The New York Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1863, Page 2

We in this country Every wise man is certiia 0! (bis Dut the ‘ovis are never T hear that krlanger & house that brings it oul, w the operathin. 1 quarre’s, which have always been the bane of bad upon tne national cause. It ie Y eed, that Langiewioz may Lave boon 5 ri md ced by th m to deviate from his usual cautious policy, t. th sum) and tobe stroke in the hope of coucitiatioy bis toome od 30 | Opp MENIB by evecess , for up to we present moment he ry penny of bal awayva carctall avoided a decisive engagement, eo edte pay | rightly calevtating that to gain time was to guia every fips, gua, CHAD | 1 iM6, Lat each day the ingurrcetion continued woul be! was abso- | its moral and materia! strength, and give wider mio thousands | @x'es.on to the symyathies it inspired, and that ho “ o and Fecioss | Would OM-y be playiog into Lhe hauds of the Musoovites ritle will the: we W caodes the eyesof | if Le attem ted to fight pitched battles, and thu ra- sig in bard-up Secessia So mote | ed them av opportunity of crushing it at x slog day is, Yauooy and » it be. Meanwhile the Hourse ts jubilant, the fears of Kuropean i complicavions are alayed, and poople talk as if the Polish Gestion were set aL re ¢ gain for 4 quarter of a century. nssian and Russian But this isa mere {Neston sad the governments will do we'l hot to Indulge in tt. In the first Our Paris Correspondence, Paws, March 27, 1863. Yo French Invrfer we os Am ca—The Emperor Bust'y | pince, uocwithstanding the defeat of Langiewicz, there are Cooupied—ite of Brace Metiermich—Discussion on ou numerous bands # lopurenats in Poland ot Le. udiétines. Me % nia who m-y give t 168 ample occupat Meccan Eependi 4 New Work om the United | oaths to ove. and among them, perhaps, a uew leader Sted Amervaa Railway Invation—Fagvani~ | may spring up, more skilful or more fortunate than the luckiess Dictator. But, what is of far greater im- portance, the Franch Fmperor will certainly not let an affair drop which opens so unbounded a to hw ? um M. Drougn de guid (ow private " Metally, Of conrse—that France had no intention { interforlug im Amoricau affairs just at present, whea hinges work so badly in Mexico aud Polaud, Such a yc. juys, the nig woman a few days since—informally | ambition, and he may allege, with justice, that the dis- comflted Poles have a more urgent claim on his compas- sion than if they had been victorious. All accounts from Paris concur in stating that Louis Napoleon is silently pro- paring for a great war i the Frencn public are daily (alemont wos hardly necessary to lead to the opinion | growing more eager fray, and the govern- that the Emperor, will mot complicate matters still more | ment doesas much as it decently can vo encesrage, pe Ddellicose spirit of ite sul ‘ toate by gotting Into a war with us, The fuct is, his Majesty | its full swing on this one » a at 0 “* Man” has just as much 84 he can attend to to look out for his | 8 sent round to exhort it to prudence and Lpayne 7“ wn private interests aud those of bis dynasty, to say no- Pine pens So oe eee oe ears log of the political snd public interests which he en- | to the Duke ot Montebello, is still moro it ; it ie i trol, with a people in some portions of | the counterpart of the famous letter of Napoleon to whieh rendered the Crimean war ig- eutlering for the evitable. If ever’—says the Paris correspondent of the A general discontent at the expenditures | Cologne Gazett-—‘a diplomatic req an iu Mexico; disappointment at the do-no- | was bap coined damaches oot foray minor ting position the government has taken in regard to | {9 the Ambassador a1 St. Reraratp . Polund, with bis cousin, the Prince Napoleon, and the document is abso- fatal to its ostensible object—that of persuading acknowledged leader of the liberal party, of fare with him, with an epoch rapidly approaching when, peror of Russia to revert to the stipulations of the .g lo the natural laws which control and govern it remarked, cann b peoplé, it would seem that they must have & Emperor will not do any such unpopular ith our allairs. ( Prince Metternich to Paris has been the ug ol sorts of camors «float as to what the ods to do i regard to Poland, Since his acoord, Vienna by Russia and the complicity of Prussia in this breach of international faith, and, ey ee to go to war in defence of those treaties, which have always been observed so scrupulously by Franee, will do ao with EGPaRE Sata, asad, was be Avstrian Ambiss.dor has had two for- any one to ey vn Be » wi ‘es with tho Siniator of Foreign aGuirs and | Procisimed on his sccession: thas Vsimpir c'est a pate, mparor bimself; and it is stated that pac Co tbr we know of es Leper bp prism rt irla are periect ‘acco! and organizati the two armies, I am there mri are. Depp Ia dubs telhers far more chance of the campaign’s beginning with a se- ed, bul whether that course embraces | cond Jena than with a second