Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-04-17

! the grim fortress rising SO defiantly out o
the sea.
M.jor Anderson received the shot and s!e
in silcncu. Aud some excited luokers-oa, ig
nuraut of the character Of the foe, were fluent
with co:jectureS and predictions, that revived
tie hUpe last dying out Of heir hopeful and
tender Learls. Bat the short-lived boie was
u:lc: IL vxtineui,ed wer the deepening tw!-
light reyeae, The Stars and Sir pcs floating
prur,:ly in the breeze. The batteries contin
ucd at regular in,er'as to belch iron ven
eea,cc, and still no answer was returned by
tie foe About an hour after the bOouling
began, two balls rushed kissing through the
ar, and glanced harmless from the succeed
bricks Of For: Monllrie. The embrasures ot
the hostile fortress gave forth no sound again
till between six and seven O'clock when, as
il wrathin from enforced delay, from case
mate ard parapet the Umited States office,
poured storm Of iron hail upon Fort Moul-
trie. Stevens Iron Battery and the Floating
Battery. The LroadSide was returned with
spiri. by the gallant gunners st these impor-
tant posts.
The firing now began in good earnest. The
curling white smoke hung above the angry
pieces Of friend and fos, and the jarrins
boom rolled at regular intervals OIL the al'x'
ious ear The atmosphere was charged with
the smell Of villa ous saltpc:re, and as if in
sympathy with the melancholy scene the sky
was covered with heavy clouds, and every
tln: wore som5rc aspect.
10 \ boa. bearing dispatches to General Beau,
regard from Norris Island, reaci:e'i TIC city
about nine o'clock, reported that all lh,. bat
teries were working admirably: that no one
was injured, and that the menwere wild with
enthusiasm.
A short time after that happy news was
received. the schooner ,Pctrii, from Hng; Is
land Channel, reported that the shot from
Stevens Iron Battery haltul'l upon the walls
of Fort Sumter. And alS9 that Fort MoultTic
Eat sustained no da;nage}
about halfpast nine O'clock, Capt. II. 5.
Parker reported from 'Suligan's Island to
Mount Pleasant that everything was in fine
condition at Fort Moultrie, anl that tie so;-
dlera had escaped unLurt.
The same dispatch stated that the embra-
s,ires Of tie Floating Battery were undan-
aged bv the shock Of the shot, aud though
that formidable structure Lad been struck
eleven times, the balls had not started {" SIN
Gle bolt. Anderson had concentrated his fire
upon the Floating Battery, aud the Dalh!gren
Battery. un:ier command Of Lieut.. Hamilton.
a nuluber Of sIells had dropped Into F,r
Sumter. aud ,e qua en- b;:lbetlc had been
di>ml united.
The following cheering ';?ings we're brought
to the city by Col E;in:und Yates, Ac'ing
| Lieutepant to Doz;cr, Of the Confederate
States Navy, from Fort johnson. Stevens
Battery llas made considerable progress in
hreactnc the South ard Southwest walls Of
Fort Sumter The Northwest wall is suffer
| j from the vel! aimed lire of the Floating
| Battery. wb,:*e shut Lave diSm .unte'i several
,f the guus on tic par:pct, and made it i'm
ro.s.,le to use tie remaining ones. The
lIowtzer Battery connected with the i'm
pyeguaLle Gun Battery 1T Cummings Point,
is managed with >consummste and terrible
elect
Eiecen o'clock.-A messenger from Morris
Island brings The glorious news that the SHOT
glance, from the iron cvereCl battery at Cum
nings Point, like marbles thrown by y child
on the back.of aturte. The upper portion
OF the S uthwest wall of Fort Sumter shows
plainly the effect Of the terrible cannUnale
from the formidable product Of Mr.. c. H.
Stevens patriotism and ingenuity.
A half an hour later the glad>umc tiiings
came that Stevens; Battery was last dama-
ging the Southwest :yall OF Sumter.
A boat reached the City from the Floating
Battery about half pat twelve O'Clock, and
reported that shot from Fort Sumter pene
trited the top of the structure, and three
siiots struck the sand bags in the rear Of the
Blttery.
7relre o'ciork.-We hav9 Just learned by
an arrival from Cummings Point, that the
batteries there are doing good service-Ste-
y,i,,' Bartrry i5tr vefy successful. Not single
syflls'' apiris Two Of guns a! Sumter sgRss ss:
r., he disabled. ,.----'<s'
4, one o'clock the following was received
from Norris Island. Two guns i'll Stevens
Battery temporarily disabled, Anderson's fire
!rarirg injured the doors Of the embrasures.
The damage will he repaired speedily. 1t is
thought that Fl. Sumter will be preached in
two hours. T'he steam vessels of war were
seen off the bar, one Of them supposed to be
the Harriet Lane.
Cant. r. S. Parker reacllad the city from
Fort Moutric at Lalf-paSt two o'clock, and
makes the following report: Capt. p. visited
Fort Moutrie and the En!iialing Battery near
bv, md found all well and in high spiris.-
H.: left the Mortar Battery, Lieut.. II lin
Guis,, at ten minutes past two The soldiers
stationed thcre are giving good account Of
themselves. The Floating Battery had been
strark eighteen times, anti received no mate
rial iniurv.
Tic venerable Edmund Ruiiin, who, az
soon as i, was known battle was inevitable
i.a-tea"J over t., Morris lizard and was elect
..c! iacuber@ oi tho Palmetto Guard, Tired
tue first gun from. Strvr:r>' Iron Battery. All
hoo,r 10 he c!livalrc Virsirian! May he
r,,nr ,o,r. IN wcar the c,,lrl.SS wreath