The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1863, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 985L SHARLESTON. Despatches from Gen. Gilmore and Admiral Dahlgren. Gillmore’s Big Guns Hard at Work. THEW REBEL BATTERIES DISCOVERED Indifference of Our Troops to Danger. The Rebels Have Fifteen- Inch Guns, Firing on the City to be Soon Resumed., Reported Safety of the Brig-of-War Bainbridge, Bee Revs he W asurxcton, Sept. 5, 1863. Very full official despatches from General Gillmore and Admiral Dab'gren have been received at the departments Dy the recont arrivals from Morris Island, ‘The despatches from General Gillmore represent every- ‘thing as progressing favorably. Admiral Dahigren’s reports contain nothing of special pablic importance, as a violent storm had prevented active operations on the part of the fieet. Tho Monitors hhad rode out the storm admirably, not an accident bav- ‘Ang occurred to either of them. Both write in good spirits, and express the fullest con- fidence in the success of their operations against the city, which must in the end inevitably be captured. ‘The shelling of the city has undoubtedly been resumed Defore this time, as several guns had been placed in posi- tien which would reach Mr. Galen H. Osborne's Depatch. Monus Istanp, S. C., August 30, 1803. ‘THM NAVY BAR, A woek has elapeed since General Gillmore opened the portals of the city of Charleston by completing the destruc: ‘thon of Fort Sumter, yet Admiral Dahigren bas not taken ‘eis Monitors in, Alfairs are nearly at a standstill, merely ‘because the navy is doing nothing. The indignation and @isgust of every one ov shore at the backwardness of the feet are more and more manifest as the days goby. At sight our eves, straining across the channel, are rewarded by aserics of rockets and many bued lights burning from the decks of the flagship and the jron-clails as brilliantly ‘and as prettily as the fireworks in the City Hall Park; Dut those “flaming”? advertisements evidently me: nothing. Daylight is sure to bring to view the versels of the squadron lying at their easy anchorage, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted oceaa. SRNERAL GULLMON#'S BATTERIES RESUME FIRB UPON SUMTER, To-day, agreeably to @ request from the Admiral, the Gre of our breaching batteries wero reopened upon Fort Sumter. A week in which to accomplish something of repairs in that dilapidated old ruin might not bave passed animproved by the enemy. During the solemn lull in affairs 1 was possible for the rebels to erect batteries and mount guns, even in tho midst of tho rubbish which occu pies the site of the ouce proud structure. So to-day we bave been bombarding. Though no answor was elicited from any guns within the fort, we have added a good deal to the battered appearance of the work. Upon the north- fast angle were two pieces pointing seaward when the firing began. To-night the wall in front of them is all torn ‘away , and one of the guns looks toward the sky ; while the other is aimed apparently at a point very near the centro ef the earth. The firing to-day has been very accurate. From one of the heavy rifle guns three projectiles were ploded one after another in precisely the same crater io the masonry. ‘ THE SULLIVAN'S ISLAND BATTERIES. A newly developed work on Sullivan's Island bas been indulging in extensive mortar practice yesterday and to day, exploding ral shells in close proximity to oar works. Whether at the distance of three miles they will itimately be able to injure us is yet to be seen. So far shey have given us no trouble from this point, THE ENKMY'S FIRR—SPLENDID NEMAVIOR OF OUR MIEN, Fort Johnson and all the works on James Island con- {nue a brisk fire upon our lines. Yet under this annoy- ce the engineers, the sappers and the guard of the enches continue slowly to advance, Old soldiers, ho have stood up in the fiercest contests of the insular campaign, and who have rushed with he fury of tigera upou the foe when a rebel ue was to be broken, are tried now as they To go ap with shovels msteat of rifles, to ! plain e\posure to the deadly missiles which hurtle erywhore about them, without the prospect of battle the excitement of the fray to stimulate them to heroic ds, require of the troops a stouter courage, a stead rve and # stronger will than merely to short and hot at ina fair aud epen “ight. Still there is no hanging wk among them, They march into dangers the hardest face with no manifest reluctance, and perform betr daily tasks with all the fortitude