The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-06-24

not TO wait long The Yankee cavalry came
dashing down the old stsg. road from Rich :
mohd. These were followed by their infan.
Try, ard ar'illery-ihirty piecee. The num-
her OF Yankees In S.auuton, Including
Crooks men, who dfa not enter the
town TIL Wednesday, was iifleen thousand.
Gems. Hunter, Averill, Crook, Sullivan,
aud Stahi, were In command. When Crook 's
men arrived, all the houses were searched
ior provisions. In one case, on Monday, q
mau ascended the stai,s Of q dwelling and
demanded food. A young lady told him
there was none up there aud lie must go to
the kitchen. lie drew his pistol upon her.
hut She stood firm, and succ ,edei a. list in
Ia .king him go TO the kitchen. Guaids
were placed at various oinis, ana good
order III general prest rived. Tuesdsy morn
lag, several Confederate scouts dashed
down the Richmond roaL and fired,
aud a little skirmish ensusd. A Great
panic followed. A part Of the Yankee
csvairy raced up the road after our men, +,
bat did not catch them, aud the whole Yam
hee army skedaddled out Of town, thinking
our army was cOning. After while they
came back. They broke open She stores and
distributed the contents to the negroes and
some white people who had given them in
formation. They burned the depot and the
steam mill, and broke up the machinery of
the shoe factory. They intended to have
DuENtu tHi All IL was lily 6tStu U} tuC
earnest and ng.couti00ed entreaiies OF the
citizens, who feared thar il would involve
half the town in names Ga Thursday they
etLew up one OF the elegant stone bridges oi
the Central Railroad, At each explosion their
band playing exultantly. The stone bridge
n-arest Richmond wouid have been blown
up on Friday, but they lett On that day.
Thursday night the woolcn factory Was
burnt, the band playing all the Time. In
fsrn.l y caafuh cf tha hnuS.E N .-lufSIaV
hc gci i've hundred t",ei6 -; II hir buia
Stanton alone, the same number that was
captured from them on the day ot the New
Hope fight. The persons engaged IN search
lug the houses behaved, in some instances,
Ontrageousiy
All the Government shops ana stables
were burned, and the Ialr:-ad torn up tor
six miles G,n. Hunter, who is described
as a horiid old wretch, next TO Beast Butier,
WAS SO enraged by the ekirmish Of Tuesday,
that he declared he WIS going To burn HE
town, insisting that it WAS the woih ci .iti-
ZenS. This deiuoniac purpose was NOT ear
red out. AS an example oi The liquor
drinking propens lilies ol the Yankees, il lady
WhOec house was moiested by dTuuEen
soldier, went to the Provost M1rshal Tor
protection, but found he Was drunk
also, aud could not DC seen. Another cx-
ample of Yankee meanness. When enc If
the Government shops was burned, several
private houses c,ught on fire. The Yankees
had q splendid lire brigade which put these
fires out using the Staunion hose and engine.
They th,n broke two II the latter, aud cut
UP Six hundred feet OF the hose, leaving the
population helpless against any future ire.
They had tents pitched in the Episcopal
tharch yard aud hoses turned in there. AT
the residences If Hugh w. Shelly, Esq u
short distance from town, they stole Il large
tuaniiiy of provisions aud clothing, and
lta.npled down his wheat. The headquir-
ttls Of Gen. Sullivan, who is described As
very 4. ntlemaDiy man, WE e at the residence
al the late Wm. King. On Thursday even.
ing intelligence was received OF the Con
irderatc victory of the 81 Of Juue, and On
Friday the Yankee army lett, protesting not
10 know where they were going. Ii any
thint, WAS peeded to intensity the patriotism
OF HE people ot 5s4hrton this viaitalion
would have uouc it, Nevertheless they say,
'tif eur trav" aud noi;c Jackaun had been
living the Yankees WOULD IUt LaVe got
here.