The New York Herald Newspaper, August 28, 1863, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 984 2. “* NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1863, CHARLESTON the Siege. Sumter a Mass of Rubbish. Forts Moultrie, Gregg and Beauregard. ee I ow ee The Greek Fir ‘Their Doors.” “at A nes | THE CYTy IN FLAMES. Admiral Dehlgren’s Splendid Carrom Game with the Mor- ris Island Batteries. | HEDIGHATION OF BEAUREGARD. “a Forty Hours. General Gillmore Refuses It ditional Surrender. The English, French and Span- igh Consuls Enter a Protest. Ges. Gilimore’s Demand for the Pubiie Property. Ne TLLUSTRATION OF THE REBEL TORPEDOES, ac, ac, he. ‘Yhe French war steamer Tiwepben, Comuander Mara. @auk, from New Urieane August 15, Key West 10th, and ‘Charioston 284, arrived at this port yesterday morning. ‘The T. wa side-wheel steamer, of 800 tone burthen, 260 Roree power, bas a crew of 140 men, apd mounts eight gue ‘The cummander reports that the siege at Morris Isiand ‘wen till progressing. Fort Sumter was a complete heap A reves. vot und pot surrendered. ‘Tee steemehip Arago, Captain Gadecen, also arrived at hip vort yesterday. She left Charleston bar August 24, et five! M The bomberdmest still continued. Fort ‘Puanter had been almost estireiy demol:sbed, |). bad put eorrendered. ‘Fhe Purver of the A. will please accept our tbovks for fevere. OUR DESPATCHES. Mis. Oscar G. Sawyer's Despatches. Monus Isvavo, 8. C., August 23, 1863. TO -BOMSARDSEBT OF FORT SUMTER. ‘Fao Rowbardwent ef Fort Sumter still comtiaves with wumbuted-viger: and with promising results. From day- Ingbt until dark there @ one continged roar of heavy arti! lery, With Glathons during the bot noon hours, bul in mover entirely silent. ‘The rebel guns on James Irland are an durity engaged as cers. More have gone up on that Inland ince my iast despatch , and their fire ts correspond Sugly increased, unti} vow 1 ix weerly as heavy as ours. ‘% hag become somewhat annuyiog, and sligblly icereased @ar cagvaities, but has bet jittle retarded our operations. Fort Wagner cocasionahy indulges in an bour’s firing, but te average silenced by our batteries and tbe fleet, or that Portion of it that goes inte aetion now-n days. When ihe Gert does open it maintaine the bottest fire conceivable from a work of that etve. Shrapnel, grape snd canister ere poured into our linen, cape and tp the besch in euch quantitian that |i requires @ very active map to do al) the duties asked of bim end dodge an wel! when the ominous arg of Cover, Wagner i" comes from tbe lookouts. The reshbing. sweeping sound of a etorm of roiseiles over the event of the parapet induces every one to biess his stare sbat Be in not expored to them, and adds vot = Nie to tho rapidity of bie motious in duekfig. A Tew porvons, mistaking foolbardiness foe commendable wrongs, decline 0 cover, but sand out, braving the very tary Of the howling grape itroi. Some of them may out- Liwe the plage, and relate, in future years, their cool, cunrageo s bearing im the Datieries before Wagner but ‘thera, ions fortunate, now He stretched out on hospital ‘weds, dinmembered, of already moulder ander the inbos pitadio nands of Morris Inland. The lessons of the day ere ont upor them, and, though death in onefer ite mont eruet fornye stares them full 1m the face, ibey love thew ‘Teres oF are maimed for ibe future through (he gronsest mmemuthrunners and slime crit oa! negiret to observe the mam monert ‘natincts of nature —enif. preservation. FONT SOMERS rr im Grim olf Fort Sumter atill stands and frowns npon the arbor Put il is Oot the Fort Sumter ef a week age Th thee lorded tt over the barbor--bage, compact and strung, Abreaten |g oll agerenshve comers with a quick sad over” swhelmiog defeat. Fligh im ait over lux bastions Mew Aefantiy the rebel fing. liow it it today? The gargs, minly crowned with © line of heavy ont. wance, iting over Morris Island, contre sod right are aevapletoty Dattered to fragment, ant fore Ube crest uf the parapet to he water's cape wre & 4 with debrie The eats port RH buried by the marr of brick and mor tar felling from the parapet apon the beavy eand vari. cwtea the rebels had but partially Soir vo! or panomp, is Dattered fown, and from ibat polos w ; the extreme edge of the southeast face tin wall follat hinge gapine craters, from which immense marces of | Al the | dedrin Dawe fallen Into Whe water at tie baw. game, whether they de Quakers or genuine ones, -n bar- Ate, on the gorge, are dismounted, and two have bean und. bd over on the routhenst fneo Wo have ouly Ibo report of nome deserters, who came ta on Thareday night from Meutirie, ae i the condition Application for a Truce of} j channel, which here pasees within pietolehot of ite base. They state that many of our shote pave passed over | the gorge parapet, struck the opposite wall, and were | forced throogh the outer wall, Large breaches are re- ported portion of the work, and the parapet i8 said to be ine very shattered state. They could not tell whether we had dismounted any gops oa that poins | OF not: Dut, from cheir dencription of the terrible effects |: Of Our projectiles ou the ramparts and