Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-08-14
FROM CHARLESTON.

BALTIMORE, August 7.-Advices from Nor.
ris' Island say that all there are confident Of
success. The grand ball will be opened in
the course of week. One Of the most ft,,
rious fights of the war is anticipated. Five
hundred rebel prisoners were taken on an
island near Folly Island, on the I'd. Rein.
forcements have arrived, giving the troops
new spirits.
BosroN, August THE correspondent oil
the Boston Herald, in a letter dated of
Charleston, August I'd, says the new battery
erected by Gen. Gilmore on Morris Island
is mounted by the largest guns ever cast d
the North. When these batteries are opened
against Sumter there will be dreadful scat
tering of bricks, legs, arms, and bodies
One hour and half is allowed for the BON
bardment of that fort before it will be com.
PEELED to surrender.
PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK FORT SUMTER.
An artillery officer writes to the Boston
7raceler, under date Of Morris Island, July
29th.
"Our force is working day and night erect
ing new batteries and mounting 10 inch NOR.
tars and heavy guns. We have five 100.
pound and three 200-pound PARROTS to
mount; one 200 pound is already mounted
and yesterday three shots were fired at Fort
Sumter, just to get the range. One shot hi
the corner of the parapet and made the
bricks fly. Our pickets are within 400 yards
of Fort Wagner, but they have to look on,
for the rebel sharpshooters. The water or
the island is so bad that whisky is served ou
to the troops three times day."
Mr.. Fulton, Of the Baltimore american
writes to that paper from Port Royal July 80
In conversation with some officers from
the Wabash, finda very general confidence
prevailing, that within the next ten days,ths
fall Of Sumter would be ccnsummated, and
that Charleston must soon after succumb.-
They report everything as progressing salts
factorily, and the fall Of Fort Wagner as one
of tho events Of the next few days. The
constant bombardment now progressing, is
l learn, mainly to conceal the erecting, by
Gen. Gilmore, of masked battery within
five hundred yards of Fort Wagner. and al
so to protect his troops in the operation
This new battery was expected to be ready
to open on the enemy to morrow, and its ad
vent will be grand fusilade from the Mon
itors and the lronsides. 1t will be a sight
worth seeing, and as have Just arranged t.
return direct to the bar, hope to obtain a
good view Of the event, and to be able to re.
cord to you its entire success. Fort Wayne,
is already sightless mass of sand, and with
the boring shell Of Gen. Gilmore, strong eff
forts will be made to penetrate it's magazine
and put summary end to the vile concern
However, even if this attempt should fail
there is "no such word as fail' in the vo.
cabulary of Admiral .Dahlgren and Genera
! Gilmore.
1t is the general impression on all hands
here that the rebels have evacuated all thu
classmates of Sumter, and intend to rely or
her parapet guns entirely in the approaching
assault. 1t is even said that her entire case
mates are filled with sand.bags, and that al
her best guns have been crowded to the par
apets. II this is so, it indicates that ever
the unsuccessful assault of April last mus
have been so terrible that there is an unwil
lingness to risk the fate of the fort to an
other square assault from the Monitors.