which an ited confidence in their commanding general and most sanguine expectations of bis ultimate suc can inapire. They only complain that the tron-clads doing othing in an, to assist them; and complaints are becoming rare, for, now that the y has accomplished so much, there is astroag and owing desire that the land forces shall complote the ork of taking Wagner, ( g and Sumter without any ral aid DRATH OF LARUTENANT COLONEL PURVLANCH. ‘Tho saddest occurrence of the bombardment was the ath of Lieutenant Colonel Purviance, commanding the ughty fi(¢h’ Pennsylvania Volunteers, who was killed Unis ruing by the premature explosion of one of oar own ie. A light fleld pieces had been ordered by genoral offleer of the trenches to open upon t Wagner, With singular carelessness, no warning the troops in front of the gun was given, and a time Durning ont sooner than was expected exploded tho jectile over the heads of our own troops in the ad. Several men of the Kighty Ofth were injured same explosion. The conduct of Colonel Beil, who cre the firing without proper precaution against xdest of this kind, has beon made the subject of « inquiry OFX. GILLMone'# ORDER TO THY RATTERY Commasones, As the time sine? our batteries opened has been siant to enable the eaemy to learn of their existence their purpose, I shall be giving them no “aid and mfort’’ im submitting to the Henanw's readers the owing special order, from which I have purposely juded the number and calibre of our game — EPRCIAL ORDRRE—NO. 481. Deranrunst ov Tx Soon, ) Firapqn AnTRme IN TRE Feb f were abor Mownis istasp, &. C., Anguet 16, 1860 1. All the breaobing Datseries ostabiivted ageing ter that ere completed and in condkion for efelent vies, aud Ue Other batteries berein below mentinved, i} be opwned at break of day to morrow. Thowo in pro- to open effect) fring will cominvefrom day W& day ‘edinwe iperviaion of tha chief of artillery, commencing daybreak and ending at Gaskin the evening, with such termieion during the heat of the day ae ‘may from to time be ordered, as (ohows: ‘Pird—Hatiery Brown, Capt, 0. Strahan, Third Jeiand volunteer artillery, command aga Newt e gorge wall of Fort Sumter, one plete firing ehot and other perevsrion ebe!’ exoturively THE NEW YORK Second—Batiery Rosecrans, Capt. J. volupteer artillery, co ninav against the gorge wail of Fort Sumter, one Percussion shell and two pieces to fire shot e: Third—Battery Meade, First Lieutenant Hi brook, Third Rhode Island volunteer artillery, ing, against the gorge wall of Fort Sumter, both piece firing percussion shei! exclusi Fourth—Battery Kearny, well, Seventh Connecticut volunteer infantry, eormmarcd- ing.’ The guns will operate against Battery Greg, with shot and shell, unlese otherwise directed, and the mor- tars against Fort Wagner, exploding the shell just over Third Rhode Isiana the fort Fifth United states and barbette battery comiuander. ‘Serenth—Datuery W Connectiont volunter ra tu time be ordered Ninth——Bat Rhode Island voir ne gorge wall ot F the other pr Tenth—Ratte United Stat wall of Fo percussion shi Eleventh— Twelfth—Patter y Hleventh Maine volunteer Infantry, lis to be © Fort Senter, the just before «triking I. The Bris The nation is indeod wall i not duty v 6 of ovr fate compan ter, Wo y do onr wh and lameated stro Pp. W. Sac, A Tower KR. Seary, Capta y stant Adjutant Genera unteors, Acting As Mr. Oscar G. Sawyer's Despatch, Morne tetany, & ( 1M MTU ATION OF AFFAIR Since my previow in the condition ¢ dawns our batter corn objects at any g becomes hot and incessant fur an hour or mor grodually falls off to a2 occasional shot from one side or the other, The nights are not pombardment of Fort dering the lat fre . although the the rebels ‘This fact is explained by the additional fact that our men are more exposed now than then, Fort Wagner than before, and in going to and returning more liable to be cut down by the Sharpshootere rometimes injure our men, and in a variety of ways they euifor FORT SUMTER BOMBANDED A640 In conrequence of alleged rebel efforts to place a gun or n the vortheast face of Fort Sumter, our Datteries opened at daylight yesterday morning, with shot and bell, and parapet nnd traverses near the It was maintained with though not rapidly, throughout the day. The sand bag traverses were struck repeatedly down, and finished up any guns or carriages that might bave bern there. The east face of the fort was also greatly battered, and many lar tached and hurled into the water below. At sundown i i to be