Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1863-10-03

through, and that after the vessels Withdrew
:hc utmost exertions were used, 10y sending
To the fort bales OF cotton and sand bags,
to repair the damages sustained. Every one
supposed there would be u renewal of the
attack the next day; they imagined the
first to be only tccler--and thought, if it
was, Sumtcr's chance would be poor one,
it, on the next attempt, determination 10
reduce the work WAS manifested lie gives
us the precise locality where four of the
shells from General Gillmore's Swamp
Angel" struck the city of Charleston.
Three of them struck within four blocks
of each other, and the four were within the
space of half mile. One hit the spire of
St. Michacls church, at the corner OF Meet
ing and Broad streets; one burst in the
store and warehouses of John Fraser & Co.,
on East Bay, near the Post Office; another
at the corner of Broad and Church streets,
near the telegraph office and the fourth
struck on the bath house, located on the
Battery or rather the Park Of Charleston, on
Ashley River The utmost CONSERVATION
prevailed in the city. When these terrible
missiles began to arrive the tiremen were
all ready to extinguish any fire that might
be caused by the exploding Shells and the
alarm bells summoned every one to arms,
no one knowing what might be expected
than three or four hundred nun-combatants
in the city, and these have since taken their
departure for Il safer locality, leaving the
city entirely to the care of those who W oulu
rather hight than run away. He says that
the citizens of Charleston have fully deter.
mined to destroy the city rather than sur.
render it. The latter they will not Go, and
have everything ready to apply the torch in
manner to render its destruction complete
when it is found they can 10 longer keep
possession of it.
Beaurcgard's force he estimates at about
nine thousand men before the reinforcement
was sent him from Virginia of the division
of General Jenkins. This may bring it up
to fourteen thousand, which includes tho
garrlsons in all the Notifications around
Charleston, Il force ut Pocotaligo, Adams
Run, and IL point between Charleston and
Branchvillc, on the South Carolina Railroad
These troops are all of the best many of
them are veterans and even the home guards
are rs well drilled rs regulars. Beauregard
will delay our approach Us much as he pos
sibly can, for the reasons above stated he
Will dispute every inch, and strive in every
way to recover the prestige he lost when he
permitted General Gilmore To obtain
toothOd on Morris Island, that must even
tually cost them the loss of their beloved
city, the hotbed of Secession, aud the point
from whence sprang this cruel and unncces-
Sary war. Beauregard lost much of his rep
utaton as a soldier and engineer officer
when he lost Morris Island.
His popularity has fallen oil wonderfully,
especially with the people of Charleston,
who idoIized him before as the man who
compelled sevcnty-tvc men To surrender to
surrender to force of ten thousand, aided
by batteries of the heaviest description, and
gave them possession of their Sumter the
tort that now possesses rs much value to
them rs II work OF defense as any pile of old
bricks. The Carolinians will never forget
or forgive BcauregaId when Moultrie, Sum
ter and the ground upon which Charleston
stood passes from their possession into that
OF the Yankees
SOUTHERN OPINION OF THE FRENCH IN
MEXICO.
Singular as it may appear, the feeling of
the Southern people is decidedly against the
occupation OF Mexico by the French Pub
lie men at public meetings do not hesitate
to dcnounce i'll the strongest terms the pros.
pect OF an empire being established on this
continent They also say that if the United
States would consent to a cessation of hos
tilities the army of the South would COM
bine with that Of the North and drive the
Frcnchmcn into either the Pacific or tho
Atlantic Ocean. They do not desire and
will not submit, to Frtnchmen being upon
American soil or the French Emperor having
anything to say in the affairs of this conti-
nent, and fear that his designs are not upon
Mexico only, but also upon Texas and