Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-08-27
THREE DAYS LATER NEWS.
PROGRESS or THE SIEGE.

whach lime the DolfOarumeut tnOuRn
the naval operations appear to have been seriously inter
ruped by heavy storm No casualties reported
In the naval branch of the service and those reported
occurring the soldiers Morris Island less than
twenty, of whom only three killed. We quote the
paragraphs from Of the New York
| Tribune and of the Herald
THE SECOND DAY QsIH)
This morning at daybreak the bombardment
menced with the cheering results. The effect of
every shot that strikes the wall heightened by those
that have gone before it, and where single she'll made
terday only simple hole, it knocks out wide mass OF
masonry to-day The firing of to-day however, is not gen.
orally accurate that of yesterday by of the
very strong wind Yesterday the air still and the
harbor smooth. Last evening there was slight
shower, and during the night the wind began to blow
freshly from the eastward To-day have furious wind
from the sea- sshiug the bay into deep bows and rock
ing with unusual violence the fleet which lies at anchor of
the island
AT this hour of writing the evening of the lsh) most
furious tornado OF wind rain and sand is raging all along
the coast of South Carolina The Monitors have with
drawn from the fight and the men-owar sought safe
chOrage places. Bat the rHed PARROTS still
booming shot and shell through the driving wind and rain
before against the sides of Sumter Tent sakes
being up poles blown down. and the tents them
selves kept from the hands OF the rebel quarermaster on
James Island only by the strong of the soldiers who
are trying to hold them down. lively little episode thus
far this gaze in the campaign and when it shall have
ceased may wrecked huks of noble menof compel
| us to remember it as melancholy one.
THE ENEMY's ToRPEDoEs
large number of something officers have named
rebe devil fish found floating 10 Lighthouse Inlet
aud the creeks around the islands this vicinity yester
day. which upon examining proved to be internal machines
about four feet long by inch, shaped like fish, and
kept together by pieces of wire about ten feet long The
design of the inventor evidently to have the bows of
es1es get entanged in the river bring the machines
suddenly against tho sides OF the vessels and by the
force of the collision explode and blow the vessels to atoms
This ingenious little plot to destroy the email river aeet
failed utterly. Small boats picking them up by
DOZENS and before night the rivers aud creek will again
be clear of them.
THE THIRD DAY, (l9rH)
The terrible wind storm spoken of in my hastily writ
ten despatch of last evening still continues although at
this hour eyenng OF the 9b) with signs of abatement
This storm has very materially inteered with the accuracy
Of the ing, and caused batteries TO be suspended
The navy has done nothing since the storm commenced.
FORT SUMTER NOT BREACHED
A close examination of the gorge wall OF Sumter has
ed many officers to think that practical breaches have
yet been made although he immense pile of debris ex
huge holes scattered all along between the bason give
almost the appearance of total ruins Thus debris is
formed principally by the sand bags which placed
in front Of the saypor and along the base of the GORE
wall aud extending about onethrd the heghh Of the
wall.
THE APPROACHES TO FORT WAGNER.
The approaches TO Wagner slowly progressing |
The high water last night swept entirely the north
end of the island making the points upon which Forts
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rendering it difficult for engineers to work.
THE FOURTH DAY, (2oTH)
From one end Of our lines to the other our gns are
pouring their fire against the devoted gorge wall But
though the effect Of prCectes is all that could be de-
sired expected, the gorge wall obstnately stands.
Enough Of the masonry yet remains to keep it perssent
upright 1t refuses TO come down, till eaten piece by
piece away That the rebels who constitute it's garrison
mean to maintain their tenure to the last moment is ev
dent from the industrious in which they ping
sand bags into the aperture from their spefu fire against
roncads whenever they approach from the steady
flow Of shot aud shell from Fort johnson and the James
Island batteries from the angry voeys of grape and
lister and spherical which Wagner vomits FORTH and
from the defiant Haunting of the bOod-red battle flag Of
the Confederate States Army from every flagstaff visi.
bic in their lines We have task Of hour before
and the public must not be impatient yet learn OF the
reduction oil Fort Sumter
OUT FOR SENSATION REPORTS.
Undoubtedly advantage will be taken by certain parties
here Of the first opportunity to send North the highly
coored and exaggerated reports Of operations
the beginning of the attack upon Fort Sumter There
not wanting among those who think practicable
breach Effected n its walls and who grunbe because il
not carried by assault They Of the party who
imagine that because the beauty Of Fort Wagner is de-
sroyed the regularity Of s psrspet broken aud its sharp
angles obteraed the work is no longer formidable
obstacle to advance representative of of the
New York papers is Of this party
SUMTER SILL STRONG.
Fort Sumter enjoys much immunity from assault as il
her fair outlines had been disturbed Wagner s to-
pied by the Federal orcesstronger perhaps for it's gar
has been increased and wherever gun has been
disabled another has been mounted To military minds the
idea Of assaultng Fort Sumter after three days bonn
bardment at distance Of thirty Eve hundred TO four thou
sand yards is simply ridiculous The possession Of Wag
and Gregg essential to occupation Of Sumter.
Operations looking to their possession have not been lost
sight Of for moment susp ended We win have them
and Fort Sumter with them, in due time.
why THE IRoN.cLADs KEPT SILENT.
The roa-clads moved up abreast Of Fort Sumter Last
evening, but retired without Griug shot The heavy
swe washed ato thsr port holes they we're
opened and destroyed all accuracy the elevation Of their
guns The furious wind Of the past three days has
italy subsded, though, WRITE the Monitors doing