Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-09-09
Glorious News.

We have not he'd tie opportunity e.
so.ne time o giving tie readers of III
american so mach good re4s from ,Ae
Union army and navy as We print fhi-
week. Even the President, caGna,, in
view OF the great Importance OF eur 81
cesses, refrain from issuing Proclamation
OF ThaAksgising,-profcrhialy cautious
AMI circanspec: as he is known "a be. and
ayerse to making public demonstrations on
slight and trifing occasions. atlanta IS
ours. city that has been deemed the
Gibraltar of the Rebellion. 'i'lj, is u
grand con>n'mnatian Of the militant caln-
paign Of General sherman AMI result
which WAS prophesied, conld not and
would not be accomplished. Both tn
rebel, and the rebel synpathizcrs 1T thc
North. considered ii certain that sherman
would make failure of it; andthat cen
cral Bragg, and then General Hood was
only drawing the Union General along 10
entrap and annihila;c him. Bu; til. Wholc
campaign has been series Of brilliant ,ic-
tories, AMI succession Of long marehe.
and Of the exhibition OF high military skin
BY the Union General. Some writer has
called Atlanta the "Tcgritoril Key of til,
Confedcracy," and ranks it in military i.a-
portance above Richmond The city i,
thus described in Lippincott's Gazetteer:
atlanta, a doufi,hia- city of DeKalb
county, Georgia is situated miles s. +.
Of the Chattahoochee river. and on the
line of railroads leading from savannah to
Chattanooga and Nashville, Tennessee,
I0l miles y. ". Of Macon, III ". Of AE-
gusta, and 29l miles from Nashville The
situation is elevated and remarkably
healthy. Foar Of the principal railroad,
of the State terminate in Iii, toAn, and
render it a place of great activity in bu,i-
ness, and a depot for the cotton and grain
Of several adjoining counties. The Gror-
gia railroad extends from Atlanta to Au-
gusta; the Macon and Western railroad
to the city of Macon; the Atlantic ana
Western railroad. which WAS opened in
1850, leads TO Chattanooga. Team; and
the LaGrange railroad, which was finish
ell in lSJ2 connects Atlanta with West
Point II miles distant. Atlanta was laid
out in ISIS, since which it has increased
with great rapidi;y and become one Of the
most populous and important towus in the
Northern part of the State. 1t has five or
six churches, six schools, two newspaper
Offices and bank. Population in 1853,
4000'
TIE importance of the city to us,
and the irreparable loss to the rebels, con-
sists not in the greatness Of population but
in its value as being a great centre of rail
road communication, and as being the
place where is located the rebel manufac-
lures Of the materials of war, powder guns
clothing for the army, &c, &c. 1t is an
irreparable loss to them.
Next in Importance is the splendid opera
tons of Admiral Farragut in Mobile Bay,
and the capture of Forts Morgan, Gaines,
&c. We give elsewhere the official report
of Farragut. Nothing in the annals Of
our brilliant naval warfare equals these gal
liant and daring exploits.
The news this morning across the water
is that the American frigate Niagara cap
tured the confederate pirate Georgia and
put prize crew on board and sent her 10
New York.
So the skies are looking bright and the
Union cause looking prosperous and hope
full.
" The Navy Department has ordered