Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-08-28
FURTHER FROM CHARLESTON.
FROM MORRIS IsLANp.

NEW YoRK, August 25-'rhe stern transports
Cumblia aud America arrived here to- day, with
adNice5 from Morris Island to MD ght of the
2lst.
Tho bomb ,rjmcnt of Fort sumter still con-
tinucd and the South wall had been demolished
almost to its lnse.
p Forts waeAer, Gregg, aud other rebel b.
tcries, replied ut short intervals.
An expedition was fitted out to silence the
James lslo'ld batteries, wi eli had become "a.
uoyiug.
or casualties were smrH. Every confidence
or" success was felt by the officers rld troops,
REPORTS FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
FoRrGEss MoNnoE, Aug 2i.-The steamer
City of Ricl'mond, Captain Kelly, frrived ut
llpmpton Roads here to-day at noon.
Captain Kelly reports having left olr Charles,
ton on SAtr"lay lr t at 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
The rebel flag on FoIt Srntcr was shot away
on Thursday, and again on Friday, and no reply
was made to or bonibard nent, WI 'ch was con-
silntly kept up.
The whole Of nc Southwest side of SUmter
was demo shed, nd presented no Lag but a
heap Of ic'ls.
No glns were being fred fom the fort.
At o'clock Friday mornius, breaches
were obsel 'ed in Srmter by mears OF q Spyglass
by the ships OIL Charleston brr. The siege was
then progressing on or part.
For the last seven days or" casualties had
averaged o. y about four per day.
LATER REBEL DISPATCHES.
FoRrREss MONROE, August 95.-The nag-of-
hace steamer New York arrived here this morn
ing.
The Richmond S,atiae of the 2ith contains
the following despatch
CHARLESTON, August 92.-Thc fire Of the enc
mys land batteries have been kept up On Fort
Sumter, and more guRs disabled. There was
only one casualty.
There was also II hea, fire on Battery Wagner
from the fleet aud lunl also on Battery Gregg
The casualties at Wagner are one olcer mud
four privates.
General ulimore's demand for the surrender
Of Fort Sumter and Morris Island, with the threa
to shell Charleston in four hours from the de-
livery of the paper at Wagner, was sgned ant
returned at O'Clock this morning.
Beauregard, in his reply, charges inhumanitJ
upon tho Fuderals aud violation of the laws d
war, mud allirms that if the offence be repeatei
he will employ stringent measures of retaliation
Up TO this lime the threat to shell the city ha.
not been executed.
CuAnLssToN, August 23.-On Saturday 81!
hundrtl aud four shots were fired at Fort Sum
ter, of which four hundred aud nineteen strucl
inside and outside. The eust wall is much scale,
and battered in, and the parapet undermined.
inc hOrlnWest Whll arches 100 nhNc ialleh IN
The guns were dismounted and one privat
killed.
On Sunday the land batteries opened from
south aud north, and tho monitors from east an
west, coming close up. The fire was YER
damaging.
The east wall was cracked and wrecked, an
the shot swept through the fort
A shell burst, woupding Lieut.. Baypltou seri
ously, Col. Rhett Capt. Fleming, Lieut.. Scan
Ian, und Fckling
THE fort is nOiD a ruin
Col. Rhett is ordered with his brave garrison
to hold his outpost, even as forlOrn hopt
until relieved or taken.
On Saturday, at Fort Wagner, a eutenan
i and fonr men of the sege train were wounded
4 Ou Sunday, the brave Col ciailard lost hi
life. 1t is said to day there arc lwenty-thre
vessels inside, including the Ironsides and mon
4 tors. &c, and thirteen outside the bar.
. Gen. Gilmore sent communication at | | o
{ clock tomorrow he would open fire OH Charle
9 ton. In the meantime the non- combatanis CT
o go out of the city.
a THE REPORT OF SURRENDER.
A dispatch has been received in this city III