parapets, it would mot be atall surprising if we haa dismounted some of their heavy gus, en Larvetie. It ie pretty certaio that we ave ipjared more or jesa of their carriages. FORT SUMTER PRACTICALLY RKDUCED. Th fact, it is certain that no serious offensive powers are joft to the rebels in Fort Samter, and the passage of she fort by our irop-clads is entirely practicable, without mueb dan; few ire, At al) events, we have tn- fiicted endugh dainoge upon the fort 0 justify ve in re- warding it ap practioaily reduced, and incapable of inftict- ing ecrious barm upon a fiect. If the navy cannot sow pees the work, we may as well regard that arm of the service as of little value. The long looked for moment will soon arrive when @ second attempt to pase it by our iron-cinds will be made. The first. on tho 7th of Aprit Yast, by the equadron under Admiral Dupont, although one of brilliant dash, boidnesa aod vigor, failed for rea- fons wel! known to the public. They were not owing to pny Inck of courage, skull or determination on bie part, or op thd Pirlo? ihe gaYant officers who so man- folly supported him, but solely to ‘the vemels ‘Demeeives, several individuals to the centmsy |° Bolwithetanding. Of this no one whe knows the civoun- stances of the case cau doubt. THR APPROACHES AND DEFENCES OF CHARLIETON. This the second attempt is under more favorable cir- cumstances. Sumter is cut of the way, or at leant so week as to inspire tittle fear. Fort Moultrie can be passed ata distance of nearly, if not quite, a mile, and her fire and that of Batfery Bee should wot be very éaa- gerous to the Movilors. Battery Gregg, with her single gun, ‘s of little account, What is most to be feared is tbe obstructions and torpedoes. The enemy bave un- qrestionably been busily er geged in perfecting their very effective syetem of «betrictiong and submarive defences sizce our occupation of this island, with a view of meeting tbe very contingency now presented by the defencelors condition of Fort Sumter, Then they have Fort Johnson, tho mew batteries near it, tne Middle Ground battery, and others which I cannot locate, with the rams, upou which they plsce much reliance, But all tis is to be more definitely eetiled, probably, before this will rench you, and it is ueeless to indulge io further speculations on the aubjent. ‘THE SWAMP ANGE! SPRAKS TO CHARLESTON. Ip 4 Gnely constructed battery, im the margb to our left, t a gun which bears upon the revel city of QDarkestun, Of its calibreand jprecise location 1 shall write in due tme; but at present 1 desire On'y 40 wention it as firing the firet shot against Charies- ton, Mt was fired on Friday night a number of times at the city; but whether the projectiles reached their mark is @ question of some doubt. 14 te reported tbat the firebelis of Charleston vigorously ravg for some time during the night, either to call the citizens and military to arms or to ronse the Fire Depart. ment. I give the report as J received it in regard to the ‘alarm: bet J do not voueh for Ms correctness, We sball dovdtleas hear of this gun again as pleying ap important part in the tragedy now epacting. FRING PURPENDED FOR C8 OF TRUCE. ‘Yesterday the fring from our batteries was suspended three times, while fags of truce were passing between the opposing forces. One communication waa received THE REBEL wee The Torpedo in Charleston ELEVATION Exvoname’s Ornce, rm max Frey, Monn» jexaxp, 8, C., August 20, 1863. Captata T. B. Brooxs, Aid-deCamp and Assistant Ea- giveer:— Sm—In compliance with your orders J have the honor to lay before you the drawings and following description pedo, or destructive machine, to foat with the tide or currents for the parpost of blowing up Any vesse! or ob- stacle that it may come in contact with. This torpedo ‘was picked up ip the main ship channel, Charieston, 8. C., Avgust 16, 1863. Ite formation is that of two cones, from Geveral Keauregerd to General Gillmore at an early the flag to the rebels, apd wan met by Lieutenant Colonel Durgio, of the Twenty-first South Volanteers, to whom the cammunication to General delivered. These little affairs gave our men a chance to take a good view of the rebels. and they thronged the Parapet of the batteries, ani looked over the enemy's works. The latter were slso upon their works, in fat! view, evidently interested spectstors of the scene. When the brief interview was terminated the parties returned to their renpective lines, the white flags disappeared, and the heavy gunn began their taferns! roar again. At sbeut five o'clock a rebel steamor was descried coming down from Charleston, fying a large white fiag at her fore, but no other bunting. Sbe rounded Sumter, and came down the main sbip chanset, and war only brovgh! to-efter three or four shots had been fired by oer shore batteries apd one or two from the New Jronsides. She then very Teluctantly stopped her engive, and drifted further down by the ebb tide, The officers cn board doubtless euccoeded in getting @ good view of onr lines of batteries and making avery successful recopnelasance of our position os the Joined at their bases, and is constructed of staves, held