Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-06-30

no pains or expense to discover the foul per-
pe'rator.
SHERMAN's MARCH TO THE SEA.-Gen.
Sherman's report of his glorious Georgia
campain is published. With the principal
facts the public is already familiar. His reas-
ons for destroying Atlanta and striking for
the sescoast thus briefly stated
Hoods movements and strategy had de-
monstrated that be had an army capable Of
| endangering at all times my communications,
but unable to meet me in open fight. To
follow him would simply amount to being de-
coyed away from Georgia, with little prospect
! Of overtsking and overwhelming him. To
remain on the defensive would have been bad
policy for an army Of so great value as the
one then commanded, and / was forced to
adopt course more fruitful in results than
the naked one Of following him TO the south
, west. | had previously submitted to the
commander-in-chief general plan, which a.
mounted, substantially, to the destruction of
Atlanta and the railroad back to Chattanooga,
and, sallying forth from Alapta, through the
heart of Georgia, to capture one or more Of
the great Atlantic seaports. This | renewed
from Gay lesville, modified somewhat by the
change of events"
! Gen. Sherman bestows great praise upon
his officers and men for the bravery and effc-
I iency with which they executed his plans.-
In addition to the railroads destroyed on the
march, Sherman says:
"We also consumed the corn and fodder
: in the region Of country thirty miles on either
side of line from Atlanta TO Savannah, as
also The sweet potatoes, cattle, hogs, sheep
. and poultry, aud carried away more than l0,-
900 horses and mules, as we'll as countless
numo ger of their slaves. estimate the dam
age done to the State of Georgia and it's mill
tary resources at 500. 600 900, at least $780,
/ 000, 900 of which was insured to our advsn-
tage, and the remainder is simple waste aud
destruction. This may seem hard species
Of warfare but it brings the sad realities OF
war home to those who have been directly or
/ indirectly instrumental in involving us in its
/ attendant cAiamities
! A very unhappy state of affairs prevails in
! some parts of South Carolina, owing to the
! scarcity of food. The people Of Camden
were lately robbed by a mob, who visited
their houses md took whatever they pleased.
! A like calamity has befallen Columbia. 1t
appears that the mob begun with attacks up
on the public stores /; then private stables
were sacked /; then the supplies gathered at
the depots, for the suffering and starving
poor of the city, were carried off ; then the
wagons, which conveyed there the charities
. of other cites, were empted. Even the
mules attached to those wagons, and the cows
upon which poor widows aud orphans de-
/ pended for their support, we're not spared
The Phenix declares that there Is no other
prospect before the people but absolute fam
inc and starvation. No less than ten thou
sand people are daily receiving rations. who
have no other means OF getting bread.
Col. Lubbock of JEFF. Davis staff, who
was captured with jeff, and is now prisoner
at Fort Delaware, says Davis did not proper
4 ly belong to the train in which his wife and
/ family we're. He was travelling with an en-
tirey different escort but it was reported
to him that party of :" jay hawhers" we're
about making an attack on and robbing his
wife's train, and he hurried over, in company
with Col. Lubbock and others, to protect them
If necessary, and arrived there just in time
to be taken by the tlue jackets.
l.. Walker, jeff. Davis first Secretary
of War. is expected at Washington in a few
days with an application for pardon for him
self Walker is the individual who bossted
in speech delivered in Montgomery in 1861
on the occasion Of the Inauguration Of Davis
az provisional President of the Confederacy.
that 10 less than three months the Gag Of the
rebellion would wave not only over the dome
Of the Capitol but over Faneul Hall.
The villain who propoeed 10 the Selma
(Als.) Advertiser last December to assassi-
nate the President, Vice President and Sec
retary Of State for one million dollars, has
been taken alive and brought to Washington
from New Orleans. He says he intends to
secure Revsrdy Johnson and James 7. Brady
as counsel. Two printers who we're connect
ed with the Office have been brought to Wash.
ington also as witnesses against him.
The Crescent (rebel) regiment of New Or
leans. composed Of 100 sons of aristooratic
citizens, and which departed fJr the field with
great eclat. has just returned with only 81
members. The rest have either been killed
or wounded.