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A I'if.tnre of Desolation.
Richmond, October 27.?I will give you;
readers an account of a trip to Fredericksburg
whitrier curiosity and a dorire for change o
scene and air led me some weeks ago. '
The evidence of the enemy's Vandalism be
.gins a few' tuiles out of Richmond, and increase
everv steD as it advances townrila fb/? Dorkr.?i.??
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noclc. The burnt depots and bridges re mi in
me very, mucli of the road between Macon am
v the Oconee river, just after the Stoneman raid
But the constant suef.essio.n of ritlc pits and re
doubts thrown up for cannon, told a very.differ
cnt story of the struggle in Virginia as- com
jiared with that of Middle Georgia. A matte
. of surprise to the passengers, most of whom hn<
been over the road, so to speak, a thousnm
times, was the great height at.d by no mean
inconsiderable length of the North Amu
bridge, which had been burnt by the tjnemi
for the third or fourth time, and is still nnfin
felted. Passing over the ton of a hri.-lo-o inswl.
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the oars is one tiling, htid crossing the strean
' . . on'foot over a plank trcslle is another. Whn
?* surprised me As much as the'great stroah
bridged at the Xottli Anna, was ,t.he> cheerful
ness of the few people we met at the blacken
ed ruius of th<^depots, and the unconsciousoes!
^ ,of the war displayed by the passengers,; wh<
sat in the cushioned seats reading* newspaper:
and eating grapes and poaches as cosily ant
contented as though war never existed.
\Vhen you get to Hamilton's, crossing, tin
desolation of war breaks fully upon yon. A fev
trees remain upon the hills near the sitfc of tin
depot, but thei'e in not a fence nor an inliabUlu
house all the way to Fredericksburg. A fev
cattle may be stten grazing on yhe rich plain?
which bear no crops now but crops of luxnrian
Jtubiu k>UU!U uuiUIJg IU LSI Li pyoyil! <1
Fredericksburg, who club together and hire ;
boor old man to attend thorn while grazing.?
There sire no bauds at work iu the- fenceles
fields?no signs of animated.life about the d>
sorted houses?the drowsy crow of-the cod;
the neighing of the horses, the cawing ot th
crow, and the la tighter of children in the yarc
and the, "wo-haw" of the plow-driver, .'ire n
longer heard in this blasted region. All is stil
as death for miles and miles under the sweo
autumnal sur..
Fredericksburg itself is torn as by a kurri
cane. Much of it has been burnt, and the ta
chimneys standing all alone tell a woful tale c
rrtin. Fart of the town is destroyed by din
caused by shells, and part by the torch applie
by Yi>nkec bands. All the lower and all th
upper portion 01 me town'Jiavc licen sosiinttei
ed as to be uninhabitable ; the stores have bee
* . gutted of their*shelves and counters to ivrak
dry places for the countless thousands of Van
kees wounded'at the Wilderness tpul Soottsy
. _ vania to lie oh. The churches have heen rc
pc&todly struck, and so have most of the pr
vatfe dwellings. 1 counted twenty or thirt
' s hdlcs in the fine mansion of Douglas Gordcn
which -was nearly complete before the \vn
broke out. A shell had passed diagonall
- through the house in which "I staid, and on
had exploded in the parlor under the room i
which I slept. Looking out of, my bcd-rooi
window I saw naked chimneys and deserte
bouses in every direction."
Of course, 1 went to Marye's 3Iillv and sa
the famous stone fence which served as a ran
part for our men. I walked over the wkl
.' fields which the enem$ bad to pais before the
got within range of our deadly rifles, and stoo
under the tree which Cobb leaned against whe
ne vrhb Killed. This tree is just behind lli
house of a Mr. Stephens?a sraaTl frame buih
* ing?which must have at least a thousand bu
let holes through and through it. Mr. St
. ' fhens showed me wl^crc YunKeo hfter Yankc
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m wt^s buried in his garden, as many as twenty
: in some places, lie also pointed to a deep
ditch,in which about a thousand of Burnside's
crew were piled and packed like dead mackerel
0 in a barrel. Many, many other gardens and
yards contain dead Yankees by the score.