Waterloo. vustruction of the kingdom of Poland, ) a empt t force Russia int» carryigg out in reaty stipulations of 1815, the knowing end 0) say, ive ab interesting discussion in the Senate fon a dill appropriating 35,000,000 of juyment of drafts drawn by the com- bh navy aud general offices of the y having drawn these in payment aud (lis amount being Over und above any arrival mal pe with 1 pter Three Privateers. A PRIVATERRS FLEET IN ENGLAND. In the House of Commons, on the 24th of March, Mr. Bright presented a petition from the Union and Emaact- pation Soctety of Manchester, stating that it was reported, on reliable authority, that some forty war ships were now being built in the United Kingdom which were really in- vviatione previously made, since, in 1861, the Em- | tended for the Confederate government, although osten- toned the prerogative of appropriating moneys | sibly they were being built for the Emperor of China; © treasury, when any extraordinary and expressed a strong opinion that a war with the kind have occurred during the recess of the | United States, ar! out of these ships, would lo money demanded, if it did notexist in | be a conflict lefence of our own dishonor fromm whict it should properly be drawn, has | and in sup of s breach of our own laws, ypristed irom some cther fund in which there | and as such be viewed with disgust by the vast and the Legislature trusted to to replace it. | population of the North of England. The petiti ead a8 severely ittacked by several tors | they were in possession of voluminous evidence establish the facts complained of, but were not in |e would erim! 2 iu the Ist» discustion; but Mually the biil was passed. a The igu ve which exists among the French people | tion to produce such ev! on oath as relative te tho iocality, extent, wealth, population and | the guilty parties. They urged the House to take sue resoure of the Unived States of America is really sur- | steps as should induce her "g government to make trequently been introduced to genticmen | immediate inquiry facts, and by proms Mexico, Brazil and other countries of | astion tostop the sailing of aby more war ships for th Ainertca as “my countrymen,” and | Confederate government. ly sorpriged tolerably well educated people by telling ‘hem that gome of our Sates were as largo as f *rance, Since thy commencement of our 8 cen & dispositien on the part n more of us; Dut, unfortunately, there wuccinct history aud work i could apply. prising. of statistic atormation to which they ‘This bein caso, & work fist published by Hachette, | and like her pretty well. We have taken about thirty- and the author of which it Sohn gelow? ka. the five vesscle, including the California steamer, bound from Amorican Consul in Varia, a very. saloable. "It is pub- | New York for Aspinwall. She had about one hundred ished in French, and is @ ‘Of between five and | and forty marines on board, and we thought we should six hundred pages octavo, bearing for title ‘The | have pe Seth bas we Sead 9 net frome topes twee et, ales of Atnorica in 1868, sheir history, ee et ee tine ww uae oy es a ricultural. industrial and commer. | steamer aaa We take oe » ar veal to the wealth and civil! 4 the k climate and rr valuable copper, iron @ their various pr’ independeuce. The work is, in fact, a not all matters of interest eonnect- ry, and will be of great service now in | But a few hours my ‘ture calumny denounced S)le of Europe as to our wealth, re- me a traitor, an embezsier coke tie, ‘The same infa- vor as @ pation. I presume the work | mous sianderers instigated: denersion, ta the comp, sa, ised in New York in English, while intending to destroy myse, they only benefit —(reamer’s safety brake— | Muscov: prepared an easy triumph for the foe. The :pon many of the railroads in the | adberente of the ambitious criminal 1 have to thank for all this are not aware, or, if they are aware, utterly ig- uss bein adopied upon the Chemin de | fore, that my only object is to estabiiah tbe ‘liberty and independence of the tue experim nt made upon this road, yotion, in ® train of ten carriages, going country. tles un hour, eight stops were made Ine preceding paragraph, which is also differently cf one hundred and eighty a given by the Ceas, the referring to his secession ts!, whove portraits of Garibaldi, Victor | thus appears in the version now come to light:— ricce Napoleon have given him a world- Russian agents hiding themselves in your ranks \ portrait painter, and who, though a made it necessary for me to ly, and without oative of ludy, is an American eitizen by adoption, | bidding you |. The same reason also prevents my and sho macried an American iady, bas just completed a ing you of my ultimate "i it ct che Chevaher Nigra, the Italian Ambassador sion, been Dut circulates: f ch \s cousidered by competent judges | only in written copies the ‘Deviation vst remarkably lifelike pictures ever | the text and the existence of different readings are t wiih a port of Ratazzi, just cot accounted for by this circumstance; but the new version, a fo sized portrait of Victor Emanuel, Mr, | I believe. must be held the more authentic from grounds of internal evidence. It was not in keep- ing with his past career to abscond and leave his gallant troops to fight it out for themselves. In wis evbibiting at the May exbibition. eowll, Byrom’s early love, and who is de Bol.sy, is engaged in writing a life ol om ich wall soon be pablished, and is looked for | this important respect the new nation shows him ohh i vont. as, Cot her intimate acquaintance | in @ different light from the first. Sijfposing the new " .