Daily national Republican., 1863-09-10
rHtGooD NEWS! CONFIRMED:
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CAPTURE OF WAGNER Ake CNEcG.
me "oia Rias - rlosts IN Triumph.
THERETREAT OrlTME REBELS.
SURRENDER OF SUMTER DEMANDED.
Rebel Loss on Morris Island.
Disaster to a Rebel Vessel,


IN POSSESSION or ffis UNION foRcEs.
foKrREss MoSRoE, Sept. 9.-The Richmond
papers OF the Sth Inst. have reached here with
most Important intelligence rom Charleston
The Richmond Enquirer Of the 9Th has the
following,
cnARLEsroS, Sept. morris Island was
evacuated YESTERDAY ancthoop. The enemy
Fort Wagner and II being impossible 10 hold
II, General Beauregard ordered its evacuation,
which took place at noon.
The enemy nor hold Cu"o"iay'' Ioi,i, in .t,al
yier Of The eity.
Heavy firing is now going on between the
monitors and our batteries on Sullivan's Island
and Fort Moultric.
FURTHER PARTeuLAks-giB BEL Loss-TnEIR
.. RnrtrAr-CArTuRE OF PRISONERS.
The Richmond Wing of tho sth has tho fol.
lowing particulars;
CHARLESTON, scpt. 7.-The bombardment
was kept up without intermisslon all day yes
terday and far into tho night. About $50 of
our men were killed and wounded In Batteries
Wagner and Gregg. Tho attempt to assault
Battery Gregg was rcpulsed before the enemy
had completed their landing, and great havoc
Is supposed to havo been made In the cncmy's
boat by our grape and canister.
AZ dark, the enemy having advanced their
sappers up to the very mouth OF Wagner, and
1t being impossible to hold the island longer,
Gen. Bcaurcgard ordered the evacuation be
tween 8 O'Clock y. m. and u. m. with success.
We spiked the guns of Wagner and Gregg, and
one barge, contalnining twelve men, was cap
tured,
The enemy NOW holds Cummings Point, in
full vlow of the city.
All Is quiet this morning.
DAHLGREN DEMANDS THE srRRESDER OF sum
TEn--RErLf OF BEAUREGAKD.
CHARLrsroS, September Z, Noon.-A dis
patch from MAJOR Stephen Elliott, commanding
at Fort Sumter, announces that fag of truce
demanding the Immediate surrender of that
fort has Just been received from Admiral Dahl
grcn by Lieut.. Brown, Of the steamer Palmetto
State.
Zen. Boauregard telegraphcd to Major Elliot,
To reply to Admiral Daalgren,
THAT he can have Fort Sumter when he
takes 1t and holds II, and that, iu the meantime,
his demands arc puerle aud unbeconing."
the MONITORS ATTACK suMTER-MoULrRIE
lN0A0Rb.
CHARLESTON, Sept. Z, sp. m.-At Q o'clock
L. N. the lronsides and moiitors approached
Fort Sumter closer than usual, and opened a
hot fire against It. Our batteries on Sullivan.
1.llnd, Including Fort Moultrlc, replied heayi.
ly. The fire Is still going on.
oilLMrRE's APPROACH TO WAGNER.
Richmond Wig Of the 7th instant:
CHARLESTON, Sept. 3.-All is perfectly quiet
to-day. No tring whatever. but the enemy is
reported closer to Wagner. Last night was
the quletest known here for three weeks past.
Scarcely a gun was fired except a few shots
from Battery Wagner. The enemy is report.d
at the monitors, as n repairing dam
,gcs sustained on Tuesday night.
SAD NIsHAp.
CHARLEsros, Sept. 3.-About two o'clock on
Monday morning, as the steamer sumner was
part Of the 23d Georgia, 6lst North
'arolina and 26th South Carolina regiments
from one position In this harbor to another,
she was fired at by one Of the batteries on Sui.
livan's Island, owing to u Misrepresentation of
her character, and several soldiers were imme-
diately killed. Others took TO the water, and
1t Is feared that some Of them were drowned.
The greater body OF them were, however, got
into position Of safety.
OPERATIONS OF THE UNION TURCE,-ApyICEs
TO SUNDAY.
The following, II will Le seen, is not 80 late
as tue above, the City of Bath having left
Charleston Bar. on Sunday, before the surren.
der Of Morris Island, while the accounts from
the Richmond papers are up to = O'Clock on
Monday night.
BoMBARDMEsT OF THE REBEL FORTS.
NEW York, sept. 9.-The transport steamer
City of Bath, from Charleston Bar on the 9th,
has arrived. She reports that the siege of Forts
Wagner aud Sumter was still going on. The
latter had not yet surrendered. The iron-clads
and land batteries were bombardiDg Wagner,
which had not replied for two days. The casu.
alties among our forces were very faw.
The news ftoni Morris Island by this steamer
is said to be contraband-its nature Is not
known.