The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1863-08-19
WAR NEWS FROM CHARLESTON.
Ths Grand lItask FIzsd for the Islh Last


The Grand Attack Fixed for the 18th Inst.
CHARLESTON BAR, Aug. 10 IS O'Clock P.
NJ General Gilmore has notified Admiral
Dahlgren that he will be in readiness to
open The grand assault on Thursday, the
18Th instant.
! The Navy is already, waiting for the ar
N.Y. so :hat the fight, it is believed, will
commence on that day.
The greatest confidence is felt as to the
result.
The fall of Forts Sumter, Wagner and
Cummings Point is regarded as certain TO
take place in from two to six hours afte
the ball opens.
deserter from Fort Wagner saws that
two-thirds OF the guns have been removed
from Fort Sumter, and mounted on James
lsland and that the fall OF Sumter is regard
ed by the rebels as certainty, the damage
done by the Monitors in April last render.
ing the possibility of the rebels holding It
not TO be thought of
The deserer says that Sumter was on the
point OF surrendering at that lime, when.
fortunately for the rebels, the Monitors
withdrew
We have shelling night and day. Fort
johnson keeps up brisk fire, and our
wooden gunboats go in every day and
amuse themselves BY sheling them.
AT night the rebels shell our land batter
les and we shell them in return.
On Sunday next we will certainly hold
Sumter, and within few days after Charles
ton or lis ruins will be in our possession.
Two more mortar schooners, making
i've in all, and the wooden gunboals are
stripping for the fight.
The weather continues delightful. though
there is great suffering for ice, lemons and
sugar Cannot Boston or New York send
some cargoes here for the use OF the gall
liant sailors and soldiers!
As the Arago leaves, the Ottawa, Marble
head, Seneca and lronsides are engaged
shelling the Cummings Point Battery.
Z he Big Gun at CharIeston.
The preaching power OF the 10 inch 800
FOUNDER, Parrot rifle gun, now about to be
used against the brick walls OF Fort Sum
Ter will be best understood by comparing il
with the ordinary 2i FOUNDER siege gun
which was The largest gun employed ior
preaching Notifications during the Italian
war
A % FOUNDER round shot, which starts
with velocity of /, 625 Feet per second,
and strikes an object at The distance OF 3. 500
yards with velocity of about 300 lest Der
second.
The 10 inch rife three hundred pound
shot has an initial velocity OF 700 leel per
second, at distance of 8, 500 yards.
From well known mechanical laws the
resistance which these projec;iles are capa-
bic OF overcoming is equal TO 50, 75O pounds
and l,6l4. $50 pounds, raised fone foo, in
second respectively Making allowance
Tor the difference OF The dlaneters OF these
projeeiiIes, it viii be found that their pene-
trating power will be as TO 1876
The penetration OF the "a ponnder shot
at 3, 500 yards, ia brick work, is ~ inches
The penetration of the 10 inch proiectie
VIII therefore between six and seven feet
into the same material
To use more familiar ilustraion-the
power OF The 10 inch rife shot al the dis
lance OF 3, 500 yards. may be said TO be
equal TO that OF the united blows of eco
sledge hammers, weighing 100 pounds
each, falling from height of len feet and
acting upon drill Ten inches in diameter.
The Big Gun Lost Overheard.
NEw YoRx, Aug 17.-ll is reported ty
passengers by the Argo, that the 800 ponn-
der Parrot rihed gun, recently cent TO
Charleston 10 be used against Fort Sumter,
was lost overheard while being landed on
Morris Island, and all efforts 10 raise it had
proved unsuccessful