The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-19
rur WAR NEWS.

..,a,.s,iuc news we have this morning
,.,,na in the announcement that Majof-oen-
-, w.as Hampton, on Friday last, at dayhens,
tlsa err, point on the Weldon railroad, below
-. .,.tian. and passing. around Grants rear,
-, ri. position on the Norfolk and Peters
-,i,r,aa. capturing three hundred Yankees,
'"'e -, Was much more valuable, twenty-five
anu r., os cattle. On his return, by the same
hUi.''ts eked in the afternoon on the Je-
-, nlsnkroaa by Gregg, whom he defeated,
h,,nong off in safety all ms 'ap'a'es' Ane nhs
.,.vrb,d by General Hampton was about WE'VE
H. long The following Is General Lees ohe'ai
dispatch -,
hhND"' aSeptemher IL, 1864.
M. tna.s A Sea5oa, Secretary IF War
"a, savlish. yesterday the enemy's skiIrnish line
-. >, N. Jerusalem plankrosd was driven back
-, Ms entertainments along their whole extent
-, ,sisoners were taken by us in the operation
"a, the same hour, General Hampton attacked
=, onor,v,s nnsition north Of the Norfolk railroad,
ZOO, seran,orc Church, and captured about three
,,,, Ircd prisoners, some arms and wagons, large
-, 81 horses, and twenty-five hundred cattle
..oonc,al Gregg attacked General Hampton on
-, firm in the afternoon at Belche1's Mill, on the
Jerusalem plankroad, but was repnised ana drifen
hack Everything was brought oil saieiy.
.our entire loss does not exceed lifsy men.
ar. Z. Ire"
r,o nr;saners mentioned by General Lee as cap
,r.a on the .kiIinish line, belonged chiefly to the
Frs. AMI Second Maryland regiments and Fifth
New York heavy artillery. They were taken III
front of wilcox's division
Persons who have recently visited City Point in
farm II. that the locality would now scarcely be re-
coya;zed by persons who knew It intimately three
~ f,ur months ago. An immense wharf has been
erected by Grants orders, extending from the old
.eauboat landing on james river, around up the
aupor,attox for half-mile or more. Commissary,
ordnance and quartcnaster depois, over three hun
dI feet in length, have been constructed and SUIT
lY's shan,ies innumcIable have sprung up on every
hand Soldiers and civilians, who can raise green
haEs are enabled 10 purchase any article they may
desire from Il glass Of slrsaphalilla pop up to m
oycr,oat OF All umbrella
The former superb residence of Dr. Eppes has beer
renovated and repaired, and General Grant, Mrs
Grant and suniIy young Grants, are now snugly en-
scouei therein, upon the squatter sovereignty prin
ciple about which we heard much during thu
Douglas canvass i'll 1850. From the Doctors resi-
dence up 10 Jordan's farm in the immediate vi
entity OF Petersburg-au the valley OF the Apo
mattox-is one vast camp.
The country behind Grant is being daily robbie
by the negro troops They 60 about in bands, rsi
into the chambers and unoeremonionsly appropri
ate whatever articles may suit their fancy. They
usually bring carts and wagons with them, or I'M
prs.s Oh the place such teams may be necessary
10 carry of their plunder. During the past week
a., .,.4S of ly all
household goods, two hundred and twenty-five dol
ia,s in specie, tour fine watches, belonging to hi
amily, and many other articles Of value. Las
Monday night, they robbed Mr.. ], s Wilson: al
oil uiau of seventy of nine thousand dollars Il
money, and Other property, amounting in all t
thirty thousand dollars. They placed pistol to hi
temple and gave him five minutes to live If he dl
l.ot tell Shele his gold concealed. They ais
ought rope and told him TO select his place
execution, but they could not intimidate him. II
proved firm detied their threats, and still lives
though not unframed az one OF his slaves was al
lowed 10 strike hun with mis- musket. A party
negroes came 10 sulithfeld, and were fired into b
the citizens; i'll day OF two, gunboat came up
the wharf, and, OH the testimony Of negro, four
the principal citizens were arrested and taken oil
The negro, they said, was tree man, and protecte
by their flag"
Yesterday, nearly all day, heavy firing was hear
from down the river. 1t was caused by brisk shell
ing, in the vicinity of Dutch Gap, by the enemy
gl.nboats, done to protect the working parties o.
utlers canal improvement.
THE POSITION IN GEORGIA.
There is nothing new from Georgia The ''front
quiet under the fag-of-truce opiate administers
70 it. The hag-of-truce detail, our aide, is und
the drectiolho Of an officer of General Hoods stat
and consists of about one hundred men, with Il 81
te,ent number of wagons to bring off the refugees
who may select" the South as their residence
General Sherman has his headquarters in Atlanta