together by iron hoops. To make it atill more impervious to water 4 je well paged with » composition of pitch and tar on the outside. @ a ere cast iron flanches, @uited to tbe curvature of the outside, and carrying thecollars b>. These flanches ere fastened tothe wooden staves by bolts eod nuts, es crews are killed or the guns dismounted permanently we need not hope to prevent Wagner from fring. The work te large and strong enough to hold and protect quite force, and soldiers with the energy of the rebels on this island are not to be driven out by any slicht that can be remedied by bard labor. It must fall; but when is aquestion I do not pretend to ‘The land forces can manage it detier than the Neither Wagner nor Gregg is of any importance 10 General Gilimore has secomplished bis berculesn task reducing Fort Sumter ever the heads and iv spite of rebel works ou Morris island. At Gret is was given that they wore the key to Sumter, and @ goed many elieved, Hut Geceral Gillmore's fret plan was to re- j fore a bens reached her froma the Irousides. Im- duce Sumter, whether he could take Wagner or Gregg or mediately after the officer in the boat bed gained her deck she tnrned about and steamed up the chancel, and anchored off Fort Gregg, whea the communications sbe bore were received by a tag sent up by the Admiral. TWO ANGLO-RERKL WLOCKADE RUNNERS GET IK. ‘TRE MOMTTORS’ NIGHT ATTACK ON FORT SUMTER. Seven deserters, who escaped from Vort Mouitrie on Admiral Dabigren, in the Passaic, with the Monitors Thuredey night to the Montauk, besides giving much | Patapsco, Momtauk, Nabant and Weebawken, steamed up other information, state that two blockade runsers euc- | thechannel yesterday morning before daylight, and opened ceeded in eluding our vessels and ran safely jnto Charles. | fire on Fort Sumter at about eight hundred yards distant ton last Sunday night. They were discovered by our | The night was dark and foggy, but light enough to enable Dlockaders and fired upow; but the uight was so dark aed | our gunners to distinguish the walls of the fort, as they misty that they were quickty lost sight of. They were | dimly loomed up through the baze. | have not been able ly @ portion of ihe large feet due here from Nas | to learn bow jong the engagement continued; but it sen, with valoatie cargoes, The uights arene dere and { laste@ever an hour, at which time the fog became a0 Dezy Dow sfter the moon sets that it i# an utter impens!- | dense that fring was suspenéed, and the Monitors anebor- Dility to see one of theve Jead colored steamers, set- | od to await daylight, Duriag the content tbe fifteen ting tow in the water, at any creat distance. They are | inch and two hundred pounder rifies are said to have dove seen for an instant, perbaps, end es quickly disappear in | some very effective firing, damaging the east face the haze. The keenest vigilance iv of little syail under | of the fort considerably. But two guss were each circumstances, These make three that bave run in | fired in returs from the rebels im the work, since the occepation of this i#iand. We bope that the | end these inflicted no damage, Fort Moultrie, Battery gaine wil! be biockea against (bem m afew days. Bee and the Mount Pieasant battery kept «up a bot acd OUR FIRE SUBPERDED TOR ONK MIGHT. heavy Gre from their gana; but the fog was too thick to Last night the fire from our batteries was entirely aun. | enable their gunners to see the Menitors. They fired at the pended, aod wot a shot came from the rebel works em. | fiseves, and consequently made very wild practice. It circling our lines. ‘The fiag of truce boat was anchored | was romored that two men were killed upon the Moni- Momma In.axp, August 24, 1863. @ Battery Gregg for the night, and the potent spell of the little white flag wae equally felt in the lines of the contending f rces, stilling the thumders of the gups end cised her oonignant sway through the long bours of the night. The opposing pickets stood face to face: bat, fer! ing Ubat they were secure against the deadly rific ball, dreamily doved through their vigil, free from care or fear, Wm the batteries the artilleriats slept in the open Air beside their guDs, wit no startliog warning to aroure them against the perils of Johuson's falling sbelin, and the grand guard qoietiy pamed the night in dreams, and beard no siaria which should place them in battle array, ready Ww hurl Dack a rebel force desperately attempting a sortie, or fail by hundreds bebind their works The «i. lence was +o upusual that many in camp, aceustomed to torn; but I do not believe the report. At about #ix o'clock tbe fog li(ting somewhat, they hoisted anchor and came ut under a very heavy fire. | observed very many sbots striking around them, bat could pot see that either of the vessola was struck. During the balance of the day the Bavy did not fire a shot, nor bas one been fired to-day. What Admiral Dahigren’s plaos ace I do not profess to koow, bot I have reason to fear that he is lowing most | valuable time by his delay. Every moment now is worth © year \o ordinary times—a fact which the rebels recog: Rize, aa they are strengthening and