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ndid. City Point, Va, June 16, 4.15 P. M, via Jamestown Island, 11.45 P. M.--General Butler reports from Bermuda Hundred that the enemy have abandoned the works in front of that place. His troops are now engaged in clearing up the railroad between Petersburg and Richmond. The following dispatch does not designate the hour; but it is supposed to be later than the preceding ones: Jamestown, Va., June 16.--I came down from the pontoon above Fort Powhatan with dispatches for Secretary Stanton. Just as I left Captain Pitkin reported to me that Petersburg was in our possession. The Inquirer says editorially of the "capture of Petersburg" and the great movements of Grant: The capture of Petersburg is a very important object in the plan of the campaign. It completely shuts off all access to Richmond by the railroad leading to Welson, Goldsboro' Wilmington, Charleston; and Savannah, with lateral lines running from Charleston to Atlanta, and from Savannah by way of Mac
ist, and that if they be allowed to escape from this life without the assistance of the gallows to hasten their journey, a great fraud will have been perpetrated upon justice.--Yet we believe they are both treated very unjustly in the above extract. Butler could not have done more than he did, nor could Baldy Smith in his place. As for Lincoln, we cannot conceive in what he was wanting upon the occasion. He sent Grant 25,000 veterans to repair his losses in Spotsylvania; at least so said Stanton, whose telegrams the Herald takes as a sort of gospel. He sent him, three weeks ago, 40,000 hundred day men, so Yankee prisoners say, and every body knows that Yankees, whether prisoners or free, always speak the truth. He sent him twenty thousand of Butler's army, as soon as Butler's campaign became a decided failure, so the Yankee papers say, and they, too, are well known oracles of truth. He stripped every Yankee city of defenders to send them here to Grant. The reinforcements forwar