The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-12-05

Hoth"g of importance occurred on the
""'' o'''~ Richmond yesterday. The
ia"heeS -. they are making prepara.
nonH to sh'" Richmond from their lines
At o'FnE'oN H. nd are sanguine Of their
ABILITY 10 throw ''lndred pound shell into
the Capitol equal We shall believe
this when ne see il lone Should tbcv
however, succeed, ", may count upon
one good effect, whate'r may be the bad |
ones That very large as Of ner-ons
who, having no business ,ere, will per
sist in nte5ting the city, VII decamp i'm
meajately on the explosion ,f the first
she'll within our limits.
a Northern paper mentions, : q re.
| port that Burnside, with twenty thou.
sand men, has embarked at Fortrcasfon.
roe to 50 t. Sherman'a relief in Goozia. |
We 10 not credit the repor. Grant i,s
not twenty thousand men 10 spare.
FE0N IETEEsICE3
Since last Thursjay night the picket
firing has been bris}; OH tho Petersburg
lines, ana on Friday heavy cannon De
was kept up by the Yankees along the
left and centre. During the cannonade
on Friday morning, Brigadier-General
Archibald Oracle, OF Alabama, @hlo in
specting the lines, was struck in the
head by = bullet from schrapnel shell
and killed instantly. lie fell near wha,
is now known as the Crater, the lit
caused by tha explosion Of Burnsidos
mine on the @0th Of July last,
THE ATTACK on STONY CREEK.
The attack of the enemy on Stony
creek, on last Thursday morning, though
an unpleasant affair, turned out TO be less
serious than at first reported We had
some three hundred men behind earth
works at Stony creek. About noon, the
enemy-with cavalry, artillery and in,
fantry-a;;acl,cd the place The little
garrison defended their post with gtl
lantrv as long as there was any hope Of
making a successful defence, and then
f! attempted foretrcot During the retreat
upwards os a hundred of them we're cap
tvred The enemy, on gaining posses
| ION, set about the dc tru,tjon Of the
railroad and Government depot, and
| tuilEir.r- ,auIaini7gr e.v1ral thousand
!, u,
: bushels OF corn, some WhtdI, H"h''ha'"h
o.l n,ro-a F,rri.lare1la Quantities rs
oJ lionors. four and f=h. brlonainr to
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linn u = i, with his cavalry moved
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>.ton,, cra,l found them ,e,;r;og, He
nrreneJ and attacked them VIGOROUSLY,
| rausln~ them TO retreat rracipitatelv.
leavjr9 their dead and wounded and a
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| h'HhHti 81 prisoners III ''A H1"N.'
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carsf,I evoadition Of Naior.GenerqI Ros-
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