The New York herald., 1863-04-14

ever taken place between vessels and land fornca
In this that the guns OF the forts out
numbered by ten 70 those Of the vessels And Jet,
after ALL 10 what failure 70 DO attributsdf To the
impregnabity Of the land batteries the weight and
number Of their gunsr Only TO slight degree. The
real Instruments Of defeat the apparently inse
nincant and contemplate barricades Of ropswork
and netting suspended across the channel, and
which kept our vessels at q point on which
the rebel guns bad previously been concentrated.
Forts might have been passed ard batteries ssnesd but
th se tw nng enemies, which, like the serpcns Of lao
coon coied themselves around the motive machinery of
our vessels and prevented the play Of their iron arms
were not be got rid of by force. In their grasp
vessels were innocuous. And therefore tho unavorabs
result OF the enterprise be accepted any test
Of the relative powers Of ronelads and land batteries
without those obstructions all the forts that defended
Charleston, from Lighthouse Point 10 Castle Pincknsy
would have been insufficient 70 stop Monitors from
anohoriDg on the Battery at Charleston.
II has been calculated that 800 rounds we're
fred by Ne rebels. In one minute there one
hundred and sixty counted On side there but
one hundred and ty shots fred In ALL that the rebss
nred over twenty shots 20 The Ironsides fred
but one broadside and that at Fort Moutrie That
was her only offensive operation throughout the day
The Keokuk only fred three shots before she received
her death wound.
The result Of the days operations may be summed W
thus,The injury 70 the rebel fortincaons not such
will work any great loss 70 them cannot renew the
attack .distely On our side lose the Keokuk,
which sunk this morning, and which s 10 be blown up
70 day 10 prevent her failing the hands Of the rebels
she struck by ninety shots. OF these nineteen
90 tho line, hccn tho after turret, twelve IN
tb. forward turret and twenty Eve On the sides.
The Paseaic Ia disabled by having her ,urre, injured
that cannot revoIve and she has 70 be sent 70 Port
Royal FOR repairs sbs struck atty eight times The
Patspsoo injured by having her two hundred pound
Parrot gun disabled she struck from forty 70 any
tlmes The NahAnt struck eighty times and bad hsr
pbibouss completely shattered. Tns ironsi1es vAs hit
from srsy 70 seventy times receiving no material IA.
mage beyond the knocking on q her port shutters
thus erposins her gundeck Ths weehAwxen wss stack
any times and had her tunnel de~py irdeuted %
that she worked with difeuty. The hootack vas ht
twenty times. The Nsrtusket and oaukn Sere each b.,
aou, nty times. Ia, ing their decks considerably
ottsnOx % sssEvfSo ras rom.
Iie captains of the lror-clais met IN the evtnng
board The flagship ana undcutAnd iba. there Ia,
one o2nrn among thcn " question q sbananlns
or renew &C the conflict and dat aga MT fencvns
Il At rsssr,. Bess,s ,he irsrsdmsnts which had "a
coleu5ed with yesterday similar obstructons could bs
see gb-r up t's artor Ths space between Fort NJ
ley and -ort j. barred With q triple row n
piles Va mcse between Fort Sumter and cumna a 60
poin, oniy m the tbers observed opening
Al vbich nh sad tn~rs . torpeio set osied with ,h.
snorucr charge n ave tbcrsasd pogads of ubyowder
a ys. iss oap,8r. a Chafs.ton Ia ~ mears Aban
Nv "a must ~ more poversi mean ss.d
a.sA rrai beatd ne oplrbos q bic ynhss oaosrs
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