, 1863-12-05
PUGET SOUND HERALD
LATEST EASTERN NEWS.

INNS correspondence from Charleston harbor,
dated Move nber 1lth, says: The Monitors
Wontauk and PaSsdie have returned from Port
ROYAL, fully repaired. The bombardnent Of
Sumter goes on without unusual incident.
The rebel fire is not serious. The Monitor
Patapsco recently threw FIVE shells into Bat
iery Bee, compelling the rebels to desert their
guns. Gen. Gilmore threw three ordinary
Sbells into the center Of Charleston 10 try the
range Of his guns This correspondent pre-
Sumes that Charleston will not be shelled till
the Monitors arc in position in Rebellion Roads,
twest Of Sumter1 when its surrender can be
demanded according to all the forms and usages
Of war. '''''' '',.r
The rebels have two thousand negroes work.
Ing on the batteries on Sullivan and James
Islands Many Of these works will be entirely
useless when the great trial comes The cor.
respondent concludes that the prospect Of sue.
eessful results was never more promising than
how. He ihdistiictly refers to experiments re-.
Gently made touching the removal Of rebel OBJ.
Btructions as success. These are no longer
10 be feared. He states bis firm conviction that
We will have Charleston or its ruins between
now and Christmas.
New York, Nov. IA correspondent OF
the P iladelphia Inquirer, writing under date
Of yesterday, says: Information Just received
here from the South indicates that q large
body Of North Carolina and Georgia Unionists,
who bad habitations only in the mountains Of
Western North Carolina, have made their es.
cape with their arms and much valuable infor.
nation into East Tennessee, where they will
swell the ranks Of Gen. Burnside's army.
They come 70 US as original Union men, and
will fght with our volunteers to tho end.
These men formed themselves into an army
numbering about 5000, poorly armed and
equipped but with real courage and patriotism
they have dared to give battle to. the rebel reg.
ulars At place called Warm Springs, north Of
Nashville, Buncombe county, North Carolina,
were making their way toward Knoxville,
when they were attacked on the Goth Of DC.
tober BY q party Of the Twenty fiith North
Carolina regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel
Brison, who w-s badly whipped and forced to
beat hasty retreat 70 Ashyille. The rebels
lost six killed and thirty wounded. After the
fight the Unionists advanced and took Ashville
after ieint and came near taking Gen. Vance
-s0n Of the Governor-and his staff prisoners.
AAer this the patriotic band fell back to the
mountains. A letter from Gov. Vance, dated
Madison county, North Carolina, Nov. Sd, says: /:
The enemy has withdrawn fiom Washington,
c.r,ed al scveIai nrom;nen. ,, c;,;zsns, ""N '"s'
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berI The. ernedtion. .Iandsd. sse.iv on' ,hs
TeSA khore az M Rio (lesndn, isfler I,s;ns
one Or lao vessels ! Al lboat's crew @ of seven seven
soldiers were drowned while d;sembarkinr
Thsfebsls. evacuated Fort Brown, setting fire
to the works there. ;Brownsville was also set
On dfe by a few rebel cavalry, but the Union.
ists turned out and exlngulshed Il; where
upon TIE erebei cavalry, joined BY the secession.
istsin ne town. attacked them, and terrible
stree. nsht was going on while the house: were
burning around them. The Fourteenth Maine
nssne Sas r. Immea'ase,y cruerea @ march on
ssss 49,. ..s na'ns .ss,nene va tne nrst
- y. ~ s.o' y ~ .SwA ses.mens wa
s.H. .A.s ...ss .he.u, anu .nels Icg'mentai
nAss VIZ ~ n''s.su a''n ose s'.nu'sAheous'y.
New.fotki Nov. u ~ letter from of Bra.
shear City, lhs dated November 9th, gives
iarlher particulars Sf the movements connected
with Banks. expedition. "A successful recon.
ncissAnee o. the whole Texan coast had been
MADE by the gnnboat Tennessee and also of
tne NO uranoef Mlth-its pass ana oars-most
valuable ir formation as to the depth Of water