hoped dinally, against Homter, The work was practically redooed, by flens ive powers being destroyed, seven days before, and the work stopped. But eines then one or two guns have beon fired from the work, and perhaps some sand bag traverses have been pot up to protect « gun on Lar. bette, which the rebels may intend to put in position rome day of other. The navy have the power, and ought to exert it, to keep tbat work onder, ae the navy ie eup- poned to have contro! Of the harbor outside the fort. !t ie quite certain that the land forces, two miles dimtant, can. not prevent the rebels from carrying these gun carriagor gure, of whatever ; from the trenches rebel grape and sty two in position the batteries ceaved fr! them io porition sccomplinh (hat work, plighed at oll, Jt could be dome by the batreries NEW YORK, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, ALL TENNESSEE REDEEMED. The Capture of Kingston---Chattanooga and Knoxville Outflanked---Burnside’s and Rosecrans - Operations Developing Th emselves, &c. i aro in a very dull and languid state at preseut, and uatil the oaval atiack Until that time an opening had | begins I cannot eee any prospect of more lively times, boen left in it permitting Ingress and egress to large veH- Monitors, with less than half the difficulty jon, could have passed through, nd another, and perbaps impregnable, at the very throat of the har- heavy Afteen-inch guns from (AVAIL | the tine of obstructions long ago placed actors the throat | news to give you at present, Affair if they fired during the night atthe fort; but the ex- of the harbor was extended and completed from Fort penditure of ammunition would be teo great to this time, the effort Moultrie to Fort Sumter WWE NAVYH DELAY T regret to say that the navy ts doin With the entire onus of the eampay Charleston upow its khoulders, it has exhibited few signs that the fleet of Monitors jron-clady that swing iazily to the tide of Morris tors in this contest for the cap- ture of Charleston, ‘They lay there cay after day, silent and gloomy, moving only to replenish their or t seek fome more comfortable anchdr there are pyrotecnuical dieplays, which myst the hopes of the troops on shore, who wateb them from dawn to twilight and from twilight till dawn to catch eight of their ‘The brig Bainbridge has arrived, and tho gunboats ‘There is a large fleet of veasels now in the harbor, including the iron clads, and they may | ¢ar with the woicome pote of “Here's the New Youx mand the fate of | 1 will wow o Aries and Victory Virst Lientenant s. One woutd suppos Major FE. W. Smith, Assistant Adjutant General, bas just been promoted to be lieutenant colonel and adjutant general of the department Capt. T. B. Brooks, Ajd-de-Camp on General Giltmore’s staff, also received bis promotion by the Fulton w « ma- jority. Major Brooks is one of the mort promising officers His wervices as axsistant engineer in us before Charleston bave been most invaly- ne profesional and geveral acquiremeowm, of great energy and courage, his services have aided as much as those of any oth bor. Berides Toland were mero sp Monitors when they are fairly “Phe Naval Battery,’ Commander P, A. Parker, commanding, against the gorge wail the discretion of the already arrived at Charleston. lest with them ’ Can the navy afford If a single guu on Fort rs them from attempting an attack until it is will they go in and engage two fifteen-inoh guns n the heavy rifles of the aruny capnot aid them use the matter further ¢ of Fort Sumter, ith—Battery Reynolds, Captain A. : Rhode Island volunteer artillery, commanding, against in the command. Fort Wagner, exploding the shell just before strikin first move towards now are only the sanguine ak faith bave tired of the tong delay, and retire at faintest porsible riniamtry, commanding, to Gre tho same ag Battery Keynolds, Kighth—fattery Hays, Captain Rhode Island yolinteer artillery commanding xe wall of Fort Sumter. against Fort Wagner or Battery Gre It makes one sick powsibility of defeat, d lack of vigor in a bra in the vim before. all our fears are groundless officer in gaining ma of all tn obtaining a part valuitble rervicns. Aid de-Camp, i promoted recoguition of eo be has beew in the | haa demonstrated the practicability af the properition of which has ever been g, a8 may from tine ¢ Hoary G, Bragg It im also a well his faithfal and ef any thing from the navy affered seven long days censed (0 look fi \imiral Dahlgren haw + Colwell, Third ¥ will yet accomplish its great work