The daily Chattanooga rebel. [volume] (Griffin, Ga.) 1864-1865, 1864-07-27

farm house about three miles dirtan& ffom the
city Wan barnf by the Confedcrates. Our Informant
gsnttsnan living the city hs.ndst oRar about
100 fat cattle to our cavalry, to be driven into
Dlxjs. He refused to take pay for them.
AZ Ba'anore our cavalry was hovering around
shout taPo milss blatant from the city. The YAM
keea al inside Of the works and have no pickcts
oal, our cavalry having run into town the few they
did have out. Governor Bradford's house, which
was burned, Was within o stones throw Of one of
the worka-so close tt'as YaRkee hallooed out
sInever mind, DID you, we'll pay you fur that"
To this u ragged rebel replied, begging him not to
mind thnt little bill, that the Coufelerates intended
TO burn Baltimore the next day, and he could set
tie il ali ut once.
Citizens who came out of Baltimore said that the
plsee could easily be taken by the cavalry then
around IT, as the soldiers Of the garrison out
aiding Gen. Lew Wallace in u search for q largo
body of rebs4 infantry, which were reported to Be
near Monoeacy Bridge.
The fight At the Monocscy bridge, our informant
says was just no Hght at all 1T n run, and if
the yankees lost ono thousand men, most of them
must have broken their necks running. There
wasn't soldier with Wallace who ffed more than
onoe. They found the rebels getting around them
In all directions, and, using discretion, to their
heels. The one hundred days men described
as splendid" They ell had on nice uniforms.
shiny brass buttons, and muskets rs bright rs II
they had just come ont Of the store They also had
bran new shoes, many pairs Of which some of the
rebels in delicate health, who had gotten their feet
wet. wsre forcsd to borrow. These warriors didn't
seem disposed to hurt anybody, Some of them
didns know which end Of o cartridge won't in first,
and the general impression among them was that
tho regulation mode Of gefti ~ the ramrod out of
gun wss to blow IL out.
Soms PsnsilvaEia men who were in Maryland,
aad hsd not been able 70 make their escape back
home, w,sre quite talkntive to our troops. They
themselves were Democrats, (of course and didn't
favor tho ssr. and didn't intend to some oat at any
body's Yequisi.ioa.-They~ discioasd. however, n
state Of feeling on the part of the Republicans,
which Ia rather interesting. They say that their
Republican neighbors won't come ont TO defend
weak. These miscegenators say they cannot join
the patriots Tor q hundred days any more than g
hundred years, as one day among the rebels might
damage them beyond repair. at any price. They
say there arc regular troops about there that
can be sent out to drum them up, was done daring
the iuvasion last year, and they intend to stay ut
home aud smoke their pipes in peace.
Gen. Hunter had reached Martinsburg, and had
gone into Pennsylvania by the Greencastle and
Chanbersburg road. Our scouts saw his force as
1t moved along the Grsencastle road, and be did
not have over 5000 infantry with him. lie is
going to Gettysburg; 70 put himself between the
Confederate raiders and Philadelphia.
The stock gathered by the raiders in Ma
ryland Is said to be immense. Droves of fat
cattle. hogs. sheep. &C., throng the roads.
The gentleman from whom we get these facts
says that in coming back from near Balti-
more, on the route by way of Shepherdstown,
he didn't see as much as O chicken left"
A report was circulated at the North about
three weeks ago. that the Confederates were
about to make an effort to release the prison.
ers at Point Lookout, whereupon, according
to the statements of persons who came out
from Baltimore, the Government impressed
every steamer, T" from Maine to Baltimore"
and sending them to the Point removed the
prisoners farther North
The Maryland troops, with the raiders,
were having the finest sort of 81 time in the
way of eating and drinking, and warm wei
comes from parents and friends.
The roads in Maryland were in splendid
condition, and the marching easy and rapid.
Richmond Dispatch, 10th.