From city Point.
--We have intelligence from
City Point up to 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon.
There were then eleven Yankee gunboats visible from the
Point. Three have positions in the mouth of the
Appomattox, two up
James river some two miles from the
Point, and six are between
City Point and
Harrison's Bar.
On Saturday evening about 6 o'clock, the vandals espied some of our pickets in pursuit of water, and immediately opened their big guns, firing indiscriminately at every house, bush, and tree in the vicinity.
Several of the buildings at
City Point were penetrated by the huge shot of the enemy, but not living creature sustained any injury, save a calf.
The poor animal was struck by a shell after it had passed through a building, and instantly killed.
All the houses at the
Point, save one, were deserted by their occupants several days since.
This is still occupied by an old negro man, who has taken up the idea that he wears a charmed life, and cannot be injured by Yankee projectiles of any description.
He is willing to incur the risk at all events, for the proud privilege of being ‘"sole monarch of all he surveys,"’
Many of the shells thrown Saturday evening failed to explode.
They were secured by our pickets and brought to
Petersburg.
They are frightful looking customers.
Gen. Price's boys call similar misfiles thrown by the
Yankees out
West, lamp posts.
It is not an inappropriate name for them.
They are quite as black and nearly as long.
The
Yankees are extremely cautions how they venture ashore at the
Point since the affair of last week.
By daylight they never land.
The old darkle down there, above referred to, says they do sometimes come under the cover of darkness.
A little propeller plied about the waters
Saturday for an hour or two, and at one time came very near the wharf.
Our pickets could easily have given several of the crew their quietus, but had received orders not to fire on them.
The wisdom of such an order does not appear to our dull brain.
The
Yankees are allowed to kill and capture rebels whenever they see them.
But the rebels must return good for evil.
Killing Yankees is considered a great crime by some.
We are not of the number.--
Petersburg Express, 26th. 
