Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-09-13


pairing i, und will SION have it in running
order sgain.
The damage done to tho Chattanooga rails
roni by the rsbels is also bsias rapidly re-
paired. Oaly one bridge has been destroyed,
!hat over Stewards creek, fifty feet long.
Col1nel SpAulding was not captured, as re-
ported. II. is safe With dis command.
Captain Price, Il the Tea:h Tennessee, 1sS
killed on Friday.
FROM TIE yALLkV-sHEaIDLE's 6PEsAfloHS.
The following despatch con.a ins The latest
intelligence from Sheridan. 1! seems Early
hes not ystrea:ed so far e. might have been
supposed:
B.RRYYILLE, Va, Sept 6.-The enemy arc
still in Sheridan front, and as fer as can bo
seen, there are no indications Of Elrly's re-
trra: up the Valley at present.
The cavalry corps which left R'ppon's store
% Friday night have returned, having asccr-
tanned that lie enewJ was in stroag force boz
You'd the O:eOquau.
Recruits and c,avs!cacen.s from the hospi-
tala ere arriving in great numbers almsst
every day, and arc being .apidly sent forward
to the front,
4 heavy rain storm has prevailed since
last night, End still continues, making the
transportation OF supplies 70 tie front very
difficult.
]. was expected the the enemy would have
.r;a ,ksd us in our position a. Bsrryville yss-
tsrday, and preparation was n,ade Et .ho held
hospital. fer the reception Of che thousand
wounded but He wer, disappoi uted, ard your
correspondent holds to the opirion th.t tns
energy have no idea Of assuming ME ct,nsive,
but will BIO perfectly content foz she present
with acting un the defensive and hulding rho
Valley.
rns prisoners capturod in the fight on Sa:-
uraay number sCuie sev6asy.
Up to The time 1t writing ;his despatch there
has bean no fighting since Saturday, and,
vita the exception CT iistls picket skiZmish-
iogs, everything il perfectly quiet.
IRON GRANTS ARMY.
The following bulletin Ct Stanton to Dix
explains the cannounde opened On our lines at
Petersburg last lay
WAR DrrARrNIsT,
WpEhiGgton Sept 6-8:lO =. NJ.
Mai Gen. J"IH 4. Dix, New York:
L. honor Of the capture Of Atlanta, GeI cral
Grant yesterday ordered salute 70 be fired
VIII ahGttca guns frou every battery bearing
upon the enemy.
Noihirg has bsen received by the Depart.
ment from Atlanta cuce the All instant, nor
anything south Of Nashville, on account of the
derargemen. Of the telegraph lines by the Pre-
vsi;ing storm.
M movements Of importance have taken
place in tbs SaenaIdcah Valley.
EDWIN ~ STANTON,
Secretary Of War.
IEATH OF GIN. MORGAN.
4 despatch from Knoxville On the 9Th, gives
the following 0iheial report o! General Gi!len,
relative to tho surprise and killing Of General
John Morgan q: titesnville:
Bells GAP, Tenn, Sept. 4, 1864.
To General TILs1N:
eu.prisatt defeated srd killed J, hu Nor
gan ct Gseenrille thia morning.
The killed sre scattered for miiss, and have
not Ye: been counted, and probably number 50
or 100
l have abou. - prisoners.
Among those captured arc inorganic staff,
with oas rInco OF artillery and g caisson.
The eneIn7's force ou.nun bered mine; tut
the surprise ~as eoE pete.
ALVIN C. GuLlx.
THz I!-l74Rs SITUATION STYLE ONE GRANT
AND LEE.
Unter tbs beading the " Herald" proceeds
10 SLOW that the rebels have bus one ARMY
tina; OF General Lee. L. SAYS:
The Confederacy hi. tus ono hrmy left.
P;ftr general actions, skirmishes inaumsr-
shl, and ,hs harIships Of three yeals Of ter
iii. wsliarc, have exhausted, have DESTROYED
entir:iv he ignorant but hardy population
mon which the raael leaders counted TO over
throw the Government Ct the U.i,si STATES.
All ,h,: i" left OF ;has population now tho
rabb's Of Hoods lss. tiirty thousand, and the
ons army under Lee.
N:s-l7 million armsd men have, in tho
three years q is career, fought the battles Ct
the great reteliCn, and We have DESTROYED all
hut til, les: tel IA .: that inmcnee power
Putting down the rebellion ia now narrowed
10 tbs question Of beating Lees army. Is
mus. le apparent to every reasonable pereon
that, With our rrt.en. power, i. cannot be very
diffcrl. t. destroy the one army. Writer'S
in Richmond may refuse to see this, and poll
tiei,ns in our Northern cities, blinded by party
zqnl, may refuse to examine the facts ss they
are but No one disFosed TO use his eyes eaI
deny that the government which has reduced
the innerss power Of the rebellion down to
Eba. is left Of it can by clly ordinary eIe'sion
tini-h the business l3r thas crippled remnant.
With the military situation reduced 70 tie
sim pls iseuc in Virginia, we had that matters
even there ere in the position We could dssne.
Lee cannot, apparently. spare an effective fe!ss
"a strike fer the Weldon road, lest he
should weaken bis line at ether vital
points, aud thus put himeelf even more
Completely within Grants power, 10