New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-28
THE REBELS TRY THEIR SHELLS.
ouB pgOpLE EAGER FOR THE FRAY
Arrival Of thCU. S. Transport Stare ~ South

The Star of the South, Capt KearHy, from fo't
Pckeps, June II, and Key West ga INST Ar'iNo o,
at ,,;s mort ON the .7th. She reports Ia
inst. $40 p. M, Is miles T. hey "e'', r',eo
seamshp Illinois; Dist inst at p. steamship van
aerLi,t with Wilson's Zouayes; passed Fort Taylor
bound w 9th inst 50 miles L. Cape Lookout u D. D.
frigate, suoposed the Colorado.
Par.see,s nom Key Lieutenant j. NJ Duncan, p
AID ssrvsnt; Mics Howe, Mn sherturne ana fanny
h Nv E r. 1--we apd family Mrs Curtis and ser'ant' Mis-
Plshsry and erya,' p IL Dian ana S Ia ~ Hamilton
f. & LoPorte Charles Grimes. Ioserh w S5aakm nc
REroRr OF PURsER HANcE.
Tha Star Of the South sailed hence May q, with
mues coal small stores &C., fCr Fort PleRehsi IT.
rived at Key West on Sunday, june i, at 2;2O p H.
communicated with Major French, commanoihE' anu
alt-1 TAX M in cotl sed for Fort Plckens al H. HI
Of tue 4th az WI ch place she arrived at p H. uie
OH and anchored inside the fleet On the ''h uIoPPeu
in within half mile of the Fort, and landed mules III
safety; from which time until Friday, the l4th hs'
with the exception of Sunday, continued oiscnatei"e
cargo with the assistance of launches from the ohcu
States fr,aes Sabine aud Niagara on the l4th, loih
and 10th instant.
Tie weather was very unsettled with q stioDe
breeze from s. f. and heavy SUIT running making II
sary 20 stand ont further from the Shore o Ne
18th finished discharging and at P. IN. "elshe0
anchor and started for Key West, with thirteen car
penters as passengers and the sehT. oriental IA 'o"'
Passing the U. S. steam-frigate Niagara al p n''
her commander paid us the compliment ut being ".er
sundown) Of hosting bis ensign, and saIuung uS WIN
the fine band belonging 10 the fiigate. Arrived at
Kew West at D. H. Doth inst, and ON the 2zd nhisne"
coaiup. and at 1880 p. M started for New'iork. Inc
ofti,a ola of
we arrived and left there:
,a stated cirse Sabine left for Portsmouth N H. lSh
rned states frsae arrived l2h, schooner Ald tehoe
the % &c. $50 esbp Reiesse m there United States
su1bos Hur.svfe allied for Mobile 6th Uned STATES gun
boat South Csrous sail, for Mobile tth Snited SIS'e
Msssachnetts sailed Mobile l2th schooner w . Ilsos
.yed ~ with powdsr sHn' H Se a'es tsamsp Wyaf
do.e now a, e1d e St Rosa lsand United stees e
tuss and New York Oh Buh slip Penone s1i,ed io r
the Mssschuses and cleared by the COMMANDER Oh the
Kew weU s steamer Mississippi sailed from this port
The gth and WA by the pilot on Triangle Shoals
where she lay for Il h1Tr; a wa S Sn Venom When .he
proceeded to L. s stea@e[ CT4seeI Jun tiee siy
prize steamer Suwnee tnh 1I'Se' Sst sailed Nh
sed 2lss oI Fort Pets u > law BAKE ed for
eG sa 20 Fe Tso has discharged and been up
load logwoOd for Liverpool ship ohaireI OsP Free
man dsch ug coal aud in sltaky COZ don having been un
ns ois ~ me csp' @eS the gDdeSe hs,e 1s
PLACED SS%,H III: s . S' hS si Capt
meet, 20 all foi about the All pro1imo
AT Fort Piekens, everything remains quiet. Ih'
following is from one of the officers:
ain about ten days, our position will be perfectly
impregnable, as our rfed cannon and coast mortafi
will be in POSITION II we that time get author
ity from the Government aud about 1900 men (whicl
can well be spared from tie feet at Totugas and Key
Vest we can certainly capture the whole line Of bat
teries from Fort McRae TO the Nsyy-Yard, and o
of coune Pensacola would, as a necessary conse
quence, be ours.
"Tbe Rebels have thirteen batteries already com
pleted including Forts McRae and BarraDcas, and have
four more in progress Of erecton they also chang
ing the guns on Fort Barrancas for Columbiads. Or
the night of the 18th inst Lieut. Langd oftte LIST Ar
tlery and Lieut. Seeley, of the 4th Set the Dry Docl
on fire, having crossed over TO the Navy-Yard IN
seen. As we not in position to commence oper
atons the Colonel commanding thought it best have
it extinguished which at done by the officers
who set on fire. and as they fred it without author
fly, they were arrested and tried by general court.
martial and honorably acquitted Of having done any
thing prejudicial to good order and military discipline.
Nearly every person in the fort sorry that
they were compelled to extngush the fire. We would
all have been glad to have the dock burned up
and the fight commenced"
1hey nave TWO negroes at "ork III the iort VINO mao
escaped from the other side. They report that there
are great many more who would like to away, il
they could get the chance and of not being
sent back as they state that those who returned
have been killed.
Some little excitement was caused on the morning of
the 18th, by a Steam.tug from the Navy-Yard, coming
outside, past Fort McRae some distance, and picking
up scow which had broken adrift from the rebels
side. She was suffered to return TO the Maryland un
molested.
The evening we left, the rebels were throwing up
shells-either getting the range of some battery
trying shells which they making in large quant
ties at the foundery in the Navy working night
and day. They have large steamer running between
Warrington and Pensacola Is miles, twice a day.
beside daily communication with Montgomery by rail.