The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-10

| A SELL FROM CHARLEsToN.--The peo
| pie of Charleston, says the New Yorl
Evening Post, are beginning to make fur
of their "besiegers.' The Greek fire anC
the Monitors have done them so little harm
that they begin to think them harm less
and many pnrsens further North are now
of the same mind. In a recent number o
a Southern newspaper we find calculation
! OF the amount of ammunition which has
heen thrown at and into Fort Sumpter, and
! of the results of our firing. It appears that
8.657 pounds of powder and 115 43O pounds
of iron shot have been fired by US for every
nan killed in the garrison, and the amount
OF iron is so great, and the price of iron in
the South is so high, and the danger to life
and limb from Gen. Gilmores aud Admiral
Dahlgren's projectiles so slight, that Charles
ton journals suggest the gathering of old
iron in Sumpt as pleasant and speedy
way to make a fortune
Here is the Richmond Euquirer's account:
Since the bonn bard ment of Sumpter COM
menced Con the 18th of August) up to
Thursday last, l5,583 shots had been fred
at it, of which II 3O2 struck. Of the gar
risnn twenty-seven have been killed and
sixty mine wounded. The flag. during the
same time, has been cnt down thirty four
times. The average weight of shot being
two hundred pounds, the weight of iron
was 3, l16 GEO pounds. or 1l5. 439 pounds of
IRON to each man killed, and &c, $40 pounds
of iron to each casualty If the charges of
powder averaged fifteen pounds, we have
233, 745 pounds of powder used, or s, ,657
pounds of powder to each man killed, and
2, ,434 pounds of powder to each casualty.
What is the matter before Charleston?
Why has everything come to stop there?
After a series of most brilliant operations,
which reflected the highest credit on the
engineering genius of General Gilmor we
have tedious and harmless bonn barGment,
which may interest the gunners, and is,
perhaps, amusing to the Charlestonans' but
which is certainly getting to be dreadful
bore to the people in this latitude Grum-
blers say that if Gilmore's capture of Bat
terics Wagner and Gregg was one of the
most brilliant it has also proved one Of the
most useless of sngin neeripg feats; that with
great paius aud some loss of life he worked
himself into cl DIT sac, where Beauregard
may safely leave him, and that Admiral
Dahlgren's prudence is greater than the oc-
caSiou demands.
This is what the grumbIers say; and we
must own thatthe operations before Charles
ton are falling into contempt, The furious
battering of fort already a month or six
weeks ago knocked into a shapeless mass
does not, it is believed, advance our pros
poets of the surrender or capture Of the
city; and from the positions we now hold
the enemy is rot threatened in any alarm
ing way. 1t is another of those attacks 10
front, so many of which have been made BY
Union generals in this war, and with con-
slant failure.
Is Charleston, then, impregnable? Mill
tary men do not think so; it can be taken;
but there must be some changes in the
method of attack; and evidently so long as
the Monitors are kept back, instead of being
pushed In to where their armor can be tried
aud their invulnerability proved, Gen. Gil
more is helpless in his present position.-
Louisville Journal