0 The stone fence is "at the bottom of a I till,
a*id on that hill is the tiim old homestead of
. the Marys, npw gqne to wreck, with eountless3
apertures made l?v shot and shell, and open to^
' the-winds that blow. Ah! it was a sad thing
j to tread the deserted halls and chambers of |
this old house, and In ar only the echo-of your |
E own footsteps. Not even a rat squeaks behind
the wainscot. The si lone.* is. awful. Outside the'
house, and running through the yard, which is
still beautiful Ayith its shade.trees, are the rifle
pits, ami on the hill tops are heavy earthworks
for artillery, all thrown, up after the bajttlc. of
rreucricRaburg l)ad been fought and. Won.?
> Truly Burnsidcys task had just begun when .he
f reached the stone fence. But?but?why dul
not .Lets follow* up the repulse? why did he*
" not shell Ihq town nntl. order a midnight asR
sanll? 'The people of-Fredericksburg,wholiad
" been crouching nil* day in their cellars prayed
' that Lec might do this. If he had, such a vic^
tory would have been won?oh ! such a vioto
ry. Too late, too late no.w to think ^bout
* it.
T went over into Stafford Conntv. ommsitn
" Fredericksburg, and there is a wide wild scene j
r of devastation?neither fences nor tVees for i
' leagues on leagues, houses'desert ed and burnt, |
1 and so many roads to the eiiornions camps of
s- Hooker, which extended nineteen square miles,
1 that the oldest inhabitants \?re in, danger of
' losing themselves in their nativc^ountry. The
Lacv Mouse is a baronial pile in the extent? of
? its buildings, and its terraced grounds and gar1
dens are inM<coping. * Rein reigns- there also.
The walls of the iarge old fashioned rooms,
1 and even the pillars'of the-porches are scrawled
and beseribided with, obscure Ya'tikee names
;tnd obieure Yankee phrases and "pictures.?
? Further back, on a higher-range. of lulls, com1
mamliog the whole conntrv m-.? tli-> ?r
? j
j tlio l'hillips House, which - whs, burnt out of
spite '>y \Stoneuinn, because liis brother ollh-ers
objected to his usin'g it as his private tpuirtdrs.
* What a picture fit' ravaged beaut" is to i>e
' seen from the height on which this house
lj stood.
v Stranyfe to tell, StrlY-rd County, naturally j
sterile and sparsely peopled, is now richer and
^ more thickly settled than ?t, hnsbeen since the
j- colonial days. It is a debatable land, in which'
'{ n<ntlier Confederate nor Yankee rule, is acknowledged,
ami it is filled with deserters, who
s have thrown rich- by thorium and selling' 'lie
immense .debris of Hooker's camps to Wash- i
ititjton or to jjicluuond purcha-ets.'as happen- ]
J eil to he most convenient,? for these lawless
| } p'-ople care little for either side. Hooker's in- i
0 | credible relics have not vet been nil gathered
U j in, lor 1 saw in Fredericksburg ami at Hamili
ton':* crossing, great piles of old Iron and frag.
moots of tents, blankets and overcoats which
: were just ready to besefnt to Richmond.
11 A number of refugees have returned to 1'rod ,f
ericksburg, which contains f npw some skv or
? eight hundred souls, principally women *n?d
d children. Their spirit is unabated; their hao
trod of the Yankee is quenchless; their faith
> in the cause'and their cheerfulness is worthy of
n all praise and universal imitat'ou. W'heti our
o last call for men was made a woelc or so ago,
i- Fred oil cks.hu rg sent down one volunteer CO
1- years old, and another of 17 ; and while I was
?- tin re half a dozen boys 15 and 1G were comi
plaining because Gen. Kemper wouldn't let
y them volunteer ir, the old Frcdcricksdurg compr
nics and join iVce's army at once, instead of
iv -waiting for the reserves to be ordered out.
y t ' Gamma.
c t Cor. Mobile Register.
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n Secessionist to ije IIung dy order ok T5.
d ,F. lJuTLElt.? A recent lv nvrii-nrl
j uiut,ivfiuv; runner
brings tbo. story to Richmond that Bill
w Johcs, the former well known fishmonger and
i- politician, is to be hung at Butler's hcadquarlc
tors. Jones 'ran off from Richmond some
y mouths ago to avoid conscription. Oij rcachd
ing Norfolk be was pointed out to the Yankee
n authorities as one of the men who raised the
ic first seccscion Hag in Virginia, and who, with
1- othels, threatened to mob certain Union mem1
bcrs of the Vitginia Convention, lie was arcs
rc>tod, and' after some kind of trial, was sense
tnr.e:d to be bung.