enlarging (heir old batteries, bullding tew ones and moun beavier guns at powwte where they will be terribly effective against the bavy if it over attempts to move towards (’barieston. A few days more aeiay may ruin the entire campaign. Sumter was reduced becwse it was in the The angie, | hear the incessant reports of heavy guns and mortars, | way of the navy, but Admiral iehigren bas an yet the bow! of sbot and the bursting of shell, felt that there , made no advance towards completing the work which was something needed to make it possible to sleep sound | Gen. Gillmore has so gloriously begun. The army is o° ly Ha big base drum bad been strock at intervals | able todo more, Gen. Gillmore ban performed bis part during tbe night the relief would Bave been gratefnl. | of the contract, and it now remains for the navy wo soter Nething but the deep monotone of the sarf on the beach | upon and perform its part of the work. A week's “elny wan beard to disturb the quiet of the night, and many were | may enable the rebela to replace Fort Sumter by new pergour and revtions because the regular nightiy canuon | batteries withim the harbor, which will make the captore nde had been eurpended. it bad become almonta neces. | of Charleston as far off as it war before we Bred the fret ty of their existence. What will the soldier do when be | snot againet it. There ina deop feeling of fear growing rovorne to bie quiet country home, and hears opiy the | on shore that tbe fraite of onr glorions triempb will be hot of a fowling piece or the annual discharge of the tm- | permitted to slip from our grasp by tmexplicable pro. monee brags ox-pounder on Fourth of Jaly? He will sigh | crastination on the part of the navy. 1 canoot explain | } for the pomp and creomstance of war again, forgetting | this aerming want of energy on the part of the naval ite barésh pe apd discomforts, ite dangers and misery. | authorities, They may be able to ao it: but some better ‘Will not thin repeljion radvoally chance (he epirit of the ) reasons mont be given than those already in ewreciaiion, watien? or the country will feel far from eatiahed with the reeelur of naval operations io this quarter. 2 PONE TSPENAT MACRO TET THE KRW RON oDM On Thureday Might bet, about ton oveloek, while Ka. ftign Porter wae oMeer of the deck he dimovered whan | be wuppaeed % be one of the Monitors moving rayaliy | down the channel and towards hie anp, the New jroo | widen. He watched i6 closely as it neared him, and teow h eeeme wo to me. | MAvAL OPERATIONS | Smee my Meet commaniation naval vperations bave | been eingularty dell and uninteresting. On Friday afver | n00n the Mabatke spd Cimmerone (red a while on | Wagner, moking some capita! show, The onemy dr ; them from the position close in tney had first assumed and competied them to lay off at a more respectful comfortable position, The tire of Wagner was silenced | | after an hour's firing by the Ironeidor and the wooden gunboats The vemete then hauled off | for the day. Om Saturday @ couple of Monitors | and the robs) len agaic mamtained a hot fre on Wagner ond Gregz, end again aileoced them—that i#, drove the gunners to their bombprecte, from whence they could rately emerge and work their guae an seon ae oer gronbeate had retired Sometimes a gua ie mnecked over saw enough to @xcile his eampicions that sii was not rght. When she hed come within apesking dietance be hailed ber sod asked what vemel it war The reply came, (AY, O77, ¢ir, ot Fight” = Aw thie war pot the proper anewer to be given by any of our veenele he hailed again. The next amewer was, “A live Yaokee, from Port Royal.” He wae thew satisfied that she was a rebel versti, and he called ail hands to querterg whe ntrange resrel centinved W mere wwwaris ine irom of the northwest fene—Abe losking Cireetly opoy thy | Dy the eayy, bot the following ight seme it mw pewition | wider, Od AMemptel te com her Bowe or explode TORPEDOES. Harbor, with the Explosive Arrangement. NY \ NY WY inch, recsive n hollow brass picg, c, into which is slipped the brags plunger, d, having a projection or wel) at ite base, a, and conformed to ip the bore of the plug,c, to prevent its failing through. S¢rewed into the lower part of the plug is the brase nipple, f, surmounted by a cirea- lar piece of wood, g. Through the nipple apd woud {» in- serted the paper tube, h, containing the explosive mate rial, probably the fuiminate of mercury. Water \sex- claded from around the plunger by the brass stuffing box But, ¢, and from the junction of the ping, c, nad the cottar, b, by the leather washer, i, The small hole in the plunger 18 intended fer the insertion of aspike or wire to keep its base from contact with the fulminating powder, until do- spatched on its mission of destruction. The swell of the sea will canse the top of the plunger to ntrixe against » vensel with sufficiett foree to insare an explosion. The entire mackine is filled with coarse powder to the amount of about fifty pounds. 