FROM RICHMOND

Colonist, Volume VIII, Issue 799, 23 June 1865, Page 3

FROM RICHMOND

SPECIAL DESPATCH NO 1

Chicago, April 2nd.—President Lincoln telegraphs from City Point at 8 o'clock this (Suuday) morning, as follows:—Last night General Grant telegraphed me that Sheridan, with his cavalry and the fifth corps had captured three brigades of infantry and a wain of waggons; also several batteries. The prisoners number several thousands. This morning, Grant having ordered an attack along the whole line, telegraphs as follows:— " Both Wright and Parke have gofc through the enemy's lines. The battle rages furiously. " Sheridan, with his cavalry and the Fifth Corps, ancl Mills' division of the Second Corps, which was sent to him this morning, is now sweeping down from the west. All now looks highly favorable." A second despatch, dated 11 o'clock, from the President's shows a smash up of the rebel lines in front of Petersburg, by Generals Wright, Parke, and Ord, who have joined in the fight. Sheridan's cavalry of the Fifth Corps and part of the second division are coming in from the west on the enemy's flank. A despatch from General Grant's Adju-tant-General says:— "Fighting has been going on for three days, during which the forces on both sides exhibited unsurpassed valor. This is all we have received thus far, but it is sufficient to show that all goes well.—(Signed) Rankin. OrOI/D. New York, March 28th.—Gold, 154; 29th, 152. The following (says the Alia California of 4th April) are copies of the despatches which came to hand yesterday afternoon previous to the receipt of the confirmation of the fall of Richmond. We write with an eagle's quill, presented to the Alta office by Mr. J. T. Jones of this city; a quill reserved for the express duty of chronicling the capture of the Capital of Rebellion. Its fellow has been kept to announce the declaration of peace and the restoration of the Union.

The following were received by the President of the Telegraph Company : The first, from Salt Lake, read —

" A Chicago paper states that Petersburg has been captured by General Grant." A second despatch was received from the operator at Ohama, dated late in the afternoon, to the effect that—

" Petersburg was evacuated, and Richmond taken. One hundred guns and many prisoners captured."