The Nevada Democrat., 1861-11-16

10 DC the new gUn-boats, OF which the navy
department had twenty-three constructed
expressly for such purposes, and their sue.
cess, both in the gales and under the fire
was perfect.
Commander Dayton, of the Pocahontas,
is brother of Gen. Dayton, who command
ed the rebel forts.
Capt. Steadman, who brings the dispatch
es, is son of former Mayor of Charleston.
On the reception of official dispatches,
the following order was issued:
GEFERAL ORDER.
The Department announces to the Navy and
to the country, its high qualification at the
brilliant success of the combined navy and
army forces, respectively commanded by flag
officer T. Dupont, and Brigadier General T.W.
Sherman, with the capture of Forts Walker
and Beauregard commanding the entrance to
Port Royal harbor, South Carolina, and to
commemorate this signal victory, it is ordered
that national salute be fred from each navy
yard, at meredian the day after the reception
of this order.
The official dispatches brought by Capt.
Steadman are in substance what has pre-
viously been sent by telegraph.
AN Y. dispatch says orders have been
received from Washington to ship large
quantity of ordnance stores Immediately 10
Port Royal.
The N. Y. Tribune's Washington dis
patch of Nov. 18th, says Generals HAlleCk
and Buell. left Washington for their CON-
mands this morning Both are fully pos
sessed of the plans aud policy of the Ad-
ministratiOn, and of the Commandsr-in-
chief.
Hcnceforth 1t is believed there will be o
thorough unity Of action among the Gen.
erals commanding the several departments,
and all their actions will be parts Of one
campaign.
WASHINGTON, Nov. l3th.-The associated
press reports an account Of our recent vic.
tory, and the movements of our feet, which
ia substantially the same as the Others but
gives few more particulars.
The steamer Winfield Scott reached The
rendezvous on the evening Of the Sd, with
loss Of masts, and bows stove in. She threw
overheard her three rifed cannon, all her
freight, and the muskets and equipments of
her four hundred men, and everything but
her ratiOns, TO keep her from sinking; and
but for the labor Of the soldiers in bailing,
her fires would have been put out and moth
ing then could have saved her. The steamer
Bienvlle went to ber relief, when her chief
engineer and bis assistant and thirteen sea-
men jumped aboard the Bienville, leaviBg
the sloop to her fate; their action nearly
created panic among the soldiers, who
gave up all for lost. The captain of the
Winfield Scott put the chief engineer in
irons and brought him and the recreant
crew back, then things went on better,
Col. Clark of the Fifth Penn. Regiment,
who was on board of the Scott, describes
the night as one Of horror. The gale was
terrible and the vessel a mere she'll. The
Scott was taken in tow by the Vanderbilt,
which had cut clear of the Great Republic
in the gale. The steamer Governor went
down with 20 men-the Pembina taking eff
all who could escape.
We have captured 55 cannon, 500 mus
kets, and any quantity of ammunition. The
road by which the rebels escaped is covered
With riaed muskets, knapsacks, &c. We
have taken $500 blankets, and tents for
5000 men. The rebel guns we're all 81
pounders-fOur being rihed, and cast this
year at Richmond. The others were from
Norfolk, including an English gun captured
in The last war. The muskets and ammu-
milton are English.
The Seminole had five shots in her hull
the Wabash had her machinery disabled.
Five Of the twenty guns Of the fort on Hill
ton Head were dismounted. There were 800
rebels on Hilton Peaks, and 1900 on Bay
Point.
The Chief Engineer Of the Susquehanna
was killed. Thirty dead rebels have been
found, and more are being found, having
been hastily buried in the sand.
The Georgia troops ran first, and the
South Carolina last. A German artillery
company, who served the guns, stayed till
the last.