, 1864-03-11
Qbica9o Gribnne.
FRIDAY MARCH Il, 1864.
THE NEWS.

14x&t 0la NEe
The great rally Of the people at Bryan Hall
klast evening WINS 1lbcrally swollen by the
@prcscnoc Of our soldiers temporarily ut home
from the field. The whole affair was love
ieast Of the campaign, on the Threshold Of
which We stand, a campaign in which the
contcnding parties will employ urgumcnt for
batteries, and win victories blcod1ess, but
yet vitality decisive in the interests of human
ity IN the most important political
struggle the country has ever known. Gov
Yates and the other speakers Of Inst evening
never stood before audiences more enthusl>
astic and appreciatiye. The hundreds who
struggled In vain for admission to the hall
will attest That the ha11 was wel1 filled,
which for rainy night, With the glow Of tho
campaign hardly amakened, is speaking vol-
umcs for tlc carnestness Of the masses and
OF the army, whose representatives. are nu-
mcrously With us. AL are in earnest that the
Union mny live through slavery, die or rather,
or ratlcr, since slavery is the confessed enc.
AAif VI NA4Nnt &4A41t ~ 6AAAlAA A4N lAAAl A4E
Union may live. Gov. Yates, always popu-
lar with Chicago audience, never made q
harricr impression than on last evening.
Morc particularly Of him and the other speak
c.s on the occasion, we hare tho less call to
write here. since our full and exhaustive re-
port elsewhere does justice to I'LL.
We give elsewhere In our dispatches the
text Of 31r. Chasc's letter to prominent
Ohio politician, formerly withdrawing his
Haine from consideration as Canlidatc for
:hc Presidency. Mr.. Chase accepts as the
tiual test, the late action Of the Unionists Of
the Ohio stnte Legislature whose voice was
given nearly unanimously for Mr. Lincoln.
Mr.. Cllasc will stand the higher among the
people from his prompt and handsome &C.
,Iuiescence TO circumstances.
The editor of the Bristol Ga-ettc, who DOS
s>iD1y n,ay have had q (Btsstol} brick in lis
1sat at the time Of writing, promised on Sat
ardny Of last week, That Lonsstreet wou1d,
III eeven days time, clean ont East Tennes-
sec, having returned for that purpose. "Itis
Il long lane that Knows no turning" and tic
Bristol rebel evidently claims the same for
1ong-strcet- We have no adviccs that the
small rebel writer did not write himself down
an ass Knoxville still stands, which, At 1asi
adyices, was more than our pursuing force
could persuade Longstrcct to do.
Gen. Grant was yesterday On a visit to Gen.
Meade at Headquarters Of the Army OF thu
Potomac.
Tie later advices Of the Australasian't
news give some 1urther important details oi
:hc Danish situation.
The war In North Carolina freshens again,
:nd preparations ere making for stirring
events at no distant day. Our forces occupy
Sutlold, on the confines Of Virginia, whether
kipetrick'e cavalry force Is moving.
Mr. Arnold Of this District brought the
great National measure, the Ship Canal bill,
before the House yesterday, and met-A11l.
waukce in the person Of her representative.
Positively, We shall have to publish that rail-
road map again.
We give elsewhere the earliest direct &C.
counts yet published from sherman's great
expedition, which Will live long in the an-
mails Of this wnr. We're any one to have set
down in advance such prognostieatlons for
an anticipated movement it would have been
secuted Us the widest romance, and
the parties most incredulons ut the tale
would have been the rebels. But 1t has beer
accomplished and the substantial results arr
Of record An impression has been left or
the rebel mind not soon to be worn away
and most important Of I'll M exhibition o
Fclcral power has been made, which move
:mcnt Dixie will not easily forget. The dam
age to the railroads will be soon repaired
the harms to the rebel cause will be perma
ncnt.
Vtrginia. the mother Of slaves, has drawn
her chfcf revenue for years past from the sal.
of her children, crossing her own best blooi
with that Of Africa in a miscegcnation, ths
slave drivers have no objection to when the,
can sell the babies. But even Virginia I!
rising from the dust, and coming back from
:le madness bred Of her unnatural
crimes to sit clothed in her right mini
under the rule Of Liberty. at Alcxandtia
Yesterday In the Assembly then in session 4
measure WIS inaugurated which Will be.
come law, abolikhing slavery
in Virginia. The soil drenched
with the blood Of her CONS, and wasted with
lie fiery tides Of wur, will bloom again with
new life under that decrcc. And it will 20
forth. Delayed, stayed as it may be, Liberty
will he the Law In the Old Dominion, wher
Peace returns to her borders