The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-11-28
Southern News sOf Sherman's
Moyenents a Georgia. :

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The Savannah Eepublicsa of the 2lst
says that the telegraph brilfs % noinfDr>
nation Of the wksreabouts ana Intentions
Of the enemy, who are said TO have left At
lanta in force some days ago, and the reports
brought by passengers and private letters
are 50 vague and contradictory that there
is no such thing a. forming an intelligent
opinion upon them.
Passengers who-srsi<sd=ft from Macon and
tho points on the, line of the road this
morning, say that the enemy's cavalry force
encamped lsst night within seven miles of
Grisna ldville, the first station south of Ma
con, and that the main body of Sherman's
army was alta point some q miles distant
/ from Milledgeville. It is also reported that
the latter place was being evacuated by the
citizens. 1.xttaHg
The Legislature adjourned on Friday
uight, and the members left with some de-
gree Of precipitation. 49,
Some of them arrived here last night and
some this morning. How trns these reports
from the enemy may be we have no means
of knowing, and We candidly stats to our
readers that We place bat little faith in
them. This much at least is reliable:-Ths
enemy, with all arms, but in numbers not
ascertained, but perhaps from twenty to
thirty Thousand strong, have set out in
tueir grand tour through Georgia to the
seaboard. The best military authority is
of the opinion that the move in the dirsc-
ton of Macon is feint to cover the march
of their main body on Augusta, the real OBJ.
| iect of their destination. Milledgeville,
will probably be visited by the right wing
Of their army, and if unsuccessfully dsfen-
ded, the capital of our State laid in ashes.
| 1t does not become US to speak of our
preparations for this formidable invasion.
It Is sufficient TO say that if the people Of
Georgia cooperate with our army, it will
be met and successfully resisted. We have
only to be true to ourselves now to save the
State and utterly destroy the invaders. If
we fail from panic, lukewarmness or other
cause, we shall prove ourselves unfit to be
free, and worthy of the abolition yoke that
awaits us. In this connection We would
urge upon the mlnds Of our readers the pa
triotic and earnest appeals of Gen. Bssure
gard and our members of Congress. Let
I, the salutary advice they give be follow
ed by every Georgian. y
The Savannah News, Of the 2lst, says
Our latest and most reliable advices are
that the enemy was in force in the vicinity
ofMonroe and Jones counties, and cen
siderable body had crossed the Ocmulgee
river, at Planters Factory, seven miles
west of Indian Springs, taking direction
which would indicate his purpose to take
Augusta in his route to the seaboard. The
lenemy may, and no doubt will, infict
much damage, but If the people Of our mo-
BILE State nerve themselves as We hear to
the importance of the emergency and for
getting self, direct their incessant, united
efforts against the foe, as advised BY Gene
raj Beauregard and our patriot representa-
tives in Congress, the great Yankee Army
Of Tennessee and their brutal and insolent
leader will be annihilated. ....-...
Those living on the path of the enemy
should not fail to burn and destroy every
thing that can be Of the slightest assistance
to the enemy. Nothing can be lost by It,
for ifleft every dollars worth will be swept
away BY the invaders, and will only subsist
and aid them in their diabolicsl designs.
Let no man consent to be their quarter
master or commissary. The country thus
made desolate and the roads and crossings
of streams obstructsd, the enemy will be
delayed to his certain obstruction. And
again, let every man who 10 able to shout
der musket fly to the rescue in the time
of imminent peril. Do not be guilty Of the
folly of supposing that all is Lost, or that We
have no army to be brought to bear against
the enemy, and that it is useless to risk
life and property in hopeless cause. None
of these things are true. We have troops
ample in number that will be there at the
right time and strike fatal blow, provided
the citizens of GeorgisIwil do their duty and
harrass and cucumber the march of the
enemy. This is no guess of ours, but 6xed
| fact. I'D.
The skies may look dark, but the oppor-
tunity has arrived for our people to strike
blow that will do more than all Others to
end the war and restore peace to the couu,
| try.
And what are our Carolina friends doing
in the great emergency? Certainly they
will not be lookers-on when their liberty
as well as ours is at stake! Will they not
pour forth across the Savannah river by
tens of thousands, and uniting with their
brethren of Georgia, give finishing blow
to this ruthless attempt to reduce Us to
slavery? Now is the day and now is the
hour! Bet Carolina editors and sta tssmen
quit their wrangles over constitutional alb.
stractions, and use their logic and eloquencs
to summon their countrymen to arms!
The Augusta Coustitutionalist of the
l9.h says:
Ate a careful survey of the topography
of the country lying before Sherman, the
distance he must travel before be can
strike any vital part, and the difficulties
that naturally environ an Inclusive army Of
the kind, We spprehend no serious results
from the movement. s:a.s.~
The editor does not believe it Is Sher>
mans purpose to visit Macon, Augusta or
Savannah, fut that she has been driven to
bis present movement BY force of circum>
stances, and that he does not anticipate re.
tracing his steps" Hence be proclaims