Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-04-25

batteries there are doihS Soot 'e l Stevens battery very successful Noe q single casualty has happened. The troops are in the best spirits. Two ot the guns at Fort Sumter appear to be disabled Considerable damage has been done to the roofs of the officers quarters.
 At one O clock the following was received from Morris island: 1.-Two guns in Stevens battery temporarily disabled Anderson s fire having injured the doors of the emora- sures.. The damage will be repaired spec dily. It is thought Fort Sumter will be preached in two hours Three steam yes | sels of war were seen of the bar, one of them supposed to be the Harriet Lane :" Captain R. s. Parker reached the city from Fort Moultrie at half-past two o'clock, and makes the following report: Captain Parker visited Fort Moultrie and the entil- ading battery near by, and found all we'll and in high spirits. He left the mortar battery, Lieut.. Hollinquist at ten minutes | past two. The soldiers stationed there are giving good account of themselves. The floating battery had been struck eighteen times, and received no material injury. | The venerable Edmund Ruffin, who, as soon as it was inevitable, has hastened over l to Morris island, and was elected member of the Palmetto Guards, fired the first gun from Stevens iron battery. All honor to the chivalric Virginian! May he live many years to wear the fadeless wreath that honor placed upon his brow on our glorious Friday.
 Another noble son of the Old Dominion, who rebukingly reminds her of her past glory, was appointed on General Beaure- gard's staff on Thursday, bore dispatches to the General in command, from Briga- dier- General Jas. Simons in command Of Morris Island, during the thickest of the fight, and in the face of murderous fire from Fort Sumter, Col. Roger A. Pryor, the eloquent young Virginian, in the exc cution of that dangerous commission, passed within speaking distance of the angry and hostile fortress.
 Despite the fierce and concentrated fire from Fort Sumter, the rival fertilization of Sullivan's island received but slight damage. Its Merlons stood moved, and are this morning in as good condition as they were before their strength was tested by the rude shocks of the shot,
 The floating battery came out of the iron storm without losing plate of its iron cover or a splinter of its pine
 A brisk fire was kept up by all the bat teries until about seven o'clock in the even- ing, after which hour the guns boomed at regular intervals of twenty minutes.
 All the batteries on Morris island, bear ing upon the channel, kept up steady fire for some time at the dawn of day. It is reported that they threw their shot into the Harriet Lane and that that steamer, having advanced as far as the renowned Star of the West Battery was crippled by well aimed shot, after which she deemed 1t prudent to give up the dangerous at tempt, and turned her sharp bow to the sea.
 Stevens Iron Battery played conspi- cuous and important part in the brilliant, and as far as our men are concerned, blood less conflict, which has placed the 12th of April, 1861, among tic memorable days The calibre of it's guns, its nearness to Fort Sumter, it's perfect impenetrability, the coolness and skill of its gallant gunners, made this forti6cation one of the most formidable of Maj. Anderson's terrible op- ponents. The effect of Dahlgren's and GA pounders was distinctly visible at an early stage of the conflict. Clouds of mortar and brick dust arose from the southwest wall of the fort as the shot hissed on their errand ofdeath. Shot after shot told with terrible effect on the strong wall, and at about three o'clock Major Anderson ceased to return the murderous fire. In the course of the afternoon the joyful tidings that breach had been effected in that city.
 We dare not close this brief and hurried narrative of the first engagement between the United States and the Confederate States without returning thanks to AL mighty God for the great success that has thus far crowned our arms, and for the ex- traordinary preservation of our soldiers from casualty and death In the fifteen hours of almost incessant firing, our enc. emy one of the most experienced and skill ful of artillerists, no injury has been sus- tained by single one of our gallant sol diers.
 The result of the conflict strengthens and confirms our Aith in the justness of the cause for whose achievement we have sui fered obloquy, and dared perils of vast magnitude. At the outset of the struggle we invoked the aid and sanction of that God whom we serve, and his hand has guided and defended us all through the momentous conflict His favor was most signally, we had almost said, miraculously manifested on this eventful day. We call the roll of those engaged in the battle, and each soldier is here to answer to his name. No tombstone will throw it's shadow upon that bright triumphant day. Ifsot seemth good in the eyes of him in whose hands are the issues of life, we fervently pray that our brave sons may pass unharmed through the perils of the day now dawning.