> wil doubtless be able to give much in- t to express his actual motives, he absented himself text not because he «as afraid of the Russians, or faced death with a fainter heart tnan he wanted his soldiers to pos- sess; but discord and the inordinate ambition of indivi- dual leaders sent him away a fugitive at the very time his preeence was most dearly required with the army. Bax March 25, 1968. ‘The ambitious criminal he alludes to is evidently Mieros- oo » 1868. | iawski, who has already divulged his prior claims to the n (ver in Berlin—Lectures on the Campaign | dictatorship. You will also notice that, while the first \— feat of Lanyiewic:—Dissensions Among —— = —— — srg ae before Pry ‘ te ¥, 1, i. ure, secon on! construed asa a —Prvclamation of Mierosiaweki—Lowis Napoleon | Guetion of the day following. However that may bolus rn the Polk Queston— Waritke Prospects, dc. Poles have again given a signal instance of indulging their u the United States Army by the name of | national vies. Contrary to what appeared om the sur- weMan by birth, is at Berlin just now, after face, they are as quarrel as ever. GENERAL MIEROSLAWSEI JEALOUS OF LANG 2 w tune at the waters of Carlsbad for the benent | SRnmEAL SUTROON ANON! Government, considering the in, He was wounded at the second battle | insurrection of Poland, invites General Louis Mieroslar of Hall run, aud returned to Germany to recruit himself, | to take the Diet and chief Tio intends to deliver; lectures here on the campaign in | é¢tlon. iP command of the ingur- W. sul the atate of the federal army, which are Asa of the transmission of the full powers of the © numerously attended, The proceeds are | Nati Mees gd this oul vernment, the seal of varchase of lint and other necessaries for | this act ig still the same ea that of & x \\ais, which are said to benot over well dence,’ and in the middie, on three separate shields, such articles. I mot a very intelligent | the eagle, the knight and the Archangle Michael. 4 the otner day who tells me that he and PROTEST. this act of the ot ras Pr ae ae tar hal a re ar, but cannot fol government which evoked ould wisb from the want of cor st Ty here are am chim America, and aa »c\- jag publisher was to send some copies over to , it might pot be & Dad B,.oul tion. aot Of the Polish tragedy is over. It has closed moment. Nevertheless, of respect for the proper ody eavounters, of which we have as | delicacy, out the 4 only partial and confused accounts, but the result of try, wich adm imi autre hte suiflolendy (Mustrated by the flight and capture | by our arms we + It appears that, after having proclaimed | from which 1 could be (he Poliah ebief bed determined to ex. | SoUDtry., This is wii ere of the insurgent * system of guerilla warfare for more | they might not plead In consequence of this he quitted | *0®. ‘8 never before been published. al- w ly aixty, the Marquise de Boissy is still a 1) woumen, Var Berlin Correspondence. E EE ‘anaaw, Jan. $5, 1863. le which I ment, and which, asfar as! am by me with military 4 dered a proclamation concerned, were | ‘to be pul : i ig with « sories of bi E i A t i bin: vor i : hange bis pr i nia strong jamition fl by the Aust: tize, a cha Nite, from off the comm Sots onfortuuat over, sod made a rapid march te Cho- { Marquis Wielpolski’s, on the river * he hoped to reach Kieler and cut on of the Russians with Warsaw. uvre be exposed binself to be at- it f Hl i | Hl whe ! i 3 ih il Sa = 2 E, Langtewicz bim- op the night of the 20th ( his stat? aud a lady who acted as his aid-de-camD, Vt arrested at -arnow, and conveyed from thence te the citede! of Cracow, ‘The Polet are md to be enraged with him (or having owers aud tken to fight before te t@ enough to lastity such & step; bet @ portion of bis cori, reported to have thrown (hemee! z¥t, where they conti the Russians, and where be might have y join them but th t® rood reason to reat was haste ed by dissensions in bis orty veing opposed vo bie assumption | hich they regarded ae belonging by | fp fat, the latter how tseued ama. | RE 3° 2 § E Hy arte ebapdoned his ted, against the iniquito ate tively ‘bat bh ‘ ‘of Bando. ‘ . - oa mir, Marian Langiewioz. 1. 