JUNE 10th.—Clear and cool.
All quiet round the city; but Petersburg was assaulted yesterday and successfully defended.
The battalion of clerks still remains at Bottom’s Bridge, on the Chickahominy. The pickets hold familiar conversation every day with the pickets of the enemy, the stream being narrow, and crossed by a log. For tobacco and the city papers our boys get sugar, coffee, etc. This intercourse is wrong. Some of the clerks were compelled to volunteer to retain their offices, and may desert, giving important information to the enemy.
I had snap beans to-day from my garden. I have seen none in market.