Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH SPECIAL TO THE DAILY UNION VEDETTE 1 headquarters HEAD QUARTERS army of the 1 potomac june 31 2 1 there was some skirmishing along adoll I 1 the line yesterday yeste iday and last night but no change of position was made by either party during the last two days tile enemy have been busy throwing up as points although our lines reach within three quarters qu aiters of a mile of the city they seem deto tei I 1 mined to hold out till the last NEW juno june at a meeting 13 of the executive committee of the N national democratic committee to day it was resolved that althe the meeting of the democratic national convention be postponed until monlay monday the of august Ant lust washington midnight june 22 A dispatch biorn city point at half past 4 last evening says sa ys no lighting fighting today to day movements are in in pio giess less not now proper for pub publication licati oil the richmond papers report an a n attack upon the communication and other points A dispatch from general shermans Sher mans head quarters half past 8 on oil tuesday evening states that it rained almost incessant incessantly ince ssan fly in spite of which out our line pressed forward steadily and ml an important position was gained by gen howard the enemy made a desperate attempt the same evening to intake the position making seven distinct assaults on oil gen NV h brigade of stanleys Stan leys division and losta losing ng not less than seven or eight hundred men all the killed wei acio e left on whitakers front tile the assault was followed rull owed by a heavy fire of artillery under which tile the position was fortified and is now safe our cavalry ate aie I 1 across noonday greek creek on oil the left 0 one tic brigade of the ad cut chips ps is across noose cheek on the right but the aebel left is behind a swamp swai rip and tile flie bains prevent any advance the fighting 0 was quite severe at points the enemy resisting stubbornly and attempting the offensive wherever he M can call signed STA STANTON ni TO N NEW yorm june the time special says the c exploit X of a small part of butlers force on the richmond and petersburg 0 railroad was a brilliant affair A for force cc of four thousand advanced throe or four miles directly in the teeth of lees veteran army which it succeeded in cutting in in two by destroying three miles of tile the railroad over which troops were passing as fast as aa the trains could carry them while our men were destroying r the railroad a force I 1 of rebels came down and wei acie e held beld at bay by a more handful of our men as thorn them in number i until our men were worn completely out when our forces retired Louis louisville vj juno 10 jessups rebel gang numbering between two and three hundred attacked yesterday yester yeste day iday the garrison numbering twenty five surrendered and the rebels then moved down the railroad and destroyed bridgema ewa ter station near boston thence they went across the nashville Nash villo railroad raili oad two miles north of elizabethtown Elizabeth town moving iu in the direction of litchfield louisville june A staff officer from the front reports i heavy avy fighting ou wednesday ou ur left beairs blairs chips was tile the cilery our whole anny is in line and fiting filing 0 along the anthe flout the aio bein being slowly driven back under tile tho fire mainly of the ai abtil til lery cry our losses ate aie slight blair biair is south of the chattahoochee liver on oil wednesday night johnston massed his ai tillery to our right aiom crossing A sevein fight is is expected there A rebel cotti was captured on oil tuesday night with dispatches from johnston to wheeler ordering cl him to destroy the bridge which sherman recently built at etowah headquarters alls army of the po potomac tama juno june th an a attack was made on the line yester day by but Bu burnside aside inside ile he was more successful than was at first ro reported lie he dhove the rebels front from their line of I 1 lillo itle pits with willi heavy loss taking four guns four bundled pi iso neis and holdin holding the position during the afternoon when he again n pushed the enemy still fu faither ither getting within a mile and a half of the alie city and taking mole moie prisoners shells thrown tin own into the town and filin filing z continued on the remainder of the line during the day but it was of a desultory character and little alian C c took place in ill the position of either cither side late in tile evening our left was still I 1 blither fuit lier advanced d fighting continued neatly all night this g consides consi dei able birin firing 11 is is going 0 on oil but nothing bothin 11 definite cicat d in beg ichard rd to it the fth col chips Ps came up last night and reinforced our left reports were current yesterday that butler had