The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-12-06

in supplies ~ We supposr ne can. In the
nsantims'he sbsnJons % immense tract q
fOeuntry Ia the interior, ever Which, II Is
iapossibls that his army, situated on the
ocean, and closely watched, can exercise
any influence for good or evil.
We do not ZEE that Sherman's last ex>
ploits viii have any effect upon the issue of
The VA, bet sfsr having been told By the
HIGHEST authority in the Confederacy that
his retreat from Atlanta was to be more
disastrous thaa the retreat of Napoleon
from Moscow, IL 10 little vsxatious to find
him getting off 50 cheaply, burning and
numbering Is he goes.
The Richmond Dispatch. of the I'd, says
seven hundred prisoners have been received
ct Augusta, who were captured while fora
ging for Shermsn's army. The Governor
has pardoned oil the eonvicts in the Peni-
tantiary, put arms in their hands, and sent
them TO the front, except those put in for
life, whom he could not reprieve according
to law.
Heavy cannonading was heard all day
yesterday from the direction Of Macon.
It 10 believed to be battle between Sher>
man and our forces.
A letter in the Augusta Chronicle, from
Q member of the Georgia legislature, giving
his experiences in escaping from Sherman's
army-he and others having been taken
across the country-shows the extent Of
the devastation inflicted on the country =
He says:
"Going to McCreddle's place, we found
his fine house in ashes, and his gin houses
burned and every horse and mule gone. In
his lot were about 100 horses lying dead.
They looked like good stock, and were ev-
identity killed to deprive planters of them.
Proceeding on We found every plantation
on the road similarly devastated, except
that no other dwelling houses were burned
until we reached the fine farm of Hon.
Joshua Hill. This is q perfect wreck. A
large gin house, full of cotton, corn cribs
aud dwellings, are all a smouldering ruin.
His loss was greater than that of any plan
ter in this section. Besides the cotton,
several thousand bushels of corn and pota-
toes, several hundred bushels of wheat and
much other valuable property, with every
horse and mule and many negroes, are
gone No farm on the road to this place,
and as far as We can hear towards Atlanta,
escaped their brutal ravages. They rava-
ged the country below here to the Ocones
river.
The roads were strewn with the debris
of their progress, dead horses, cows, sheep,
hogs, chickens, corn, wheat, cotton, books,
paper, broken tables, coffee mills and frag
ments of nearly every species Of property
strew the way side. In Madison they burn
ed the depot and one or two old ware houses
With the Jail and market house, They gut
ted every store and plundered more or less
in every lot, they fred the drug store and
several other houses, and their officers with
q show of magnanimity tried to put out the
flames. Many families have not q pound of
meat or peck meal Of -four; many negroes
were snticsd away from b omes of comfort to
share the uncertain fortunes of q winters
march to the coast and then set free to
starve. Families of wealth have not
house servent left. and those who were the
most trusted, were often the first to leave