The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-23
Operations Around Petersburg.

Ihe fetrfshufg k1ffeSs, vi yesterday, has the
faiiowing account Of the OPERATIONS around tta
city The day before
| fest.sdsy morning. early that same Old -
| ponnder Biaksley OF the enemy, which has now
6ecome so familiar 10 the eats of Petersburg peo-
pie, commenced its daily busins ., aud at the
usual Intervals of five miHuics its rcvetbefatine
Noise would break upoa The ear, and elicit The re
max iIom every one, "fhat Btakeiey Is about
again " This qua IS stati0ned al Ot uear PAGES
,aum, on the Ciiysfoint road, aHd haas i6tewn
ma"y shells iG,b the lower part OF the city, but
Tar has CAUSED 40 destruction OF iite. On Monday
evening one oi It's missiles fell near the Market
House, catering one of the small brick buiiiing-
: 10 ,ie west st the market, occupied hy Mr. Frank
! Perkins, cutting Il gfrdet IL twJ anI sc altering
the piaslering In all direcuous. Another scrapeii
the tin roof Df The SOathside Depot building
glanced over into the depot yard, riehucheted,
and finally brought up at the bottom of the Apo
ma,iox.
TIE A.xMf OPENED On FROM fHE cHEsTERsisLI
About ten o'eloch couple OF our batteries oc-
cupying al advaniag tOus position OHNhe Chester
| ied side of the Appomattox, paid their respects
to the enemys guns in the vicinity OF Jordan's
farm, stopping the thunders Of the Blakeley monster
for white, and causing the ganners to ieave-ai
fist In twos, and then, the locality became hot
ter, In squads Of five, eight ten, a fifteen. Our
batteries were supposed 10 have disatranged mat
| hear from the Blakcey for several hours. About
last evening she opened again, and continued
her firing at the usnai Intervals,
INK kNfMy tEst,Na nGg RIGHT.
Ahaut ~ o'eiock yssteiday a movement was
| ma.., by portion oi GRANTS atmysoa our lines
! near Ih, Jriusaiem Piaukroad, In the vcinity vi
| the residence 81 MIR Wm G.sgarv. Ba. his at
vance suarh only drove ia nur Eickets, Tor he dis
| covered body at u6upi which, had they cVa-
| iinuPu iheif advance wound have administered Ia
! them a ttuibie castIsatiGH. IEi5 same body.
| which shall here be- namei. -, II As iIieady zen
der, no. less than 2J 600 of Grants array wholly
| uuseiviceable since the present camp sga COM
mehced.
AM1vEMENT ON THE WELDON RAILROAD.
| Nothing now occurred TO disturb ,he equanimily
OF cur brave boys occupying the trenches unii,
| two O'Clock, when our mounted Vdettcs discov-
cred the enemy in much force moving around 10
wards the Weluoh railroad, on road which crosses
the r-iis at point about lwD mill from Bauer
worh's bridge, and in the Immediate vicinity Of
WIN III raviss place, 81 The forks OF The lltiiflx
and Vaughan roads. The Yankees engaged in
this NOV. uent were encountered by body of
North ca;o liza cavalry, WHO held them in check
until reiniuic, mtn,s came up, both ot cavalry and
oi infantry, wht tn the enemy were speedily driven
back, the cavalty alone becOnin. eueast1.
The fortunes ut war aIs conceded I0 be very
hekie, hut we predict Tor such oi Grants t0tces
may allie mpt 10 sweep aosnd in thai dirrctiJn The
mu5i sevtre d,Ubhing oi ihe campaign. The Con
tederatts wh" now have that p ttiOn OF the ap
pToactiss 10 Petel sbutg in their Keeping are t,.t
Ing men III every sehseOI the team, aud have
Yet kno~n defeat. To sutseTve the. cause, and
the unaiAaniins General, we r>fIain from men.
tiOning troops by name; but We hope AT no distant
day give all The gallant regiments, brigades, and
divisions now engaged Ia the def. nee OF p,terstu
their due E.ecd Gi deceived praise.
BALpY SMITH CROSSING TuE APPcMAITox.'
