The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-19

the Savannah and Augus. railroad, about cIghtv
miles from savannah, sixty from August, and
ninety from Nlcdgeyile.
At his point they have now gathered some
2J,UUO Union prisoners IA very tHmDt.ug llt.e
iutucGmcnt for ShCrmln 10 pay VI lieu q visit,
supp Osiny him TO be really InaNing the bold
advance towards salt water report assigns 90 MIN.
Furthermore. Nleu Is on he direct line - be
taken by sherman, suppOsng him 90 be aiming,
not ~ Charleston, or Mobile, or Wilmington, hut
at savannah glEca ~ the map VIII show
that Savannah Is the nearest point on tbs coast
Sherman could reach from Atlanta, and Ondgr-
kinks statements, as well as Others, go - show
that Savannah "A more weakly defended Ol tue
land side than are cIJher Charleston or Mobile,
which places have been strongly fortified h5ferO-
fore on the land SIDE in lntiC JatiOn Of attack in
that direction trOnl our land forces.
ODdorkiik states, too, that Slvlnnoh was very
weakly dCfCndcd-sO much 50 that d-Cacl neO.s
OF marines from the vessels in the hIrJ1r were
compelled 20 do shore guard durv every thul
night. The country, too, Travelled 10y Olitr-
kirk on foot from Savannah 20 Atlanta presented
no serious obstacles to military movement, the
country being level aud the streams shallow, for
! the most part The country, too, was amply
stocked with sweet po atOcs, corn aud peas suli-
| cient TO sustain an army moving rapidly through
THIS line Of march would take Shcrn In directly
| through the district where The Rebels have
| stored millions Of blIcs Of cO'tJn, and would
enable him 10 pay attention 10 the immonse
manufactures for cannon, small arms, DJwd r.
| locomotive, &c, a. Macon, COlImuls, aud
|
! time for RCboldom. sherman, s'lr.tng with
| sixty days provisions, vn,d ouy by supplies
| obtained on the road, cDnld pgr,orm this work
| and reach tidg-w1ter, via SlyNnth, prOblby
without enCOuu.cr.ns any ub-ltos thlt his
| daring genius cOlld not overcome.
But hc would not be In plight afe Such "a
march, ana wOuld NO be proyl-.O1ol sufficiently
20 enable him 10 sit GoWl % tue siege cities dc.
| Tended on all sides like Charleston nul NDlIc.
! The other programme a.lItJ.d tp him Uy some
| of our contemporaries Of a mar n through Upprr
| North Carolina lpauslng 60 establish gpaorn-
| luenD 10 Wilmington, and then nortnN lTd, IS
too impracticahe, from IL, lHHsth OF march ana
the impOss.bU,ty of provisioning an army, 10 have
! probability.
The weight Of presumption, then, Is that &C Sher-
man has really entered apou moyemEn 50 the
| seacoast, he is heading towards Fau11h -,nara
or theIclhouis.
! The BCPOriS "pnt west Atlanta uad
Rome dpstTO, ed-Ha ct &" An-WStH,
Etc.
The Cincinnati Comm0cigio of Thursday says --
! There is most intense desire 20 hear from
[ Sherman. That he IS again 'ol tho Yar path
and desperately bent on mischief, no one doubts,
/ but when he len Atlanta, or where lac was going,
are vet complete mysteries although each may
/ have bis own SurmisCs AZ Grants movements
! will most probably depend and hinge on those Of
/ Sherman, All thoughts are travelling with the lat
/ Ter, There s q most wonderful absence of news
/ rom Chattanooga and Nashville about his iu-
Tho Richmond newspapers OF tue ilth are said
! 20 biur chat startling news might soon be expected
! from sherman, but Whether this was based on
| direct and positive knowledge Of their own, Or
| upon the hints and statements to the same effect
| Ia New York papere, Is not yet known but we
expect the latter. The report that Sherman has
| already reached Augusta, Ga, Is, Of course, uu-
| true; because it would be impossible, supposing
as is most likely the case that his army did not
! 'eaYe Atlanta until the Sth. The latest news we
| have rom him is contained in the following
whether Il is true or not, we leave each reader TO
| Judge for himself
| The Illinois State Journal Germany Of yester-
| day states, on the authority Of the army-yote
| commissioner of Iowa, who was passing through
| Chicago on his return home, that when he left
! Atlanta q considerable part Of Shermaus army
| had gone southwark and that the general opinion
| there was that they were going to Savannah via
Macon and MiIedgeVille. The widest euthusi.
asm prevailed among the troops for their chief
| and his new enterprise. A large number OF
! torches were left in Atlanta 10 burn the town as
soon the last troops had left, and the barracks
| of the Goth Corps had already been destroyed
/ When he left Rome that city was In flames
/ and a large amount of cotton had been burned
there, although 1t was claimed by Paris and Ham
| burg houses as being hypothecated 10 them.
Immediately after the train which carried this
| Commissioner had passed the Chsttahoocheo, the