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>V The Xeic South.
OUR GALLANT GIWMORE. .. j
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"On Carol! naVtunny coast
AVliere first accession raised its boast,
And swore to.whip the Yankee host,
Appeared our gallant Gillinore.
The rebel front stretched ont afar ,
To guard the city and the bar,
But all was shortly knocked ajar,
When came our gallant Gillmore.
The bragging blustering Beauregard,
" With paixh m mortar and petard "
Soou found he could not play the card,
\V ith gallant Yankee Gillmore.
om./, v.llc nf lipioV and VianVa nf sand
And huge redoubts eu either bard ?
Came tumbling to the briny strand.
When spoke our gallant Gillmore.
To cheer the darkness of their uiglit,
And aid their feeble legal sight,
We sent them up a little light,
In shells from gallant Gillmore.
Poor Beauregard was struck with fright,
And women swooned In awful plight,
As thundering fell these Northern Lights,
Li' up by gallant Gillmore.
They deemed they raw the dawn of doom,
The judgment " Angel" sure had come,
Forewarning of their final hour,
Sent by our gallant Gillmore.
As snow dissolves before the rain
And avalanches reach the plain,
80 Sumter melted to the main.
Before our gallaut Gillmore.
Oct 5, 1863. 3D K. L H. ART Y.
English and American Guns.
We make the following extract from a leading
article, on the ordnance used by General Gilrmoue
in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, in the
London Army and Xavy Gazette of Sept. 12th :?
"It may be concluded as certain, that the guns
used by Gillmore were Parrott's rifled ordnance.
Their work has been effectually done. Had such
guns been available in the trenches before Sebastopol,
the allies would have made short work, not 1
o lly of the Redan and Malakoff, and txistion du (
mat, but of the shipping and of the forts at the
other side of the harl>or. It must not be supposed
that Sumter was a flimsy, gingerbread fort It
moo nf a no/inltar bin/1 nf Vinr/1 nlnco
brick, six and seven feet tliick ; the arches of the
casemates and the supporting pillars were of eight
and nine feet in thickness. The faces presented
to the breaching batteries must have subtended at
at 3,500 yards an exceedingly small angle, and
; th i elevation of the fort was low. But so great
w.is the accuracy of the lire, that a vast proportion
of the shots struck it; so great the penetration,
that the brickwork was perforated ' like a rotten
cheese ;' so low the trajectory, that the shot, instead
of plunging into, passed througl^the foil,
;and made clean breaches through Do&^valls.
Now the guns that did this work cost, vaapRieve,
just one-fourth of our ordnance, cwt for cwf. ;
' they are light, and very easily handled. The gun
itself is finely rifled, with grooves varying from
font and fiv^^number, for aifoll calibres, to six '
a id sev^n for the hir^er; biitjar Mr. Pahrott is
soil 'experimenting/ no plan ban been j
ftrPY^f1 Itfl i all V-r- i the pitch ia not
so r.hAip as is the casein our titled guns. The ;
pr ijectile is lfk^ the <*mical .ft* -rrROxo. and has
a leaden sabot and conting^-tii least, it is coated
and baHM with some soft metal
"In jfcis journal the attentat o^the Govern-'
msnt d^Wities has been called again and again
to thejHn*r and Dahlgrbkjjuns. The Ameri"ans
jBH^oistmeted cannon of calibres which
to us^^^mown only an of theoretical and probable
atlBHBnt, and they hava armed bat e.-ies
humln^^Hlmles from theifc^arsenals with the
most p^Bul guns ever used in war, which have
been ctfl^H by sea and in nWniy waters to the
enemy's sfmres. , JUefore suclf'projectiles t^s these
guns cany, the breaching of jfcasonry, Whether of
hriak or stone, is t?nfc* of short time.
And iu face of these facts we ate obligedtq record
that our scientific officers are kf opinion; that our
'best gun for breaching purposes is thfe old 68pounder!'
Why, we know what that'can do!
We know that at 3,50') yardsJts fire dutild be
al)Out as effectual as that of ^Jons. Meow These
trials at 200 yards are perfectly fatuops, if no
other results than these, or such as these, be
gained by them. It is of no lipe saving Sumter
was of brick ; it was at least as good wowe as most
of our existing fortifications, o?d infinitely less
easy 4 to splinter up' than a work of granite or
nibble masonry. Iu subs Undo it resembled very
much our martello towers oap beach kt Hythe.
Have we any gun which could Inreach one of these
at 3,500 yards? Do. pray. gdfiaaM? cjn^>e Uui.
iniutc ucnw juuinci)c?, cviiu gcv U'> ? ,
gun with results. Let Mr. Whitworth or Sir
William, Captain Palliseb, Captain Blikeley, |
Mr. Baahley Britten, Mr. Thomas, any one, give
us a gun as good and as cheap as the Parrott to
begin with, and then we can rest content while
you are going on with vour experiments. One
thing is certain?that ftny forts which may be
assailed by such artillery as the Americans have
employed at Sumter must be faced with iron
plates. We are yet in doubt as to the mode in
which stone works can be coated with iron ; but i
it is obvious that mere masonry will not stand j
unprotected against the heaviest order of rilied
projectiles. Do not let as pooh-pooh the Americana
If we Are wise, it is the List thing we ought
to do. Our artillerists think they are wrong in
the matter of the Dahloren guns : for breaching
purposes they may be, but unquestionably the
Admiralty would be rather nervous about the
result offing a 450-tb. shot against the side of
the Warrior, at the distance of 200 yards, not
withshuiding the experiments, which seemed to
indicate that large shot with comparatively low I
charges of powder were inefficient. The authori-1
ties have had no experience of the effect of snch j
shot as the Dahlgbens propel. They have not
got the guns to discharge them. "NVlien next the
Ordnance officers and gentlemen meet, let them I
apply their minds to the little experiments the j
Americans have been making for their benefit at j
Sumter."
