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Proclamation.
Exeutive Depatment, )
Sept. 5, 1863. *
To the arms-beariiig Doplc of Georgia :
Thus far you have experieuced but little
of the hfirrors of war sind while you have
been obliged to defense with luxuries
which vou tuight otherwise have enjoyed,
you have buffered comparatively little priva
tion except the loss of fricuds on battle
fields iu other State Now, a powerful ar
my, commanded by one of the most unscru
pulous of the Generals of the enemy, is ad
vancing upon your North-western border,
theateniug to violate your homes, lay waste
your fields, destroy, your cities, desecrate
the graves of your fathers and the altars
where you worship the Living God.
If the enemy is successful, you must tiee
from your native country, and as outcast
paupers, wander iu foreign lands; or you
must submit to tyranny with chains of op
pression the most nailing that were ever
worn by an elightened people.
Let no one hope to escape by mean aban
donment of our cause'in the midst of our
troubles, or by swearing allegiance to a gov
ernment that has wantonly shed so much
precious boutbern blood, and laid his friends
and relatives cold in death. Our noble
dead slam by the enemy would rebuke such
dastardly conduct from their bloody graves.
Let none hope to save their property by fa
voring a recon>truction of the old Union,
or by any re-union with *ur wicked and
heartless invaders! All such dreams are
worse than delusion*. Three quarters of a
century of experience has proved that no
covenant, agreement, or constitutional com
pact will bind the people of the Northern
States, as communities, longer than it is
toeir interest to observe the obligation.—
It would take all the property of the South
to pay the immense war debt of the North
and to satisfy Yankee cupidity in possession
oi unrestrained power., Reconstruction i*
nothing but submission, and submission
plunges us into the deepest degradation, and
the most abject poverty and misery, if
there be any who favor such means to secure
peace, let them remember the sentiment of
the great Carolina statesman. It is the
peace which the kite gives to the dove, the
wolf to the lamb, Russia to Poland, and
death to its victim. Ls we prefer to die free
rather thau live slaves, we must put forth
our whole energies in this crisis of our fate.
Georgia has never failed to respond to ev
ery call made by the President for troops
from the commencement of the war to the
present day, and she has, in every case
when a call han been made for volunteers,
tendered more than the number required. —
In responoe to the late call for 8,000 men
for local defence, I shall have the gratifica
tion to tender to the President over 15,000
without counting the drafted men. The
draft was only necessary in a few localities
to compel each county to do its just part,
when some had tendered three times the
number required, and to compel a few men
to enter service who could not otherwise be
influenced to do so. The result has been a
triumphant vindication of the character and
volunteer spirit of the IBtate. There yet re
main in our beloved State, including the or
ganization formed for home defence, over
forty thousand men able to bear arms iu an
emergency. If but half this number will
reinforce the Confederate army now on our
b irder, wo can drive the eueuiy out of East
Tennessee aud free our State from threateu-
ed invasion.
Georgians, you who re m&iu in the State,
owe .this to the gallant men who have left
their homes and gone to distant fields to
meet the foe. You owe it to the orphans
of the immortal dead who have lost their
lives in your defence. You owe it to the
noble women of Georgia who with hearts
full of patriotism, have by their untiring
energy ciotbed the naked, and contributed
millions of dollars to the support our cause;
and who like guardian angels, have minis
tered to the comfort soothed the agony of
the sick and wounded of every State, who
*u their passage over our .territory, have
come within their reach. You owe it to
your own wives and children, to to the fami
lies of our soldiers row in service in other
States, and to unborn posterity Will you
not rise in your might and put forth all
yuur manliness for this glorious continua
tion ?
Having been asked by ibe authories at
Richmond, to call out the Home Guards,
to assist in this emergency, I invite their at
tention to the accompanying order of the
Adjutant and Inspector Genera! of this
State, and direct that it be promptly obeyed.
