Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-06-18
LATE NEWS FROM NEW ORLEAs
a Rebel Force in Trimble County
Indiana
OFFICIAL RUaLETIN.
RAsuIHaroE, June II.

To EojeT General Dir:
The following dispatch has bsen receiv-
ed by this Department:
CITY POINT 10, via JAMEsroWE ISLAND,
$50 A. N. 16th.--GenersI Smith with 49,
600 men attacked Petersburg this morn
ing. General Butler reports from his OBJ
servatoIy near Bermuda Hundred, that
there hiss been sharp fighting and that the
troops and trains Of the enemy were, ss
he writes, moving from the city across the
Appomstox as if retrsating. Hancock is
not near enough TO render General Smith
any aid.
The Richmond papers have nothing Of
:-tsIc5G-
CRY Po1zT $50 P. N. 15th.-0ur latest
reports from Smith was at Pm. He
had carried a Hne Of entrenchmsnts at
Beatty's House, the cclored troops as
ssulting and carrying the rife pits with
great gallantry, but he had not yet car
ried the main line. He describes the reb-
el artillery fire as very heavy. he ex'
pected To attack the line just before dark.
Hancock is within three miles Of Smith.
The following dispatch, dated City
Point, June 18th, A. N, via jamestown
Island Il.45 A. n, at 7.2O P. N. yesterday
says:
smith assaulted and carried the princi
pie line of the enemy before Petersburg
taking ls cannon, several stands Of cOlort
and between three hundred and four hun
dred prisoners. This line is two mile
from Petersburg. Hancock marched an
took position on Smiths left at 8 A.
There was heavy firing in that direction
from 5 to 6 O'CLOCK.
No report has been received yet.
DOUr HAEDIEa, Va, June l6, 6P.K.-
! After sending my dispatch Of this morr
ing frS~ the heights southeast Of Pster'
buI0Iveutoyc-. the conquered lines wit
General Grant and eugiGc- mar officers. III
works are of the very strongest SS.na-
more difficult to take than was Missionar
Ridge at Chattanooga.
, The hardest fighting was done BY tt
black troops.
The first they stormed was the worst
all. After the affair was over Smith wei
; to thank them, and tell them that he vi
proud Of their courage and dash. He So!
s they cannot be exceeded as soldiers, 81
hereafter he will send them in oil
! cult place as readily as the best
; white troops. They captured six out
the sixteen csnnons.
!. The prisoners which he took were fro
Bsauregsrds command. Some Of the
said they had just crossed the James sbO
I: Drury's Bluff.
'. don't think any Of Lees army h
resched Petersburg, when Smith storm
n it they seemed 20 be making arrsngemer
X to hold the west side Of the ApomstC
he They can't think Of holding it ss it l
y, " directly under our guns. The Wsati
splendid.
CRY Po1Hr, June Is, P. M.-Geue
Butler reports from Bermuda HundI
;;so that the enemy have abandoned the VOL
. in front Of that place, bis troops are n
engaged in caring up the rsilrOsd betw'
- Petersburg and Richmond. The follow
= dispatch does not designate the hour, l
in- is supposed to be later than the preceedi
:" ones.
on' JAHEsrOwE, Va June 16 Il came do
'Ost from POntOOn, above Fort POwhattOn, v
d,,natohes for Secretary Stanton. JUS
!. Ilsft, Captain Pitkin, reported to me
Petersburg was in cur possession.
bel Nothing of recent date hiss been he
bel from General Sheridan, but the Richm
Whig Of the 18th, contains sdisPatch Il
}. Les Stating Sheridan had been rOuisd
ms. an engagement with FitEhugh Lee
I Hampton, losing 500 prisoners and Il
ing his dead on the field.
!. From General Sheridan, & dispatch,
-, fed last evening, has been received.
An onIv states the relative position Of the
an oes, No serious engagement had yet
~ CURED. no,,
IN" Secretary Of Wa