The current of events affords many a striking '
commentary on the predictions and expectations !
of the rebels at the outbreak of the rebellion. A ;
few days after the fall of Fort Sumter the Richmrm/l
TT.Ynminer suid :
Tlie slave population of the South can support:
in comfort four times as many people as we have ;
within our confines. We can keep a million of!
men under arms and never suffer for want of com-1
fortable food and clothing.
As a commentary on this text read the following ,
item, now going the rounds of the press:
The South Carolina papers are discussing the !
question how the slaves are to be fed next winter, !
more especially as the slaves from Mississippi !
and Alabama ar pouring in, and the corn crop is |
not large.
?" I say, Bill, Jim's caged for stealing a horse!''
Served him right. Why didn't he buy one and
never pay for it, like any other gentleman ?
The Lessons of oub War.?The London Times
closes a discussion of these topics as follows
"We find two great principles steadily preserved
in American practice. In artillerv, the
calibre of the gun and the weight of the shot are
made as great as possible ; in ship-building, the
turret pattern prevails over every other. These
principles, too, would appear to be in some degree
connected, if we are to assume?what has
not vet been oroved?that only turret ships can
carry very heavy grins. But neither one principle
nor the other has yet been recognized in this
country. "We -are building turret ships, it is true,
among other models ; but we lmve not given them
any preference, while such a tiring as a 4U0-pounder
or 500-pounder gun has not been conceived.
Our artillerists, indeed, have explicitly condemned
the very doctrine on which the Dahlolkn system
of ordnance is L ised?that of throwing heavy projectiles
with low velocity?and prefer to rely on
velocity rather than weight It must be remembered.
however, as explanatory, in some degree,
of the contrast between the two systems, that the
Americans are shaping all their efforts according
to the exceptional requirements of a special emergency.
They build their ships for coast work and
harbor service only. It is by no means certain
that any one of the irou-clads engaged in the siegu
of Charleston could be sent to sea with safety.
They were intended only for such work as they
have been performing, whereas the conditions of
our experiments are far more extensive. Nevertheless,
until our inquiries have been aided by
further evidence, it would be unwise to assume
that we are right or that the Americans are wrong.
'jma tlwip. mere . off hlT the ^
Charleston forts. They have nowbeen more sue*
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eessful, out it seems as n me ruuic
them only an inferior part in the performance.
Before we can form, however, any safe conclusions,
it will be necessary to ascertain with accuracy
what means were employed on each occasion
bv either side, and in what respects either the
attack or defence hod improved or degenerated
between the first assault and the second. At
present we seetiint the assailants have not only
rained considerate advantages, but have achieved
a very remarkable feat If Fort Sumter were a
good specimen of a modern foil, we should say
that forts had been fairly beaten by guns ; but we
know that the fort was only a piece of patchwork,
and we are by no moans sure that it was effectively
armed. We therefore suspend our judgment, and
content ourselves with indicating the successive
incidents which this war produces for our instruction
and guidance."
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Lons Napoleon's Appeakaxce.?The Paris eor1?1
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respondent UI mt" rnmucutc ?
Louis Napoleon for the first iime, says that in the
expression of his face is contained " the mystery
of the Sphinx with the cunning of the Jew," ami
that " he has a hooked nose, hut its hook is more
that of the hawk than of the eagle.". He
continues :?
" My opportunity for seeing the Emperor was
a favorable one, and I turned it to account by
making a leisurely inspection. Returning to
Paris from St Cloud through the Bois de Boulogne,
he descended from the carriage and walked
for half an hour along the border of the great lake.
I do not remember to have seen a face with a
more profound expression of stony gravity, but I
would not say of impassnbility. The lines are
slightly deeper than one would expect to see in a
man of fifty-five, and a very decided general tone
of age is beginning to settle upon the whole physiognomy.
The skin has a leathery, bilious hue,
and the feautures bear traces of the acute pains
which it is known he suffers. I noticed a swaying
motion in the gait as he* leaned rather heavily
upon the arm of his companion. The Emperor's
malady is Ruch that he is not able to go on horseback
without suffering intense pain, and all his
visits to Mineral Springs do not seem to produc e
any permanei relhefl Happily, or unhappily,
Emperors also ar^fctnmrtals, and no lithotoniists
can be found iii^f their wide dominions who are
able to use the kfflPwithout causing paiii. Think
of Louis Napoleon bound to a surgeon's table
after having escaped the bombs of Onsixi unci the
other attempts upon his life."
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