Men of Georgia, who have stout hearts
and strong arms, when you leave your farms
and vour merchandise to assist in driving
■* o
the vandals from our borders, the remem
brance of the fate of New Orleans, Nash
ville and other places which surrendered to
the enemy, must unalterably fix your deter
mination, that they shall not occupy Geor
gia territory, and tyrannize over Georgia’s
citizens; and must nerve your arms for
the contest, and impel you to strike for the
preservation of your homes, the protection
of your pruperty, the purity of your wives
and daughters, and the transmission of your
liberties to the latest posterity.
Dark clouds hang around us and we are
passing through a trying ordeal, but truth
uiid justice are on our side, and if every man
will put his trust in God, and do his whole
duty, our cause will triumph, and we shall
not only conquer a peace, but we shall es
tablish (\institutional Liberty, without which
our struggle will have been in vain.
JOSEPH E. SHOWN.
STATE OF GEORGIA.
Apj’i ani> Inspector Gen’s Office, )
Atlanta. Sept: 5, 1860 \
General Order* No. 24,
Ip conformity to the foregoing prod am a- ]
tion of His Excellency the Governor of this
State, I an> directed to issue the following
Ord<?rs :
1. All volunteer organization* for Lome
defense, who e prescribed halt embrace
Atlanta, or any part of the State bclHCiu
that point aud the Tennessee line, arc here
by ordered to report immediately, at either,
Kingston, ou the State Road, or Atlanta,
as mav be most convenient to the command
ling officer of the Confederate States army,
at those poiuts a except tho Floyd County
Legion, which Ts now in camp ou special
; service, and the companies in Kibtui, Hab
lersham, Towns, Union, Faouiu, White,
Lutukiii, Gilmer, Walker, Chattooga ; sod
I Jade, which will await special orders, as
their services considered indispensable
at their hornets, bolding themselves iu road
iueas to obey orders at a inuineut s warn
ing, and driiliug twice a week until the
present exigency is parsed.
o. Every man who lias a i-ffiofc gun or rilic
fit for Ufco, will bring it, aud each man will
i briug with him either a blanket or other
covering, and will leave borne with provie
l ions enough to carry him to one of the pla
ces of rendezvous named above, and to serve
him one day after his arrival.
> 3. In counties where almost the entire
i population have volunteered, only a number
i as large as the quota required from the coun
ty will be called upon to respoud to this
( order. More may come if they choose to
do so, but those who remaiu will hold them
selves in readiness to as-ist in repelling aDy
* raid that may approach their neighborhood.
: In these cases the officers will
collect the whole force and select from them
for the present service the mo9t abh bodied
soldiers of tbeir commands.
4 The remaining companies :n the State
j whose boundaries of service do not embrace
. Ifee upper portion of the State are invited tn
| volunteer for this particular service ; and
j other persons not members of the compa
nies, who are able to bear arms, are invited
to join them and aid in repelling the enemy.
Under the law, none of the Home organiza
. tions can be compelled to go out of the
j State, but if asked to dn*o, it is not doubt
led that they will promptly volunteer to
the line if they can better defend Georgia
on Tennessee soil. Those who may volun
| teer to cross the line will lose none of their
' rights by so doing, and will be permitted
to return as soon as the exigency shall per
mit.
5. Infantry companies will supply them
i selves with the best means of transportation
! they can procure to the nearest roilroad de
pot, from which point, they will'be traDS
, ported to the place of rendezvous, as is usual
!in sueh cases, on the certificate of the com
, manding officer. Cavalry will march by
! the most direct roads usually traveled.
6. The captain of each company is au
thorized to make details of men, who, in
consideration of the public interests, aud
their efficiency in rendering service to the
community, are most necessary at home :
prodded that the number detailed to remain
at home shall not exceed, in any case, one
sixth of the company.
