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commenced again, and was raging at o'clock,

During the bombardment our little fleet
rendered good assistance to the land batteries.
Two of our steamers were injured during
the river engagement or bombardment; one
of them, the Curlcw, it is said being disabled.
THE SURRENDER OF ROANOKE ISLAND.
Since the above. was written, intelligence
has been brought us that Roanoke Island has
fallen into the hands of the enemy. The
surrender was made about eleven o'clock Sat-
urday morning; and though, as we learn, our
ammunition was all carried off the Island be-
fore its surrender, all our forces were then
made prisoners of war.
The enemy came up in their boats on the
south side of the Island, and by means of their
boat howitzers effected a landing in the rear
of our batteries, and that after landing about
fifteen thousand Oh all parts of the Island,
they marched up and tlankcd the batteries.
1t is also reported that notwithstanding our
small force of twcnty-onc hundred men against
fifteen thousand, on some parts of the Island
the resistance was of the most desperate ma
turc, and hand to hand contest lasted for
considerable time, showing the most desperate
courage This is said to have been the case,
particularly, with the Richmond Blues, under
command of Capt. O. Jennings Wise.
THE CASUALTIES.
About 800 of our men were killed and
wounded, and about fifty of them made their
escape from the Island. 1t is said the slaugh-
ter of the enemy was terrific, and amounted
it is believed to over one Thousand killed and
wounded The sick on the Island had been
removed prior to the engagement, and sent
over to the mainland.
THE REGION INVADED BY TIE ENEMY-"Tu
GRANARY OF TIE SOUTH"
The capture Of Roanoke Island, by the enc
my, places at the mercy of the invader that
rich region Of the North Carolina coast, which
has been called the granary of the South.
Craven, Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrcll, Washing
ton, Currituck, Camden, rasquotank, Perqui-
mans, Chowan, Gates llcrttort, Bcrtic, Martin,
and even Northampton and Halifax counties,
arc all laid open to his ravagcs These coun-
ties have heretofore furnished Norfolk, Will
lAington, Charleston and Savannah a larger
amount of corn than they obtained from all
other sources, besides the large shipments they
made to Baltimore, New York and Providence.
The product of surplus corn from these coun-
ties is immense. Add to this the entire loss of
the whole fishing interest of these waters,
amounting to several millions, besides afford
ING one-half Of the support of a large number
ofindigent persons, who can scarcely obtain it
from any other source
| Local ITEMS FROM PORT RoYAL.-Thc Saw
annah News gives report that our Yankee
invaders at Port Royal are going rapidly for
ward with the establishment of their colony,
which they call Near South. We see it stated
that they already have steam saw mill at
work We shall not be surprised to hear that
they have a clock factory in oppcration in the
course of a few weeks, and that they have set
the contrabands to raising "gardcn sass" for
the supply Of New York and Boston markets.
Greedy figures up the cost of the war as fol
lows-chargng it all to slavery:
Two millions day for the support Of the
| army and navy, and one million for the value
which the labor of soldiers and sailors would
create, if devoted to peaceful productive en-
ploymcnts. In all VIC are now paying three