Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-03
TIL. Celebration of the 4th of March.

published the following Overland telegram
to the Associated Press:
NEW YORK, February 23d.--At meeting
of citizens to-day, it was voted to suspend
business on the Fourth of March next, to
celebrate the recent victories IN manner
commensurate with their grandeur. Business
committees of the people of the whole coun-
try, from Maine to California, are to be re-
quested to unite in fitting demonstration OF
Joy on that day. -..-.9asa.. .r...sa-
Yesterday the following telegram was
received by the Mayor of San Francisco :
New YORK, Feb. %, 1865.
The Mayor of San Francisco: The people
Of New York propose national celebration
of the Union victories on the 4th Of March
at midday. Will your city unite. ..r
Moses TAYLOR, .
A. B. CHITTENDEN,
SAN SWAIN.
San Francisco accepts the invitation.
The Board of Supervisors last evening
adopted a resolution inviting the citizens
to meet the Board this evening, in the
Council Chamber, for the purpose OF
making preparations for the celebration:
Prominent citizens who were consulted
yesterday, expressed the opinion that
very respectable demonstration ofrejolclng
could be made, and the public feeling is
exultant and full of the enthusiasm which
gives spirit to such an occasion.
We have abundant cause for rejoicing.
We shall celebrate the late victories. What
are they: The triumphs of the last six
months form, perhaps, the greatest series
of successful military operations conducted
bv one nation upon record. Sherman,
after hard fought battle and brilliant
victory; took Atlanta, which was regarded
as the key of the Gulf States. He followed
it up BY bold and Hannibal-like march
through Georgia. Hood undertook to
drive the national forces from Tennessee,
but he was defeated, and deprived of all
his heavy guns and his army was COM
pletely broken up by Thomas. Sherman
took Fort McAlliSter and then Savannah.
Porter, in command OF the most powerful
fleet that ever sailed, attacked Fort Fisher
and drove the garrison from their guns,
while Terry, or land, assaulted and took
the various divisions of the fertilization.
Gen. Schimmelphennig took possession OF
Charleston. the hot-bed of the rebellion.
and hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the
ruins of Sumter Terry followed up his
success in North Carolina by taking Fort
Anderson and Wilmington and thus we
have control of all the ports through
which they have maintained their commu-
nication with Europe. Such were the
victories gained in Tennessee, Georgia and
along the coast. In the Shenandoah Val
lev, Sheridan defeated Early three times
and drove him away, and then devastated
the valley so that the rebels should no
more depend upon it as one Of their chief
sources of wealth and food.
By the march through Georgia we de-
prived them of the assistance of the Gulf
States. BY the capture of their only
ports, we have cut off their supplies of
arms, ammunition and medicines. We
have destroyed their domestic foundries
and machine shops; they can neither pro-
duce their cannon nor their locomotives.
Dick Taylor and Beauregard have small
armies under their command, but neither
dares to undertake any serious enterprise;
and the whole available force of the rebel
lion is now concentrated at Richmond, so
entrenched that they cannot be assaulted
without immense loss, and yet unable to
gam any ground. Thither Sherman and
Terry and Gillen are now marching, and
within few months, perhsps within
few weeks, we shall have to publish the
glorious news that the last stronghold of
treason has fallen before the victorious le-
gions of the Union.
But the greatest victory of the last six
months was won by the army, not by the
fleet it was neither military nor naval,
but political. 1t consisted in the re-elec-
ton of our Chief Magistrate by a popular
majority of 100000, with the most en-
phatic endorsement of the doctrines that
the Union must be maintained and slavery
abolished.
We may lament the long delay Of the
fllfillment of our hopes of peace, the i'm
mense cost in treasure, the great loss OF
life, and the serious disturbance of trade,
but these are not the gravest evils that
can befall country. We have completed
the work of freedom commenced by our
fathers; we have cleansed our nation OF
the stain of slavery; we have crushed the
viper of disunion; we have secured our
permanence and greatness as n nation;
we have borne sacrifices unsurpassed IN
history; we have made great discoveries
in the art of war; we have gathered the
most powerful of armies and fleets, and
have given a lesson to traitors and slave
holders that will be studied with interest
and admiration so long as man shall exist
on the earth.
We have, indeed, abundant cause for
reioicing.-ARa, Tuesday. ..'