1 Bave the bonor to be, Captain, your obediest servant, CHEISTOPHER J. LORIGAN, New York Volunteer Enginecrs. & torpedo against her sides. But she fajied in the latter attempt, aad only succeeded in getting foul of the frigate’s ram, which stopped ber for a momest. She fivally got offend started rapidly towards Fort Moultrie. Several guns were fired from the frigate at ber; but it ‘was thought none strock the audacious veasol, ax she went off fying. (COMMAKDER FOTRALL 4. rARKER. Commander Parker, who bas been on the jsland in com- mané of the naval detachment, was yesterday relieved of his command in consequence of sickness. He has ex- erted himself too much while on the island for one tn his feeble state of bealth, and that, with exposure and irregu lar diet, nag used him quite up. He has been invalided by a meaical board, and will probably go North at an early day. Captain Parker bes just completed a work on Bava! tacties, introducing #6 entirely new order of ma- Beuvres of squadrons and fleets adapting the army move ments of brigades and divisions to the evolutions of steam shipe-of-war. The work bas beep performed by direction of the Navy Department, and, from Captain Par. kor's known ability, it bes doubtless been performed in the best manner possible. Vau Nostrand, ! believe, will publish it. TKS NEW COMMANDER OF IB NAVA! DETACHMENT. Lieatenant Reannie bas been ordered to relieve (om mander Parker as commander of the naval detachment. Lieutenant Browers, who has been the executive of the party since they bave been ashore, will be retained in his position as frat lieutenant and execotive officer 4 Gaul As clase a sti Wind is blowing from the northeast, qMectually putting © stop to the tren clad operations for a while. It te to be hoped & will soon sbate, and that Admiral Dabigren Will 200p bagin Bie Iabora, m H. Oshorme’s Despatches. Monaw lata, 8. C., Avgust Zo, 1863. UNTER Is BCR Toe firing from oar batteries bas nearly completed the work of destroying Fort Samter. It is no longer of value to (he confederacy a work of defeoce. Practically ita reduction t# accomplished. Ite walle bave been torn down (ts gone, with perbape a single exception, dis- mounted, and the few hardy spi bo yet maintain their tenure there are competled to take refuge from bursting rbell and fying masonry as best they may, without the power further to help themseiver, The pavy can para tt ‘Thin # tbe fulftignent of the commanding general's promise to the government when he undertook (he berculean job & breaching tte walle over the beads of Wegner and past the guoe of Gregg. & WARING FROM GU IMORE TO RRAUEROARD, On Friday morning, at about eight o'clock. Lieet. Col, James F. Hall, Provost Marvbal General, and Captain Rrooks, 84-40 camp, left General Gillmor ® Beadquarters, bearing, wader cover of fag of trace, a sealed totter from (he Union commander to the original rebel chief tain, It # Understood that the document was a demand for the surrender of Morrie Island and Fort Sumter. To this wae added & forma notice that ® failure to comply would be followed by turning owr guns npow the city of | Char'eston, and & desire that the nov-combatants, women and children, might arcordingly be removed beyond the iin ite of the town. j Atver proceeding to our batiertes upop the left and no | tifying them 1 conme their firing at the proper time, Crone! Hall amd Captain Brooks rode out Wo our paraliela | upon the right, apd were goon among (he sappere in the trencbes et the fromt, Here, amid the storm of bullets and the cecaaional volleys of shrapnel! which buret from Wagner, ney franetically waved ther white handkerchiefs cut! a similar emblem of pence war dupayet opou the parapet just before them. Lieutenant Colowel Durgin, of the Twenty fret Heoth Carolina Volunwerrt, came out to roceie (he Comenumicatin®, and met our fag abo me wey Velwreen @ur pickets and the fort, Rut few words paused betwean te pariicg, whose Bands d)4 wot meet | orig the interview. | After formally introiociag Bimenlf, Col. Mall ventered to remark thet it was s warm morning, to whieh the | repel colonel gave bie omeurrence 0 F(ity a to deer | mny further Convertation except on mations purely off Pal The parties delivered aad received the documenta, bade each other good morning, and returned to their lines | a dignity whied, im the bot secur tour bave heen peculiarly relrewting j Tre FL40 OF THO} War BOT cL rUETRER REPTECTED tering the perley, @Rich war ceceewarily brief, only the tre of Wagner aed of cor batteries © rape Jot, The rebel works on James Tpinnd wd the cr (arn and oo omb ate ot Vinepar fTi!, oF Mattery “or phine tore io | thelr hehe at enon! Cregg kept popying wway at ome of PRI the Monitors, and the latter, unconscious, under such cir cumstances, of apy violation of “the propreties,’ main tained her fre against tbe offender witb becoming and Juvtifiadve rapidity, ‘THR DOMBARDMEKT EENEWED. As Colone) Hall and Captain Brooke returned to the trenches and the rede! bandierchief disappeared bebind the ugly face of Wagner, our batteries reopenea, and all along the line, from right to left and left to right, our Driefy suspended work went on without further interruption during the day. The proud structure which hae so long commanded the chaone) was etill more humbled duriog the firing of Friday by