i eens anne antec | Reno, Captain A. per artillery, comtua the preset on this island have an attack on Charles: 0 movement towai GENERAL FOSTER'S DEPARTMENT. cease Before the anch« exenses for this incomprehensible delay he days it extends ever hi light tor night work Cavalry Expedition to Bottom’s Bridge, Near Richmond. other, and too little at another pent part in the attock was ne within the fort 1, a gun had ber jer General Commanding takes thi ittoers ane * fact that Fort Bamter Gallantand Successful Charges | | Upon the Enemy. that Fort Sumter had been » that he had not learned thre | The Rebels Reported on the Biack- water in Large Force, G A. GILLMORE, Adjatant Genera’ adior General Q. rilenee that gun J believe that th h New York Vol . Kdwin BF. De Nyaee Deapate expectto have pen, aad are r enemy, and by the tim the heavy arty olky an they were | mer, yet the men jn the trenches cen count on @ sbell (rom one of another rebel battery once im about tn minutes from dark tw dawn. Our cnenalties it bas farted to Meantime, wh » heen working night a to make amends for the al Dahlgren does not, th th years of ordinary time ; to the at lent, ite va! 1 armada comes fy 1 and defeated, aa it ie like! Jay is prolonged, e's fanit, but as the commander of the ork, be must aseume the respon of renuits that may mark the latter » begun and carried 40 £0 auspi ral Gilmore, and which promised such glorious and jinportant fruits, What t# lacking nere, and aro well conceived plana, ekiifu: unfrequent of rebels know, if Adm navy it has no special value; o not be appreciated until the iron. They are nearer’ to I be Admiral Dab naval forces ip thes sibility of ali the portion of & campalj elously by Ger m on hin foot ntity Of there article directed their dire what is grasped for execution, and a courageous dash, that tals WO got a wight at them. 4 they are th@ very articles needed ber and sale beet oppr ctablew Would be mort acer ptable at arly unknown bere, these little comforts, and the & S wend them oo a frequently and in on not m the how vigor. There is & seeming antipathy to giving and recelving hard blows that will certainly ruin (he campaign if some better quailtion are not oxbibited. ailee the pavy and destroy the eficieney 1 have seen wooden gua batteries at @ distavce that eiada dare not approach. We should be etter off to. day did nots Monitor exist, so far oe the morale of the Ita effects are patent and pervicious. But to the present situation. The rebeln are making ry moment tail, They are butiding wew batteries a). most daily, mounting heavier guns, and strengthening their works innide tho Rarbor to such am extent, that if they are permitted W go 00 undisturbed in their labors, allot Mr, Assistant Seoretary Fox's jron-clads canoot wrest a victeryfrom fortune’s grasp. ‘Thin thing may ae well be understood now aa month ‘The disappomntment resulting from defert wheni tbe prospecte were fo prominiog will be lees eharp vod ce9 the chanees for @ gion ona cans grow lene and lens daily, Just obeeree ly the chances for succor lemen. 4 tay of 3 huelly knocked irom-clads will demor, as he pleaned, « assem Of Mapu (or batteries are steadily at work om Sumter today, ve already Knocked Gown some of the traverses of sandbags the rebels bave been potting wp by wight ow | regiment tn the advance, we the parapet on the sortheast face, Whether (hese verses are jolended a1 cover for men or a protection to | ch they propane to mount again fur the navy's It they chome to piace aun or | might be deemed wih bie customary navy in concernéd, Had omer eapared, 204 tie reat | le of i There wae no delay. © | we dashed without « pau & mere we net the enetay in foree Hare, where one rebel pw benetit, I do not know two in poaition at wight 140 not nee how without eprediog nore sent ws well an by day, {the bind from bel chotee, and ainfol when the Nov Av you will wave aveady dine PRICE FOUR CENTS, kee staring eyes, determine I worthy rut Tue ROEM io this affair, wo learned from aitient reen, wens bbirty killed and wounded. Tbe Mounted Kiflee, whe ook the most active part in this Baht, by thelr conduct exemp!ifed to me what lbever iw my exper wm the ermy could u retacd deturé—namey, & wial uncon scouswems Of danger, and am apparcos contempt for death, KARTE Rs tom's Bélege, it rome, (hat they could most edec © works are upwards of nd defended by itive Buudred cavalry RAL Wind, | ' wae reported by con | trabands to be lying iu welt for uk two td es further om towards nd, beyond the brvige, 