The New York herald., 1865-01-04
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Arrival OF Escaped Union Officers from
South CnfOIfna.
NORTH CAROLINA FULL or REBEL DEsERrERs-HOop
EETREATING SOUTH OF THE TxNSEssEE RIVER,
ETC., ETC.
NASHVILLE, JAN 3, 1895.
Thirteen escaped Union officers arrived here last night
from Columbia, c., hvo OF them having bcen two
months in getting through. They had many hair
breadth escapes and attribute their safe arrival to the
negroes along tho route who In every instance fur
nished them food and lodging and all necessary infor-
nation rata
They report tho mountains Of Western North Carolina
rs swarmng with rebel deserters
Ths following the Of the officers Captain
H. H. Walpole and Captain J. M Gore, One Hundred and
Twentysecond Now York; Lieutenant Carly, One Hun.
dred and Fifty-nrst Now York; Captain A. NJ.
Bronson, First Lieutenant Columbia cavalry;
Lcttenant A Carroll and Captain W. E. Fadden
Fifty seventh New York; Lieutenant W. I. Bates
One Hundred and Thirty second New York, and
Lieutenant J. johnson, Ninth Kentucky.
Hood, with the shattered remains OF his army Is 70
treating south Of the Tennessee General Dana has Gu,
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad below Cornth.
Rebel Accounts or Hoods Campaign.
THE REBELS NOT BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN TOT ALLY
ANNIHILATED.
tFr0m the Richmond Whig Dec go
Although u was rumored several days ago that de-
rni Hood, yet from their not having been divugcd
are bound to conclude that the rumor false We
be published had they actually received No color
thatdhey could put upon tho operations OF General Hood
could DO gloomer than that with which tho public i'm
agination, wrought at time 10 pitch OF unendura
BILE intensity, has already invested them. Our only
Of information continues to be the dispatches and
letters from tho Yankee commander In Tennessee, ard
the correspondents OF the newspapers who with tho
army. From these alone have we hitherto received
any intelligence from the neighborood of Nashville TO
these alone indebted for all know with regard
70 tho position Of Hood and 10 the accounts they trans
NIT TO the Yankee journals is alone due the dependency
which had. at time settled down upon the public
mind like a dark shadow, but which is now gradually
dispensing before the light of hope and reflection. II
may not be .,niss, while in this state Of uncertainty
inquire into the probabilities connected with these
Yankee reports which have had such powerful effect
upon the spirits OF our people.
The utterly mcndacious character OF the Yankee
nation has long since grown into proverb. II Ia
known, not only to us who are placed Ia the best
situation 10 judge, but 10 Europe and the world at
large. To lie like bulletin q popular say
ing To lie like a Yankee IL saying Of wider ap-
plicatlon but TO lie at like bulletin and like
Yankee nll tho fullest measure Of nendaclty or
necessity Yankee bulletin be tho perfection Of
all lying and is TO Yankee bulletins that have been
trusting NIL this time for frorn General Hood Well
know their character have suffered their buc.
tins TO throw us' into spasms Of apprehension never
once suspccting isischood or even eynggcraton,
where, from former experience VIC had no right
10 expect anything else. We have observed this dis
postion In our people moro than once since this war
sunmafe Of liars, that ingenious people have but
TO invent any tale matter how incredible in order TO
insure belief But few weeks ago they told tho most
monstrous lies about Prices expedition We know now
that they wercles, but suffered them then throw us
into an agony of doubt Last summer and fall, while
their Presidential In progress their tee-
graph tesmed with victories, Of them ideal tho
land Of Utopia and yet we gave some faith 70 them
until the progress Of time demonstrated their fasehood
Now, again we are In parosysm, with quite much
cause, and possibly more.
We have not, nor have had avery high opinion
Of General Hoods talents, though he " q bravo and
deserving soldier. But upon careful study and
parison Of the enemy's own statements, have come
70 the conclusion not only that he has been annih
lated they pretend but that no has In fact sustained
rrcparable disaster The Yankees liars are always
apt 70 do, prove too much II Hood bad been dsas-
dred prisoners In tho battle and would have etrcated
than twenty two miles In tho two FIRST days, and
more than nineteen in the three succeeding III he had
lost ten thousand men would have been from pursuit
afcr the battle had only advanced twenty six miles in
pursuit. II hc had lost twenty thousand men in ALL
out Of thirty five thousand, the Yankees say, he
would not have made stand forty ono mcs from
tho field Of battle II he hnd lost yeight cannon
still less would ho have made q stand II his army
disorganzed after losing 50 largo portion Of H. would
have drbandcd which they do not pretend that has
done The whole statement s genuine Yankee, made up
Of lies and buster, designed for the latitude Of New
York, manufactured for the DRAFT market
We suspect the truth 10 bc that Hood finding he could
not taac Nashville, designed TO draw on; that in at
tempting 10 do he attacked; that drawn battle
was fought on the 18th; that Hood slowly retired and
that Thsnas did not dare 70 follow him closely 10
bring on general engagement
We strongly suspect that this Ia about tho extent Of
hoods Disaster. He has already been joined by For
rest and tho very OF Forrest IN owerof strength
Hoods army s not destroyed ~ Ynnkcedom would have
us believe. Lot our people, therefore, lift up their
hoarts "