Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-30
REBEL ACCOUNTS.
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[From the Petersburg papers, June gal
INcEssANT FIRING DURING MONDAY NIGHT.
| From ten O'Clock until day-dawn around
the entire line the popping of musketry was
distinctly heard throughout the city. II
was incessant, not a seconds time elapsing
between the discharges Of the pieces, and al
| the distance we occupied resembled more
] the Neutrality-suspicious. of fire crackers than
any thing to which we can liken It,
| Tuesday morning early that same old
32-pounder Blakely of the enemy, which
| has now become familiar to the ears OF Pc
! tersburg people, commenced its daily bu-
| sfness, and at the usual intervals of five
| minutes its reverberating noise would break
upon the ear. This gun Is stationed at or
near PAGES farm, on the City Point road,
and has thrown many shells into the lower
part Of the city, but SO far has caused no
destruction Of life. On Monday evening
one of Its missiles fell near the Market
House, entering one Of the small brick
buildings to the west of the market, occu-
pied by Mr.. Frank Perkins, cutting grid
er in two ana scattering the plastering In
all directions. Another scraped the tin
roofof the Southside depot building, glanced
over the depot yard, ricocheted, and finally
brought up at the bottom Of the Appomat-
tox.
THE ENEMY FEELING OUR RIGHT.
About eleven o'clock yesterday move
ment was made by a portion OF Grants ar
| my, on our lines near the Jerusalem plank
road, in the vicinity of the residence OF MIR.
William A. Gregory, but his advance guard
! only drove in our pickets, for he discovered
a body of troops which, had they continued
| their advance, would have administered TO
them terrible castigation. This same
body, which shall here be nameless, has al
ready rendered not less than twenty thou
sand of Grants army wholly unserviceable
since the present campaign commenced.
AMovE ON THE WELDON RAILROAD.
About two o'clock our mounted videttes
discovered the enemy in much force moving
around towards the Weldon railroad, on q
road which crosses the rails at point about
two miles from Butterworth's bridge, and
In the Immediate vicinity of William II.
Davis place, at the forks of the Halifax and
Vaughan roads. The Yankees engaged in
this movement were encountered by body
of North Carolina cavalry, who held them
in check until reinforcements came up,
both of cavalry and infantry, when the en-
emy were speedily driven back-the caval-
ry alone becoming engaged.
BALDY SMITH CROSSING THE APPoMATTox.
Large bodies of troops, supposed to be
attached to Badly Smiths Eighteenth army
corps, were observed crossing the pontoons
on the lower Appomattox, and it is not i'm
probable that General Ulysses, chatting I'M
der the restraint imposed by our well mass
ed lines around the city, will repeat his
often tried process of hurling large col
umns against our intrenchments. They
will be welcomed as they were at Spottsyl-
vania Court House and Coal Harbor.
GRANTS FoRTIFICATIoNs IN PRINCE GEORGE.
A gentleman who left Prince George a
day or two since, says that Grant has ap-
parently very large force between the de-
fences of Petersburg and City Point. lie
is heavily fortified, his line of earthworks
extending from the Appomattox, at point
short distance below Petersburg, to and
beyond the farm of Timothy Rives, in
Prince George, in southeasterly direction.
Here it unites with another line, which
stretches off toward the James river in
northeasterly Objectionable two forming
an acute angle, or, in other words, very
broad letter V. The northeasterly line is,
of course, intended to guard against any
movement which may be made to strike the
enemy from his flank from the eastern side.
OPERATIONS OF THE ENEMY.
The people of Prince George, as every
where else where this army of Vandals has
visited, are suffering greatly from their
depredations. Crops of wheat, corn and
oats have been destroyed, and every garden
has been stripped. As confirmation of this
last mentioned fact we would state that
many of the prisoners brought in last week,
upon being searched at the Provost Mar
shal's Office, were found well supplied with
sal. 80 h. l.
stated that they had taken from the gardens
of the Prince George people to keep them
from ''spiling."
from The Richmond Examiner, June PAL
Gen. Hunter has retreated, with great loss,
to Fincastle. We have captured thirteen of
his guns. He is probably retreating toward
for supply of ammunition. Fin
castle is manufacturing town of consid-
erable Importance, and allows him to select
one of two or three good lines of retreat to
a base of supplies.