The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1864-07-06


Iiuring "Wednesday and Tinlssday w
captured $500 prisonere.
j The enemy still hoh thS railroad, and
are Certifying at ReaHi'a station
Passengers on the train just in from
Stony Creek report that agenccai eagaSc
ment was expected to-day between Lec
and Grant.
! We fear the last paragraplrin retercnce
TO general engagement Is too saDgGinc
Gen. Ice and his officers would like nuth'
| ing better. Whey belieye--we have it up
on very high military authority y--that
I they could whip Gen. Grant 10 death in Il
general engagement with the liaif, or
even the third of Gen. Lees army.
GoLDsBoRo, June 29.--0n Monday 4
tsrlitilng party OF. Yankees and tories ufn
dep Col. WirS, 800 to 400 strong. entered
/ lMorgahton, at the Western North Caro-.
lima RAILROAD, captured some reserves;
4 robbed the bank, and destroyed Il train OF
cars.
The bank is supposed to have had a
| large sam on hand.
! The taiders are said 10 have come from
| East Tennessee.
Kautzs raiders have gone to Grant
They crossed the Petersburg and Wei.
don Railroad near Bellield.
CHARLOTTE, June 29.-The latest from
| Morganton sta@s that the raiders dre in
possession, but no advance has been
| made.
An ample force has gone forward TO
| check and capture them.
The raiders are composed Of four COM
panies, deserters and tories.
An officer w)unded in one of the en-
gagements before Petersburg, who passed
through Wilmington, and who, with his
regiment, had been stationed in that vi
cinity before, states as the result of his
experience andiintercpurse with the peo-
pie Of Petersburg, thai nothing could ey,-
ceed their hespu aEty; their kindness to-
the soldiers, of, their attention to Lhe
sick and wounded.
The deiences that surround Petersburg,
like those around. Richmond, are strength
ened with ''batt Aries" established at in
tervals. These batteries are numbered,
beginning at thel Appomattox on the east
of Petersburg, Gnd proceeding south and
vest" Battery No. /" being that one
which is nearest to the river 1t will be
til at batteries Nos. and
were captured by the enemy on Wednes-
day evening ebf last week, and are, we
believe, still held by them. How many
of these batteri les there are in all has not
been disclosed i'm the accounts of the OPP
srations. The Yankees have threatened
ns far around IS to No lG.
"A citizen Of Norfolk who has just es-
capped from til at place says that Buffers
tyranny Is intc lerable. The situation OF
The people is generally very necessitous
and distfessin, I. The. garrison of soldiers
has been gre atty reduced, and is now
quite inoonsid cradle. Among them is
regiment mad up OF the poor wretches
formerly Conf ederate soldiers, who under
The combine6 | influences of threats and
i'm Iprisonment and bounties,
rc1 -,1i q In ieastiStg, 70 orilist
under Lincohl The Yankees are afraid
10 trust them in battle.
The Wilnr ington journal of the goth
llt, has rec eiyed copies OF Richmond
md Petersbu rg papers as late as Satur-
lay. A frien d Of the editor left Peters
ourg about 4 O'Clock on Saturday alter
loon, came o at, with others, on an en-
zine as far a. the Yellow House, some
ix or seven ! niles from Petersburg
old there aal the enemy, which had
,een driven i'll the road, had returned to
t at Ream's Station. The party then
eft the road taking through the woods,
With. a view of hanking the Yankees at
}eams', which they did, striking the road
gain about s,toney Creek. From Stoney
jreek they lhlade their way towards Wei
lon on ha nd car. Upon the whole, it
vas q pretty toilsome trip, but they sue
essfully VIC rked through.
he says t hat the amount. of damage to
he Peterst ,urg and Weldon road is not
,reat, not probably exceeding five hun
IreA yards of track, all told.
Just before he LETT, the enemy resumed
helling SLOWLY; one shell struck the
Presbyterian Church, upon the roof of
Which stachment of the Signal Corps
!, stationed. Another fell near the Post
fiice, and o third struck house in Syc-
more street.
The fact that an engine run out from
Petersburg South ON Saturday evening,
GEMS to negative the idea of the enc
ny's entrenchments stretching across
he line .f that road.
The following is Gen. Lees official dis
patches in reference to the operations
tear Petersburg on Wednesday last:
HD'QRs. ARMY OF N. VIRGINIA.
June %, 1864.
Ton. james 1:Seddoa, Secretary Of Var:
SlR-Since Friday last there has been
along the lines in front of
Hundreds and around Peters
,urg. The Federal army appears to be
oncentrated at these two places, andis.
trongly IL trenched,
Yesterday a movement Of isiantry,
.avalry and artillery was made towards i,
lie right of our forces and Petersburg, in
he direction Of the Weldon Railroad.
The enemy was driven back and his in
antry is reported TO have halted. His
avalry have continued 10 advancelupon
heroad by u route further removed from
sas position.
The enemy's infantry was attacked this
fternoon, on the west side Of tlre Jeru-
slem plank road, and driven from his
rst line of works to his second on that
pad, by Gen. Malone, with part Of his
vision,
About sixteen hundred prisoners. four
ieces of artillery, eight stand Of colors.
nd large number of small arms wero
sptured.
Very respectfully, etc,
Il. b. LEE, General.