The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-28
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4 O'CLOCK, 2 M.
TO THE FREEMAN.


to the Herald contain interesting details of the
proceedings in that vicinity. The letter of the
q. 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 shatte. ed and honoy-combed
The centre and right are battered to fragments,
and from the CT st of the parapet to the water s
edge are covered with debris. 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 outbeast face the wall is full of huge gap
ing craters, from which immense masses Of de-
bls have fallen TO the water ct it's base. All
the guns on the gorge are dismounted, and two
have been knocked over on the southeast face.
No serious offensive powers are left to the
rebels in tort Sumter, and the passage of 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 eluding our vessels,
and ran safely into Charleston last Sunday
night.
The Herald letter of the oath contains the
following paragraph and the Times letter
contains a slmilar one:
What Admiral Dalghren's plans are do not
profess to know, but have reason to fear tn at
he is losing valuable time by delay. Every mo-
ment now is worth year in ordinary times-a
fact which the rebels recognize as they are
strengthening and enlarsIng their old batteries,
building new ones, and mounting heavy guns at
points where they will be terribly effective.
FORTRESS MONROE, Aug. %. The gunboat
Weste World, Capt. Gregory, arrived this
morning off 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. %. Private dispatches re-
ceivod at Philadelphia, state that Fort Sumter
has been blown up, and Fort Wagner is in our
possession.
New YORK, Aug. 49, On the Friday morn
ing he gave his notice to Gen. Beauregard, Gen.
Gilmore directed Lieut.. Sellman, commanding
the marsh battery, to open his heavy rihed
guns upon the city, OF Charleston during the
night. Accordingly the piece was trained in
that direction, and between one and two o clock
on Saturday morning, Is shells of Birney's in
ventiOn, were pitched over the james Island
batteries, across the island and the harbor, into
the town.
Their flight was wonderful. When last seen
the monstrous projectiles were still soaring up
ward
The visitors which our swamp angel sent
them created most uproarOus panic
A panic was evident from the light of burn
ing buildings, the ringing OF bells, and the
screechlng of locomotive whistles.
A letter of the 2lst from off Char lesion says,
that the 30O-pounder PARROT burst yesterday
after the seventh fire. 1t was fired but seven
times The first shot fell short, but the others
went square through the wall and exploded.
STEVENSON, Ala, Aug. 27. A part of Gen.
Wilder force met 80 rebels at Hanover, to-day,
and killed and captured 2 The latter state
that the Chattanooga Rebel of yesterday admits
the fall of Charleston also that Lee has been
defeated By Gen. Meade.
1t also claims that Gen. Burnsde's advance
had reached King ton on Tuesday, and after II
short engagement had whipped Forest.
Bragg's army ID reported as moving toward
Atlanta.
New YORK, Aug. %. The Iribune's Wash
ington dispatch says the Navy Department has
Just decided to build another fleet of irOn-clad
vessels.
They will be larger and more formidable than
any now in the service of this or any other
Each will have two turrets of enor-
NOUS thickness, and the side armor will be some