Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-09-01

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session, and that ere this, the flag which waved
when Maj. Gen. Anderson surrendered, is back
in its old place, the identical one having been
sent him some time sIno5 for that express pur-
pose.
New YORK, Aug 27. The Commercial says,
by the arrival Of the Arago, we have the some
what extraordinary statement, on good author
ity however, that Gen Gilmore advanced for
tihcations are within a stones throw of the
rebel fort Wagner. II is said, upon the same
authority, that our forces will carry their par
ellel to the rebel works and through them, no!
withsanding any efforts its defenders may make.
The position is such that Fort Wagner can be
taken at any moment.
FsoM CHARLESTON. A dispatch from New
York to the Merchants Exchange says that
nearly all the torpedoes have been removed from
Charleston harbor .aIs..
Forts Moultrie, Gregg and Beauregard, were
sbelled for three hours on Monday.
Nrw YORK. Aug. o. Morris Island letters
to the Herald contain, undressing details OF the
proceedings in that vicinity. The letter Of the
22j inst. says, speaking Of Sumter, the gorge
lately crowded with line Of heavy ordnance
looking over Morris Island, is but mass Of
ruins. Portions Of the lett wall still stand, but
it is considerably shattel cd and honoy-combed
The centre and right are battered to fragments,
and from the CIR st of the parapet to the waters
edge are covered with debri,. The sally-port is
buried by the masses Of brick and mortar falling
from the heavy sand barricades, which the reb-
els had but partly finished. The angle is bat
tered down, and from that point to the edge Of
the southeast face the wall is full of huge gap
ing craters, from which immense masses Of de-
bis have fallen to the water ct its base. All
the guns on the gorge are dismoGnted and tSo
have been knocked over on the southeast face.
No serious offensive powers are left to the
rebols in fort Sumter, and the passage oil the
fort by our iron cads is entirely practicable
without much damage from its FIRE. If the
navy can't now pass the work we may as well
regard that arm OF the service as of little value
The attempt to pass it, by our iron clads will
soon be made
Deserters who escaped from fort Moultrie on
Thursday night to the Montauk, besides giving
much other information, state that two block.
ade runners succeeded in GLIDING our vessels,
and ran safely into Charleston last Sunday
night.
following paragraph and the Times letter
contains a similir one
What Admiral Dalghrens plans arc do not
profess to know, but have reason to fear that
he is losing valuable time by delay. Every mo-
ment now is worth year in ordinary tmes-a
fact which the rebels recognize as they are
Strengthening and enlarglog their old batteries,
building new ones, and mounting heavy guns at
points where they will be terribly effective.
FoRrREss MONROE, Aug %. The gunboat
Weste n World, Capt. Gregory, arrived this
morning of Wilmington. She reports the arri-
val there OF the United States steamer Florida,
from Charleston, with the intelligence that the
Union forces occupied Forts Sumter and Wag-
ner on Monday last.
New YoRK, Aug 49, Private dispatches re-
ccivod at Philadephis, state that Fort Sumter
has been blown up, and Fort Wagner is in our
possession.
NEw York, Aug. 2S On Friday, to make
good his notice to General Beauregard, General
Gilmore directed Lieut.. Selman, commanding
the marsh battery, to open his heavy riaed
guns upon the city OF Charleston during the
night. Accordingly the piece was trained in
that direction, and between one and two 0 clock
on Saturday morning, Is shells of Birney's in
yeu'ion, were pitched over the james Island
batteries, acros, the island and the harbor, into
the town
Their fight was wonderful. When last seen
the mOnstrous projec,ilos were still soaring up.
ward.
The visitors which our swamp angel sent
them created a most uproarous panic
A panic was evident from the light of burn
ing buildings, the ringing OF bells, and the
scresching of locomotive Whistles.
A letter of tue 2lst from of Charleston says
that the 300-pounder Parrott burst yesterday
after the seventh FIRE. 1t was fred but seven
times The first shot fell short, but the others
went square through the wall and exploded