The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-26
THE WAR NEWS.

,b,t the enemy has crossed any s''s''e'
' -, e,r.e 10 the north side OF James
'.Y a. has died away, and the people are
- mach puzzled in regard to Grants
|,.or. intentions as ever. We have re-
'''D u came further intelligence of recent
u.,;ons which will doubtless prove
,.,.st;ns to the reader. On Friday
;,,t and during Saturday there was in
.,.,,nt skirmishins and picket firing
..,n,panied, at intervals, with heavy
..ano1sdne. On Saturday night, from
,,Hp,st IL to o'clock, there was furious
.,,al.ry firing from our batteries on the
chesterfield side of the Appomattox. ----
The discharges were estimated at thirty
,.r minute, and it is thought that not
i.ss than forty or fifty guns participated.
The earth fairly shook with the reverbe-
-.,ions. 1t was at one time thought
t,t or batteries were shelling the enc
mrs mortar lines, but the citizens of
p,,ersburg seem as ignorant of the
,,.se of the demonstration aS, those liv-
m,at distance The Express says it
u, stated on Sunday, by an officer who
.,tned to be well posted, that the cause
@. the cannonade was an attempe OF the
s1sny to throw brigade or more across
n, nyer under cover of darkness. Ii
sas, however, a signal failure, for our
men we're we'll prepared to check any
saeh movement. The storm of iron
uinei upon the Yankees on that night
must have amounted TO at least a ton,
AMI the noise was perfectly terrific.
On Sunday the usual picket firing and
mortar shelling was renewed, and con-
tinted until a late hour of the night.
The rumor of Grants death was re-
1rel yesterday in full vigor, and this
lime said to be upon the authority of a
Washington paper, which announced
the arrival Of his dead body in that
tty. All humbug.
CAPTURE -oT YANKEE COLOMBIA OAR
mo ACT.
Tn Sunday Adjutant Grigg, of Bush
rod johnson's Tennessee brigade, with
ndr companions, proceeded down the
north bank of the James river on a
scouting expedition, to ascertain the
strength of the enemy between New
market Hill and that stream. AS the
party We're proceeding leisurely along in
the vicinity of the Yankee lines, they
discovered Lieut. Col. Hooper, of Brad
shaw's (FederaD brigade, engaged, as
feli officer Of the day, in posting pickets
He clrelessly advanced some distance ir
h0nt OF his men, when he was suddenl,
halted by Adjutant Grigg, who drew hi:
pistol aud demanded surrender Th'
Yankee sharpshooters endeayored t.
prevent the capture of their officer, ant
kept up quite lively fusillade but the
Adjutant succeeded in bringing Oft hi:
prisoner with his horse and accoutre
mehts.
Col Hooper is said to he brother o
the Yankee General of the same name
killed in Sherman's army in recent en-
gagemeht Some important papers wer
found on the person of the captured Off
Ger, which were handed over to the mil
tary authorities.
FROM GEORGIA.
The following official dispatch, receive
Yesterday at the War Department, sat-
lied, TO some extent, the public elaine
ior news from the seat of war in Georgi
ATLANTA, July 90, 1864.
ton Jas A Seaion, ssc'y of War:
la The engagement yesterday We capture
Is stands Of colors instead of 5, aud l3 gul
iastead of 90, as previously reported.
Brig Gen Mercer was not wounded.
All quiet o-day, except q little pick
fring aud occasional sheils thrown into Il
city. j Is HOOP, General
The subjoined dispatch, also receive
Yesterday, while only a repetition of
part OF the foregoing, shows that up
Sunday evening no hostilities of magn
tlde had been resumed AS the enen
Is near enough to Atlanta to throw shel
INTO the city, it is to be presumed tn
lie will indulge in that practice to a col
aIderable extent, as Grant has done
Petersburg:
"ArL.sTA. July'2i, 1864.
Hn J fsdton. sec'y Of War;
'Ail has been quiet to day, except lit
li'ket h'ing aud occasional shells throw
'nto The city. J b hooD, General. "a
The Associated Press dispatch, whi'
We publish elsewhere, brings the late
news IRON Atlanta. 1t appears tn
many shells have entered the town, a,
though several houses have been struc
Dht little damage has resulted.
from the Georgia papers, received la
h'sht, We gather some details of Il
night on the Goth. The correspondent
the appeal writes:
Finding that the enemy had cross
Sa'h'fee creek and were attempting
'"'" hih right, for the pnrpose Of gaini
p''ssfhion OF the railroad bridge, aenel
h'od determined to attack their iett, a