The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1860-07-18

the couIiDodore, and looded their three
boats from her stores. In ore half OF an
hour after they abandoned her she blew
up, aud 10 the eyes of the Carolinisus,
tue pillar Of smoke, Ms it rose over the
vessel, took the form Of the palmetto.
The Bristol had forty men killed and
seventy one wounded Lord William
Campbell received a confusion in his left
side, and after suffering two years, died
from its effects. Sir Peter Parker WAS
slightly injured. About seventy balls
vent through the ship her mizzen. mas,
WAS 80 much hurt that it fell early the
next morning the mainmast was cut
away about fifteen feet below the hounds;
and the broad pendant now streamed
from jury mast, lower than the formast.
She had suffered so much in the hull,
masts, and rigging, that but for the still.
hess OF the sea she must have gone down.
On board the Experiment, twenty three
were killed and fifty six wounded Scott,
her captain, lost his left arm, and was
otherwise so much wounded, that his lie
WAS long despaired Of; the ship was
much damaged, her mizzen gatf was shot
swaV. The whole loss of the British fleet,
III killed and wounded. WAS Two hundred
and tive. Tie royal governors of North
Carolina and OF South Carolina, as well
AS Clinton and CORVALLIS, and seven
regiments, were witnesses of the d-ieat.-
lie commodore and the general long in
dulged IN reciprocal criminations. Moth.
ing remained for the army but to Quit
tie sands o: Long Island, yet three weeks
more passed away before they embarked
IN TRANSPORTS for New York under the
slngIe convoy of the ,Soieboy higate :;
the rest of the fleet being under the ne
cessi'ty of remaining still longer to reft."
lhe success OF the Carolinians was due
to the wisdom aud adequa,eness Of their
PREPARATIONS. 1t saved not post but n
province. II kept seven regiments away
, from New York for two months il gave
security to Georgia, and three years
peace to Carolina; it dispelIed through.
out the South the dread of British supe-
floritv it drove the Ioyallics into
shameful ohscurty. 1t WAS an announce
rnent 10 the other colonies Of the exis.
,ence OF South Carolina as q selEdirec.
ting republic message of brotherhood
and union.
On the morning Of the twenty ninth,
Charleston harbor was studded with sails
and alive with the voices of men, hasten.
ing TO congratulate the victors. They
crowded round their deliveries with
transports of gratitude they gazed ad-
mlr'ng y ON the uninjured walls Of the
fortress. the ruinous marks of the enem,'s
shot on every tree and hut in its neigh
borhood they enjoyed the sight of the
wreck Of the Icteon, the discomfitted
men-oi.war riding ut anchor at two and
half miles distance they laughed a,
he commodore's broad pendant, scarcely
visible ona jury maintopmast, while
their own blue flag crowned the merton.
Letters of congraiuation came down
from Ruiledge and from Gadsden and
Lee gave his witness. that no men ever
did behave better, or ever can behave
better"
On the afternoon Of the thirteenth Lee
reviewed the garrison, and renewed 10
them the praise that was ;beir due
While they were thus drawn out, the wo-
men OF Charleston presented 10 the sec
ond regime ent a pair Of fine siken coIors,
one of blue, one Of red, richly embroider.
ed by their own hands; and Susanna
Smith Elliot, scion Of one of the oldest
families Of the colony, who. being left All
orphan, had been bred up by Rebecca
Motto, stepped forth to the front of the
intrepid band in matronal beauty, young,
and stately, light'haired, with eyes Of
mud expression, and pleasant counter
snce; and as she put the flags into the
hands Of Moultr:e and Mote, she said in
a low, sweet voice: Your gallant beha-
vior in defence Of liberty and your coun
cept these two standards as a reward
justly due to your regiment and make
not the lesst doubt. under heavens pro.
lection, YOU will stand by them as long
Ms they can ~sve,in air of Liber.y." And
the regiment plighting the word which
they were 10 keep sscredy at the cost OF
many o: their lives, answered: THE col
ors shall be honorabIy supported, and
shall never be ,srnished."
On the fourth of July, RutIedge came
TO visit the garrison. There stood MouI.
trie, there Note, there Marion, there Peter
Horry, there William Jasper, and all their
fearles, comradea RutIedge was happy
in having insisted on holding possession
Of the forte; happy in the consciousness
Of his unwsvering reliance in Moul,rs
happy in tbs glory that gathered round
the first days Of the new born common
wealth; and when, in the name Of South
Carolina. hs returned Ihsnks TO the
defenders, bis burning words gushed forth
with an sloquenes that adequately sY
pressed the impssoioned gratitude Of the
people. To Jasper he offered Iisuien.
ants commission, which Jasper modestly
declined, accepting only ssword.
All SoutL CsTolins, BY Der President
and Ibs commoE voice, dscrssd that the
post on Sulli,sns Island should, for all
future time, De known a. fort Moultrie ;
her assembly crowned her victorious sons
! With applauas Tho tidinos iaa,od from,