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

ed with troops under arms and lockers
on. Ihe men must foil their adversary,
or their city may perish their houses bo
sacked and burned, and the sayages on
the frontier start from their lurking places.
No grieyous 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 AR, 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 fiye shots fred at her while
under sail the Bristol with fifty guns,
having oil 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 flu
rious cannonade. Every sailor expected
that two broadsides would enc the strife ;
but the soft, fibrous. 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 as we're
brought to bear on 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
along the platform from off GERS and
men.
Shall / send for more powder?' asked
Moultrie of Motto.
TO be sure, said Motto.
And Moultrie wrote 10 Lee Il believe
we shall want more powder. Al the rate
we go on, | think we shall but you can
see that. Pray send US more, ifyou think
proper -.ftr. EI
More vessels we're seen coming up, aud
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 10
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 disembark, for il
was seen that the landing WAS impracti'
cable, and would have been the destruc.
ton ofmany brave men without the least
probability Of success The American
defences were so strong, and well con.
structed, the approach so difficult. Thom.
son SO viglent, his men such skillfu
shar pshooters, 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 Haddrell's Point would
have been still more desperate though
. tn , Commodore, at C,intons request, sent
} three frigates to cooperate with in thai
design. The people of Charleston, a,
they looked from the battery with sense:
: quickened by the nearness Of danger, be
, held the Sphinx, the Acteon, and the Sy.
ren. each of twenty -eight guns, sailing az
{ if to get between Haddrelps Point and
the foot, so as to enflade the works, and
: when the rebels should re 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, 50 that they run all
the three upon 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
, nately by fears and hopes the armed in
D habitants stood every one at his post, un,
: certain but that they might be called ia
, immediate action, hardly daring to be-
5 lieve that Moultrie's small and ill-furnish'
e ed garrison could beat off the squadron
3 when behold his flag disappeared from
. their eyes. Fearing that his colors hac
: 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 beer
: cut dowu by ball from the enemy anC
had fallen over the ramparts. Colonel,
! said he to Moultrie, don't let US fgh
, without flag
t What can you do?' asked Moultris
! the staff is broken Off
Then, said Jasper III fix it on the hal
Y bred, and place it on the merlon of the
! bastion next the enemy and leapinl
D through an embrasure and Drawing thu
!, thick est fire of the enemy, he took up thu
a flag, returned with II safely and planted i
, a. he had promise, on the summit of tn,
1 merton. The day was exceedingly hot
: the almost vertical sun OF midsummer ga
n red from cloudless sky, and the temper
ature was increased by the blaze from thu
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