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? fc I H\)C ([ VOLUME II CA <E{)t atnkn (Eonfrliertitc AT THREK DOLLARS A TEAS, PAYABLE INVARIABLY HALF-YEARLY IN ADVANCE Terms for Advertising: For one Square?fourteen lines or less?TWO DOLLARS for the first insertion, and ONE DOLLAR AND MFTY CENS for each subsequent. Obituary Notices, exceeding one Square, charged to at advertising rates. Transiont Advertisements.and Job Worx MUST BE PATH FOR. TM AnVAMPR No deduction made, except to our regular advertising patrous. .T. T. HERSHMANrEditor. THE SIEWE-FMALE OF THE k CONTEST FOR BATTERY WAG>ER? UNPRECEDENTED BOltlBARD.TIENT ? EVACUATION OF iUORRIS ISLAND BY OUR FOREES, ETC. Tlic down of Friday last, revealed a large United States banner - the hated flag of stars and stripes?flaunting from a work of the enemy within onc hundred and fifty yards of Wagner. On the same morning, which, from imperfect information, we, in our last issue, errone2 ously reported, just before 5 o'clock, with their Parrot guns upon that fort; firing first upon 8 the flank curtain, and gradunllv edging towards 'i the centre. At a quarter past five, the Iron( .vides drew up within 1500 yards, and coinmcnccd to shell wijli great rapidity. It was not until a quarter to eight that she retired, . having kept up a continuous fire for more than ^ 4 ivA ltAiiro nn/1 n l?olf At three o'clock on Saturday the enemy again opened upon Wagner from all their land batteries, assisted by the Ironsides, several gunboats, and an occasional shot from the monitors. This bombardment?beyond doubt the most fierce and long continued which has taken place against Wagner 6ince the beginning of the siege?lasted throughput Saturday and Saturday night, and did not abate until Sunday morning at eight o'clock. Nor was this abatement of much, duration. The lire was soon renewed, and was continued with little less vigor all Sunday. It was on Saturday night, however, and on Sunday morning up to eight a. m., that the bombardment raged with its greatest fury. The shots?many of them coming together, as from the broadside of a ship?were often more than sixty to the minute. Our batteries on James Island of course joined in tno melee, ana did tncir utmost to annoy the enemy's land batteries. About 10 o'clock the enemy displayed from the deck of a monitor off Morris Island an immense calcium light, and several monitors soon after moved up and opened on Battery Gregg. Moultrie and Gregg replied with spirit. At a quarter to two a rocket was thrown up, and ere many minutes elapsed the enemy were descried approaching MorriR Island at a point between Gregg and Wagner. They had come down in barges through tho creek west of Morris Island, obviously with the design of assaulting Gregg in the rear. Advancing in jino of batde they were permitted to come very near, when a nine inch Dahlgren opened upon them at short range, with double canister. Our howitzers then commenced a fire of shrapnel.and canister, while our infantry, admirably posted, poured into them a fire of musketry. Moultrie, Battery Bee, and Battery Mitchel also ripened upon thera a rapid and most demoralizing fire. This they could not n'illiatnnH iinfl (limirrli q unrir ??<Kil/* fllVlfWVXOVf KMV/II^U IVI ?VI J' OIJVJI b WIJIIU they maintained a fire of musketry and grape shot from their barges, they were soon forced to withdraw, seemingly much surprised and confused by their reception and our admirable disposition. It is almost impossible to describe the terrible beauty of the scene in Charleston harbor as witnessed on Saturday night from the city. From Moultrie almost to Secessionvillc, a whole semicircle of the horizon was lit up by incessant flashes from cannon and shell. As peal on 'mnkn t lMDEN, SO. CA., FRIDi peal of artillery rolled across the waters, one I could scarcely resist tho belief that not less ( than a thousand great guns were in action. It * was a grand chorus of hell, in which Moloch c might have assisted and over which Satan * have presided. t All tlfis went on beneath a waning Septem- i ber moon, which, with its warm Southern f light, mellowed by a somewhat misty atmos- t phcre, brought out softU, yet distinctly, the 1 tnost distant outlines of the harbor. i The loss at Wagner during this awful bom- 7 bard merit was considerable. Up to 8 o'clock 1 on Sunday it amounted to one hundred and J fifty in killed and wounded. Probably many more were added to those casualties in the i coarse of the day. At Gregg there were but eight casualties on I Saturday night during the skirmish with the t barges. Among them was a Captain of the i 27th Georgia Volunteers. j> Under cover of their ceaseless fire, the Yan- 1 kees had approached on Sunday within forty yards of Wagner. jt n nrinrr f li n Kr\mKo rrl m a f ChwIam I / ^viiv wviia'diuiiiciiv ui i i Kuny last tut; > brave and zealous Major Warlcy was wounded at Wagner by the fragment of a shell. He was struck on the ankle, and the wound is said 1 not to be severe. About nine o'clock, p. m. I of that day he was put into a barge?the Zro, 1 belonging to Gen. Ripley?to be brought to ? the city. Of this barge, with its gallant freight 1 and of its crew, which was made up of white men, nothing has been heard up to the present moment. The inference is that it was captured, with all on board, by a rcconnoitcring r party of the enemy, whose small boats nightly f patrol the waters between Morris Island and ( Fort Johnson. Cpl.