New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-03
ATLANTA.

General SHBRMAN's advance entered Atlanta
about noon of yesteyday-such is the great
intelligence which flashed over the wires
last night, and this morning electriieS the
People of the North. The contamination OF
that magnificent campaign which the genius
and indomitable resolution Of Gen. Sherman
have conducted from Chattanooga to the
heart of Georgia is reached at last.
Territorial key of the Confederacy, Atlanta
ranks in military importance beyond even
Richmond, and passes into our hands as the
assurance of the final dspembcrmcnt of the
Rebellion, and the hopeless isolation of It's CON-
ponent States When Chattanooga fell, the
first center of the great railway intercommunica-
tons which held the Rebellion together in mill
tary Conference was transferred oloyal possession
and control. With Atlanta falls the second and
practically the last hope of maintaining the in
tegrity of that rebellious empire, which was
linked together by iron roads capable of uphold
ing a system Of military defence Cor a territory
20 immense. There remains only railway line,
devious, protracted and uncertain; line which
scarcely for any military purpose impairs the
ofthe possession Of The roads which
unite at Atlantata; and upon which as a means
of concentrating at either end the joint resources
of Virginia and Alabama and the intermediate
states, the Rebellion cannot depend for mo-
ment. BY common consent, Atlanta has been
deemed the Gibralter of the Rebellion; It's value
understood and admitted on both sides; It's con-
quest now the final confession Of the utter weak
ness, the vanishing resources, the exhausted
strength of this reconsideration.
Lacking details, we infer that-and from pre-
yous information we partly gather-that the
persistent extension of Shermans lines toward
the Macon road has enforced upon Hood the al
tentative Of being shut up in Atlanta, or Of aban
dOning the city, to save yet for while The rem
the latter as the least disastrous result-but
where is he to go, or what hope of prolonged re-
sistance remains to his defeated, retreating, des-
pairing army7 The Northwest of Georgia was
a network of natural fortresses, every one
of which had to be successfully abandoned.
When the line of the Chattahoochee was forced
there remained Atlanta, fortified with care de-
Tended with desperate courage-and now At
lanta is abandoned, and there is absolutely no
line and no fortified town, ard not even broken
country where the Rebels can hope TO fight
with a chance of success. The fall Of Atlanta
is truly, and in full military sense, the loss of
Georgia; and it is not too much to say that
this browning triumph of General Sherman's
campaign does in effect inclose the Rebellion
within the narrow limits of the Carolinas and of
Southern Virginia. 1t destroys beyond all hope
OF recovery the unity Of the Confederacy,
and all probability Of its retaining o per-
manent hold on the Continent.
Not New-Orleans, not Vicksburg not Chat
tanooga, not Gettysburg was such victory as
this. 1t comes at an opportune moment. Let
the Loyal North take heart. Devoutly thank.
full for the great mercy which is granted us,
let us grow stronger in resolve, more unater-
able in purpose, more religiouSly confirmed in
faith that the Rebellion shall be utterly crushed,
nd the Free Union of these States be re-
established forever
Loter.-Au official dispatch from Maj Gen.