New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-07

front and Play national airs the ve.long day. pre-
similar programmes are TO be enacted on the line
OF the Army OF the Potomac. The Rebels evidently an
ticipato some extraordinary demonstration by Us In
honor Of the day-maybe will themselves take the mi
tistive with the hope Of turning its pristine meaning
against w. II they do not divine the place and the
hour of The thing I know 10 have been contemplated
look to the anniversary yet have for US apresen
glory add I'd to its traditional significance.
The men in the trenches are much worn. The eter
nal vigilance which the price Of their lives Is more
than ordinarily eItausting owing to the nnreentlne
heat. Still rain, albeit Of your Contemporaries
has a letter dated Headquarters Army OF tho Poto
mac" which mentions two showers IN one DAY. a
letter with such heading written in Newly ORR shouo
not be circumstantal. No grand movement may DC
expected until there is change in the weather. "ran'
has reached point in his Herculean task where
be can afford to require less Of his army. He may now
take for his motto Fesfiad 6at' for he has passed
the beginning OF the end and the end itself IN
straight path before him.
With the destruction OF all the roads leading into
Richmond begins the practical circumy aation-sege
of thrt city. And better 10 take il months hence,
aud then and there destroy the Coniederacy than TO
celebrate to-day within it, ano have Lees army I'M
broken ord defiant, posted only little south OF
it, The fortunate few in the army who obtain
;mpses Of Northern papers are astonishNd at the
nervousness Of people-at the fnctuatioi- in
the price Of that said-t0-b barometer Of
public confidence, gold. Either there/was no ade
quatc comprehension OF the magnitude Of Granss under
taking. there is misconsepton TO the means lie Il
pursuing and the amount he has already accomplished
This much at oil is certain; If he has not KEEP
pace with their great expectations he he's with his Owl
more moderate ones. and while they may despOud h
only now suffers himself be fully altogether, assured
" confident and he may be supposed TO be in possession
Of the more correct data upon which to predicate nj
opinion.
Deseriers come into Gen. Buffers lines AZ the rate O.
ten 10 fifteen per day and the rate ia steadily increasing
One whole company. led by Its captain, recruited II
Portsmouth, Va. three years ago and conscripted a
the expiration Of its term Of enlistment. deserted
in body three days ago Several Tennes
seeans arrived yesterday. and these threw ~
their hats when they learned that Andy
johnson Is To be the next Vicc-Prosdent and
one from Georgia who didn "keer ter fight fur then
arstockers" and who was asonished 10 hear that Gen
sherman had occupied Marietta Ga. his home. IIC
had never been out Of the county where he born
until conscrptcd was poor man. had only one thought
to got back to bis wife and chdren-and said al the
soldiers from his locality. every one from down
rendcr WA OF his mind. Several whose homes are
In Richmond aud Petersburg, complained that while
they had plenty OF food their families were permitted Il
siarye II is clear that the greatest distress prevails
in those cities At last starvation is becoming thing
we may count upon. however deusye II may have been
heretofore. The cry Of Wolf wolf" was the herald
Of a fact-a live wolf. C. \. Z.