The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-03
wreath Of smoke disappeared. the full
form OF the rattlesnake in the centre was
remarked by many as it gradually faded
away.

remarked by many as it gradually faded
away.
FROM GRANTS ARMY-wnAT LEES MOVE.
MENTs ARE TO BE.
The last reports from Grants armv
are chiefly spcculations about appre-
hended movements of General Lee
All females and others not connected
with the Army of the Potomac have
been ordered to leave the lines.
Parties from the front report that our
lookouts and the various 81 gnal stations
have, within the past few days, dis.
covered large bodies of rebel troop3
moving to and fro, which leads to the
belief that Lee is receiving reinforce.
ments from Beauregard's army, or is
massing his troops at some point for the
purpose Of attacking our lines. Our
troops are necessarily watchful, and will
not be caught Trapping
Descrters who came into our lines, on
Thursday and Friday, say that the peo>
pie OF Petersburg had been notified by
the rebel military authorities to remove
themselves and their effects from that
city within four days.
There are other circumstances which
tend to confirm the belief that Lee will
soon contract his lines by evacuating
Petersburg and falling back behind the
AppomattoX river.
The HeralNs City Point correspond
ent gives a report that Johnston com.
mands at Richmond, and Lee has gone
South to- meet Sherman.
| INTENDED OPERATIONS AGAINST MOBILE.
A letter from Cairo to the New York
Tribune says that the Federal army now
| going to the Southwest is intended for
| the capture of Mobile and then to operate
against Selma, Montgomery, and other
cities. 1t says:
If the enemy evacuate Mobile, and es
cape with his garrison to Selma, he will
no doubt be joined at that place by
Taylor's forces and what militia may be
| at present under arms in Central and
Southern Alabama. If so, he will have
an army Of about sixteen thousand ycte,
rams and six thousand militia-twenty
two thousand in all. 1t is not necessary
to add that We can outnumber him in
men and material, and it is possibe-it
is really probable-tilat general cn-
gagement Of a sanguinary nature may
take place in Central or Southern Ma.
bama Time will settle this speculation.
If everything works well, Kirby
Smiths army will be attended to before
next summer This will require two ex.
peditous-- up the Red river and one
up the Rio Grandc. All of the mum
tons of war; in fact every thing but fool
for this army,' is carried up the Rio
Grande by European vessels, while
Texas and Eastern Louisiana furnish the
bread and meat. Kirby Smith has no.
got very large army, and can easily be
cleaned out when sufficient force Of
Fedora! troops are ready to get to work
about the matter right.
A correspondent, writing from East
port, Tennessee, to the Pittsburg Chroai
Gle, says:
General Thomas left here last week,
and has gone to Nashville. The day
after he left, fleet Of twenty-nne boats
Left here with troops, etc. Out not Tor
Nashville). The public may form their
own estimate Of their number and dcsti-
nation-previous to which, General 4.
J. Smith left, and where be goes there
is fight looming in the distance. Ge-
neral Wilson now commands the troops
in this vicinity. Colonel Steward is
post commander. There was asc0ut who
came in to day by way Of luka, and who
brings the intelligence that small bodies
of the enemy are scattered through the
country, and that it is impossible 70
come up with them. General Forre>
sent in flag of Truce yesterday Ga
some triiing matters. They were Nc;
allowed to enter our lines About thrfF
of his men came within five miles OIL
PASSPORT, and within sight Of it, ycatcT-
day, and captured seven men, four OF
whom they killed while trying to cs'
cape.
To-day a pontoon b,ilge has been
thrown across Bear creek, and large
scouting party sent out to scour the
woods in that direction. Passport =
tianked on the east by this creek, and /. .
is nayigable for some twenty miles oy
small boats. The hills in the rear are
nearly as high as those around Pltts5uTs'
and on which the army are camped.I,
Yesterday seventeen boats came Up WIN
a number of troops. Ii Taylor, loTFes.
& Company think to find a ynlneIao.I,s;
place to make strike, think they VIII
be mistaken. The gunboat Carondei',,
is lying here to organize the conveys anu
cooperate with the army in the delenet
| nf tho Mace CaDtain Rogers late Vi