17) sod Chat he onty iait Paris on the | ie, Marie Lana LADISLAS JESKA. » stowld hawe the enti o di-ection Poland. eae Grand Gambling Scandal in Paris. MM. CALZADO AND GARCIA, OF THE ITALIAN OPERA, CONVICTED FOR CHEATING AT CARDS. ~ | {From the London , March s The Corrections) Police Court, larie (s Chamber), . was crowded om Friday by @ fashionable audience to hear slaw ck the trial of MM, Calzado and Garcia for cheating at cards, . ’ ¢ best sets iD the limited areva of this court were gat for by elegant ladies and members of the y and Cercle imperial, The witnesses alone eno agh (9 COO RLILULE A good Fepresentation ng them were Madame Haruve i (aliag NEW YUKK HSKALD, TUBSVDAY, APRIL 14, 1865.—TKIPLE de Shonen, Fevilhade Chauvin, &. The evening papers say that the reporters were stowed away iv a black hole as bad as the hold of aslave ship. At te moment when tbe judges tock their seats loud cries were heard from tie ‘crowd who besieged the doors, and who were cnraged at finding that nobody whatever without « ticket could into that little slip at the hatiom. of She court, CH " appearances, is reserved to “pal : Of sergens de ville was sont for to restore order. The presiding Judge, M. Rohauit de Fleury, dered that the doors should be opeued and ten tn, and then he warned the audience that Br Ay nd perfectly pati tyro Baye in a case of im Jind ‘was casential that fils litt 2 nFe | Bi Fr F inillthe ; have won 20,000! —_ amounts caused lyon pete ey were . was in- terrupted. it was at ongo found thst cards his absence after su, x arrange his cards. He was forced to refund the money which he had fraudulently gained, and this Go,o00r." seyioy that was “lt he had won; but uit be was won; bul = tasuely ho let fall rolis of bank notes from bis clothes at z, it E e, E (i s | 5 : F z i as to strike every He was, however, again identified as and the firm closed their transactions with him as paenienane, Occasion, at & meet i wasto lordship but this objecti ance in public was at the Exhibition, when be took bi ide, who should accompany his ble peyson. His next appear- of the International the dais of the Robes to her Majesty could intentionally have been @ party toone of the greatest outrages that could have beon offered to the Queen and to the Prince of Wales. The dulse was deceived, as other persons have been, by this audacious individual, egy in question was introduced to his grace as one the principal guarantors to the commissio ers for thai ternational been oes name down 80 large a sul rashly jaro | wo conclusion that he was a mea, and that there presenting him at court. discovered 2 i? i ; j i j H i af il sp il z i iztit g iH iy Gy se E & 5 & i Ff ii i Ba iF ‘F Hy i ti Hie i if HEH li | | E fo ved cE fit 5 E E i J i if il i i g #F g if i i i i i f 1 : g E t i i i i I a i 3 £ a > : 8 Cardinal de Angelis for his successor, od a bull to abridge the formalit ut he has given his consent to the usage which exacts thata delay of nine days, as fun ceremonial, shal! take place vefore the assembling conclave. At the same time he remarked that he the conclave would be long, for the cardinals would, consequence of the grave and trying ciroumstances of the PN Qe anxioos to choose quickly than choose pm te hem except Antonelli of very striking charac ter; and the circumstances will require ® Pope who is a wise politician. Most of the present cardinals 'iving are either theologians or nothing, Preliminary intrigues are already commencing among the cardinals ‘*ho live in Rome, and | need hardly say that the cardinals liv: abroad are not even named. Cardinal Lavelle and Qari nal | atrizi may have each some chavs. Neither Aato- nell nor Aitier| has any. at szeaze indeed. there is not at present in the Sacred | SUMTER Additional Details from the Herald Special Correspon- dents Off Charleston. The Preparations for. the Attack. ARRIVAL AT CHARLESTON BAR. THE FLEET BY MOONLIGHT. ‘THE IRON-CLADS ENTER THE HARBOR DARING VOYAGE OF THE DANDELION. THE REBEL FORTS FIRE AT HER, OPERATIONS OF TUESDAY. ADVANCE OF THE IRON-CLADS. COMMENCING THE ACTION. THE GENERAL ENGAGEMENT. Terrible Fire of the Rebel Forts. The THE KEOKUK AND ‘NAHANT INJURED. THE FLEET WITHDRAW. FORT SUMTER BREACHED. SINKING OF THE KEOKUK. THE CASUALTIES, a, ae. oe, THE FIFTH OF APRIL. OUB SPECIAL NAVAL Fiscsmp Janus Apase, Non Epusto, 8. 0., April 5, 1868, READY 0 START. After long weeks of anxious waiting, during which time the preparations for the contemplated expediton against Charleston have been ceaselessly pushed foward, night Vere Te is now fair- ly No one not cognizant of all the multitudinous details necessary to be carefully observed and carried out to insure success can imagine the immense proportions which Admiral Dupont’s labors have assumed in placing his part of the expedition on ® complete basis. Other ‘men of less determination would have quailed before the Prespect; but he grappled with the difficulty and needs, and evercame the one and fully met the others. THR PREPARATIONS. ‘The preparations were necessarily on a scale of gigantic proportions. No boy's play was his, to enter the