Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-26
Erom ChnrIeston.


Our news from Charleston this morning
is of a Eighty cheering character. The
Richmond Sentinel, received at Fortress
Monroe, contains rebel dispatches which
virtually leave Sumter in our possession,
while a Philadelphia dispatch announces
that it has surrendered. We take Phila-
deIpha dispatches with allowance always
these days, but in this case the Richmond
paper so strongly corroberates the used up
condition of Sumter that we can scarcely
doubt its fall.
We have it stated, also through rebel
sources, that correspondence has ensued
between Gilmore and Beauregard in refer
ence to the Smelling of Charleston. Gilmore
proposes to set his long guns at work on
the pestiferious city, while Beauregard
goes into one of his customary explosions
of bombast and accuses Gilmore of vio-
lation of the usages of war, threatening to
retaliate on him in the most stringent man
ner. We presume that Gen. Gilmore will
pay but little heed to what the baftiled and
ceaten rebels may say or threaten. He has
shown himself to be u man, of business,
and no doubt in his own good time will
s"move upon the works" of the enemy.
The advantage so far won, secures the
fall of Charleston beyond doubt, we
think. Those terrible guns that did the
work on Sumter over the head of Fort
Wagner, at distance of three thousand
yards, will do more execution of the same
kind, when pointed on Charleston from an
advanced position. The fighting adver-
tised to take place by the rebels "from
street to street and house to house," will
probably be found supererogatOry in its
character owing to the length of our range
and the destruction of our shots. Very
short work will. in that event, be made of
both streets and houses, including all the
"last ditch" men who may linger in either
The approaching doom of Charleston
must give the liveliest satisfaction to the
loyal heart of the country. Many persons,
in an excess of patriotic zeal, will wish that
the rebels may make such q stand as will
invite the destruction of the city. For our
part we prefer to see the fate of New Or
leans overtake it. The place can be made
of service as base of operations against
Savannah and the heart of the Cotton re-
giOn. The most appropriate and effective
humiliation to put upon it will be to gar
rison it strongly with negro troops and
place some inveterate Yankee in command.
In the meantime, we expect to hear very
soon of the precipitate retreat of the re-
doubtable Beauregard from the place.
Lateral this writing midnight-we
have private dispatch from New York
which, as We suspected, discrodits the
Philadelphia news alluded to above. The
dispatch says:
"There is authority for stating that the
War Department at Washington mas been
in receipt of no announcement of the fate
of Sumter, aud is in possession of no in-
formation other than that copied from the
Richmond papers received to-day at For
tress Monroe
1t is evident, however, from the decline
of gold in New York yesterday that it is
believed there that Sumter has fallen, even
though no news to that effect has been
received. Indeed, the rebel dispatches
leave little room to doubt it.