7. Drafted mete attached to companies
will be required to go with them, unless
prevented by bodily infirmity absolutely
; disqualifying them for a short term of ser
j vice. Drafted uku attached to companies
I who may refuse, from any other cause, to
j obey this order, will be arrested by the eom
j commander of their company aud compelled
i to serve.
j 8. Companies organized for the local de
i tense of cities, factories, workshops, or iron
works will remain at their positions and
drill twice a week, awaiting orders. Aa such
points are most,likely to be first attacked
ed by raids of the enemy, the companies at
them will, at all times, hold themselves
! ready for action at the shortest notice.
| 9. Companies throughuut the State not
called into service l by this Order, or voluu
teeriug under it, will drill at once a
week. From this drill only Ordinaries will
be exempted, on aeoouut of the business iu
1 their offices which is ueeessary to the pro
! teciiOD of the estates of' deceased soldiers.—
| Tney wlj bo expected, however, to turn out
I when threatened by a raid in their vicinity.
10. While in service under this order,
both officers and men to endure
some hardships. The Quartermaster’s and
Commissary’s Departments, however, will
'do all in their power for their comfort and
health, and contribute, as far as in them
lies, to make the service agreeable and
1 pleasant. It would be well, though, for
every man to look to his own probable
warns as much as he can without needlessly
burdening himself with baggage.
Bv order of the commander-in-Chief.
HENRY C. WAYNE.
Adj’t & insp’r Gen.
Tqs Bio Blake, z *sOfS. — Since these guns
have been described by the .Charleston letter wri
ters, there can be no impropriety ic onr publish
ing the following from the correspondent of the
Augusta Constitutionist. We were In possession
of the dimensions of these guns more than a week
ago:
W ■? had the pleasure of seeing one of the big
guns brought over by the Gibraltar, this morning
on King street, between Broad snd Tradd streets,
en route for the Battery, where it will be placed
in position in a few days. It is so weighty that
the only way by which it could be carried to the
place for which it is destined, was by laviug a
temporarr track from the Northeastern Railroad
to White Point Garden, through King street. It
is a terrible looking monster, and an idea of its
huge proportions can be formed from the follow
ing dimensions: weight, 22 tons; circumference
of the breach, 13 feet; length, 16 feet; caliore, 13
inch, rifled. The weight of the gun carriage is 36
tons. The chassis is 36 feet, and the height of
the carriage is 8 feet. The solid shot weighs 800
pounds, and the empty shell weighs 450 pounds.
\\ e understand that silty tons of ammunition
have arrived in company with the gun. When in
position it will command the entire bay, and the
weight el metal is sufficient to send any iron clad
to the bottom of the harbor.
Charleston, Sept. A— Last night at 11 o’clock
the Monitors approaches ciose to Sumter and
opened a terrible tire of shot aao siu-v against her.
For a time the impression prevailed that ike ene
my wai about to try to pass the obstructions. 40
our Sullivan’s Island batteries, including Moultrie
and Battery Gregg, at .Cumming’s Point, opened
upon the Monitors and the roar of heavy ordnance
was kept up incessantly till daylight. The firing
was the loudest ever heard here., and startled the
entire city.
Kread Stuffs.. 4e.
Mr. Richard G. Morns, jost returned to
the city, informs o;' that the supply ot bread
staffs hj tin ■ mate is ample aud feufimicui to
f*.ed the ana; iu irgiitin and all be* iu
habit-apt*, himl that the wheat, though iiMut
td by tains to harvest, will still make fair
Hour, and an average crop. He estimates
the crop of wheat in that part of V irginia,
uot heretofore iu the Yankee lines, at from
eight to nine millions ot bushels, which, al
ter deducting >eed and for family use, (say
2,000,000 budiels,? will leave for the army
i rout ! ,200,0<Ni to 1 tarnlb of flour
—double the quality utces>arv for the ar
my in Virginia. lie speaks ot the crop of
corn as the finest ever made in
Ooe field near Lvochburg, be estimated,
would yield fifteen barrels per acre, aud the
land in cultivation much more than ever was
planted befjre. Mo it of the lino tobacco
binds are this year planted in ecu, aud the
yield will be immense.
Then why are famine, prices maintained?
It is entirely owing to the extortioners, who
not satisfied with the prices new paid by
Government, (higher than ever known be
fore.) are bolding tbeir crops for still high
er prices.
