The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-09-08

Campaign documents, prepared with
great care and specially for the purpose
of assisting the Grave Digger of the
Chickabominy in not getting the Pre-
sideucy.
The following are now ready: Mobile.
A splendid performance of which Com
modore Farrsgut, assisted by large fleet
of Monitors aud Federal vessels aud Iron
Clads, is the author. Some of the most
prominent and interesting features of this
work are tho following:
Compelled the evacuation of For.
Powell, the surrender Of Fort Gaines.
almost destroyed aud compelled the sur.
render Of Fort Morgan, heretofore con.
sdered the strongest fort of the kind in
the Y 5 We have taken 500 prisoners,
100 pieces of cannon and vast quantity
OF small arms and munitions of war; also
provision enough to feed the garrison we
shall place there for six months. We
have captured and have ready for use the
ram Tennessee, the strongest war vessel
aiioat also several other war vessels and
have penned up at least three English
blockade runners. All this cost the army
one man killed, six wounded and the nayy
the loss of the Teeumseh aud part of
her crew, and very few casualties on other
ps."-[VIde Com. Farragut's official
Report.
Further results-It made the rebels
feel very badly.
1t made the Cops feel equally as badly.
1t may not be undressing to remark
that Immediately upon the publication of
this work gold fell from 2.53 10 2.3sa.
where it would have remained bu. for
the great Peace Copperhead Convention
at Chicago, which published a platform
aud candidate that sent gold up again to
2.52.
Second. Weldon r. r.. BY US
lie great value of this work may be
shown by the fact that the rebels sacri.
feed almost fifteen thousand men in try
ing to prevent the publication of the work
after 1t had Jne to press.
81. Atlanta. BY General Sherman and
the finest army the world ever saw.
The importance of this work canno. ba
,verrated
The Chicago Tribune has the following
n reference to it:
Strategically, the victory is of the ut.
most Importance. Sherman to day holds
n his grasp the States of Mississippi. AL.
bama and Georgia. The capture Of
Iicksburg and subsequent occupation of
be Mississippi, wressed from the rebels
ne third OF their territory. The capture
I Atlanta takes another third. There is
ut one-third left, and that, Grant will
ecure as sure as the sun will rise to.mor.
ow morning. Z The rebellion is now mar
owed down to the southern portion of !
irginia, fraction of North Carolina. and
nc Slate of South Carolina.
In all its military and geographic.
earrings, the capture of Atlanta is N
lost important of the war. From a NOR
point of view, and regarding the sfract
broad, Richmond is desirable, but its
sptuie, while Atlanta was in rebel nos.
'sslon. would have had very little perma.
ent effect upon the issue of the rebal.
on.
Atlanta was the granary and workshop
the whole South. /; is rich in fonnd.
es, gun shops, warehouses and mann.
ctories of every description. The reb.
. have drawn ordnance. ammunition
othing and all the munitions. sunni;es
nd raw material of war in immense
mounts from it. One of the most -four
hing cities of the South, situated in .
'r.'ie country. the nucleus 6f FIVE rail-
'aos' rao,sting 10 Tennessee. Alabama ~
irsinia. North and South Carolina !, -
within it's borders all the ole.
ents OF great city, and before the war n'
as recognized as an important BANKING n
ID manufacturing place. During tho
osress Of the rebellion these resanrcas
we been taxed to their utmost in ann ;,
ying the rebel armies with material IF
ar. That supply is now cut off. and
9 rebels must finish up their fight with
e scanty means obtained from blockade
nners.
9th. Jonesboro, BY the anthor Of nAt- !
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