Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-12-16

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oFESlS1 % FuI tSoAoInISI.
By SQarlls ibis uoraiug We we're al
ready. Our boAll bad bsea helSitd cal
aud noOEpa AlOARSlde, shot ana shNll ~
a., and steam All FSsly 10 move L q sAoFt
aoliee. TIE asaal uoruIag PRAYER wa q.
tesEd up, the chaplain lnploFed blessing
GP0u The eVPuti Oh The day, amer which lko
PAg 0@etF Addressed Ne Sosas 10 msa
"a hisVanAl clsAF, quiek. eens-to. tAe.psIa,
maaDsh lie urged SPnalbsa +striel ODE.
disncs 70 al orders, eQOlHSis, inaSneat
aad precision IL 6tipg,' Tue aRiRSt vas
three hearty ehesEa.
About 6Alf'past We could SOo The
steamer c0nihe doWa to the Navy Yard,
litIleasSPsc,iug that IhtiI doom was sealed,
10 very short tlms lhsF were fast TO The
dock, AHd A. just twelve miau'es Of Yea No
saw . smoke issue forth from FoFt Pieksas,
and beard the booming Ot The qua, a
cheer burst forth FROM Oar mea, Aad ftV.
era sh'PS anehoF cane up HVely Il was
ours thea.
While working our way Ia, the Rich.
mOnd came up uHder our slstu, aud, - she
draws lSsS water than Ne do, the CommO.
dore ordered Der to 30 in and open Gre AZ
soon - she wAS within range She parsed
By US, took position nearer TO the Land
Aad opened are. Meantime, the water bat.
terry aud Fort AsRSA were doing their best
10 trighten us, by throwing ShOt that fell
about amIlO short. We kept on steadily
until " thonght thaiWe we're within range
and thea came to anchor.
rAE ACTION.
BY twelve o'clock both tho Richmond
and Niagara, together with The guns, bear.
log from Fort PiskrnS aud Battery Scott
were All playing lnto Fort NclseA and he
surrounding batteries We averaged ons
ihell every three inmates, and as the Rich.
mood had more gus though smaller, and
more than our Oumher Of RaaN we're being
served from Santa Rosa, there was about
two shells each minute, being fred Al this
point
About one O'Clock a Gring commenced
commenced from masked battery which
disclosed Itself In the woods alOhE tho
shore, and about mile south o: MeRea.
They seemed to have a particular spite
against US, by tho prrtlnaeliy with which
they fred nj US; hut finding that they
could not reach US, they turned their at.
ienliOn 10 the Richmond, which was near.
CT In shore. Many Of their shot came
very close to the latter, and had they been
Well.direCted Nould bave done great deal
of damage. Only one took effect, however,
aud ! regret 10 record that this killed one
man and Wou0dvd seven. The man killed
was captain u the gan, aud was In the
act Of taking aim When struck. The
wounded were bat slightly hurt
About three o'clock. one OF iva rhOil
passed over vs. and dropped into ito 5HF,
and by the nute winch they sang fiey
passed, we knew that they had tafntd
some heavier metal upon U.s. TWO0F three
Of our guns wrFc directed TO the spot
whence the SNAKE was seen to isSuHrand II
they treated US 10 music, we returned the
compliment withlnterest. They succeeded
in planting two shots IN our sides, making
rather ugly holes aid upSettiug things ia
one Of the lleuteuAuiS rooms, By sig
O'clock we must hAvy dsmountsd the gun,
Tor ut that time MtRrH ceased 6ring alto.
gether, and for one hour and "A half wa
tumblcd she'll after shell inside Of her walls
without any response,
After we had become well engaged Ia the
fight we hardly thought Of or bal. time 10
look At Fort PiekeuS. Once 10 aWhilt !
wunld east glnpce that way, and | could
see that The sFmieirele Of batteries arouSd
hsr we're keeping up constant explosion
u absfoVer her loyal walls while from
out her sides there came steady stream Of
white smoke, aud IconId see thatthe Ghotk
took good effect We bad already tnaiis
two good holes Ia Fort EeRae, aud Pick.
Gus bad knocked a hole that . horae and
cart might enter In.
A despatch has Just como from Colonel
Brown, 10 which be says "he has only on6
killed and two wounded" aud thar be has
not yet fairly commenced The 6rIt shot
from tho fort disabled the Eenner ''Tims."
Colonel Browa thinks that Fort NsRsAi Ii
eGectually stlcueed.