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SATCJaCO'AY I?I011N5N?U NOV. 11>.
The Chronicle <fc ISentlntl says: The Lcg-Ancy ssociation
has set poveral hundred in aimed soldiers to
Walking,and Georgians have largely shared tho bene- |
tit. The venernblcr Rev. Dr. Pierce has consented to
act as agent for Georgia. Funds are needed. -Ten [
thousand legs r.ro wanted. The ohicets of the associu- |
nun urcrna wortny and reliable tm-n.
.Mr Thkntiolm. the Secretary of the Treasury, has,
we nro told, contributed, twelve, thousand- dollars toward
the emcrprise. An excellent example for other
capitalists to'follow.
Important from Guorgia.?flew llardee lin.* received
official information from General "Wheeler that.
General Sherman had burnt and abandoned Atlanta,
and was advancing with cavalry infantry, artillery
and wagons, towards Joncsboro'. Tho enemy's foreo
was not fally ascertained, but prisoners taken report
'that Sherman has threo army corps, each supposed to
contain .ton thousand men. Our eavalrv under Goner.
nl Whcelcc had fallen back before the enemy, who at
last accounts were marching on. Griffin, devastating
the whole country behind them, burning bridtre.sj rail
roads, &'c. ' An official dispatch from General Wheeler
Thursday, states that ho had checked the enemy's advance
at Bear Creole. . <
The.CoxtrAltaxd News ?'An exchange ol papers
took plaeo.nl Richmond, Tuesday, New York journals
of tlio 12th were delivered, but none of the 1 Oth or 1,1th
wen; to bo had. Deserters say that every number of
the 10th was seized by officers, acting under orders
from headquarters, and burnt. The supposition of
those men was that the papers of the 10th contained
sumo news which was not thought proper for Confederate
ears. One numbgr of tlio 10th has, however,
come to hand, and there islitrle yiffinnlty in discerning
the points which wore considered contraband. Here
they are:
New Yohic. Nt-v. 0?fr p. m ?The gold quotations
to-day were as follows. Queued.at 24fi. wont. m?
They said that they supposed Sherman's route
would bo to Macon first and' Augusta next.
A gentleman from above Atlanta gives us
some inte.ligencc which' corroborates the statements
published a few days ago. lie. says the
Federals are- certainly running loaded trains
from Atlanta to Marietta, and empty trains
back again. This looks as if either the city
was to be evacuated or that Sherman had decided
on a movement that made it -necessary
for him to move li s supplies at -Atlanta*further
up the road.? Chronicle <C* Sentinel.
Au Irishman remarked that a true gentleman
will never look at the faults' of a pretty
woman without shutting his eyes.
2nK 1*4 :>n<l 200, and doe-it at 2i}('. 1-4.
The licruld sava"of the movements of Sherman's army
r '
otliinjr positive reunidincr tlio operations' whiert
O.en- Sherman is now prosecuting can at present bo
made public; Irut we are assured Iliac everything is
pro?rreS.-in^niostilavornbly with him, and .that when
11is plans shall develop themselves 11n-y poll cause every
true Anicrican to rqjo en. Shem-.Aii and liisollicorsaro
lolly arquaiub d with Hood's inovemeiits and wherealuiut-,
and probably by this lue.o IJoaurcfrurd and- llood
are equally aware of Sherman's, to their sorrow The
.rumor ol the.eapinre of Johiisonviile. on the Tennessee
river, by the rebels, appears to have.beon without foundation
in fact. Tl.o place is still in possession of ihe
Hilton Ibices, and no apprehensions for it salety arc
entertained
, A de-patsh from Nashvilig says:
Hood's exact whccabo.its is known by the authorities.
Vne Union movement will be d-vel -ped at the
prop r tHno, t lie anticipated success ofwliieh will electnly
the naiiou . -.
I . ?:'r<ni? crc3r.
1 There are a or--at. many sl.ate.iib'vds in rcjravtl
to the position of affairs m Atlanta ami vicinity,
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UM..-M i?i wuiwii an: mere. uurcuaniu rumors?
j nothing more.