The fact is, the price given by Govern
ment is too high, rather thau too low. The
above estimate is based upon the quantity
of wheat made in Virginia iu 1859. The
census of iB6O gives over 13,000,000 bush
els. Now deduct for that part of Virginia
now in the possession of the enemy oue-bhird,
say 5,000,000, reserved for seed, &<\, 2,000,-
000 and 6,000,000 of bushels are left. The
corn crop was 38, 360,704 bushels by the
same authority, and the increased yield the
present year will equai that lost by the oc
cupation of the enemy. Then we shall have
6,000,000 bushels of wheat and 38,360,704
of corn, besides oats, barley, potatoes sod
peas. Does this look like starving '( An
swer, extortioners and speculators.— Rich.
Dis.
A lifporriiacai oritur from Eose*
cram.
HiS PROCLAMATION TO HiS VANDALS— DaRING IM
PUDENCE—A FEW “ELEGANT EXTRACTS” FROM A
PRECIOUS DOCUMENT.
Hkadq’rs Department or the Cumberland, i
Winchester., Tent?., July 27, 1803, j
General Orders No 175 — Army of the.
Cumberland: —By the favor of God you
have expelled ihe insurgents from Middle
Tennessee.
You are now called upon to aid your un
fortunate fellow-citziens of this section of
the .State in restoring law, and securing its
protection, to persons aud property, the
right of every free people.
Without prompt and united efforts to pre
vent it, this beautiful region will be plun
dered and desolated by robbers and guer
rillas ; its industry will be suspended or
destroyed, and a large part of the popula
tion left without sufficient food for the com
ing winter.
It is true many of the people have favor
ed the rebellion, but many wore dragged
unwillingly into it by a current of mad pas
siou, they could not, or dared uot resist.
The conspirators and traitors, bankrupt
in fortune and reputation; political swind
lers, who forced us from our homes to de
fend the Government, of our fathers, have
forced the inhabitants ot Middle Tennessee
into this unnatural attempt to ruin and des
troy it.
Remember, we light for common rights;
wattt we ask tor ourselves we willingly ac
cord to others—fiecdom under the consti
tution and laws of our country—the country
of Washington and of Jackson.
Assure Tennesseans of this. Assure
them that foreseeing the waste aud suffer
ing that must ensue from a state of auarchy,
you stand ready to aid them in re-cs
tabli.shing aud maintaining civil order.
Tell them to assert their former rights
against au arbitrary and revolutionary party
that has ruined their State, improvisbed
their families, rendered their slave proper
ty insecure, if not altogether woithless;
dragged their sons, fathers and brothers
from home, and caused their blood to be
shed for an insaue project, the success of
which would be the proclamation of inter
minable war, and the death knell of Btate
rights, as well as individual freedom. And
if they are willing to help themselves, give
thsm every assistance and protection consis
tent with your military duties.
1. Officers and Soldiers of the Army of
the Cumberland : Some grave outrages and
wrongs have been perpetrated on loyal citi
zens and helpless women, by lawless and
unprincipled ipen wearing our uniform, and
calling themselves soldiers. Such violation
cf orders disgraces onr country and cause. I
appeal to you by yonr honor, your love of
country, and the noble cause in which voii
serve, to denounce and bring to punishment
all such offenders. Let not the slighces
stain tarnish your brilliant record.
Let no thief, pillager or invader of the
rights of person or property go unpunished.
Remember that the truly brave and noble
are always just and Rjepeiful, and that by a
strict observance of order, you *;!! cr.own
your noble work, and establish your claims
to the respect and gratitude of our country.
By jeommand of Major-General
ROSECRANS.
For Governor.—The Southern Record
er nominates Hon. Timothy M. Furlow,
ol Sumter, one of the best citizens of the
State, for Governor of Georgia.
There is a lair prospect of a heavy crop
0: candidates tor Governor, which will most
likely disgust the people. The voter c of
Georgia arc tired of Brown, aud by wav of
getting rid of him effectually, we propose a
compromise man. Every honest man in
the State loves Charles J. Jenkius, and
knows him to be able and true. Take him
up, with or his will, dropping all
other candidates, aud he will beat Brown
thirty thousand votes.— Sav. ILp.
