The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-04-24

harbor OF Charleston added terror to this
overwhelming fear. The Govercment
furnished them with indit-rubber RATS,
cork jackets, and everything else that
could be eontriyed 20 ease their minds,
but the torpedo phantom has proved too
powerful to be overcome, aud Tomorrow
tho whole feet will retire TO summer
quarters, in Port Royal horbor.
now NOT TO DO IT.
have spent neorly two months in this
vicinity, waltz Gle slow and tedious
movmeuts preparatory 10 the attack on
Charleston, and, though have hoped Tor
success, bav5 been convinced from the
beginning that this great work has been
intrusted to incompetent hands. Every
thing has convinced nc that II Charleston
should be ;nko II Vt would be more through
"mun strength and awkwardrcss" than
from any capacity 10 accomplish the
work.
The Secretary of the Navy sent down
here appliance to be used In removing
The distractions IN the bnrbor. These
rats aud turpcdocs huvo boon nearly two
months, and the attempt 10 tak0 Charles
ton hus been ubauuoned without their
usclullnrss being considered for n mo.
Imcnt. Que Of the rats was taken N by
the Weehawkcn, with grapncls attached
TO il to catch torpcdocs, but they refused
tn have the torpedoes connected with il.
They were afraid the tUrpcdOcs might
. kick backward, although they had been
lcxpcrimrntcd with, and even the raft had
not been injured.
ono Of these torprdoes, contoing scv.
On hundred pounds of powder, would have
swept away the distractions in the hur-
bur, aud enabled the fleet, yesterday ai-
rnoon, to 90 up and hombOrd the city.
/. They were, however, not used TO them
and this grtnt national retribution IL
abandoned.
Yours, &c, c. f.
TWO DAYS AFTER THE FIGHT.
STEAMSHIP ERicssoS, Orr CHARLESTON
April o, 1863.
! closed my last letter yesterday, i'm
meuiutcly after hearing of the detcrminp
ton Of Admiral Dupont To disappoint the
nation by retiring from before Charleston
ncknow lodging his inability to perform
llii hhlN NANRuN VI W HllIs ~ u lhAAl
hour ~ the evening, ! visited the iron
clads On the st,0m-tug Dnndrion, uGd d
moro brokcn-hcOrtcd set OF men | never
had the misfortune to encounter Each
man appeared to regard himself Ms per
sonaly dRgruccd by the act OF his supc-
rios, aud aboard the lronsides the state
ol feeling among the younger officers aud
crew was that ul supreme disgust
| visited several OF the monitors du-
ring the morning, whCn oil expected Ia
renew the conflict ut one o'clock, and
all were in high CLEO at the prospect, and
aud full OF confidence that the cracked
walls OF Sumter must yield under Il rcpc-
ttlon OF the pounding ii received On
Tuesday, Confidence was everywhere
'lot. The gallant Fairfax, OF the Nam
lurkcr, asserted that he had put twenty .
seven of his immense prUjrctlCs against
and through the walls OF Sumter, and
was confident that il all would do us we'll
in the at tack they were then momentum
| Iy Expecting & commence, Sumter must
yield, or b,c,mC pile Of rubbish.
From the d ck OF tho We haw ken the
nouh-cust wall of the tort was very dis
tinctly visible with gluss, the distance
being fraction less than two miles. |
Examined IL vcry closely aud the holes in
| il could not have been less than from two
to three feet deep. At one point three IT
the onhru2urcs on this front appeared as
! il knocked into one. This, 1t should be
remembered, is not on the front OF the
fort where the combine d attack was made,
but ON that side where our vessels merely
fired as passing compliment to the en-
cmy, in going in aud out from their po-
sltion'. Captain Rodgers remarked, ON
hearing expressions oi surprise at the
amount of onmngc yisuOlc, that tho dam
age on this front was triiliug, compared
with the holes bored into the north wcst
front of the t,rt