A gentleman in this city received this moi'nling
si letter from si gentleman up the ro:ul,
I which contsiins the annexed news: A .young
lady who resides in a village about forty miles
from Atlanta, resolved'a few. days since to visit
that- place "on business. Knowing that sl)$
would not he permitted to enter the city, as a
white gill, she determined to enter it disguaised
as si mulatto. Accordingly she stained her
face and hands with si preparation made from
the green bark of the walnut. This gave her
skin a rich r.livc eolor. She then frizzled her
hair and started. The pickets permitted her to
pass, supposing that she either belonged -in the
city, or was a rnnsnvsiy tV<?m below. While in
Atlanta she heard souic officers remark, that a
largernutnber of troops would leave soon.?
LATEST EY 'TMJ: '" RAP?. i
" REPORTS Of THE PRESS ASSl'?T ATTr?".
Kntered.'accorclinpf to tli? Act of ConV'K' ?:? 'no
18G3. by J. .3. Thrasukii, in the I'v-rk'nollico (>' i.W
Dislrirt. IVinrf 'nf ?!??? -
.. v? liiiv, \,v/iiiuui:it(Lc n.\*t an .i.tf*
"Northern ^District of Georgia.
NORTHERN NEWS.
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Richmond, November 10.?r-New Yofk and
Baltimore papers say that sufficient returns
liave been received from all the States to warrant
the announcement that Lincoln has over
three hundred thousand majority ih the popular
vote, and has carried all the States voting hut
three, and will ha\e a majority of one hundred*
and ninety two vbt.es in the electoral colloee.
KlCIIMONn. Nnvninlinr
v..jJiij'ers
of yesterday has/been received to-night. . Considerable
excitement prevails at Hngerstowa
and along the bonier from apprehension of a
rebel raid. Dnrmuda advieos say a schooner
arrived. at Five Fathom Hole for repairing,
who reported that a rebel craft had destroyed
the hark Two Sisters in addition to those previously
reported. The trial of the St. Albans
rftiders has Wen postponed to the 20ih of December.
Later arrivals from Kurona-rrmfirm
the departure of Semmca from the Tiny ofi
Fronehnl in an armed vessel called the New
Alabama. Gold 220.. The Baltimore American
of yesterday quotes gold at 236vl-2 in
New YorU. .
A NniihvilSe telegram says Hood's army is
still encamped in the vicinity of Florence, one
corps ^on the north side of the .river. The roads
prevent active military operations. The rebel
army remains comparatively quiet. Nashville
telcgramA say Judge , member of the
Richmond Congress, passed through Nashville*
on liis way to Washington to see what caw bo
done towards bringing about peace. Butler,
iu a speech in N?*w York on Monday evening, .
saitl the Government. might now proffer t,he
olive branch to the rebels, tendering amnesty to
the rebels a? d thoir leaders until the 1st of
January; if they hold out he would unsparingly
prosecute the war. MeClellaii's resignation '
has been accepted, and Sheridan appointed to
the position.! Geiu Egan, of the artillery <?f the
army of the l'otoinae, was severely wounded
by sharpshooters Sunday night.
Liverpool dates to the 5th has been received. ;.;The.
bank of France has reduced the rate of. interest
to 7 per cent* Spain has sent ultumu
tuui to Peru \ .if'lull satisfaction, is not given the
Spanish squadron will seize the republic and
"destroy its fleets.. . .
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. " FliOMMA CON. '
* Macon, November 18.?The excitement in
town somewhat subsided. No definite intelligence
cf the whereabouts of the enemy, supposed
still to be in the neighborhood, of Griffin,
burning everything in their rear. Thoy \yill
meet with a warm reception if they attempt to
come here.
FII OAf VIRGINIA. . .
bvxfiiinniir. NVkv IS ?T.ionf ?
UV. > VI , 3 Ull
the flth inst., captured and burned two United
Status steamers (armed), the Bnrnum And Faun,
with a quantity of arms, on Buffalo Shoals of
Bier Sandy liver. On the same day he captured
a large amount of military stores at Williamsburg.
Kirkwood Mill.
Knuvw UULJ AilLiL (KORMEItLY LANG'S MILL>
is now prepared to grind prist on toll. Duo^iotico
will be given us soon as tlio Wheat Mill ia completed.
MILLKIl WASTED,' ' .
A inilier wanted to suporintond tlio nbovo Mill. Ap?
ply to . B P. COLBURN. ,
1 Nov. Ifi - 6>
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