, 1863-08-14
FROM ChARL LES10M.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Ttibnue.1

Especial Dispatch to the Chicago TribEue.1
PE1ADK1PH1A, Aug. Is, 1868.
Arrivals at Fortress Monroe bring lntelli-
gence that terrific bombardment was going
On during the night when the vessel passed
Charleston. The rebel shells coursed their
Way through the Dir in every direction, and
many Of them did no damage whatever.
A special dispatch this nfternoon
represents that fire gunboats had engaged the
battery on Cummings Point, and had almost
si1enced its guns. It was thought that when
the full attack was raada that Sumter, Wagner,
and the other important batteries would fall
inside Of Elk hours.
The colored regiment, the Sd Pennsylvania,
for Morris 1a1and. A more joyous regiment
never left this city. Not man among tho
thousand was in the least intoxicated. They
started of cheering for Uncle Sam, the band
plnying the "Star Spangled :Baaner.n The
-un between Philadelphia and Morris Island
Is f1fty>fourhou7s.
NEW YORK., Aug. t3.-The steamer Arago,
from Port Royal, Vfa Charleston, on Monday,
has arrived. She brings the 176th Penn. 1cgi-
ment, whose term has expired:
inst, says: 1.-THE rebels have bnilt numer-
Gus additional batteries on James Island. We
have to encounter hundred more guns than
Dupont did. The rebels are also building in
terlor lines Of defense neor the city.
Nd1f Ap1qs 1.,.a seven & thousand troops from the
the past week.
A letter dated the 10th says:
Gen. Gilmore has notified Admiral Dahl
gren that he will DO ready to commence the
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fighting will commence that day Tho great.
est confidence is felt In the fall Of Forts Sum
ter, Wsgner and Cummings Point, in from
Two to SIX hours.
a deserter from Fort Wagner says two
thirds Of the guns have been removed from
Fort Sumter aaa mounted on James Island-
that the fa1l Of Sumter is regarded by the reb-
els rs certainty, the damage done in April,
by the monitors rendering it hopeless to hold
It. This descrtcr also says that Sumter was
on the point Of suzrendc1fng when the monl-
tors wlthdyew.
We are ehelllpg night and day. Fort John
son Keeps up a brisk fire, and our wooden
rebels.
On Sunday next We will certainly hold
Sumter, and within q few days succeeding,
Charleston and It's ruins 1sin be in our pos
session.
Gunboats and mortar-boats are stripping
the Irons1des and three gunboats weze she'll
Ing Cummings Point.
Tho weather is delightful.
The AragO reports our losses On Morrls
Island as trifling-not exceeding three Or four
per day.
Among the passengers In the Arago are
Mrs. Gen. Lander, Col. Westcott, Lieut.. Col
Levy, Lieut.. Col. suegel, and Fleet Surgeon
Chimes.
4 la1ge squad Of conscripts left Phlladel-
phia to-day for Fortress Monroe.
a letter to the Ns.c South, Port Royal, dated
Morris Island, August 4th, Gays:
Our lines hive been steadily adyanced under
q hot fire from the enemy with scarcely cas-
uulty, Not one has been reported to-day.
Our advance Is now about 600 yards from
Fort Wagner. Our batteries and the fleet
allow the enemy but very little rest.
Occasionally there has been very sharp and
continuous firing, and on one or two occas-
ions the Wagnerites have responded vigor-
onsly for few moments as if enragged at the
effect Of cur shells, but the principal shelliag
Is from Fort Sumter, Fort johnson and Its
outWorks, and Battery Gregg.