harbor of Charleston and capture the city, begirt with hundreds of guns of the heaviest description and of the most modern style, gatheredfrom the first manufac- tories of the world by long continued and expensive ef- forts, to defend a city to which the eyes of all the world were turned, and about the final fate of which hung the hopes and fears of a continent. He was nof t risk an attack with the ordinary means at his disposal. He called to his aid the hitherto invincible iron-clads, and his demand was met as promptly as the position of affairs ‘would permit. Seven Monitor iron-clads and the Whit- ney battery Keokuk, besides the tron-clad frigate New Tronsides, were sent to him, and an untold quantity of ordnance! stores, sufficient to serve every gun tn the squadron twenty days’ continuous firing. The manufac. ture of this immense amount of ammunition, shot, shell, grape and cannister was not the work of a day or week, Months have elapsed, and yet the Prepartions were uncompleted; and while tho nor- vous and demanding publie bave laid the blame of the delay, as they are ploased to call it, at the door of Admiral Dupont, he was anxiously awaiting the arrival of consignments of munitions, without which the attack on Charleston would be a terrible farce, a futile at- tempt. ‘THE REDEL DEFENCES AND ORSTRUCTIONS. Numerous batteries, armed with hundreds of guns, were not all the defences which were to be overcome before the Proud city of Charleston should lay at the mercy of our doath-dealing guns. Tho ingenuity of brave, intelligent and scientific rebel officers had devised other plans for de- Seating our object. Within the channels huge torpedoes, placed beyond a doubt.) THE LACK OF TROOFS. Tf we should fail in our efforts # will not be owing to the want of skill or @ determination to grasp victory, if it may layin the power ofemen, but solely to the lack of adequate means. Let that be clearly | understood, and we stand or fall upon the throwing of the die, But here lot as disabuse the North of many errors which seem to have become firmly fixed in the public mind. In the first place, instead of having an indefinite | pumber of men in the land foree to co-operate with the navy, we have only about thirteen thousand all told, and only pine iron-clads, one a frigate, to carry owt that part of the plan which requires invulnerable vessels. The people North seem to be under the impression that we ) evo five or atx hundred |ron-clads and wooden frigates. It (snot «0, Farther on will be found a correct statement of the number of veasels and guna which are to do all the work, If wo fail the causs will be A»parent to the dullest comprencusion, But we Co not intend to fail, We shad \ De auc aft THE SIXTH. Caen ees ee, April 6, 1868. Ove THE MAR at MIGHT, Nothing of moment ooourred during the night. The wind, which had blown go freshly yesterday afternoon, died eway during the night, and the sea became smootn again, gleaming brightly under the rays of @ full moon, end the tren-clads lying snug'y at anchor, and moving alowty to the lazy swell that rolled in from the broad <Adfeadio and broke in foam on the shore. ‘The rebels seemed greatly disturbed at the presence of the Monitors Patapsce and Catskill, which lay at anchor over the bar, in the Pumpkin Hill channel, guarding against @ possible attempt on the part of some daring re- bels to pull up and carry away the buoys over the bar, or to change their location, under cover of the darkness, and thereby mislead the pilots, and possibly to occasion some of the iron-clads to run ashore, And when the ’as- eaic took up a position om the bar, near the outer buoy, with alight on her turret, their apprebensions or ou- riosity were still further excitod, and mysterious sig- mal lights began to gleam on Fort Sumter, and others, evidently in reply, upon the battlements of grim Moyltrie, while occasionally a long slender stream of light, shooting up high in air, and terminating in vari- colored fire, would mark the flight of a rocket. So it con- tinued all night, showing that the rebels were vigilant and watchful to discover any attempt at a night surprise, if that plan should enter the head of Admiral Dupont. No attempts were made to reconnoitre during the night; but all in the fleet, save strong anchor watches, turned in early, to prepare for the labors of the coming day, which was to ae0 the ball opened. 