The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-11-04
FROM CHARLESTON.
Progress Of the BOmbardment
More Greek Fire THROWN into the
b City.
Monitors to Participate in the Attack.

Ol1tue feOponlng ol Tue ooHudfuucnt
Charleston harbor by Gen. Gilmore, o
which We had the Confederate dispatches
on Friday last. According to the South
ern accounts it will be remembered, tn,
Union batteries Gregg and Wagner opened
fire on Fort Sumter and johnson, at II
o'clock of the 26th, with seven guns from
Gregg and four from Wagner, which threw
one hundred shots during the day Tive
monitors were also said To have participa
ted and to have thrown one lnandred and
sixty shots. The Southern acc0Hnts went
on to say that Fort Sumter aidIzRat reply
but Moultrie did, and that the firing ceased
at dusk, no damage being done to their
works. Nothing was said of Charleston
itself having been bombarde1. The New
York Commercial says:
| By the arrival Of the steamer Arago at
New York, from Charleston baro the eve
ming of the 9th ultimo, we learn that on
the 26th number Of heavy guns in Gregg
and Wagner opened on Sumter, Moultrie
and Johnson, their range being at one third
less distance than at the bombardment prior
to the capture ol Wagner. The rebels re
piled to our tire with but little accuracy,
while our fire was very effective: detaching
large masses of brick and masonry on Sum
ter, and ling even more destructive than
on the previous bombardment, Not sin
gle casualty occurred to our forces. The
next day, the 9th, in the morning, three Of
our heavy Parrott guns were turned upon
the city Of Charleston, the tower of st. Mi
chael's Church being the target of our fire.
Each of these guns threw one shell, con-
tanning Greek fire, into the very heart OF
the city, and other guns were open in the
course of the afternoon. The enemy repli-
ed very reservedly, evidently being taken
by surprise by the shelling of the city. Our
batteries were also at work on the rebel
Forts Johnson, Sumter and MOultrie and
odr of the monitors were in position off
Sullivan's Island Opposite Moultrie, and
were expected to engage the rebel works in
the course of the afternoon. As the Arago
left Charleston bar at 6 o'clock in the even
ing Of that day, and makes no mention of
the monitors having opened fire, 1t IS prob
able their participation in the conflict was
postponed. ,.a,
Another account says:
The range of the guns on Sumter and
Johnson is one third less than it was before
the eaptare of Wagner and Gregg. The
firing on our side is excellent--every shot |
seems to be effective.
The object of the fire was to get perfect |
range of the rebel works and to prevent the
construction of any interior batteries and
the mounting of any guns at Sumter 1t
cannot be put down as the commencement
hn 10
must not anticipate news of stirring import
by the arrival of the succeeding transport.
FOLLY ISLAND, S. c., Oct 27.-The un-
usual quiet of the past three weeks was
broken yesterday by Gen. Gilmore's new
batteries, which opened on Fort Sumter
and Forts Moultrie and johnson and the
batteries about those works. The rebels
replied to our fire, but with little accuracy.
Our fire has been quite sharp and tOlerabIy
effective. The bricks On Fort Sumter flew
in clouds, and it was the opinion Of one of
our general officers that it was quite as safe
to be outside Of that work as inside. 1t
must have been very hot for the inmates Of
the fort, if the fragments of shot and shell,
bricks, mortar and splinters can bring
about such state of affairs The FIRE up
on Moultrie and Johnson had the desired ef |
feet. The rebels fired feebly and inaccu
rately. Not causualty occurred on our
side during the day.
To-day our PARROTS are talking as loudly |
as ever, but with what result have not
learned One thing is certain, the rebels |
have been ca, cked in any efforts they may
have made to erect battery within the
work, and The chances are that such work
is already destroyed by the shot and she'll
now raining into the fort. The scene We
daily witress is in no ways different from
the one have described. Perhaps heavier
masses of masonry are detached, and more
brick dust is thrown in the air by our heavy
projectiles than in tho first bombardment,
because the range is nearly twothirds short
er than before, and the force OF impact is
correspondingy increased. Sumter has not
replied, nor is it likely that the enemy can
much longer maintain possession of the
work But we shall see in due time what
is to be accomplished.
The weather is now cool aud bracing.-
We are looking for the first frost with good
deal of anxiety, as by il alone shall we get
rid Of malarial disease which prevail among
the command
The charleston Mercury contains notice
from Mayor Macbeth, calling upon all the
free negroes in the city toappear at the City
Hall on the l4tb, for impressment All
slaves are also conscripted. The penalty
for declining to send servants to work upon
the fortifeations is fine OF two hundred
dollars for each slave which the owner neg
lects or refuses to furnish and yet il s all
nounced that many slave owners prefer to
pay the fine in order that their hands may
not get into the Union li1es baltimore
Sun.
BREWERS CONvENTIoN.-The brewers d
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