Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1863-03-04
.nu.xv,,;on ar tao Nashville.

Aiu,u, lsIf n lat seven O'Clock NJ: Saturday
,,,,ingy heav; firing ~as heard in>tke d'rec-
hmm ;ie.rsis rdi,,t55a,.astlr General belief
VAS hat ri saIc..lnislcr lad gain .ts'aa a..
,ack d hy.I til feneu,y' . gnn5oais. The llfln1
;.i,,,t i,w.d though NOR rapidly aud with oec"-
ionsl iu,+r yals, until alouj. :@n O'Clock, rf'er
wbich lire only a lew si.:g:as we're ll.aI'1:
IAS6at ih:sstime news reached Tue city "a,
hn Moa:auk had come up within rage ana
opened 6-e Oh s!ic steamer h"saciHs' "hch
y AttsrIpting 10 run up. bad got ser"ntu OF
Fr1da- in he b"nd of wha. is called , ven
| Nile Reach, in the Og'echee o mort cis!snce
,6oye Inc fort. and That the Ntshnh's was on
Gre. With a tr end we drove down to Cube
X uF.. ON the Little O.eeclee, about ter
r I'M the CITY. Arriving At theEP'ihs nsAl
he battery formerly occupied ny hseus Y:
49, 4%rt;llrrr we hads yiepr across tue marsh
{ the fort. The burning MishO'Ee and the
Tn. tie,,s hai ceasea alme two h"nrs ne
e,ra md tie three eunboats, with the IRON
ID turrei bo.i. bad ,%lrIppe'i some three
Mills below thc f'rt. where they were lying
= anchor, wiliie ait imme,tse column OF smoke
ro.e from the NashriAe, "'hcre sue iay, appa-
Gently, irum our P5ni"t ut siew, A'rrut d n'le
.bnve the lor.. Al WIS still, 'ald the te"
intc;a,urs at the PORT who, like ourselves,
had arrived after the firing had ceased, Gould
.,ive us no i.if1rm.tIon further than the reports
Ib,y had RECEIVED from tie retiring salt ioll'
era aud others whom they had met on 'he',
way from the city. Some sal'tthe 1h'~a"6
alone hid engaged the fort and also hren Oh
,ne NashciNs, WHICH bcirg unable tn escap'
..ad bees, fired by er crew. Others were o
,ojni1n that the !!ilShriHe had been set q
ice nv the shells from the MUntuuS. her
a,neared to lie some movement about on
,;elnsk, amo, z the gulihoats which were "
mo- vt a .~iisra,ce of 1--WE or six miles from GU
' ,o,i;;un. and. MS the tide was nearly iull. W
+. ,ught it pr0bshlo Iha: the enemy. mlgn1
contemplate srother attack Oh the tort. w
wait.d nil about hall past one, when We on
,ery.d one of the g,.nboat> loave her compai
, mes and steam off down the river taking
p c;,,,rse in tue direction Of Tybee, doubtless I
co,un,unicate their operations to Leadquarter'
i Wh.,, she WIZ. out OF sight Ne returned 10 In
cats. -.
/. |. wss not until yesterday ,norning that "
= l:.yred anything Of the particulars OF the o.
!, uuc4nn OF the Mashcits.. 1t appears Una
g steamer. having got aground in the keae
o Friday, wan observed by tie enemy, ar
, ~ 6.w sluls we.e fired 1T her by the !MOntd"
:, o F;iday evening. The NashriEe Icing VI
- nile to get off, anl the grew being,f'rccd
I abandon her, the .M,ntauk, favored by.
curve in the river, took a position ,Thic
!, brought. her IN easy range and opened fire
q her again OH Saturday morning, hitting h
NJ son,e ripht or ten times when She took III
~ Tr,. th. shells and was; entirely consume
:. 9Th l..r v,.l.iable cargo Of cotton and all h
f. s.,res. After the NashriAe had been on N
n $ .ms ,iii., a quantity If powder on boar
If some two hundred pounds, explnded, blown
of out the stern Of the steamer. Her gus al
~ shell, that we're load d also exploded WI h
in terrific report, which was henrd in tie catv.
20 thus terminated ;he career OF the "fuft
suu&e., winch we iondiY hoped was. soon
be ne converted intu q s..a,derpeur to plague u
Yam. e.s an The ocean. Her owners susta
70 ~ heavy lass in the vessel and her machiner
$ shile private parties loss some nine hundr
nr bi;es Of cotton which had recn shipped
ID ..a:rd u ;lrr.: Tie lbs, being divides a'no'
~ many. viii nct.b serious 70 sry. aud We m
q. 40 doubt thal Tue ownels ai her Cargo WOE
ave c4ctriully submitted 10 much great
~ ,%.,crilice 10 have srcured her escape to sea.