New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-06
FROM GEN. BUTLER.
Irritated Pickets-Lee Expected TO Adam
don Richmond ARTILLERY Practice
Beaurcgard Reported Conc 80 Lee
The Negroes Sent for 10 Help Defend
Richmcnd-Rsbeis Begin 10 " See" the
Campaign.
STom Our Special Correspondent
GEN. BUFFERS HEADQUARTERS.
ThursduY .Inna 2 1854

Thursday. June 2, 1864.
am afraid some luminosity has sprung up
between picke and those Of the Rebels for in the
early morning light they actually shooting at each
other The gentlemen in charge of batteries at either
aide disgusted being thus early disturbed from their
slumbers doing their best to awaken everybody by
the firing Of canister great and small Gentlemen Of
the Navy. unwilling TO be behind hand when any shoot
ing is going the echoes Of batteries with
their heavy guns In tie pauses between the firing
dull, heavy sound from across the James II is
the Army Of the Potomac striking its giant blows at the
doors of Richmond The belief that Lee will not make
final stand at Richmond grows stronger. The capture
ofRchmond abandoned by the Rebels is barren victory
Lees army which reality the Southern Conederacy,
still exists and must be conquered or annhlated. Had
Gen Buffers force been eft intact he could now move
70 advantage; but through the orders of Gen. Haeck
this army las been crippled at the very time when 1t
should be made available for offensive operations
JUNE /, ls64.-Early this morning the encmy opened
heavy fire line to the right Of the centre. Our
batteries have got the range of them, however and
sienced their guns. We lost one man killed and
thirty seven wounded The gunboats fired few shots
ut the battery by Howlett's House. About dark to-
night the Rebel pckets on Apponattox fred Of ours,
but did no harm beyond driving few persons out of
the river in which they were bathing This morning
the pickets Of both sides filed their cantens at the
same spring. but tonight this fraterniEng was dis
pensed with As write, cannonding is going on TO
the right Of the centre, the gunboat aiding This com.
menced while the band was serenading the Command
ing General and his wife, who up today
brief visit and the music Of the is blended with the
roar Of the other The Rebels reported to have
sent away all their available force and Lee Is said Il
have to Petersburg for I'll the negroes 10
be sent up to Richmond to assist in hockading the
strees Refugees FROM Richmond say thai Lee is back
IN the intrenchments. Deserters announce the fhct
that the Rebel army begins to realize its defeat and
becoming desperate. The Richmond papers are blue,
End fault with army movements and do not talk Of
Lees having whipped Grant any longer. The Peters.
burg papers complain loudly that the authorities at
Richmond should have neglected fortifyng and garri
soung both City Point ard Bermuda Hundred claiming
them TO be strategic points Of the greatest Importance
gLo truth Is they dreamed of coming up 50
fHr, and. as the Richmond papers admit had no idea
that Grant intended moving toward james River. One
dsE sooner later the importance of Gen Buffers
movement wiz be and appreciated BY those npa-
hcnt people North who wished and expected that he
would take Richmond sngie-handed. We have news
to-day that Gen Smiths eolGmu had safely landed at
White House and effected junction with Gen. Grant
Some eannonaSing heard in the direction Of Bot
toms Bridge this morning. WIKI.