Ibc Albany Argus gives au account
of the burning of the Shoddy .Mills, at Co
hoes, and, the Joss u£ many lives. Twenty
five girls are missing, and fifteen are kjiowu
to be lost.
in the Army.
The ptruieiou:: effect of this practice must
be apparent to evet> rcfloctiin* oitn ft
tends to produce cawbjiitioiu and to tofni
partie in the camps, whore everythin.* fa
vurilig harmony an•( undivided utlcutiou to
the duties of the soldier should be encour
aged. iu our opinion, the candidate for
civil office who goes to the army on an elec
tioneering expedition should be ordered
without the lines 1»\ the Generals in com-,
maud. He is, for selfish purposes, tarn
periug with the discipline aud the good or
der of the camps, aud should uot bo allowed
to introduce any such distractiug element.
Our soldiers, though reta’niug their right
ot suffrage, should be permitted to exercise*
it without any of the appliances calculated
to eulist their passions iu the contest for of
fice or make them partisans iu a canvass for
political station.
It would be a most deplorable state of
affairs, should the soldiers of any bo
zealously enlisted iu the support of any one
inau or policy, while the people at home
were as firmly committed to auother candi
date or measure. Here would be a disagree
ment that might lead to the serious detri
ment of the service and of the cause of the
country.
We all see and feel the propriety of dis
couraging canvassing for office here at home.
We regard it as the entering wedge of di
visions that might be seriously embarrass
ing, and as a diversion of attention of the
people from the great struggle that should
engage, as nearly as possible, all their feel
ings and exertions. How much mor essen
tial is it that such distractions and divisions
should be kept out of the army! The Lin
coln Government. ha« found it necessary to
forbid even the discussion of politics by the
officers and soldiers themselves in their
camps and though such an enter would be
justly obnoxiou* and repudiated as tyran
nical here, the condition of things that led
to its enforcement in the Yankee army
ought to admonish us that candidates should
not be allowed to exeite and divide the Con
federate soldiers into parties or clans.
We do not wish to be understood as re
ferring to any particular instance of elec
tioneering iu camps, in these crude stric
tures. We only know that it is reported
that office-seekers have found their way into
the linos of our armies, and take this occa
sion to warn the people of the evil tendency
ol the practice.— Columbus lunquirtr.
A Dead Mu 11 ( ohm s to Life.
| The New Orleans Era of the 15th inst.,
a copy of which we have received through
the politeness of a stranger, chronicled a
singular oceuranee as follows :
\Ye yesterday reported that Mr. Henry
! Myers, residing on Clouet street, had beeu
1 killed by lightning. Au inquest had been
held on the body, and life pronounced ex-
I tinet. I esterday every preparation had
been made tor his funeral, his friends had
I body had been duly coffined,
| the relatives had put 011 mourning, the
; hearse aud the priest arrived, and the coffin
j was about to be closed up, when the arms
j of the corpse was observed to move, aud
! very soon wonderful to relate, the dead mau
: sat bolt upright iu his coffin, aud, after sur
veying the scene for a few monieuts, inqutr
; ed the cause* of all the gloomy preparation
he saw going on. The joy of his weeping
wife aud little cues can be imagined when
they found the dead had actually returued
. to life, aud the bouse of mourning was soon
j turned into a house of rejoicing—the fuuer
!al iuto a feast. The electric shock hud sus
j pended animatiou for over tweuty-fuur hours,
so perfectly as to deceive even the Coroner,
the mau’s wife aud all his frieuds. Al
though apparently, aud we might say de
fueo , a lite man, still, the lightning bavins
killed him, the Coroner having prouounoed
him dead, aud the newspapers published
the tact, he is de jure a dead man. It
j might become a nice question whether a
! man has a right *0 come to life agaiu, after
1 being duly killed, aud pronounced properly
aud legally dead, or not. \Ve submit it to
the professionals at the Provost Court bar.
Gallant Exploit-. Capture of two
Yankee* Gunboats.
