 be sure calied the Oate CiY
but tina: gate has long been of IFS hinges aud IS one O
those passages that lead to nothing" IL would
snrey have been entertaining 10 witness the disap-
pointnent Of Shernsns officers. anc especially OF TIE
eloquent Press correspondents, on entering the
streets Of that CITY" whose possession has cost them
such foods Of blood. They mad evidently formed a
her grand idea of the place and one correspondent
IN composing HE letter announcing It's fall and The en-.
try Of tie Federal army about three weeks before did
fall described the tramp Of the columns through It's
"sombre streets" and the Stars ana Stripes floating
from its towers and dCmes Now. In TACT Atlanta Was
a sort of q place when would he called city" no
intended to he a city. The streets there chiefly
shaded by "originai growth 1t was one OF these
raw and incboate cities which have been advertised
and gotten up by spectators IN lots az various pOihts OF
railroad intersection. Tie reader knows Weldon; eve
rybody knows Weldon but too well. Now Atlanta was
but another and little larger Weldon The centre and
heart Of the place great gloomy shed into which
at various hours Of day and night the locomotives of
fonr railroad companies rush with dreadful snrieks.
s Weldon has two miserable hotels close By the rai
roae 30 Atlanta had three, also miserable and squaid
and also near the railroad shcd-hut all at one aide OF It,
whereas those Of Weldon at the two opposite sides
Before the there was very little sign OF lie III Tie
dredry place. except when trains came III or went QUIZ
everybody coming in demanding urgently when he
would have an opportunity Of going away again; ana
those VINO had beed obliged 10 remain two hours eager
~ Fastening to departing raln-for oob1dy seemed %
STAY in Atlanta moment longer than absolute neces-
sity compelled him: insomuch that one cannot help
sufmisng tie Yankees are there. that tley VIII
be in hurry TO evacuate MANY is the traveller VINO
mas passed from two to four miserable hone in that
Gate CITY," and TO him, looking iOfh from the hotei
porch upon the city that SPRAYED around seemed ~
he mere cole elton Of bgrrooms billiard sloons and
and barberB shops. with few lottery Offices. IL Is
true that If any eaicrprsng person compelled to pass
the day there thought VI penetittng some OF th1se
grassy passages called streets lie would discover tina.
IN one or two OF them were several brick stores hnd
houses; perhaps as maj in Manchester, the
river James, but almost all the dwellings were framed
Three four Little churches OF meetng-hoGses there
were showing perhaps small tin cupCla two; but
YOU saw no life motion. II you passed out Of
The open space containing the railroad shed. There
was tho heart the lungs. the stomach. Of Atlanta
There sulen travellers waiting for trains were always
stamping about; often looking Mt their Watches gnaw.
ng in their impatiencs the ends " their cigars ar
utterinE msediclions upon the Gate City. Since the
war began indeed there has been at Atlanta some
few factories carried on upon Government nc
count; and these establishments. together with
the conooCrSa Of quarter-masters. coinmiasnries.
Surgeons and other noncombont appurtenaIces 10 the
rear of an army have gathered there Kind OF floating
and fugitive populations had become favosite
stage or hal,ing place for refugee newspapeis and
talented journals formerly o. Memphis, Of Knoxville
and Of Chattanooga lave nil been FOR some time printed
and published a. Atlanta thus giving 10 the place that
Fictitious air of Importance which has imposed upon
many Conederatcs Outside u Georgia and may be said
10 have completely f0d The Yankees They find them.
selves in Triumphant possession Of rural city with
umbrageOns streets, where COWS lately pastured; but
the cOWs all gone. The Government factories are
stopped. and their Tcntherboarded sheds are scarce
worth burning. Some dapidated billiard tables they
may ind there: dusty counters II lottery ofhces
empty dcmijohns Of long deseted barroons but that
10 nearly all The good Confederate Inhabitants Of the
place have long since reiterated safer Quartere and
those ciLzons Of the Gaze City who remain 20 do the
honors be principally Yankee nachlnisis and art-
sans about tho car-shoTs togeGer wi1A the BARRIERS
who are ready TO shave imparslly Trojan and TyI.an
Now this is presented toer bly, accurate portrait
and history Of Atlanta II has 40 natu 81 Gntlges
whs,soeyer either ior peace Or war. There never was