Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH especial TO TUB TIIE DAILY UNION VEDETTE washington may lath A dispatch from general grant has just been received dated near spott sylvania court house on the at 61 6 g p m as follows the eighth day of the battle closes leaving 0 between three and four thousand prisoners prisoner boners E including t two wo generals and over thirty pieces of cannon in our hands as the result of the days work the enemy are very obstinate and seem to have found the LAST DITCH we have lost no organic organization aaion no company even whilst we favede have destroyed and captured one division Jolin johnsons sons one brigade dobbs and one entire regiment of the enemy signed STANTON grant sent bent a dispatch to the president which was received last night announcing in terms of character charac characteristic tei modesty that he moved on the works again at Spott sylvania court house ott oil thursday morning burnside and hancocks Hancock sy men making grand and impetuous charges with the bayonet by corps surprising tile enemy and producing 0 the wildest consternation ster nation in their ranks crushing C lees light and center and hurling liis his entire line back several miles with awful 81 slaughter aughter grant remained master of the field with all the rebel dead and wounded on oil our hands the route route of the enemy is complete I 1 BERMUDA HUNDRED beauregard with about men is in petersburg we have all the railroads leading Z to that city cut and forces enough to keep him there four monitors and several gunboats gun boats are arc within four miles of fort darling ready to operate cooperate co w with ith the land forces our forces occupy a str strong 0 ng position FORTRESS MONROE cayll may 11 fighting was reported yesterday between the rebels and our forces under smith the bone of contention being the turnpike between richmond and petersburg washington WASHINGTO 11 may A dispatch from general grant dated 8 on oil wednesday morning says we have ended the sixth day of very heavy fighting and the result to this time is much in our favor our losses are heavy I 1 think tho the much ii greater we have taken prisoners while the eneany enemy lias has taken but few except stragglers I 1 propose to fight it out on oil this line if it takes all summer NEW YORK may secretary stanton sent a dispatch to gen dix conf confirming arming the news of hancocks hancocke success and states that butler is besieging jort Yort darling gen kantz has been sent to cut the danville road FORTRESS monnon af may ay no fighting on yesterday our forces are throwing up entre entrenchments uch ments from the to the jampa nver liver a distance of six miles rt it is said beauregard 0 was reinforced on yesterday night by brigades from lees army the statement scorns improbable tho the james river was obstructed on yesterday afternoon by our forces near turkey bend by sinking schooners ners nars and barges to prevent the rebel ironclad iron clad from coming out our aw hole force wo moved dovedat vedat at 5 oel ck this I 1 4 I 1 morn morning ilig and are probably engaging tile the enemy by this time philadelphia may 13 tile the enquirer has dispatches from Spott sylvania dated noon of the ath saying there has been a lull in the battle for the past half hour but the indications are arc that it will soon be resumed everything is favorable our losses in the past eight days are variously estimated from eighteen to awen ty five thousand but as the contest was mostly in the woods thousands may be lying 0 there of whom no leport can be made at present cincinnati may dalton was evacuated by johnson on thursday day night and is now occupied by our eur forces washington may A boat which left belle plain at 10 this morning brings intelligence of the result of yesterdays battle it lasted all day lee was finally driven out of his entrenchments to the po river a distance of four miles during last night the greater part of his army crossed that stream the aloi glorious ious victory of the morning is thus reu rendered dered decisive and brilliant by the result at eve additional ad vices florn sheridan show that lie he has had great success both the frede vicksburg licks burg 0 and richmond and virginia central railroads have been destroyed for miles cavalry in moving down the valley tapped the virginia central railroad near charlottesville charlottsville the secretary of war in a dispatch yesterday stated the government was sparing no pains to grant since the battles of the wilderness and more particularly since the almy aimy has been engaged in tile the vicinity of Spott sylvania reinforcements arc re rapidly sent forward men left this city on thursday it is stated that sigel reinforced the army of the potomac with men there is every probability that the losses in the late battles babcoc hasib cen greatly exaggerated 0 so that a reinforcement 0 of f more men referred refe ried to above will nearly make up the