40 Gol. Onderdonk it n r ' written bia by undunng ch « ey rie Wer RN 41m Holnmore Stare, where y Hore Was Very MUFONK « 1, did aciually cross to atiwek w i ee 2, rookwaned berur morning. A rower waa begun on the 28th by ine enemy, who attompted to cup us of at Now Keout Court Hobse or Sloterayile, bot all in vain, At noon on this day we .habied at Slateraviile to feed our hornes aid rolroaty Gurl yer Ibere tha enemy charged Kuddonly on the 1 ith Rene sylvania cavalry, creating qv panic on OF Murprveod men; but tho Mounted Riles came to the reseue um tant gallant style, and ebar, tho presumptuous fe of fo t ng with irresintivle fary spon yve him In eoafesnion a distagee vere pubishineot op bim mean once was mon, consisting of Het comb’s Leg arolina troupe, and the Fittn Virginia, In this anton coun of our troops we killed & major, an orderly sergeant aud lwo privater and wounded fifteen mon, On the 20th we returned to Willlamaburg, and were want iinmediately ty this point own Lows was very plight, we baving only one killed and two wounded, whose names | give you — qyhiied Jona Noetting, Pith Vonneylvania cavalry, roop A. Riley, Fifth eavairy, Troop bh, Cor ith cavary, Troop I oun CareuKes were not immense, bot important At New Kont Court @ civilian, named GO. M Chane , woe Laken inte: custody by Col, Onderdonk, and seat rtrew Monroe. Whea the rebel pickets fled before ux this man misled our oiticers, by wilfully #lating that they tok the road to the leit, when he knew that they were on that ty the right. By this means the greater portion escaped, and for this falxehood Chandler lost his liberty, ANOTANR AtUUDe of a citizen was made by the Colonel at Baltimore Stove, where Mr, Elmo yo of the rebel goverument, was seized and © pe of hors ta, e., was not as large ry arcounts for stromans, how captured a set of telograph and a good quantity of horses, be .direct from Riebmond, their destruction wax inade eamplete, much as We could Hot carry them off with um, THE RRSULE ‘of thie adair is moet patistactory, and Colonel Onderdowk bas received the enconinms of hia commanding oficers valified for gallant actions, The oomtact of the Mounted Rites nd well sustainet thelr ol reputation, All th fact, ongaged im thie rand acted with ansurpase Nowronx, Va, Sept. 4, 1868. Owing to ate indications of the proximity of a large force of rebels to Vortanouth, it haw Deen doeted ates ape | "blow keep our troops more strictly ou the alert than usual, although no real apprehensions are felt TUE ENEMY ON THR BLACKWATER has been reinforoed, it is reported, to the number of twanty thousand Where there men cou fram ri mor bas not heen as yet kind enough to state, The gene. | impression is that Loo has weakened his army to the extent above mentioned for some hidden purpose Of bin own, bat lam inelined to think that, in munbers, the enemy is mush weaker than bo is represented, General ‘Nagles, however, Knows the trath, and ie in pomeneion of facts, ! suppor, which, if known. would poatter all thee sensation rumors to the four winds NORYOLK I, quiet toetepidity, “The binew! cart their lel trecta, and even refuse to de part when the cheery votes of weboy ealutes the Hrrau.’” Indeed, thie place in the dullest tmaginable, 4 Baltimore Sunday is vothing to it nek TOW the prevalence of fovers makes it anyibing but a com fortabie residence for ove of & faatidious turn but our noldiers bear up bravely, aud enjoy themselven am bent thoy may. There are not so many sof dangerany ficknos® by one-third ag there were a month ogo, by nevertheless, whatever be the sanitary mearures cannot be ly [rota the clotc bee of there our rebel guertiiar every dieposition wax made Cor that purpore, ur \Ofeew arrived there they found we wien of tbeir gine, avd could not hear of his proximity. Se after « little ‘sarplementary seouting the party returned to icerter Polat, there to await the pleasure of the mili- tary beads of this departusent kalp 10 MarrTOM's MRDOR K h Colonel Onderdonk #1 ied by courtesy cavalry, F tauuch tro pere and ibebenowd we W detain our eavairy f When the Mounted Killer charged up they enc: enter eed marmot Welegraph wire, which had beet ball torn trom the poles and spread ¢ our firs advan 8 ie therenyen b a panicas ¥ tained, and in which It was o® ‘ ; were in inte an ery eu) om ome wiry, It wa aw ' auing A 4 at A, . aret tein (or Ue tonne et The Preae leew | Hom ® # Mow opt. 4, 184 } , . ‘ the ‘ ‘ oa The Philadelphia Pants and om auey . 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