4 NEW SIGHT YOR TUR REBEIA, For the first time since the blockade was established lights were hoisted on the ships ip the squadron, and the scene, under the soft light of the full round moon, riding high in heaven, assumed a tone of bewitching beauty. Within we saw dimly defined the frowning walis of Fort Sumtor, and to the right a black mass, almost undefina- ble, where the parapets of Fort Moultrie, which were doubtless thronged by spectators gazing seaward, where our fleet lay at anchor, indolently nodding to the long swolls that passed slowly beneath them. ‘The scene was one of peace, to change toanother to-day its very opposite, when the thunder of guns, the howling of shot and bursting of shells shall exhibit the dark side of man’s nature, and tinge the fair picture of the night to darker hues, ‘The morning dawned with a clear sky, with a light southwest wind, which brought with it a smoky haze, through which it was difMfloult to discern objects at any great distance. ‘The sea was comparatively smooth, and final prepara- tions were completed at an early hour for crossing the bar. ‘THE SIGHAL TO START. At half-past six the flagship James Adger hoisted the signal to all the iron-clads to “‘prepareto get under weigh.” The stanchions on the Monitors were taken out and stowed below, the umbrella framefand canvass on the turret were removed, the compass box was also taken down, and a clear ghip presented ready for action. On the frigate New Ironsides the temporary signal spare were lowered, the boats, save two cutters on the ship’s quar- ters, were sent to the Powhatan, and the spar deck cleared away for action. ADMIRAL DUPONT OM THE NEW IRONSIDES. At a quarter to seven o’olock Rear Admiral Dupont left the James Adger in Captain Patterson’s gig, and trans. ferred his blue flag to the frigate New Ironsides. It was soon after flying on a staff over the pilothouse, while a battle flag was raised on the flagstaff at the stern of the ship. Immedietely after the general signal to prepare to get under weigh was wade, the Weehawken, Captsin John Rodgers, which had beea assigned the of leading ships rai dows towards ig Bete Sol PKG Te ot taoh the mysterious raft, which is said to be « sure Geath on all torpedoes, tp her jbow. The affair was well managed by Captain Rodgers and Chief Engineer Stimers, who has them in charge, and after a great deal of work the-machine was affixed, and the Weehawken appeared stronger than ever. ALL HANDS UP AmoHOR. At balf-past seven o’clock the New Ironsides up anchor ‘and stood in towards the bar, which she safely crossed et half-past eight o’clock and came to anchor in the chan- nel in four fathoms of water, within easy range of the rebel guns on shore. Singularly enough they did not burn a grain of powder, although they once or twice ran out their guns, asif with the intention of trying them upon the iron sides of the flagship. They very wise- ly refrained from futile attempts to injure our inyulnera- ble Monitors, and escaped, perhaps, shower of shells which might have been thrown about them if they had desired to begin the conflict. Shortly after the flaship had croased the bar in charge of Acting Master Godfrey, pilot, the Weehawken crossed under the direction of Captain Robert Platt, of the surveying steamer Bibb, who has the Tesponsibility of piloting the Weehawken, as leading ship, into Charleston, At a quarter to nine all the iron-clads bad crossed the bar, and were at anchor in the channel inside. THB RESERVE SQUADRON. OM the bar, in good positions, iay the Canandai- 0a, sioop-of-war, Captain Joseph F. Green, the senior officer outside; the Housatonic, Captain Willlam Rogers Tayler; the Powhatan, Lieutenant Commander E. P. Wil- liams; James Adger§ Commander Thomas H. Patterson; Flag, Commander James H. Strong; Wissahickon, Lieuten- aut Commander John L. Davis; Unadilla, Lieutenant Com- mander Stephen P. Quackenbush; Stettin, Acting Master James R. Beers; United States steamer Bibb, Commander C. 0. Boutelle, coast survey, and the tug Dandelion. Transporte—steamer Ben Deford, Captain Hallett, flagship of Major General Hunter; steamboat Nantasket, bearing tho flag of the Republic of Letters—ultra ma- rines—and having on board a portion of the correspon- dents of the expedition; steamer Ericsson, Captain Low- ber, and some smaller craft, whose names I have been ‘unable to obtain. 4 Tmox maze. Tt was the tntention of Admiral Dupont to move up to- wards Fort Sumter with his iron-clads at half-past twelve o'clock to-day; but a thick haze, which came up with a freshening southwest wind, may prevent him giving the signal for sailing. It is eo bazy that Com. Boutelle, of the Bibb, has been unable to obtain certain ranges essential to the safe pilotage of the iron-clads. He has succeeded in anchoring the schooner Com. Dupont, Captain Perry, ‘at one point as a range, and the Stettin will be anchored at another, as s00m as the atmosphere is olear enough to give a fair sight of Fort Moultrie, frem which the range mast be obtained. This may delay he attack to another day; but it is to be hoped not, asthe fair weather may Bot last long, and we need to avail ourselves of the excel lent opportunity te work our iron-clads. It ie understood that at belf-past twelve the fleet will move up the main ship chansel, on the ebb tide, in order to give the pilots a better control of their vessels, and, passing by in silence the enemg’s works upon Morris Inland, attack and reduce Fort Sumter first, bringing all our force to bear upom that work, and, if possible, to pay