^Rhett's boat, returning i i#om Morris Island to Charleston, Saturday 1 night with Lieut. Jones, passed between sever- j al of these prowlers, and was not tired on? probably on account of the comtemplnted at- 1 tack on Gregg. . ' EVACUATION OF MORRIS ISLAND. J 1 To sum up the evpnts through which we | ' have just passed, Ratterv Wagner had been j < subjected during the last three d?ys and nights < to the most terrific fire that any earthwork has undergone in all the annals of warfare. The j < immense descending force of the enormous ! i Parrott and mortar shells of the enemy had | nearly laid the wood work of the boombproofs j entirely bare, and had displaced the sand to so great a degree that the sally ports are almost entirely blocked np. The parallels of the cne- ( my yesterday alternoon had been pushed up \ to the very mouth of Battery Wagner, and it [ was no longer possible to distinguish our firo from that of the enemy. During the entire afternoon the enemy shelled the sand hills in the 1 rear of Battery Wagner (where our wounded lay) very vigorously. 1 Under these circumstances, and in view of i the difficulties of communication with Cum- ' ming's Point, the impossibility or longer hold- j ' ing Morris Island became apparent, and it was , ' determined that strenuous efforts should be < ma^e at once to release the bravo garrison of tho Island, who seemed to be almost within the , enemy's grasp. This desirablo result was accomplished with tho most commendable promptitude and success. At about six o'clock, yesterday afternoon, the orders for the evacuation were delivered to , Col. Keitt, commanding our forces on the Is- . land. Everything was at once made ready for \ the abandonment of Batteries Wagner and y Gregg.' The dead were buried, and, at night- j ' fall, the wounded were carefully removed in 1 4 T -1 Til . ? - uHigco uj a <-?ii ouiuiMJii, me guns, wnien, tor so many weeks h?n] held the foe at bay, were double-shotted, fired and spiked; the heavier pieces were dismounted, and the carriages ren- f dered worthless. The preliminary prepara- t tions being thnsjcompleted, the work of em- 1 barkation was noiselessly begun, and the brave I men of the garrison, in forty barges, were soon 1 gliding from the beaoh they had held so stout- * ly and so long, The evacuation was conducted \ J- ' J1 ? Confe f VY, SEPTEMBER 11, 18< >y Col. Kcitt, assisted by Major Bryan, A. A. 3.; and the success with which what has tlways been considered ono of the most diffi- * :ult feats of warfare has been performed is * worthy of the highest praise. Batteries Gregg * tnd wagner had both been carefully mined, 1 vith a view to blowing thein up. It was ( ibout ouc o'clock this morning when the last * hrco bo-ts?containing Col. Keitt and a num- : >er of his officers?loft the island. The slow < natch was lighted by Captain Hnguenin at 1 Wagner, and by Captain Lesesne at Gregg; t nit, owing to some defect in the fuses, no ex- 1 jlosion took place at either fort. 1 r\ -1 - - jL/unng me evacuation tne enemy was not die. A constant fire of shell was kept up 1 igainat Wagner, and his howitzer barges were 1 msily plying about this aide of Moiris Island, ' ,o prevent the retreat of our men. But fortu- ( lately the night was murky, and all our barges^ 1 villi the exceptiou of three, containg about ( .welveor fifteen men each, passed in 'safely. 1 A little before three o'clock this morning 1 .he following was received from Major Elliott, f lommanding Fort Sumter : ' Fort Sumter, September 7?2-40, a. m. t All the garrison of Morris Island who came 1 licre have been shipped. Lieut. Haskell's boat 1 from the Chicora was captured by a Yankee 1 jarge. Two of the crew came to Fort Sumter ( md report that all our troops had left the * Island. 1 Stephen Elliott, Major commanding. ^ Thus ends the defence of Morris Island. * rile issue has been foreseen since the enemy's * irst success on the 10th of July. The defence 1 >f the Island had been prolonged far beyond .vhat was deemed possible at first, and the * jrave garrisons who have held it deserve the 1 id mi ration of their countrymen. The aggregate of casualties in the struggle ] "or the island have been, on our side, about 700?killed, wounded and missing. The one- 1 my's loss is estimated at about six thousand. ^ The successful evacuation, after the glorious 1 lefence of forty-eight days, is, under all the s :ircumstances, a most gratifying military event. ' At about 10 o'clock in the morning a flag 1 }f truce boat was seen approaching Fort Sum- ' :er. It was quickly met by a boat from that post and soon afterwards "the following tele- ? *ram was received at Headquarters : t Fort Sumter, September 7. } A flag of truce from Admiral Dahlgreen, demanding the surrender of this fort, has been j received by Lieut. Brown of the Palmetto < State. Stephen Elliott, ' t Major Commanding. To this, the following reply was immediately 1 returned : 1 Hd'qtrs.,Charleston, September 1. 