the effect of onr shot and shell. Where her fing- staff had stood the parapet was knocked sway, leaving the bare and shattered pole standing at a very awkward angle amid the rapidly accumelating rains. Projectiles from our right batteries went tearing through the easter- Jy {ecb and crustied the opposite wall in their fight, while our batteries om the left continued thelr fring upon the gorge. Still the brave fellows inside kept their flag flying over the ruins. Most . rebellion showed ilself in every flutter of titeir mutilated but do- fant Danner. Out of ite folds most persistent treason shook itself in every passing puff of wind. Ihe rebels ‘would not lower the flag tor abandon the work. ACHING GHELLA INTO CHARLESTON. ‘Making good, bis notice to Beavregera, General Gil. more directed Lieutenant Selimer, commanding the Marsh Battery, to open with bis heavy rifled gun upon the city of Charleston during the night. Accordingly the piece ‘was trained jn that direction, and between one aud two o'clock on Saturday morning fifteen shells of Birney's imvention were pitched over the James Island batteries across the island and the narbor and into the town. ‘Their fight wes wonderful. When last seen the mon- strous projectiles were still soaring upwards,es if on thelr way to join the stars, ‘The effect of this demonstration against the city wes quite satisfactory to ourselves, if not to the remaining ipbabitante. Perhaps General Beauregard bed considered Genera) Gitimore’s threat to shell Charleston at the dis- tance of four miles too prepoaterons to demand attention. Certainly the city had not been evacuated by all the non- combatants. The visitors which our “Swamp Angel’’ sent them created a most uproarious panic. The people were roused by their advent, and that universal coufu. sion followed and a general skedaddle ensued was evident froii the Tight of burning buildings, the ringing of belle from every serple, and the screeching and screaming of loco netive whistles. ANOTHER TLAG OF TRUCE. At daybreak there was a white flag on the parapet of Wagner, and the sharpshooters ceased their deadly labors fora few moments while the field officers of the trenches went cat to receive it. ‘A communication fur General Gilmore,” was the announcement, and the white flags separated, the hostile officers retired to their respective lines, and the roar of artillery was resnmed. The con- tents of the rebel message did pot transpire, but in a conple of honre General Gillmore’s anawer was at the front, aud. after a brief delay in attracting the attention ot Wagner, was dejivered to the reve! authorities, If Beauregard wanted more time he did not get it. If he proposed terms they were not eatistactory, The fire of ai] our batteries was resumed, and the most vigorous and spirited contest of the week followed. THR FIRE OF WAGNER, affor the mosxage of General Gillmore had bern received, was mort terrific. Avatost our right batteries che blazed continually, The New Iroveites, which ence Monday had taken bot little part in the bombardwent, vow came up, with @ couple of Movitors, aud from ten til! two @clock poured joto the ragged forta tempest oi sheila THE NEW YORK HERALD. CE THR * Last night, after moondow “ How did you get away?” :* We came ip a small boat, sir, out to the Montauk.” “ Have you seen Fort Sumter on the Sullivan's isiend sider” “ Well, wo saw what was loft of it last night.’ * What effect bave our #bots had on itt’ “Well, air, you've giv ‘om a heap’ trouble, sir. The bricks is al) knocked away, and you cap see daylight right trough the fort."’ “ Are any guns dismounted?” “ Yeo, str.”’ “ are they repairing the damage ot night? Are they Putting in canddage wo tbat they can mtay there?’ “« "Deed 1 don't know, sir, When we came by lent night we hadn't time tontop. They wasa right smart o’ bot Jerin’ there, like ae they was baulio’ or liftin’ somethin’.’” “How came vo 'y (0 devert together’ Were younes ‘afraid to talk to each other about coming away’ “Well, we was all of us neighbors, afore the war, on’ wo knowed who we was talkin’ to. Tbe whole brigude would desert i they could git # chavee,’* “How do they feel about Sumter?’ “Oh, the papers is full o big talk, like they allos was; but we could see it, an we knew ‘twas comin’ down, They're gotn’ to bold it as Jong a6 they can. The soldiers over to Moulirio font Pretty safe, but somehow they're kind 0’ distouraged. Battery Bee will give you uns ao beltin’ shough, Sbe'e got some big rifies, au’ (bey fee! safer’s all the rest." “How large a force is there in Charleston now? “Deed | don’t know, It's six weeks nince we wep in Charleston.’” Bo the questions were plied, and the answers returned, until every conceivable subject waa exhausted, The de sertors expressed a strong desiro to return to their Mtale, ‘which, they thiot, 1 s00n to come beck inte the Union. They were provided with quarters, and asnured (het when the proper timo arrived they should be permitted 10 go North. E CENTS, E CORAE*TONDENTS WROUGHT TO GRIEF, When General Gilmore's plane were first matured moch mischief was made by their preinature disclorure %o certain printa of New York and