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From Petersburg. [from our own correspondent.] Petersburg, Virginia, September 3, 1864.
Heavy musketry, accompanied by occasional discharges of artillery, were heard on our extreme right yesterday morning, and indicated, quite unmistakably, active operations in that direction.--The firing turned out to have been an encounter between Dearing's cavalry and a body of the enemy's cavalry, estimated at fifteen hundred strong, accompanied by four pieces of artillery, provided with rations and forage for three days. Their object was doubtless, a raid in the direction of the Southside railroad.
They found, however, our boys on the qui vive; and after driving in the pickets, came upon a body of our reserves, who engaged and drove them back pell-mell towards their own lines.
In their retreat they threw away canteens, side-arms, sabres, and scattered "their oats" in every direction.--Our loss was a few horses; we captured a few prisoners.
Our lines have been re-established, and all