n0 attention to Fort Moultrie, Cummings’ Point battery, or the works on the Middle Ground. Uniess the rebel iron. clada should come down and become too impertinent they will be allowed to perform without notice from us until the main work of the day be aceomplished. ‘What further pian of action will be adopted remains to be seen; but frst of all Fort Sumter is to be breached. On our success in that affair depends all. We do not doubt the result. ‘THE IROW-CLADS GO UF THE RARROR. AS per programme, the Weehawken*got up ber ancher and started slowly up the cbannel, moving cautiousiy; and soon after the Passaic, Capt. Drayton, followed her, moving slowly and with like ctroumspection. The Mon- tauk, Capt. Worden, and the Patapeco, Commander Am- men, followed in line. At five minutes toone the Weehawken had arrived abreast Lighthouse Inlet, without elieitings shot from the rebel whieh we onisted at phat point, fhe | continued slowly on, and we could see the Fl«man, ander ' the lee of the turret, casting the lead, anc! other men were | ¢ seen moving on deck. For some reason or other, not known to us, the Weehawken stops, and the cutire tine is | brought to a halt, THE INTREPIDITY OF THE DANDRUON. At ten minates to two, in obedience to @ signal from the iral, the little tug Dandelion steams rapidly past the line of tromelads and dashes boldly up the channel, alono, rapidly nearing Cummings’ Point battery and Fort Sumter. She is attentively watched by hundreds, who grow nervous und anxious as she holds bor course still nearer towards the rebel ‘strongholds. What oan be the object of this audacious and pold beard. ing of the tion in his vory den? No one cam conjecture. She carries no white flag of trace, but bravely flies the | Stare and Stripes alone. She is closely watched by the rebels; for at five minutes of two ® volume of white amoke pours from the embrasores of Fort “inter, and | we hear the deep lomed repart of a heey go. The Dan | dolion stil! comti sues her ports through a ¢ $ wourse eel whore may be hidden a dozen torpedess, which lew her to fragments. ‘THE RSSELS FIRS AT EER. Fort @umter again fires a heavy gua, and in a Cummings’ Point battery tries her range. We reports of the gun and the scream of the rifled cannot see the projectile strike. The Dandelion steams bravely on, but is recalled Sigua! from the flagship, after she has shown channel is unobstructed within » couple of miles of tor, On ber return the Weehawken stoams shead, followed by the Passaic, and runs well up to Sumter, Sho in return is favored by acouple of from the fort aad one from Cummings’ Point She is evidently out of range ;tbut ber people have decks and gone below, Tux rixer anfnon FoR re mIGuT. At half-paat two P.M. the flagship New Ironeides up the channel, followed by the Keokuk, Nantuck Catakill; but all come to anchor at three o’slock fu night, So there is to be no fight to-day. What the are for the morrow will be known w-night, Daring the day the Canandaigua, Housatonic, hickon and anotuer wooden guvbout stripped for th by sending down their topmasts, spars, putting a! on the rigging ,and making all clear for the cont:st. ‘The Augusta came up from North Edisto with tw} munition schooners in tow. ‘The steamboat Mary Benton, with General Sey: Major Duane, came from Stono, and tied to the Ben }| astern. Nothing has oecurred dering the night thus far unusual character. The rebels are burning their Qumber of rockets, and signalixing from vaiis 8 } Capt. Green, of the Canandaigua, senior officer ou} bas #0 disposed his force off the barbor as to preves raid of rebel rams. A fow lights gleam from the ports off the bar, and one or two lights on the insi:e| the fron-clads. Kverything is rondy for the conto4 if the atmosphore is comparatively clear tie 4 likely to begin at half-past one or two o'clock , tiv going up against an ebb tide. THE SEVENTH. Unrrep Stars SrRAMER Prin, Swase Caamwet, Tuxxk MiLxs yRoM Fort Sv mr April 7, 1803, The morning dawned pleasantly, with a li:bt wind and a thick haze, which melted away bofor o’clock, and gave usa vory clear view of Morris and the batteries upon it, Forts Sumter, Moultrie eon and Castle Pinckney, with the works pon Sn Island. "The spires of the city of Charleston clearly defined against the morning aky, and ever tion of the front of the city, with several ships, rai steamers inthe harbor, in piain view through Everything was favorable for an attack, the brows fresh enough to blow the smoke rapidly from tue action. REBEL MOVEMENTS. During the forenoon a small rebel steamer woe engaged in plying between Forts Sumter aut Mc for what purpose could not be ascertained. She w' dently prepared against a chance shot, as she hai cades of cotton about ber machinery and pilithou running well forward and aft. At quarter-past ter the Unadilla, Licutenant Commander Quicken bi over the bar and steamed up the channei far to throw an eleven-inch shell well towards Nattery Cummings’ Point. This was responded