Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-08-04
INTERESTING FROM CHARLESTON.
Sumter Destined to Fall Within Ten
Days-A Masked Bnttery Ready TO Fire
into the Magazine at Fort Wasner-
Good News Expected Soon. .sl@ =

Sumter Destined to Fall Within Ten
Days-A Masked Bnttery Ready to Fire
into the Magazine at Fort Wasner-
Good News Expected Soon. s.l@
Mr.. Fulton, of ~the Baltimore american,
writes to that paper from Port Royal, July So
"In con yersation with some officers from the
Wabash, find very general confidence pre-
yailing that within the next ten days the fall
Of Sumter would be coDsummated, ana that
Charleston must soon after snccumb They
report every thing as progressing salts factorily
and the fall of Fort Wagner as one OF the events
of the next few days. The constant lombard
ment now progressing is, learn, mainly to
conceal the erection, by General Gilmorr, of a
masked battery within five hundred yards of
Fort Wagner. and also to protect his troops in
the operation. This new battery was expected
! TO Re ready to open on the enemy tomorrow,
and It's advent will be grand fusiiade from
the Monitors and the Ironsides. 1t will be
sight worth seeing, and as have just arranged
20 return direct to the bar, / hope to obtain a
good view of the event, and to be able to record
10 You its entire success. Fort Wagner is al
ready a siehtless mass of sand, and with the
boring shell OF General Gilmore q strong effort
will be made to penetrate its magazine and put
summary end TO the vile concern. However,
even if this attempt should faii, there is mo
such word as TALL in the vocabulary OF Admi-
raj DablgrPn and General Gilmore.
It is the general impression on all hands here
that the Rebels have evacuated all the case
mates OF Sumter, and intend to depend on her
parapet guns entirely in the approaching as.
sault. 1t is even said that her entire case
mates are filled with sand-bags, and that all
ner best guns have been crowded to the para
pets. If this is so it indicates that even the I'm
successful assault of April last must have baen
so terrible that there's an un Willingness to risk
the fate OF the fort to another square assault
from the Monitors.
A correspondent of the PHILADELPHIA Inouirec
writes same date:
l wish that might take aside each reader of
the Inquirer and whisper contidentialIy in his
ear pYtdt kaor and 1phaf hare seen: / think
said reader would "immediotely act as if he he
heard some good news.
For the last three days and nights the Rebels
have fired upon us continually from Sumter,
Gregg. Wagner and Fort jackson. On this
latter fort they have mounted some long range
guns, which they fire with great accura y.
Their plan of action last Sunday and Monday
was to fire thirteen shots every twenty menutes,
and our boys, laying to heart this rule, jumped
under cover with great regularity. The num-
Der OF men wounded by this enflladlng fire
from johnson has only averaged four a day,
and hope BEAUREGARD will continue to
waste his ammnnitGn thus. The Rebels are
strengthening johnson, and have also built
another enfilading battery lower down James
Island. Some OF our scouts have visited it. but
found only enc gun mounted in II, although
twelve embrasures. AIthoug they ha We douot.
less large land force they seem afraid Of us,
and suddedly await our next active demonstra-
ton.
This week Captain Paine, one.hundredth
New York, the best and most fortunate scout
We haSe, eucereueu III d manner unknown 10
1nyself or the enemy In reaching the parapet of
Wagner and inspecting nnmoiested, the IN
terror.
The sscheese. boxs," when Wagner becomes
too saucy, go up the channel, and pour heavy
fire at her: sometimes into her. But Wagner
will not snccumb to the IRON clads, although
they 90 well Gen. Gilmore, however, looks
upon this Rebel sandhill with the ciImness of
philosopher, and will accom- plish even more
than its reduction will in future letter
elucidate the following seIt ,nce 1.-THE Army,
and not the Navy, is taking Charleston and its
approaches.