The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-08

mupie.tions on hand which shall appear
In due time. -
The Glorious News of Yesterday.
The thousands Of Extras which were
issued from ous Office yesterday 10 the
city, and the surrounding camps, went
out like Aocks Of Eagles, bearing on their
wings the joyful tidings of great and
unparalleled victories for the National
Armies. 1t was whispered on the streets
that good news had been received al the
UNION office, and the excitement of the
people without became intense. When
the newsboys carried it through the
streets q few minutes afterward, it was
welcomed with shouts OF exultation.
The first announcement of the wires
was that Vioksburg, the Gibraltar of TIE
rebel strongholds, had surrendered to
General Grant on the 4th inst Never
was that Anniversary so nobly celebra-
ted before. AT the hour when the 10y al
men Of Nashville, and patriotic millions
throughout the land, were celebrating
the birthday OF the Republic, Pemberton,
the Northern renegade, was delivering
up his sword and army TO Grant and the
indomitable legions Of the Army of TIE
Mississippi Patient, persevering, long
suffering, indomitable patriots, whose
heroic souls no terrors could sppal,
whose martial advance could no
more be arrested by the hosts of treas
son, than the onward flow of the Miss
issippi can be checked by a sand bar,
how freshly bloom your unfading lau-
rels in the eyes of your grateful country
men
And the next intelligence was the ut
ter defeat, discontinue, rout, almost an
Inhalation of the best and largest Con-
% nsfederate army, commanded by the great
est rebel General, by the new and al
most unhe ard-of commander of the
Army of the Potomac. His appointment
was so unexpected that it had startled
the public few days before. He was
almost unknown outside of the army.
he was comparatively an obscure officer
Was it reasonable to suppose that he
could succeed where Mcclellan, Pope,
nAlly; the FIRST commander after being
INDUCED and tolerated for near eights sen
months 1t was scarcely possible. Lee
crossed the Potomac and pushed up into
Pennsylvania at the head Of his magni.
hcent, immense columns of l25,00(
splendidly equipped veterans, plumber
ing and ravaging the country as he ad.
vAnced, with perfect confidence He at.
tackled Meade at Gettysburg on the %
inst. and was repulsed, and when Meade
pursued and attacked Lee in turn, or
the following day, he won complete
victory. Lees great army was cut tC
pieces aud scattered in every
direction. The rebsls left all their dead
and wounded on the field, multitudes o.
their small arms, camp equipage, anC
nearly, If not all, Of their artillery, EN-.
bracing over one hundred cannon, wer,
abandoned in their precipitate flight
while the capture of prisoners must b,
considerable over 10000, largely NOR,
than double any previous capture of tn
war. II would seem that the straggler
of Lees army are giving themselves VI
In all quarters, TO the enraged militi,
bands, who are pursuing aud hea1
them off ON every avenue of escape Th,
rebel soldiers in all probability feel n,
inclination to return to the service of tn,
Richmond ConfederRcy, aud are glad L
surrender. If half what is reported o.
the route of Lee be correct our disaster
at Bull Run was nothing TO it, TIL,
flower of rebel chivalry has met the ar.
my of Northern loyalty, and vanished
like the host of Sennacherib before the
sword of the Destroying Angel. The
crossing Of the Potomac has proved as
fatal to Lee, as the crossing of the Ru-
bicon 10 Julius Caesar.
And again, we hear cheering reports
from Banks, which make us confident
of the speedy fall of Port Hudson.
80 perish ever the armies of the slave
Ocracy, and the foes of the Republicl
SO triumph over the patriotic armie,
which defend the holy flag of American
Freedom and Nationality
Adjournment of the state Con
ventIOm.
Vhis bndV adiournad es,. II. ~ 49,.