The Richmond Dispatch cf the 2Gth,
contains an account of the capture of the
Federal gunboats Sattelite and Reliance at
Stingray Point, mouth of the Rappahannock,
on Saturday night. It says :
The expedition, numbering some sixty
men, under command of Lieut. John Tay
lor Wood, C. S. N., left Richmond on Wed
nesday, the 12th of August, and proceeded
to the Rappahannock, where preparations
were at once made for the work which was
so successfully completed on Sat urday night.
Having secured four open boats the expe
dition embarked on Saturday night, and pro
ceeded to the point designated, which they
reached about half-past* 12 o’clock. On
approaching the boat they were hailed by a
negro guarti, 10 whom they replied satisfac
torily, and in a few moments were under the
bows ol the boats, cutting away the nettings,
and clearing the way for boarding the Yan
kee crafts. The crews ha\ing in the mean
time become aroused’offered resistance, but
they wer« so taken by sur rise at the audac
ity of the undertakings that they were soon
overcome by the gallantry and rapid mov.-
meuts of the men under Lieut. Wood, and
finally yielded, surrendering the boats,
crews, guns, and everything pertaining to
the vessels.
In the light wc had three men wounded
including Lieutenant IJogeand Midshipman
Cook. The enemy had one killed—a
—and six or seven wounded. Lieut. Huge
was severely wounded in the ueck iu a hand
to hand with the Captain of the Reli
ance. The Captain was also wouuded.
The armament of the Reliance consisted
of one 32-pound Parrott aud a24 pound
I howitzer; that ol the satellite ol a 32-pound
j smooth-boie guu and a 12-pouud howitzer,
j Their crews numbered 40 men each. They
| had no opportunity of firing their heavy
guns, our wen being too close to them when
the alarm was given. Among the captured
was seven negroes, who, with the restol the
prisoners, are expected to reach Richmond
as soon as they can be brought.
MA < <> N. liKou^l
i * ,rRSKMK *— Having bten *b*,ot.
pUbt, lU Savannah and Ch*rle„ t Q t ,
! us trotn making tb« usual collection *? pT **~‘*t
I for the benefit of our readers. \\- *! ”***
1 prevented us from making manr >
ling to the present condition 0 f
wabout Charleston, which at this ®
i of note. ' °' p
Tennessee.— latest *ceountT^7
| hold Cumberland Gap. Col. Set
| short engagcineut at Loudon ‘
| burnt. The enemy shelled Louaot U
women and woundiug some others.
Chattanooga was also sLeUed on { ,.
' without damage. ’ “ 5 <%*
CANDIDATES TOR GOVKUNq.
There are now before the people . u .
j his present Excellency Joaepfi K. Hro , * M
j Joshua Hill and M:ij. T. M. Kurlow ,
| "‘tied their wiiiinguees to accept then®.,
ed. The Savatmali Republican uls 0 u .
Hon. Chas. J. Jenkiua be considert-d t
; and voted for whether he accepts a- o . r
| not. These are all good men, and h
“many friends” who will adhere to th. m
ter what reviling 9 may be cast against v ,
by such papers and politicians, w i
the feelings of the by-gone davs 0 f '
strife. The merits and record of th
known to all, and their patriotism s . . I
| conceded for filling so high «|»osif loa -*
; times of trouble and {•eril. y 0 r ourse ■ t ' V' S 1
we indicate our preference for uuv p ttv , c '
didptc (which we may nf ,t do) it *,ll
assailing another. We see ft spirit maul
jsome presses to open a moat bitter and v j
j contest against candidates and their friends
! *** consider most inopportune aud injurious!
: time, when all our efiorta should be to uni.
harruonire ourselves, and devote e»rv ( th
and all our energies to the greater contest b«
the country is engaged.
If the veil was lifted tLat governs thei f mi
nothing wouid be found beesath it tut < v
rest —the offices and the plunder. Tin ,-,
ply political speculators, who would be «• ,
[ to rob the government or stai vp a solditrfi »
i those who now withhold the bread from ' I
t This is ourjjview of their patriotism.