Yesterday large bodies Of troops, supposed to be
attached to iidy Sniiti,s E'ghtecuth army corps,
were observed crossing The pontoOEs Oh the lower
Appo,B.iox and Al is not Improbable that General
iysses, chaunk under the severe rrst,aini in,
A..ff lik..I lG
will 10 day repeat his oiten tfitt Process OF hui
Ing large .uiumns aslin$- our entitnchmeuIs.-
They Will be welcomed is iiIey at SputsYI
wanna louit bouse aud Cold iliIbUY Lei lheln
come. Ouf boys are impatient 10 receive them.
GRANTS foRIiFIcATIoNs IN PRINCE GEORGE.
A gentleman who LETT Prince Georgea day or
two since, says that Grant has apparehtiy a very
large force between TIT. d'fcnc,s vi Petersburg
and iIy Point lie is heavily tOHined, his line Of
cathwUIks extending fiOEi The Appon,aitGx, at a
pointa short distance below Pe:rIsburg To- and
beyond The farm of Timothy Rives, in Prince
Ceoige, in 4 sUsihcasteT!Y Objection. Here II
unitcS with ah0h line, uttcl suetchcs of to-
wards the Jamcs river in noIthcastcTiv dire ction
- the two forming an acute angle, or, in other
words, a very bt0Id letter V. 1ht uOiIheistetty
iiHe Is of course intended 10 guard against any
movcnien, which may be made lu strike ,he enc,
my IN his II int iEoni iiic eastern side.
DEpHEpArIoAs oF the ENEMY.
Our informant states that the people of Prince
George, eveyW here else where the afn,y of van
dals has visited, are suffering greatly n0m their
depredations crops OF wheat, CON, ard oats
have been destroyed, and every garden has been
shipped. AS continuation Ot this last me tiened
fact, we would ale that many Of The prisoners
brought in last week, upon being searched at tn.
Provost Marshai's Office were found well supplied
with fresh onions, which some ole The rascas
stated that they had taken from the gardens U! The
Prince George people 10 keep them fIom splicing
We learned last nigit that our troops ergaged
the enemy Yesterday afternoon near The Weidon
nstf and fer tIJh
them handsomely The enemy's movement Was
watched by party OF our scouts, who first discov
cred them about II O'Clock, near Mr. Richard Vii
Hams farm, la Binwiddie, bali hflle west OF The
Jerusalem 2iaukI0ad, aud some three miles from
The Weldon road. They consisted OF iiaacoek's
ID corps and i brigade Of cavalry
We captured Lieut. Col Homer u Si0ugblon, OF
the Zd /! j sharpshooters, Captain, and some ten
iwe.ve privates. tut .5tougGtoa was wnnndrd
In the Wilderness fights, hut bias recovered.
ARRIVAL THE PgI.osERs.
a batch al piison.fs, taken near ihe Weldon
railroad yesterday afternoon, were bi0aah! 10 MaJT
Ker's headquarters last night, aud by him TUNED
over to frovOs, Marshal HaWes They state ihat
they belong 10 The 2d army cops, Hancoek's y and
had been lii The trenches af"9ud Petersburg up To
Monday night 1hey were Then relieved ty new
Amy corps, ihe BuH,ber Of which they did hot
lean.
in passing An Intelligent sergeant iIum fbiiadcl
phia, attached 10 the I'd = -ha,tshootets, states
body OF cavalry had goae down 10 the rear OF Pc
tersburp and Intended 10 cut the railroad al some
point between this Cily and Weldon. We give his
stateme III for what Ii is worth
The piivates in this batch are ali Foreigners and
the most ardinary, iIiiteraie, ged, dirty, cut
throat looking ciealues wa have ever seen One,
a raw Patiandef, says he only iaudet in this
Try last February, when he was im nrdiately well
pied with wills key. ehiissted 10 tsht under The
stars aHd Stripes and then sent 10 The army. Such
isthe material our gallant soldiers are now fight
lug
the I'aTEST FsoM GRAMS ARMY.
The latest from Giants army, now afOurd Pc
ersburs, reached las, night al II O'clock In the
shape OF shiainOus sht n. This noisy missile
Tell On Bank street, stiking the iaige mulberry Tree
in irOrt OF Old .ntel building, and cutting
OF a limb soGe eight inches in diameter. Nobody
hurt, but the cOmpositQrs Ia The k1pTeSs oGce, and
our ftiehds at The Pr0v0sts Office, WtIe grcatiy en-
livened by The music.
CHaNaE In THE NAvY.--The following letter from
the Secretary Of the Navy 10 Commodore I Forrest
explains recent change ia the command OF The
iyrr