Boston, in which the positions of our batteries, the number and calibre of our puns, and the work ibey wore expected to accomplish were detailed to an eager public, Thin attracted ube attention of tho War Depariment, and General Gilmore wan directed to send ell correspoodents in the de partment to Hilton Head, and there keop them iv arrest until the completion of bis operstons bere, but as @ certain gentlemen of the preve had secured an appointment frem the Post Office Department and been stationed by the Secretary of the Navy vn board of the flagship of the squadron, the evil could not be met by @ partial banishment of the reporters. The mdi vidual aliuded (o te rapidly acquiring an unen®lanle repy tation ay an author of bogun despatches could not be reached, and expecially an General (ilimore bas uo desire to “punish the righteons for the aims of the unrighteous,” be hax @o tar modified the orders he bac received ax to permit the correspoudents to remain in ar Test upon the inland, We are anticlpating 6 spoedy completion of operations, aud consequently ® rpeedy release from arrest. Wor my owb part } om endure the ordeal with comparative compoture, Know rin that in all my correspondence no allusion i any méve ment ban ever been made out Of seamin, and that) have never wrilion a word coprerning our betterien. Lbeir tm sition, of their gune, which Geveral Gilimore did pot wilh OF CAPTAIN woRe, of letters from the Lo.on prisoners io © Jombia. | rom these we learn of the a | abont fifty yards from the besch, jumps im. Io nearly that completely silenced every gua. A neat way the gunvers on the Jronsides have of exploding their projec- | endeavoring to obtain some tidings from ry the brief apnooncemen: of bis death iw rehel hanes Urenr tiles within the fort, It is impossibles to drive them trough the and and cotton of which | SBareHtmurow, the work is made, nor cam (the guns be | of the Third Riwde Irland artil ded on Thaeeny Bight from the effects of bis . Me was Up to bie last moments by Surgeon Wurten of ment, whose rit! and care pro‘onerd his Hife beyoud che expectations of all whe saw the frigntfu) morten be wo elevated es to tose them ip ee from a moriar. So the pieces are depressed, and the shot, striking the water every instance thie manner of making (Le mispilen effec: tive bs nvecensful. “Taaze are whet | call Piilierds,” said tha captain, watching the firing. ‘They carom op the Day aud beach and pocket the bali in the fort every time.” ATRAMAN'S WATTERY was also tarced against Wayner aud no doubt astovished the natives within by ite rapid and efiactive fire. Over One hundred and Gfty ab ts from the Jrousides aad from Straben’s gous took effect upeo the work, and after ten o'clock it gave us no trouble whatever. ANOTHER MESRAGE FROM CHARLESTON, Late yesterday afternoon the rebel batterins suddenly became elleat, and, looking towards the harbor, we caw s little lead eolored steamer coming ewiftly down, with awhite fing at her fore. Operations wore secoraingty suspecded , and the silence aroused every ove to the fact thet “something was ap." Getting abreast of Fort Wag her, and still showing po #igns of slackening ber specd, Colove! Torper Gred several blank cartridges at the «ratt to bring ber to. To there sbe paid po attention, siseming down the channel very inuch as the Ianter @id when Robert Smaii's fleg of truce came out. On she came down to the Beacon House, stil) further, where sho could look into the rear of our batteries, and where {hore on board, all of whom were equipped with telescopes and marine giseses, could count every gun. Then the fronsides, which wae anchored in safety down the channel, woke up to the fact that thin impudent asd bold recomnomssece in opm day wan Rardty the proper thing for the enemy to periorm even under « flag of truce, ant nenerdingty fired @ eniid abot at the mtonmer. ‘The latter checked ber course wiih evi- dos relnclance, aed returned io the buay, where Aden). ral Labigrea’e tog, tbe Defod il, met her aud received the despatches she bed brought down. FORD CONSETT S UTREF RARE The comtenta of there despatches cannor yor be pub lished; but it i understood that they were, Gret, © savage 2nd = mdignayt protest from General Beauregard against what he considers Hien. Cilimore’s unchrietian and = upelvilieed «mode of warfare tm ehelling tbe city of Charleston, and, secondly, « bateb -. Wo are iec!ined to prom lat the memmrrivel of Ube bark Growler, wich sailed (rom Bosum with ser for Gor wel diene more then leu dayengo, Thesight f » gives Of @ 10 slate) would be an wolewme onthe ywt © ledewt iA ® quite ae rere, Te PANIT AR) COME OO, ‘Thin usefal organuntew i dowe © girl work f has ertabiiehed a dept here, from whieh ail ert of delencin are supplied to the rick end wounde: Who peed them. Meny a rowvalement mliier hue rena to thank the (athiu! agente of the Sacitery Comm nme for bis recovery and hie comfort. THE LATEST. Moxa jeunn, SC, Avavet A, We. There ia litte 10 Dole concerainy ibe Oporatone ya for Getewce, ibe tng guns ie onF bacterin were delihe Fetely cugaged @ rooting OT ite reweining wwgies ont putting op (he fin.sbiog Wwuter of M9 