Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-24
THE PRESIDENTS VISIT TO TIE ARMY.
lie MEETS WITH ENTHUSIASTIC
RECEPTION.
The Black Troops Hail the
President with Joyful Ac-
clamations.
General Grant in Good Spirits and
Confident.
GRAND MOVEMENTS IN PROGRESS.
A Rebel Battery on the James
Silenced by One of Our
Batteries.
The Rebel Rams Afraid to Come
The Rebel Rams Afraid to Come
Within Range Of Our Monitors.
THEY SHOOT OVERLAND
THEIR SHOTS FALL HARMLESS
SUSPICION THAT LEE is EVACC
ATING VIRGINIA.
&C.,
&C.
&C.

The President arrived at the Washington
Navy Yard yesterday afternoon in q naval
yacht, as announced in our second edition last
evening. He was accompanied by his youngest
son; by Capt. Fox, Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy, and Colonel Chadwick, of Willards'
Hotel, who acted as chief caterer Of the Presi-
Dental party.
The President was received at City Point by
Gen. Grant, and was conducted to the Lieu
tenant Generals headquarters. After par
taking of refreshments, the President and
Capt. Fox accompanied Gen. Grant to the
front, a distance Of ten miles. The party was
mouRted. This was "the horseback ride iu
Virginia" which VIC announced, on Tuesday,
that the President was taking that day.
En- route to the front the President passed the
colored troops in review. As soon as the fact
was made known that the tall stranger with
Gen. Grant was the President, they began to
cheer, and the widest demonstrations Of JOY
was mSuifested all along the lines.
The party halted at our advance works be-
fore Petersburg, where the President had flue
view Of the city. As this visit was In the
mldst of active operations the Commauder-in-
Chief did not visit the several corp5 Of the
Army OF the Potomac.
On Wednesday the President and party
visited Gen. Butler's headquarters, and, under
escort of the General aud staff, rode TO the ex,
treme right Of his lines, near Farrar's Island,
on the james river, and within sight and good
range OF a rebel battery, 1t being enly nineteen
hundred yards. This battery Is erected on the
south side of the James, just above the obstruc-
tions placed in the river by order of Gen.
Grant. On Tuesday this battery opened upon
our extreme right, without doing any damage
when one Of our monitors, lying near the oh.
sGructions, replied with lfteen-lnch Hahlgrer
and dismo,fnted or silenccd every gun in Il.
One or two OF the rebel rams, plying up the
James river for the protection OF Richmond
came down on Tuesday as far as the vicinity
of " Dutch Gap" aud threw some shells over
land. but they fell harmless. The rams ar,
afraid to round the bend of Farrar Island
fearing the ffteeu.inch Dahlgren on our Moni
tors lying just below the obstructions.
We are glad to be able to announce that the
President found and left Gen. Grant in the Verl
best Of spirits and confident Of a suceesShd result
While the President was at the front tn
grandest operations of the war were in prog
ress.
There have been no rebel batteries on tn
James below our obstructlons that have don
any harm, and now there are none.
Everything is progressing about Petersbur
as well as the most sapgulne can hope for.
From information we have received "a
day, there is good reason to believe that Gen
Lee is trying to escape the Gordian knot
and is falling back towards North Carolina
At any rate, there is no positive informatio
that any portion OIL his army, except Beaurt
CARDS command, occupies the rebel works c
Petersburg. 1t will soon be known what tn
fact Is.