actual losses and that aleader army will bo be quite as strong numerically as when lie he set out upon the campaign NEW YORK may the Y T times special says dispatches pat clies received from coi respondents dated headquarters head quarters 8 thursday night say the are in ill full retreat to the north anna river with fresh troops in hot pursuit pui pul suit leos lees retreat is becoming t a rout thousands of prisoners ar are e being 0 captured tile the streams in bi his rear are very much swollen by the recent rains but pup supplies plies are reaching our army rapidly our wounded ale coming in in very last and being sent to washington many bially of them thein without stopping at burg tile the movements of tile the enemy seem for the object of cutting off some olour of our supply Weli we have ave asyet as yet lost nothing 0 in tile the way of wagons except four ambulances captured on the field our losses in killed wounded and missing are estimated at 0 many of whom ale aio absent without sufficient reason and cannot be counted among tile the loss grant will push lee before him to richmond if lie ho has to use ilse his teamsters to do it NEW nem YORK yom may 14 til the N Y times at bermuda hundred dated on oil the sayf in tile the course of the morning morning of 0 cilli butla t received a flag 0 aji 11 cu q from the enemy signed gen bushrod johnson Jo linson containing CC propositions the first asking permission to conic como within tho lines to remove their wounded and bury their dl acad ad the second asking an exchange of their wounded the third asking a general exchange chango cx ex of prisoners boners to the first butler ic plied that the was alread already y done to the second lie a announced perfectly willing to assent to the third lie he replied that no exclia c of healthy and well prisoners cou could id lo be effected until the confederate au authors ties acknowledged the soldiers as prisoners of war on the alth the enemy made no do de except to feel our pickets with their cavalry towards evening there was an all engagement between one gunboat on the with fortifications near petersburg the shot aiom blow up gen graham in the armed steamer blewster this is the third vessel we have lost jost our shells next day were thrown into tho the fort with cicat precision the opposite firing was feeble the worlds special dated on the field gives further details of thursdays great battle the opening was a complete surprise to the aliew Y hancock ancock II moved at 41 4 1 in tile the morning and gained a at t once the outer most rifle pits of the rp rebels bels and then gushed on tile the rebels with fixed bayonets johnson and stewart were taken at breakfast forty eight gun gnus y wele taken and brought off but some fifteen others were left just beyond our skirmish line arid and fought 0 fur for by both sides several times the rebels also attempted to retake tile rifle pits but were repulsed with great slaughter the ath 5 ali corps under warren charged repeatedly against the eremya works but were unable to take them an all enfilading file sweeping down their ranks dreada dreadfully ully in portions of the field our troops gained and held terao lines of biffle pits in addition to that captured on the left worlds washington ash special of the says near dark our centre for the jhc first time occupied Spott sylvania village 0 this morning id 0 our pickets sent w word ord that leo lee had fallen bak bar k on tile the roads i inuring anning straight to the po river and peon als tavern at 1 7 this morning warren had come up tip in pursuit in ill time to capture one of lees pontoon trains tile the rebels however were on the south side of the river Prison cis state positively that lees army is is entirely worn out and fearfully red reduced iced by tremendous losses and that lucli insubordination exists on account of want of food may A dispatch was received at midnight from the commissary of prisoners at bullo belle plain plaint announcing the anival there of over prisoners including too officers oth cers boux youx may I 1 alth ith r foi oi ty tons of ahot and shell u ent from hero for the aimy of the lo lotomau tomae on thursday night light may the star says pays an officer n who ho arrived today to day rei reports orts that at 3 0 clock yesterday a di patch was wag received at the front from sigel s command dated butlers erb mountain tain behn beh beell acu cliar lotts villo and lynchburg at 10 0 clock a in announcing that his big cavalry hall bar torn up tile railroad lail road between charlottesville charlottsville and 13 anoh burg 26 miles milea below the place and also that the track of the go Goi donaville ioel ioa between charlottesville charlottsville and keswick was wag destroyed all bridges between the alimo lot 11 ts on oil both ro raids ids had been de ild when our luiczi encountered a 1 bod bodycot of owl lebel I 1 cavali yand and a amt entimio ent imil shieh aich ended in the ol of the it cl |