gentrectnn. ’ ree Psoxan, ‘That Mattery Wegner ew bard wat wo rece mun by this Ome be apparent to (tp people of the North it = not yer 19 OUF pomens om ton vy fon ond yard by yard our brave micereare digging thew way lot it Duriag the bombardment lof seven daye bet & moment bas been lost io the work belore Fort Weguer With ne supplies cut off and oor men wielding the pickers oot the apede onder ita very jarapet, the pronpees of te of notes of itnilar purport from the couruis of the various | eerily tranater to federal ownerauip daily brighiene The foreign Powers represented in thate ty. The despaicbes | destruction of Sumter relieves gune aed batterme wheel wore anewored promptly, and aa! write there in another | may now be otherwie cmphoyed That Wagner dew wompension of boatilities while Colove! Bail wm deliveriog | Used to feet their power and yield before them i cow Generel Gillmore'’s reply, wader #till soother flag of | pitered certain. tree Reet CRTe man ‘The rebel warrior who, with twanty thousand men drowe veventy man out of Sumter some tight and twenty months ago, « terribly \neensed at Generst Gullmores vgtyie.” He bes, if 1 am righty tefermed, slowed himself to be betrayed into all sorte angry expres fiona, aod threatens Urrible retaliation Me calle Gitimore & dertenan He prota i the name of Civiltration sod Chrustieo!'y againas the latter's preeend ings. He forgere the |(the affair whim evurred ow (he inland when be fred om the Geog of hie coentyy wee hcmaned upon the nation ail the horrors of civil war let ‘There was very litle fring during last night om either wide. This morning ot daylight (he Moo tore weet into the harbor, receit ing three xbots from » single gun on Semter, and a rapid and well directed fire from the Mall van's leland works. A denen bank of fog bang over the bay, and it war not till the iron clads pteamed ont of it and came to Ubeir old anchorage that we could wen any thing of their movements. The ‘esting f disappriatment and exasperation at tbe comdnet of tbe navy in these vpe rations 1@ becoming more eDd More mantnet on whore Ahn vemanreme The monotony of tue bombardment was broken on Fri. day by the arrival of ® party of seven deserters (rom the revel foror om Sullivan's Inland, They led heen stationed where a fall view of the effect of cor shots apon the easveriy ‘hon of Comter wae always before them. Upon the ride of the work which ls yet biiden t os they naw the bricks ge down by Cartionds. the guer dimmounted, the casematen revenion aad then destroyed, and they knew that Suruter must falltbat, indeed, it was (eat faxing, fo these seven men, Knowing that victory was certain to the Voukors, tired of fytling longer for the confederacy, and sans 4 poenble to get beck we ther bomen in the Old North Pate, procured a pase from their commenter lo vixit Mount Miresant, wiale » boat and rowed out im the Garkoney of the wight to the Moot, Captain F picket tuem op and eomt ‘ben ahora in the morning. Cerne vss Tt Mee own. ‘The eight of seven able bodied mew le the rebet uni | form, ae they marched Gowe the beech t the Prevent Marebal’e office, wpe eofhcrmt Wo attract the aitemtion of him protest. He may get et mad as be pleaser, sod oar tris hair im hin rage tf he wante to, Hard worde are mes ging to rive we wway. Where bullets and batinr ow have faiked, ROrribie (hrmaia Will bot be tiawly to later se CH ARLMOS CRD A088 That Geversl Gilimore merece burlnees i evident from the thet that the “Swamp Angel wer sgn trained open the city lant wight, ant feversl of her merecngere weliel open the cheatin, =f oxy yet remsin, The cou @ the Janen leimnd batterien contionnd to play pen this pet plea of enrw With great animation al) Hight, bet wihoot damage, eo far se Town eure Thiek of sebell Tying nomelonnty } Shrowgh four or five miles of gare, (Nyy ee Petey | among the sleepy people, exploding a6 it trian, ond, ae 16 expiodee, eqaiterng a erething, Iyart Game which @ water will extingvith, tet you may perhapy imagine ike cmatarnvon whith Neve sere’ Tanners” Broder iy ea, ye winged mamamperel Hearch ot the biting paras tt, atk im Ah ee name they Ware Berton eration dostres om ond Gomth, every ae i oxmp, std by the tiene they rescned Cot Cm een Hisil'e quarters they had been eubjecied to ao pretty | Vers few corusltiNe have Gneurred wince my beat ae | tnevengh purnping. The curtows aod inquinitive sent | patch. There emong New York trotpe bare bow volleys of qewbent at them ae they peared alone, aed to | fom? 1) Cokonat Damay'# Peqimnamt, Ube lime Uae tredih 6. al) thene the gragbscks responded eb an mech goot on | York Vorontnere, Thay are ae tolh we tore wef Chey hed drawe & bead or pulled s rigger pm om Antrew 1. Van Maren Oo © eet thelr queationsre fa Ue hands of the Prevost Marwhat harware teeth, Or E be wrt Private Arent, bo i, they eere pot threagh asioiner and more eytematic | frivate Alban it Pomme, On. G, weutel ww (eee sus coarse of eprom wteoiber What regumeet 40 you Belong tet eehed thet oficial, Provate Faward Jobesce OnE woveded © remy cow © hin North Carctma vette Micteet Weled, CoP, wounded io eve Whee et years your commana’ ee Th, @qunend © rider