New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-20
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
The Approaching 8n,iIe- Rebel gic-- Sc
cessiou Women.
From Our Special Correspondent

! From Ou- Special Correspondent.
foLlHr-s MosHoy J1ne H.. ifC2
The allotted term for preparatory delay before toe
battle Of Richmond i drawing 70 o close. The base,
which il here, i az the fice Of the dial. Certain
taings AID movements are sure indicators that tic
line and the hour thou.h not perhaps ns near at
uaud come may suppose or IL predicted from
The Chickahoniny, nevertheless approach. Not
withdrawing the drain oil killed, wounded aud ri H.,
Mcclellan is stronger III numbers than he wa before
the battle o. Fair Oaks-mmenscly stronger Cor thai
dreadful ordeal which made veterans Of tho trool f.
engaged. The troops not engaged on those bloody
days may be trusted for there ARE better than
Suith'e, PJrters aud the other divisions that were
hot in that battle 10 whom the delay has been
mos, proftable-to the enemy or to us--the resul,
will determine. lhai it has leen proraciod coisid.
cr.lly by The almost in,esslnt rams and the couse-
d,ent IRE ia the ChckahouIiny, is ubque.tIouabiy
true. Rapid movement D. not "A quality attaching g.
Gen. McC lcilau but a slower ana what Is believed
10 be u sIier policy, whereby every step i hedge
and deicnded-a policy like the dreadful clO-in. IN
on I'll sid,s OF The walls Of the room wherein the
TIM il confined. The comparison ceases % hold good
however when the victim escapes, Which, by keep.
lug open a, least slde OF him, lie has heretofore
uauagcd TO do. To retreat now II 10 give up X ch-
mond, and to do that is to abandon Virginia. The
moment that happens there i, an end to active die
loyalty in Norfolk, and wherever else in tie State
our anns go. Virtually coniessiog the rebellion
hopeless, the SecestiOnists IN Norfolk and Porte
mouth still keep up the idea Of State pnde, which
VOL he surrendered when Rcumood falls. We
have heard good d. al Of death blows 10 the rebel
lion, but they have not proved oatirely 20. Bat
the fail Of Richmond the thorough defeat OF the
Rebel army there, and, above ali, tie capture Of
some Of the leaders, would be the dealt blow IN
earnest. The IOad.stone that holds Norfolk III sus-
penre, ID the hope, not To say lelie that Mcclellan
will be defeated. The utmost efforts are continuity
made by the leaders, by secret means, to Keep up|
Tie deusiol that success Ia in store Tor Tie hebel
arms, not orly at Kichnond, but elsewhere In
deed, whether through ignonnce or deliberate
filsehood, / do not know, every Secesslonist III
Norfolk, and wherever else have BEEN wlil eto1ly
deny that the Rebel arms have met with anything
but unv4Iylng success.
The perversion Of the truth in this regard ia most
extraordinary. This with the astounding fa'se-
hoods of Yankee atrocities with which the Souh'
ern mind is kept constantly inhamed, are tho two
great elements of Rebelei lstence. IL Is absolutely
a ,tonishing 10 behold with what apparent SINGER
ity The grossest falsehoods are believed and re-
tailed-oi bsrbarities actual and contemplated, OF
the sort charged no frequently by Beauregafd, whom
Davis il but pooT inllator. Not al Lour VI the