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l believe this when we see it lone. Should they, however, succeed, we may count upon one good effect, whatever may be the bad ones: That very large mass of persons who, having no business here, will persist in infesting the city, will decamp immediately on the explosion of the first shell within our limits. A Northern paper mentions, is a report, that Burnside, with twenty thousand men, has embarked at Fortress Monroe to go to Sherman's relief in Georgia. We do not credit the report. Grant has not twenty thousand men to spare. From Petersburg. Since last Thursday night the picket firing has been brisk on the Petersburg lines, and on Friday a heavy cannonade was kept up by the Yankees along the left and centre. During the cannonade on Friday morning, Brigadier-General Archibald Gracie, of Alabama, while inspecting the lines, was struck in the head by a bullet from a shrapnel shell and killed instantly. He fell near what is now known as the Crater, the pit caused by th
n and Charleston, and as soon as the probable of Sherman's attack upon Savannah arrives, Foster will make a demonstration upon Charleston, Porter upon Wilmington, Grant upon Richmond, while Sheridan's column will be busy.--Elder confirms the statement of General Grant that the Confederacy is a shell.--He says nothing can stop the General Grant that the Confederacy is a shell.--He says nothing can stop the onward progress of Sherman; that his advance guard can easily take Macon; that at Andersonville he will find only a few wrecks of men, all the healthy men having been removed; that Augusta and Savannah will easily fall into his hands, with the richest stores of negroes, cotton and material yet found in the Confederacy. A tele, or have already done, toward causing the rebels to feel the hardships of war. The other day a distinguished party called on General Butler, consisting of General Grant, Meade, Crawford, Warren, and a number of stars of lesser magnitude, and while here of course paid a visit to Dutch gap. While there a shell sent by the rebel