Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-04-17
TILE LATES
The Evacuation Of Fort Sumter--Em-
barLulion Of Major Anderson.

We closed our town report in the extra Of
Yesterday with the surrender Of Fort Sumter,
antI with brief account Of its battered ap
pcarance, and give this morning the scene and
circumstances of it's evacuation. At half-past
II o'clock his Exccllency Governor Pickens,
with his Aids, and MeSsrs. JamiSon and Ma
grath Of his Executive Council, and General
Bcaurcgar,l, with his Aids, Messrs. Miles,
Pryor, Manning, Chestnut, and Jones, and
many distinguished gentlemen, invited to be
present, took their departure in a steamer
from Southern wharf, and were borne in the
direction Of the Fort. As we advanced it was
apparent. however, that the evacuation was
moi completed. Though the steamer Isabel,
at the request of Major Anderson, had been
present from 3 o'clock, and the expectation
had beca occaSiOnei that very soon thereafter
his command would be under way, still eau
SEES Of delay hid interviewed. TO avoid the
cmbarraSsmcntS Of premature arrival, the
party was landed upon Sullivan's Island
Avaling themselves of the opportunities thus
Afforded. they visited the luating battery,
the Daalgrceu battery, the enilading battery,
and were ascending the mortar battery, when
the nnrnng Of the guns upon the parapcts Of
Fort Sumter, announced the lowering Of the
'.Stars and stripes" II the terms of captu-
ation, it was allowed to Major Anderson to
salute his Alag, and it was perhaps expected
that he would fire the usual complement Of
twpn,y-one guns but reaching that number,
he still went on to fire. and the apprehension
was that he might exhibit the diScourte$r Of
numbering thrty-fnur. But he continued
still to fire up to fifty, and then slowly low
ering his flag, the shouts from assembled
thousands upon the shores and the steamers,
and every species of water craft, announced
that the authority of the late United States
upun the last foot Of Carulina's soil was final
Is withdrawn.
1t had been noticed, that at the firing Of
tic seventeenth gun, there was the sound as
OF two reports, and the impression was that
lwo guns had been fired together; but, as the
party rc-eln barking, were on their way to
Fort Sumter, they were met by boat, which
announced that one OF the c;.suns had explo-
tlesl, and made tic carncS: request that the
boat would return to Sulivan's Island for n
fire engine, from the apprehension that the
Magazine might hc in danger. This obtaiucd
the party again started for the fort, and made
their entrance.
The Flag Of the Confederate States and the
Palmetto, were raised on Fore,Sumter smnl-
talroll>ly-thc former 10y Col. Jones, Chief
Of Gen. Braurcsari's StaiI' and Col. Fergu-
s,n. The Flag Of the Confederate ;atcs was
manutactul ed in this city. 1t was the nleu-
,iom to have made use OF the Alag that was
first hoislcd ON the capitol, at Montgomery,
hu! unfortunately it hal been mi>al. Tie
lrg stalls were about fifteen feet high, and
were la<hed to two Of the big guns by Conn
moure lIartStcne.
And wh.n the deafcning shouts arose from
the masses clustered upon boats and upon
the shores, and when the batteries around
the entire circuit shook the fortress with the
lI.undcrs of their sautaton, the feeling that
the victory was indeed complete, that the
triumph was u fact accomplished, that liberty
hal indeed been yindicated, and that the
State had established her claim to the skill
and courage necessary 10 the cause she had
Tie intellectual intrepidity to avow, thrilled
in Tie breast of every one of Calolina;s sons,
as sg,lora las such feeling tililled in the
breasts OF any men before.
Shortly aitsy tho arrival, the garrison march