Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1861-11-20

steamer Bie-riIle, gives the details the bat
tie of Port Royal. which are mainly covered
By the reports already received
The following are the most interesting ex
tracts from this letter
The steamer Baltic got around near Hat
teras on the 3lst. ut, but got of without
damage.
The gale on the 1st and 81 lust was very
severe. aud the feet completely scattered
The steamer Illinois lost smoke stack.
The rendezvous was reached at eleven o'clo-
ek on Saturday morning
The steamer Winfield Scott reached the
rendezvous on the evening of the 81. with
loss of masts and her bow stove in She had
an extremely rough, time and was obliged 10
threw over her three rife cannon, all her
freight muskets ana equipments of her i've
hundred men, and everything but the ratlons
to keep her from sinking and but for the la
Dor of the soldiers in baking her, the fires
would have been put out, aud nothing could
have saved her.
The steamer BienuiUe went to her relief
when her Chief Euginee-. his Assistant aud
three of the crew jumped aboard the BieH-
riIe, leaving the Scott to her fate. Their &C
ton nearly created panic among the soldiers,
who gave UP all for lost. but the Captain of
the Scott put the Chief Engineer in irons, and
brought him and the recreant crew back, when
things went on better.
Col Clark of the Fiftieth Pennsylvania
Regiment. FIVE hundred of whom were aboard
the Scott, describes the night one Of hor-
ror. The gale VA. terrible aud the vessel
mere she'll. The men were terrified by the
cracking of the tiubers as the masts went over
board. aud despair seized them when they dis
covered that she leaked badly, TO which sue
ceeded panic, when the crew attempted 10
escape
The Scott was taken iu tow By the VGa-
deTJdt which cut clear from the Great Rep
UJljc 10 the gale.
The steamer GorerRor went down with
twenty men, the Pens5tga taken of all who
could escape.
The account Of the battle Is substantially
the same as that elrezdy received
Tie HGJush had her machinery disabled
Our gun boats were sent up the creek to
cut off the retreat of the Rebels but where
they had disappeared to could not be ascer-
tanned.
The First Brigade landed on Southern
Head Nov. 9th. This Point is on South Is
land
The New York Sevcnty-1irth Regiment
have possession of Bay Point
The est of the troops. with the Generals.
are on Hilton Head.
Five of the twenty guns Of this fort were
d:smuuuted.
There were 1900 Rebels at Hilton Head.
and 1900 at Bay Point
We have captured 80 cannon. SOC muskets
and any quantity of ammunition.
The road by which the Rebels escaped was
covered with rifles, muskers. knaPsacks, &c
We have taken at least $500 blankets, and
tents for 5000 men.
The Rebel guns were all 81 Founders. four
being rihed ard cast this year at Richmond
( The others were from Norfolk incudiug the
English gun captured in the last The
musket ammunition was all English, and the
! fort ANN unition from Richmond
/ The Chief Engineer of the 'Susquehana'
was killed.
Thirty dead Rebels have been found. aud
more we're hastily buried 10 tho sauj.
The Georgi. troops ran first. the South
! Carolua troops last.
A German artillery company. who served
the guns, stayed till the last camps On both
| points were given up to plunder by the mar
ines, who reaped rich harvests
FoRTREss MoNKoE, via Baltimore. Nov II
The gun boat Da,Cn arrived at Fortress
| Monroe on Monday afternoon. She left
Washington about a fortnight since aud
4 cruised In the Potomac until Suday last st 3
o'clock p NJ At that time she started
southwark and when at Bovd'S Hole. opposite
Maryland Point. she was fired upon by pew
Reb.l battery, aud Immediately replied.
The firing was continued for nearly an
hour ith vigor on both sides. The guns Of
the Rebels were badly aimed; but thirty shots
were counted oy those on the Da,ra. none of
which Injured the vessel materially. The
guns of the battery were two rifed thirty-two
Founders, aud ordinary thirty-iwo poun-
der. The effect of the discharges of the
Darn were not known. and the vessel was
finally kept on down the stream, running the
blockade successfully. 1t is the opinion of
the officers of the Daon that the battery eau
be destroyed with very slight effort.
WAsHINGTcN, Nov. I5-Capt Taylor, who
arrived here with dispatches, reports that
when the San Jacinto stopped at Cienfugus
the escape of Slidell and Mason was ascer-
tanned Proceeding thence to Bahams. j,
was understood that they had taken passage
on the Tth inst on the British mail steamer
Trent, plying between Vera Cruz, by way
OF Havana to st Thomas to Southampton =
| While the San Jacinto who was iD the nar-
rowest part of the Bahamas channel, about
twenty four miles to the Westward, they met
| the packet, and, as usual in such cases fired a
shot across her bow aud brought her to. Two
boats were then sent 10 her, under The CON-
mand Lieut. Fairfax, who boarded the packet
and arrested Mason and SlideIl, who were
personally known to him. They first OBJ
jected to their being removed without the en-
ployment of force for that purpose. Howev-
ever, they were soon after removed without