advanced to the Ilich richmond mond and li railroad and was engaged in ill desti dest tile track when lee sul sui him and drove him back to his entrenchments with willi heavy loss nothing 0 official lias has been received at head quartets relative to the matter troops were sent to his support yes tei day afternoon and heavy firing at intervals was heard in that direction prisoners taken yesterday report that of lees leea men were to have arrived on the field th that at morning and trains were running almost hourly from richmond winging troops close t to 0 Pete petersburg isburg and landing I 1 them then hurrying cl back many of tile the men brought 0 in were from tennessee this beati being 9 their first fight in this direction PiTTs pittsburg BunG june lath the sanitary fair closed tonight to night and was a complete suc success ceAs the nett receipts are not less than one hundred thousand dollars washington june the house yesterday passed a resolution authorizing the president to 9 give i due notice to great britain of the WI wish iv and intention of alie united states government to terminate at the end of months the treaty of 1811 1817 relative to tho the strength of our naval force in the great lakes irray H EAD 1 army of tile the potomac june j in the attack by bygel geu on the right we lost about and suc credon in ad our linca somewhat tile the ath corps corpa did not lose heavily in their adv advance aiice in tile tho but their loss was considerable cons in tb the 01 in abo attack 0 kauo abo left our losses during the past two dauw day will leach killed and wounded the loss to tile enemy at sonic pointe is greater than out onia s but being behig getice enar ally behind entrenchments they lyev not so much exposed cApos cx posed cd and of cours suffered les all the prisons prisoners pris oneas is taken sonic some 1200 in nu number niber ic ie presen present themselves as beloti belonging ging to beatri gards army briny it is ia not believed sua duct lesi stanco would be made without his pie presence sence and the aid of his troops washington juno june 20 the house bill providing that dilt in 1 granting b lands to aid in contri 16 til nga 11 railroads and for other purposes mineral lands ate to be excluded and r reserved e set wed to the united states was pas pass ed on oil motion of kinney the committee on post coads and offices was to inquire into the ency enc of le ie pealing so much of 4 the ex astin asting 0 law as pi cat r 6 44 capois and other othea printed matter in hi all alfo 0 0 overland Ov eiland mail sw gem av drw yom june 20 th the bank statement presents present 4 an n in creaso of loans of anda de 1 3 creata in specie of deci case in deposits of 14 additional by the foith amen can in fit the commons the question of fed cial recruiting in lieland was waa will being debated and strong were made against it eail kustell conil complained willed of non attention hy b y ti aliu le W ashin gt on G ove me antto ebent actions nude 0 on it drw 11 r 1 ITS n lyons the conference has been extend edt to the of june no advance has been made in tile settlement of the ex asting difficulty and forced hostilities will be renewed between betwee ri tho the danes danca and germans the express train met with an acci 1 dent a mile coith af beilin at noon today to day the two rear cars were ivil 7 1 aiom the trac track kand and 35 persons we re rea badly injured mostly by 1 lei l the assistant treasurer ier has received from the secretary of tile treasur Tie treasury asur tile following statement of the public bubli debt and amount of notes in in cire arcula tila ason tim I 1 amount of debt including udit jg a all 11 legal tender notes and unpaid id I 1 eions is seventeen bundies and nal ea t teen eeli million thice huri bundled died and ninety five thousand one hundred and cig eight U collais and eighty C cents amount of f interest beading legal tender notes boic s withdrawn thirty eight million eight hundred and ninety thousand soven seven handled bundled dollars amount of ordinary oid inary treasury notes withdrawn and placed in in ie serve seventeen million two hun died and cright thousand cige hundred and kovendy two dollois showing a reduction at present of ie gal al tender notes of all besci descriptions options of 17 fi efty aty six million one hundred and fart forty 1 nine thousand five hundred fiad an d icv enty two dollars this statement i tho the actual present state of the debt and circulation of course it will bc necessary to replace a put pui tion of tho the five per cent legal tenders willi conf coni pound interest at six six per cent 1 v signed S P C m t mr cisco states that lie casperson has person al flout the Secie tary of th aliu V that it is his purpose to tract tho circulation as much as abssi life blo au all d to t 1 ila futuik issued 0 of cu suri arency b y C baity t f jt dat r 11 |