Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-07-13
OAPITULATION OF VICKsBURG.
80 Particulars of the Event. e..

/ 9afG1cu4arS OF IGn9 EVenGs IN
TWENTY THOUSAND NDPRIsONERs
Special Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Gazette
-seasasas ne MISSISSIPPI RIVER, July 4.
X less CAPTURE OF v1oksBuaa.
Once more on the natal day of American
liberty the grand lstrafnsh of freedom are
sang, and the dear old flag that; baptized
in blood at lexington torn at Bunker
| Hill, riven at BrandyWine, frozen at the
Valley Forge, bathed in the Delaware ere
it swept the Hessians at Trenton as birds
| are swept by the storm from the sky-the
Aag in which Kosiuskoswas folded and in
| which Lyon sleeps, floats, yes proudly
floats, aud as serensly as the silver clouds
of autumn over autumn's .fowers-foats
where the traitor signal .foated but yester-
day upon the Court House of Vicksburg.
Twenty thousand rebels look upon the
ensign that shall be forever the pride Of q
people who shall sing with the Psalmist,
God shall bless us-bless us more than he
has blessed any. s5.,as
Hearts leap, but the iag !foatsi Hearts
break, but the fag.foats, Joy goes up
from nation, for the flag floats. Traitors
gaash their teeth and love gives place to
hate, but the flag floats. Treason trem-
bles and patriotism trinmphs, for the flag
floats. Aud the hero whom, a people ma
ligned, like Aristides in his justice; as the
victor of Marathon in his valor; magnan-
imous as Tancrede, gives q rebuke to, i'm
patience by placing the flag there. ~
On the Sd at.7.30 A. NJ, upon crest of
a hill just above the camp of Gen. Stephen
Burbridge, of Kentucky, was seen a flag of
truce. An officer was sent. to escort them
i h m fha E5a inn
officers, dressed in,the rebel gray, of splen-
did carriage and with fine faces as far as
we could see, (for be it known that per-
sons blindfolded seem strange when they
smile or speak.) The one was General
Bowen and the other Colonel Montgomery,
of Virginia, splendid types of splendid
men. They were bearers of dispatch
from General .Pemberton to General Grant.
For two hours, while General A. /, Smith
was gone to headquarters, they remained
and chatted of war and its terms. After
their bandages were removed the light
seemed to blind them-so long had their
eyes been closed to light. no @t
The purports, for ! cannot give you the
words, nor is it according to rule for any
to see them until the orscular Stanton has
/ .gEassed them o'er is this-To avoid the
further effusion of blood and loss of life,
Il
mite neriod, &C.; Ipropose to cease hostil-
ities1-now for the consideration, etc.; /
will appoint three Commissioners and you
three for conditions; etc. A MEG q
Towhich General Grant replied, I sur
mise, IN this manner: .The first you eau
avoid at any time. have no conditions,
etc. You have by your bravery and en-
durance won the respect of soldiers; you
1ishall be treated with all the dignity Of
Iprisoners of war" ETC.. His magnanimity
lis as great as his brewery. t
l9There Was no firing all day yesterday
lalong the line. 1t was "a night that ban
ished philosophy, and made sss stf
: Even Gods providence seeming estranged. "a
The forts and rifle-pits were covered with
men, some standing with arms folded, all
silent-neyer did SO many men look uponsc
many with so much wonder. For six weeks
have these men been looking for each Other
to send o leaden messenger 70 bid hin
home, or at night digging, each other:
lgrayes in the sap and mine, now looking
upon each other for the fret time. Each
knew what the rife pits concealed, mons
know how many, or what manner of meI
his neighbors was. Ali the day long they
peeped over, some within ten feet of hi!
j foe. .istasI ss5 ~ ~ SaJ .sH sEf
Bot a stranger scene than this was to bI
4 in the Afternoon The chieftains were Z
meet In small plain between the hills
Thousands Of men could look from rampartl
of earth at their meeting. AT about 8 z. N.
Gen. Grant rode over the breastworks iron
4 our. side, and at the same moment Gen
Pemberton and his aids rode from the other
4 In q sweet little nook they met, After al
l;introduction4 by Col. Montgomery, though
they had been lieutenantsiin the same tegi
ment in Mexico, Gen. Pemberton said "i
u was at Bnena Vista and Monterey and wi
had conditions therssH q Z have no con:
ditions," said Gen. Grant, ESQ a little hirt
: told me- )n HCome aside.' 3Ps ~
). They two went few feet apart from tht
rest, and sat down on the grass, amid fl
} and peach trees, for there had been gar
lden there. Anshoar elapsed, or more, whel
+ both arose and went their several ways.
The formal aking possession was at j
A. N. of to-day. A glorious Fourth. Thi
was the day predicted by your correspond
ent, as we'll as by many another wiseacre
Ias tAel0ssA. d. to-day we entered the tor
q city. AT ~ II. TIL ports, with color
II flying left their moorings ,snd three score
5Inearlys Of steamers, returned from Danish
ment To- their landings at Vicksburg.5
The glorious little conqueror sat durin
the interview with cigar in his mout
i nearly alllthe time. Already hismenzar
eager to be led Johnston-ward. An
i where: for him. VS. = vtss-.'sF sgI3t41
II History claims bin eridarling! 1t is
noble triumph to any ono who dsfende
-ihim last winter when all condemned, to sc
!, him nowl Aistranger tome-never spok
! with him but once, and that when ,sno
Ia WAS on the ground 40 s5ElssiW s.iE s
= e Twenty thousand prisoners are ours
ltthey are % pc PaFolied here. yicksbur