1 Inform Admiral Dahlgrcen that he may a lave Fort Sumter when he can take and hold t; that such demands arc puerile and unbejomiog; also that no further flags of truce r tvill be received from him or from Gen. Gillnore, until they satisfactorily explain their fi- c ring on flags of truce from these headquarters * :>n several recent occasions. t (Signed) Thomas Jokdan, ^ Chief of Staff. t To Major Stephen Elliott, Commanding Fort Sumter. [Mercury of Monday] t - ? . 1 Caution.?The public are coutioned against c x set of genteelly dressed robbers now loafing ibout hotels and public places. These gents n ire in ihe habit of asking the time of day, an'd ? -.1 ... ivduii suown a waicu 10 sudden, y seize hold, .vrest it from the owner, and then decamp. Scveial eases of this kind have occurred lately a [t woukJ bo well for our citizens to be on their ruard.? Courier. 8 tl The Big Buns. The monster guns which have lately arrived j. it a Confederate port arc described as follows : Length of the gun 16 feet; its diameter at ee trim ions is 4 feet and 2 inches; its bore is ^ 13 inches; the weight of of the gun 44,000 F xmnds; its range we do not think it proper to v nention; the weight of its shot 051 pounds, vithout the steel point; the charge of powder 0 pounds; the size of the shot 12 5-8 inches >v 20; size of shell 12 5-8 inches by 25., b s berate* 53. NUMBER 46 . The Battle of Richmond, Ln. Judging from the temper displayed by our roops in the recent battle At Richmond, La., re arc justified in. the belief that our authorises at the seat of Government will be troubled 10 more with negro prisoners, or with white ifficers found in command of negro troops. 1,000 are said to have perished in this engagement, only one Yankee captain making his ee;ape to tell the tale. This will act as a waning and an admonition in the future, both to . * he negroes who engage in this warfare against is a? well a9 to those white miscreants who mdertjike to discipline and command them. The revolt of the negroes at Port Hudson ind Baton Rouge was, in all probability, the esuit, in some measure, of this affair at Richmond'. When made fully to understand tho ripril tlm ! ? ? v v??v ^voitiuu wicjr WUlipV) IQ6V >vi 11 naturally become restive, and seek the first >pportunity to escape from the service?a service for which they have little or no taste, and n which there i9 for them neither emolnmentf jjlory or renown. The promise of freedom : in empty boon, and the poor creatures, when oo late, find t?iat they have only changed nastcrs, yielding up peaceful homes for the nilitary camp. They very soon discover that soldiering is 110 holiday employment,and more 'specially when they meet with the rage' and ury of those against whom they have been irmcd. This affair at Richmond will, in all proba>ility, raise a storm in the Lincoln wigwam^ ir.d in all Abolitiondom. Bombastic threats if cruel retaliation will, no doubt, be indulged 11; but for the^e the South is prepared. We lave dallied with them too long already. The jovernment has shown much more timidity ,han the soldier in the field, on this subject, ind we are right glad that they have taken the idjudication of the matter into their own hands. If they are willing to risk tho hazards of retaliation, surely our government officials can lave Po objection, as their own necks are in no danger. "We really confess we like the pint of our Trans-Mississinrri-troons wh#?*? U 1 v" "* logro question is involved. "No prisoners" s their motto, and clean work their policy.? Atlanta Appeal. Desperation of the Rebel Leaders.? Flint reliable sheet, the New York Herald, of he 22d inat., has the following interesting lews: Refugees from Richmond, who arrived at Norfolk a few days ago, report that the Conedcrate Government is sadly frightened about he possible fate of Charleston, the capture of vhich they regard as the winding up of the obeli ion. They also state that a guard is cept about the residence of Jeff. Davis night md day to prevent him from running away." A Strange Incident.?The corner of CarAi 1 T"* uiwu wuii^ wnics iuc oHvnnnan ncpuDJican >ftho 301h ult., as follows, from Traders Hill, Jeorgia, August 19th : "A 6trange incident ook place in this villiagc a fcfc days ago. A vidow lady, who had apparently been dead for wo days, arose, and in a loud voice exclaimed, 'What news from the war ?" All present were oo much frightened to answer her, and sho 'ell back without the least indication of life. >he was not interred until decomposition had .ctually commenced. The lady's name was Irs. Temperance Carter. Ohio Spki.uno.?Among thelatterscaptured t W inchester, Vs., was one from a Yankee irl at Somerville, Ohio, to her sweetheart in hf* nrinv. Tli? iVkllrnvinr* an otfro/>f ; - v. ?' viu.nvw You ort to See Some Rebs Letters that Tom hot bum With him Whar they bin Ritm to liar galls and if I end get holt of sum of them ecesh luifwes how I would tarthar har fat !m I am a en.l union gal as ever you Seen on ort to See how them Rebel husaeys Spel [in hardly Reed it they Spel the Durndoat Vurda yon did ever Seen I ravs Kloso nomor ut Remain your Ex Ported Wif til I)eth. m