Maj. Furlovr, we understand, has written «j, v . |
to the Milledgeville Recorder, (which wehav*;
yet seen,) accepting the position to becomUm,
as a candidate. We shall publish it nett
A letter from the Hon. Joshua Hill will befou;,j 1
| OD ov\r first page, which we commend to tbe
'tention of our readers.
We are authorized to announce t
| name of T. M. Fuhlow, Esq., of Sumter
a candidate for the office of Governor oft
State of Georgia. 9-tc
CHARLESTON.
We made a brief visit to that beleajpjrcd c f
arriving there ou Saturday evening about e j
o’clock, and leaving on Sunday at seven P. M.
give our readers a fevr items of “the jilaal;
while there, we would say that when cotninr*
iu hearing distance, the guns and mortars
j fall blast—and so continued until we left. I t
|an exciting time to the stranger, but to tbec. j
■ z«ns who have become used to it, it seemed i
the ordinary routine of business, except i 1
their were marked with a deep
tied expression of care and anxiety. The bomb.
| tueut froai the enemy was mostly coufioed to
teries Gregg and Wagner, with occasional eholt
toe others, all ot which was regularly replied to? ll
ours, from different points, and sometimes a a
tary gun from the ‘‘bead and front” ot the ref.
iion—the remains of Sumter. The sound of firat
and the bursting of bomba was often from one i
five aud six in a minute, and seldom that fire.v
or fifteen minutes passed by in silence. All '
the firing was particularly heavy aud the sound j
and reverberations much clearer than iu thedi* j
she view from the city battery at night wtipw! S
aud terrific to those unused to it. It was au iace-i
Hash aud roar of guns and mortars of the bes**> j
cßibre, and the bursting of shells, some high i: J
air and others near the earth or water. j
or in the vicinity of the works at which they *r
directed. Thus have our batteries on the i«ktc< 1
for many davs, sustained a bombardment proh .) 1
never equalled in history, and with but little d>a
age—excepting the devoted Sumter. Tbttiaxo*
a mere ruin—a confused mass of brick and r A
bish, except a portion of the wall next the rif’
Alt the guns not destroyed, have been taken fro*
it, except one, which occasionally gives a shouf |
the enemy, and receives a solitary compliment
return. It still has & garrison of about three btt
drod, under Maj. JJlakp, wfin will defend tie o
and the ruin'* to the la?t extremity. This flag:*
been shot away fourteen times, br.t is aliraj» i
turned to its place. On the 7th at noon |
left) the surrender of the fort was demanded b f * s
flag of truce, which was refused by Gen. Ivs.
gard, with reply “that they could have Fort bci
rer when ihey took it.” A heavy fire w a tbf*
opened on it by Monitors and the Ironside r ‘ ui f
the result is not known. Fort Moultrie tad U> i
batteries on Sullivan’s Island were taking part in»t
On Saturday night about one o’clock, a ii: ? ? |
force attempted to land near battery Grrgg !j '-
were met by the garrison at the shore, and
lv repulsed with great loss. Our lo6sei on t‘ : |
Islands during the day and from -
estimated at one hundrpd and fifty three-
The loss oi Batteries Wagner and Gregg,
ing the whole of Morris’ Islandin possession ot tt«
enemy, will be severely felt, as it brings them c’
step nearer the city and our other works; f
gives them a firm foothold, from which tney&e*
can be driven by any force we h&ve, so lontf I
they have their Irocs'des and Monitors. Charh
ton may not be taken, but it may, in & f p »
be like Fort Sumter—a heap of rums. Some y
pie say that Charleston is no nearer being u * k- ’ t '
than before. It will prove otherwise.
The “big go” that has been spoken rouchc: !
now mounted in a commanding position in *n>
<. f the city, and can sweep any part of the
opportunity offers. It is & monster to look at,
a mystery how it could, with its fixtures have £>'-
transported by railroad from Wilmington. But
is there, ready to speak for itself. It earn--
rifled ball or shell 13$ inches in diameter anJ
long—weighing about 700 pounds and reqm