to from tho, Dut it was evident that the range was too great f ition, and both sides cessed firing. The Pata; fow moments Inter, fired her rifled gun to get th» and then all was silent again. ‘The Unadilla, having accomplished her objet, w that may been, returned to and reorogsed tbe! ‘TER REBELS TRY THR GUNA. Occasional shots wore now fired from Sumter, ™ ad Fort Beauregard, on Sullivan's Island). pro’ get the range on the channel, the ebells exp!) ‘At the point aimed at. : At twenty-five minutes past twelve the Bibb tou sition in the Swash channel, within range of Fort gard, and came to anchor to observe the action Deford, with General Hunter and stoff, follows us comes to anchor behind us, The Nuntasket tekes h tion to the rear of the Ben Deford, Yiile tying bey before the tron-clads inoved, two large famigene metto flag and the ottier a striped one of wiite an. ‘wore raised on the southwestanyle of the fore an) southwest curtain of the work, and « general’ fired. General Beauregard or Kipley had tived and faken command. THE GRAND ADVANCE, At half-past one o’olock, in obedience to a sina! the flagship to get under weigh, the tron clads up and steamed slowly up the channel, the Weehawk tain John Rodgers, leading, ana the others follo this order:—Passaic, Captain Percival Drayton: M4 Captain John L, Worden; Patapsoo, Comimanier Ammen; frigate New Ironsides Commodore ‘Turner ing the broad flag of Rear Admiral 8. F. Dupont; Commander George W. Rodgers; Nantucket, Oom Donald MeN. Fairfax; Nahant, Commander John | Keokuk, Commander A'er. ©. Rhind, The tuter tween the vessels was to beo2e cable's lengt!: Course, that was not strictly observed. The Wee! having the mysterious raft ahead, pushed careful! slowly along, feeling every inch of her course bf} passed over it, but keeping more thav one cad!e's ahead of the next vessel. On the bosch of by company, were taking positions assigned th« section of light artillery tashed over the bexch, ond, ing the hills of sand back of it, were quickly i] from view. the batteries of Morris anf Sallivan’s islands, are ‘with spectators, and doubtless the roofa aad spires a’ crowded with wistful and anxious rebels, who w:/ the movements of the strange look ig oral} that st- 80 boldly into the very jaws of dewih with minglot ings of hope and fear. Not a single gun had been fired fom Batrery | Cummings’ Point, the Cummin,. vint batters Wagner, or the Lighthouse Inlet tw itury, as the W ken came in range. Every one ws rious to kur reason for this singular silence, ani! «..ny wild And + vagant conjectures were thrown ©»! ‘* explain the ‘Whatever it was, the rebels had noc yet burned of powder, although the Passaic bad approach + range, and a heavy rife gun ovuld even tbrr Projectile to the massive walls of the lronsider. Ata quarter to three the Weeks nu came up to by Bee, on Cummings’ Point, and ia only one mile an! from Fort Sumter, The Issa): on! Montauk arc dloge after her, the others follow ivy (x (urn. ‘TRE BREBB OF ny Atone minute to three the Wevki kan comes « range of Fort Johason, and Mowit:\¢ «pone the bail + tng the first shot at the Weehawken 1) ‘oll a tittle w Kt was a heavy rifled projecti!)—« reguiar sere A second shot follows from Fort !ouwirie and inen tery Bee opens her guns. The tig’ sow becomes ing, Fort Wagner engages the \: oa they cou, ‘The fire grows hotter every secon! Guo after u opened from Moultrie, Jobnson, jaiiery Po and the mings’ Point battery, and tue shot ere {ailiag thick fast about the Weehawken, throwiny (uw water iv Jou bigh in air. THE WEERAWEEN y)nme THe TT “HOR, The Weehawken continues prowily and bre on, and, baving got within long range, fires first shot on our side by throwing © fifteen-ineh nearly into Fort Moultrie, Monitrie r-doubles tbe rr ty of her fire, and engages the Weeha ia the fiercest syle At six) miputer three the Weshawken, wieadily advancing, c within easy range of Fort Sumter when an « tier of guns from the southern fee woo fired ein neously at the daring Yankeo, and before tbe +: cleared away another tier war fired, instant! barbette guns, In broadside, rained 8 terr'ble wf he Weebawken alone ‘hat tt seomed in). «sible ut would escape. The water about her was iy 9 fam ro pinnging shot, and the smoke of the st wrap @& ‘abort for an instant, and bat for wo onwia t. emerged from the vetl of smcls ind water ar’ ster on, in charge of the experience? pilot, Capiain Re Plat:, of the surveying sterner Bibb, and revehed turning potot, and then ‘ended straieht jor (horie passing between Forts Suc!er and Moultrie, agi arty Sumter an she pureed. GESFRAL ENGAGEWENT RROINe Meanwhile the Paseaic, Montauk and Patanrce Jot in the oomtest, fring with af much rap a possible, ond receiving @ withering fire al! che rebel gure bearing on the “chattel. “Th ay toomenta the three iast Mooltor® rexched the fre point, and followed =the = Weehawken et we city At tweete) minotes past Petape . t " edinte rgmee and worarts sp, having Yeon dam ;