GREAT SENSATION AMONG THE SECESH.
New York, July 18.—The New York Tribunes Washington dispatch states: We have advices from Warrenton to-day. The news has been received that Gen. Hatch occupied Gordonsville. This has created great consternation among the leading rebels in Warrenton, who had not the least idea that Gen. Pope would reach that point without a great battle. Index, many of them said, would be held at all hazards, and that no Yankee army would be allowed to take it.
Gen. Banks, at Warrenton, reviewed his troops last evening, and was received with the greatest enthusiasm. The camps blazed with lights from candles placed on the points of bayonets and from sudenly improvised bonfires and fireworks. Loud calls were made for a speech, and Gen. Banks, in a few eloquent words, told the soldiers what they would soon be called on to do. After nine deafening cheers they retired to their tents, eager to march when the order comes.
Note.— Gordonsville is a point most important, strategically, from its position at the intersection of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, (leading southwest from Washington) and the Virginia Central Railroad. It is seventy-six miles from Richmond and eighty eight from Washington. A glance at the map will show how convenient a route it has been for the rebels to move their troops back and forth from the Shenandoah to the Peninsula, and vice versa.
Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, IL