The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-26
THE LATEST NEWS.

pflNetecFq 10 prey on NoFthefh com
merce, and, concluding, though our ar
mics are d~isintegrated and We be com
PEELED 20 carry on a guerrilla warfsr',
which we arc determined 10 DO, II tie
worst 10 the worst, 90 long as a
spot can be held for The government 10
rest on, or evenifit lives AZ an itineran',
the guerrilla warfare Of thu ocean can be
waged and thus insure our final triumph.
Let all exert themselves then 20 put q
ship 10 sea. Let the GOvornment~re-
double its efforts. The sea IL our best
element because we have no commerce
to be harmed. Every true heart has
sworn enmity like that Of Hannibal, nm
dying with u prospect Of years of war.
We should put q ship to sea 20 the ut
most Of our ability.
The same paper contains accounts Of
the arming en- masse for home defence
throughout the rebel States. A meeting
Of citizens in Montgomery, Alabama, was
held in the court house, on Monday
night, 20 organize the whole fighting
population for home defence.
Con. Maury has issued en- address at
Mobile, calling on all able-bodied men
within the city and county TO organize
into companies and report for duty, in
defence against the threatened attack by
the army Of Grant.
The city Council of Columbia, s. c.,
on the llth, passed a resolution that
merchants and other business men Ct
that city close their respective places Of
business at 2 o'clock each day, 10 enable
all residents Of the city capable of bear
ing arms 10 drill aud prepare themselves
for the defence Of their homes and fire.
sides.
The Mayor Of Charleston, on the 10th
inst issued three prOclamStions
lst. Impressing all free male negtoes
and mulattoes residing in that CITY be-
tween the ages of Is and GO, and all able
bodied male slaves within the same, 10
finish the defences of Morris leland.
I'd. Ordering all business TO be sus-
pended within the city from that day
until the safety Of the city is assured.
That all women and children be re-
moved from the city al the earnest re-
quest Of Gen. Beauregarl.
Some Atlanta papers contain an appeal
to the people ofthat city to be prepared
for the invasion of Roseerans' Yankees.
who are said to be preparing a raid upon
North Alabama and Georgia, taking At
lanta on their route.
The State road will, it is said, be the
principal object of attack. Rome is TO
be fortified At once. Ample means have
been subscribed for the purpose, and ex-
perienced engineers on the spot are ready
to direct the work. The citizens Of
Floyd county are called upon 10 furnish
hands to throw up defences.
The Montgomery Advertiser urges the
Importance Of terrifying all the princi-
pal towns in this section of the Oonfed-
eracy without delay.
The Richmond Dispatch Of July 18th
says Lees army moved in the direction
of Winchester after getting back across
the Potomac, and when last heard from
was in line Of battle between Winches-
ter and Martinsburg.
The Richmond Examiner of the same
date, speaking Of the battle of Gettys-
burg, says that many persons now blame
Gen. Lee for attacking the enemy there.
but we shall DO slow TO criticise an off,
Ger Of his service and capacity until the
facts are better known.
We only remark, that, while Lee is
censured for attacking an army little in
ferior to his Own, with the advantage of
position sgainst him, Johnston is de-
nounced for not attacking four times his
number in Notifications aud position, bv
the side Of which Gettysburg wns a
playground.
NEw YoEK, July 24.-The Herald
says tho United States steamer Circass-
ian arrived at Fortress Monroe on the
2lst from Charleston on the 10th. A
general engagement was Just commencing
IS she left.
Gen. Gilmore has erected a masked
battery in the woods quite near to Fort
Wagner, and expressed 10 doubt but
the attack by himself and Admiral
Dshlgren would prove successful.
As the early morning shadows disap-
peared the attack began, and , perfect
shower of shot and shell was poured into
Fort Wagner.
The Circassian's orders were impera-
tive, and she could not stay 70 see the
termination Of the days fighting.
The Times Paris letter says there are
some street rumors in circulation within
q day or two which ] give you only 80
rumors.
Another change has been made, &c.
cordiDg 10 these reports, in the Mexican
programme. Mexico is 70 be placed un.
der a French protection, or is TO become
. colony of France, with a French prince
for Governor.
The C~onfederaies have -renounced ali
idea Of resaining the Mississippi river
and the trans Mississippi country with
out foreign aid. SlidelIs visits to the
Emperor and foreign ministers very
lately are said 10 be in connection with
this new state of things in Mississippi.
They are connecting schemes for an
alliance against the United States with a
view Of securing the one Mexico and the
other the Mississippi Valley.
The fall of V~ioksburg and Port Hud-
son, they say, viii throw jeff. Davis and
Napoleon in each Others arms, and will
be the 6nAl blow which win precipitAte
an alliance that only hangs fire because
she question Of the Mississippi viii be-
come the hAzard-turn contrary to present
expectations.
II is this, they say, which makes Ma
poleon so lukewarm on the question of
Poland. II is this which makes him
continually say Mexico Is the big affair
Of the moment and IL 10 this which has
so suddenly demanded such large rein
forcements in Mexico, for . whole diyi-
sion under She viceroy has beea ordered
10 prepare itself for departure In Sept,
and several vessels are about TO sail with
reinfOrcements Of men and material aud
vet the govarnmenf naners dQclaRed af-