The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-01-11


can stand the cold better.
III heard as how they cut down the trees
across your road up-cOuntry and burn the
bridges; why (dog bite their hides). one of
you Yankees can take up a troo and carry
it off, tops and all and there that bridge
you put across the river in less than two
Eours-they might as well try to stop the
! Ogeecheo az you Yankees.
Tho blasted rascals who burnt this yere
bridge thought they did big thing; a
natural born fool cut in two had more
sense in either end than any of them.
"'ro bring back the good old tines;" he
said, "it'll take the help of Divine Provi-
/ dence, q heap of rain, aud deal of elbow
grease, to fix things up again"
| suERMAN's MANEuvER.
ScARBoRorGH. Ca, Dec. 3, 1864.
Pivoted upon Millen the army has
swung slowly round from its eastern course
and is now moving in six colamns upon
parallel roads southward. Until yester.
day it was impossible for the Rebels to de-
cidc whether or not il was Gen. Sherman 4
intention to march upon Augusta. Kilpat
rick had destroyed the bridge above Wains.
borough, and falling back had again ad
vanced supported by the Fourteenth Army
Corps, under Gen. Davis. South of this
/
ville, was the Twentieth Corps, commanded
by General Slocum. Yet furthur south the
Seventeenth Corps, General Blair in com.
mand, followed tho railroad, destroying il
as he advanced. West and south of the
Ogcechce the Fifteenth Corps, Gen. 0ster-
haus in immediate command, but under the
eye of Get. Howard has moved in two col
umns.
Until now Davis and fitzpatrick have
been cover aud shield to the real move
ments. At no time has it been possible
for liardoe to intorpose any serious obsta-
Gle TO tho advance of the main body OF
our army, for our left wing has always
been strong arm thrust out in advance
ready to put in chancery any force which
might attempt to get within its guard.
The rebel councils of war appear to have
been completely deceived for we hear il
reporte that Bragg and I.ongstrcet arc at
Augusta with ten thousand men, made up of
militia, two or three South Carolina regi-
ments and portion of lIampton's Legion
sent there for one month. 1t is possible
now that the curtain has been withdrawn
and as it may appear that we are marching
straight for Savannah, their generals, with
their ten thousand, may attempt to harass
our rear, but they can accomplish nothing
but the loss of a few lives, without check
ing our progress.
Tho work so admirably performed by
our left wing, 80 far as it obliged the reb-
els in our front constantly to retreat b :
threatening their rear, now becomes the of
flee of the Fifteenth Corps, our right wing,
on the right bank of tho river. It's two
columns are moving one days march in
advance of the main body of the army
marching down the peninsula between
the Savannah and Ogeechce rivers. The
necessity and value of these flank move
ments, first OF the right wing with Kipat-
rick's cavalry, then of Davis and Kilpat
rick on the left, and now of Howard on
our right, is because We cannot run over
and demolish amy and all the Rebel force
in Georgia. They could not for moment
stand before fhs army upou any ordinary
battle-ground but very small force of in
tantry or cavalry at a river could delay a
column half a day, and perhaps longer, and
as our soldiers have got tired OF chickens,
sweet potatoes, sorghum, &c., and have
been promised oysters on the half shell,
oysters roasted stwewed, &C., in short
oysters, they dou't care to be delayed.
THE GEORGIA RAILROADS.
Tho railroad which has been receiving
week, is altogether the best have seen in
the State, though the rail itself is not so
heavy as the I rail, on the Augusta and
Atlanta road. The rail on the Georgia Cen.
tral is partially laid with the u. and a por-
ton of light T rail- but it is all fastened to
parallel stringers, which are again fixed to
the ties. The station.houses are generally
built OF brick, in the most substantial man
ner. The very Large depot at'AIiIlen was
wooden building of graceful form and
admirably made. II made the biggest fire
| have seen since we left Atlanta, aid do
lighted the soldiers amazingly. The taste
for cOnflagrations has been so cultivated in
this community of late that auy small affair
attracts very little attention. An Irshman,
the other day, while engaged in the useful
occupation of twisting rails, remarked;
when the war is over. Gen. Sherman
will buy coal mine in Pennsylvania, and
occupy his spare time with smoking cigars
and destroying and rebuilding railroads"
GREAT Dorm FIELDS.
We daily traverse immense corn-felds
covering from one hundred to one thou
sand acres. These wore once devoted to
the cultivation Of cotton, and it is surpris.
ing 10 SEQ how tho planters have carried
out tho wishes or orders of the rebsl Gov.
ernment in this respect. There has been
a large amount of cotton destroyed in this
campaign, but it must have been but a
small portion even of tho limited crop
raised, as the destruction has chiefly been
away from the railroads As near az can
learn twothirds of this cotton has been
sent over the Georgia Central Railroad to
Auguata by way of Millen, from thence a
limited amount has been transported to
Wilmington for transatlantic Shipment;
tho balance yot remains in the vicinity OF
Columbia South Carolina.
1t ID well ascertained that the country
west of Savannah River is expected 20
furnish supplies for the rebel armies in
tho west, although corn and beef are sent
from this district TO Lees Army, but he
draws the bulk Of supplies from the States
east of the Savannah. and there is no re-
gion which is so prolific as that about Co
lu;nbia have digressed thus far from
the history Of the Georgia campaign, be-
canse ! wish 10 correct the Impression
which is so general at the North that tho |
Eastern armies are fed from the south |
west cne thing is most certain, neither
West nor the Elst viii draw any supplies
from tho Gountiea in this Sf.fa iravcrsaJ i