Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-11-14

| on ne men must tOll Their adversary,
or their city may perish their houses be
sacked and burned, and the sayages on
the frontier start from their lurking places.
No grievods oppression weighed down the
industry OF South Carolina; she came
forth to the struggle from generous SYM
pathy and now the battle is to be fought
tor her chief city, and the province.
The 'Ihunderbomb, covered by Friend
ship, began the action oy throwing shells,
which 1t continued, till more than sixty
were discharged Of these some burst in
the mir, one lighted on the magazine with
out doing injury the rest sunk in the
morass, or were buried in the sand within
the fort. At about quarter to eleven
the Active, Of TWEEN ty-eight guns, disre-
garding four or five shots fired al her while
under sail the Bristol with fifty guns,
having on board Sir Peter Parker and
Lord William Campbell, tho Governor
the Experiment also of fifty guns; and
the Sole Bay, of twenty eight, brought
up within about three hundred and fifty
yards Of the fort, let 60 their anchors with
springs upon their cables, and began fu-
rious cannonade. Every sailor expected
tha. two broadSides would enc the strife
but the soft, tbrous, spongy wood of the
palmetto withstood the rapid fire, and nei-
ther split, nor splintered, nor started !; and
the parapet was high enough to protect
the men on the platforms When broad
sides from three or four Of the men-of-
war struck the logs at the same instant,
the shock gave the merlons tremor, but
the pile remained uninjured Moultrie
had but one tenth as many guns rs we're
brought to bear OF him, and was more
over obliged to stint the use OF powder
His guns accordingly were fired very slow
| ly, the officers taking aim, and waiting al
ways for the smoke to clear away, that
they might point with more precision -
Mind the Commodore, mind the fifty
gun ships, were the words that passed
alorg the platform from otf GERS and
men.
Shall send for more POWDER asked
Moultrie of Motto.
TO be sure said Note.
And Moultrie wrote to Lee: Il believe
we shall want more powder. At the rate
we 90 on, think we shall but you can
see that. Pray send us more, ifyou think
proper
More vessels were seen coming up, and
cannon were heard from the north east
Clinton had promised support not know
ing what else to do, he directed the bat,
teries on Long Island to open cannonade,
and several shells were thrown into
Thompson's intrenchments, doing no 9TH
er damage than wounding one soldier
The firing was returned by Thompson
with his one eighteen FOUNDER but, from
the distance, with little effect.
At twelve o'clock the light infantry,
grenadiers, and the fifteenth regiment
embarked in boats, while floating batter~
les and armed craft got under weigh to
cover the landing but the troops never
so much as once attempted to land. The
detachment had hardly left Long Island
before it was ordered to disembarll, for it
was seen that the landing vas impracti>
cable, and would have been the destruc-
ton ofmany brave men without the least
probability of success The American
delences were so strong, and well cons
structed, the approach so difficult. Thorn,
son so vigilent, his men such skillful
sharpshooters, that had the British land
ed, they would have been cut TO pieces
1t was impossible, says Clinton, to de-
eide positively on any PLAN and he did
nothing.
, An attack on Haddrells Point would
have been still more desperate; though
thu Commodore, at C,ihtons request, sent
; three frigates TO co operate with in that
b design. The people Of Charleston, as
they looked from the battery with senses
= ouickened by the nearness of danger, be-
, held the Sphinx, the Acteon, and the Sy,
ren. each of twenty eight guns, sailing as
{ if TO get between HaddrelPs Point and
the foot, so as to enfilade the works, and
: when the rebels should te driven from
them, to cut off their retreat. 1t was a
. moment of danger, for the fort on this
, side was unfinished. But the pilots kept
, too far to the south, So that they run all
| the three upon a bank of sand known as
5 the Lower Middle Ground. Gladdened
t by seeing the frigates thus entangled, the
people at Charleston were swayed alter
l nately by fears and hopes the armed in
, hahitants stood every one at his post, un.
. certain but that they might be called to
, immediate action, hardly daring to be-
5 lieve that Moultrie's small and ill.furnish~
: ed garrison could beat oft the squadron,
q when behold his flag disappeared from
. their eyes Fearing that his colors had
= been struck, they prepared to meet the
} invaders at the waters edge, trusting in
| Providence and prefering death to sla-
: very. In the fort, William Jasper, SER
, geant, perceived that the flag had been
= cut dowu by ball from the enemy and
, had fallen over the ramparts. Colonel
t said he to Moultrie, don't let us fight
without flag
t What can you do? asked Moultrio !;
I the staff is broken off,
- Then said Jasper I'll fix it on the bal &.
!, bred and place it on the merton Of the
| bastion next the enemy and leaping
4 through an embrasure and bravin5 the
, thickest fire ofthe enemy, he took up the
, flag, returned with it safely and planted it
as he had promise, on tho summit of the
| merlon. The day was exceedingly hot,
- the almost vertical sun of midsummer gla-
4 red from cloudess sky, and the temper
ature was increased by tho blaze from the
!, cannon on the platform. A of the gar
4 rison threw off their coats during the heat
= of the action, and some were almost ma