Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-08-14

Hrheini 0hmore's 0Atteries begin to loon up
| in grand array, directly In ffont OF Wagner
and within nineteen hundred yards Of the walls
Of Sumter. During every night two or three
evidently preparing to tumhleit down at the
rate OF ten cart.loads per minute, and deter
mined to take It brick by brick, If necessary.
$, nOrss WIN ~, s nss rss Adm.si Dahl!
solid shot at atiil shorter range, going vitnin
nye hundred yards. II necessary.
You may, therefore, regard as q certainty
that within week after you receive this the
"Old Flag" will be floating over Sumter or \
pile OF bricks where it tonce stood. No one here
Gilmore is now 80 firmly fixed ON Morris Is-
land, with the support Of the fleet, that an tns
armies Of the Rebel Government could not dis
enthusiasm not evinced by any army in the
field.
The glory Of humbling Charleston is regard
| ed by the navy aud army as the greatest glory
There has heen considerable cannonad,us
Gay ana night during the week, but our works
On ssCrs have 80 rapidly progressed .aA. he
fcrts to retard operations. The men are now
provided with bomb proofs, and the Rebels find
they are only wasting Ammunition 10 throw it
at them.
They amuse themselves by throwing occa-
sional shells at our camps, but they generally
fall short, doing no damage. Sumter has been
Admiral Dahlgren has laid nooring buoys
for each ron.clad near Sumter, and pickets
them at night by numerous howitzer boats and
two Monitors, by which the rebels are pre-
vented from communicating by their boats
with CumminEs' Point. Their boats are driven
back every night
One OF our picket boats from the wabash.
under Acting Master Hainee, attempted TO cap
ture the rebt steamer Alice under the walls Of
Sumter on Wednesday night, bat failed, and
Hainee was captured with twelve Of his men.
Eight OF the crew jumped from the boat and
were picked up and brought out BY Ensign
Porter. Of the Canandaigua
The fall OF Forts Sumter and Wagner 10 re-.
garded as certain In from two TO six hours.
There are but few interchanges OF shot as tho
present time, and they are mostly NJ night
CUP.
Correspondence N. Y. Tribune1
MORRIS IsLAND, s. c., Aug But little has
aiken place OF special interest ON this island
since the sailing Of the last stes mer.
Gen. Gilmore's position il now fmpresnable,
and should the whole male population OF
South Carolina resolve itself into an army, il
could not drive him from It. When he win
again assume the offensive 1t would not b
proper for me to state, but the moment he ID
prepared to strike the final blow have not
the least doubt Of his success He has now
everything he could ask in men. His ltstle
army has suddenly Increased TO quite for
the troops OF the old Tenth Army Corps VINO
trenches, will have an opportunity 70 rest.
Fresh men have taken hold Of the spade ana
Ak, and with firm will and nerve have zone To
work, althC ugh the enemy's shells BY day ana
night burst around them. The LIST North OaYo-
lima (negro) regiment, Col. Beecher, are in the
trenches, and are fast gaining the good will Of
soldiers In one particular have the advantage
OF white ones. They can work all night and
tnen lle upon their backs in the sand and sleep
soundly during the hot midday. But whiee
soldiers, unacclimated. can sleep but little du-
ring the day. They will work all night for six
and at the close OF the week be fit for ne hos
pital
II Gen. Gilmore could have had $1,000 ne
groes six weeks ago, he could have day been
in Charleston. u
During the past week Fort Wagner has been
in state OF siege. Several efforts have bsen
made during the night to re-enforce ft with
troops and supply it with provisions, but ALI
attempts thus far have failed. Our heavy guns
reach the boats by night and by dRy, and in
every instance they have been driven back. Tho
only communication with Charleston il by
small boats via Sullvan's Island, and but two
are known to have reached the fort from nat
by continued cannonadiLg, Sumter must fall,
and after Sumter, Charleston. N. PAI6B.
MATTERS AT NORRIS ISLAND.
From The New South, August 81
We have nothing new Of importance from
Morris Island later than ID contained In onr
correspondence in another part Of the paper.s
The rebels continue shelling rs, with little in
terruption, but doing MS scarcely any damage.
Everything has q favorable look, aad our
the rebels as so afraid Of Gen. Gilmore as they
confess themselves to be, it Is not surprising
that our troops have the greatest faith in his
plans. .'--a @fS