The New York herald., 1863-10-15


this port ut yesterday.
Tho Arago brought first chss and seventy
three second cass passengers the usual mails and gov
srnment stores
Mr.. Galen II. Osborne's Despatch.
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT soUH,l
FOLLY ISLAND s. G., Oct IL 1868. I
PARTICULARS TIE MGhr ATTACK on TBR NEW IRoNSrEl
From Hilton Head sent you by the steamer Contnen-
tnI three days ago, what details then could gather OF
inc attempt by tho rebels to destroy the fgate New
lronsIdes. that time represented that the
sei badly damaged. / am happy TO know that such
report correct, and that the boldly conceived
plans Of the enemy resulted only In disaster to them
solves. It was the night Of Monday the 9th INST,
that little segar shaped craft deserted approaching
shs New Ironsdes. She down 10 tho vicinity
pickle, boats by steamer and there cast or and
while her consort wiring about the harbor,
and by her movements attracting the attention Of tho
pkcs. the venturesome little craft made her way with
OF discovery within few hundred foot Of the frpae.
As sosn a. the stranger was mado she hailed
and challenged BY Ensign Howard, the oacer Of the
deck. The only reply received vocy Of musketry
Instantly all hands piped oquarte the narnes
the earliest handc answered with their res 10 the
vSlIey Of tho stranger They seemed TO produce no f
feet upon the coming craft which, dsshug with oil
the speed It could make, struck tho frgae tho
starboard sdo Instantly terrific explosion followed.
Tho Ironsdes Irembed from stern Vast columns
thrown up, and descending. extingushed
che 6es OF the venturssome steamer. by the fearful
shock sailors lying the gun deck OF the Irondes
weo thrown with violence up the under surface Of the
spar Deck and one Of them had his ieg broken by the
tAn.
TIE ATTACHING CRAFT.
This was oil tho damage that tho New Ironsdes sus-
taiped As her guns could be brought % bear
upon tho rebel thoy opened, and when tho
smoke Of rc cleared away the stranger was no
lonscr visible 0ny tho crcliug waves where II had
gone down and few objects floating struggling In the
water marked the spot where II had beon moment
before.
CAPTURE OF LIEUTENANT REiEl SAILING MAS
rER--A TRArToRoUs rHrLsDsiJ1iAS
On the following morning Captain Rowan, thinking
n not unlikely that Of tho rebel crew
had been picked up by vessels Of the surrounding feet,
dercd a search 10 be made; and on coal schooner
from Philadelphia Lcat Glassell, Of tho rebel navy,
and a rebel sailing master, named Toombs, were dis
cyefed The lieutenant had already assumed the garb
Of Union coal carrier, for whh he had paid the cap
sau OF the schooner Of three hundred dollars and
gold watch and patiently awaiting opportunity
" get back to sulvans sIand, which effort the Pha
deli hia skipper had covenanlod to aid him. Tho three
perscns chsned together and taken In rops to rort
RovaI ..gSr- ,.z ~SSiSE -s''
rnE VIEW RoNsiDEs RygEL sDvErsAEr.
From all that we Of the strange craft she was
ba expressly purpose OF destroy the New Iron
sides and was constructed by Of public subscrp
t.on circulated in Charleston. Five months have been
consumed getting her ready. Her hull, though long,
was nrIw aud shallow anording room only Tor her ea-
ms sna crew Of four aye picked men. Projecting
thirty or forty feet beyond her bows was an Inn
ncnsc torpedo, which, although exploding by per-
cusson as intended had other effect than 10 jar tho
frgate 1t was meant 70 annihaie. Who can tell our
.aliigatorsv or devi such straddled ths stem OF
shc wcehawken in the irouclad attack last April would
have been more successful than This costly apparatus Of
shs esssyY Our machine had an opportunity OF
testing its efficiency but judge OF what us effects
would have been should think. by the result OF the
grand rebel cxpcrimcn, nst Monday night
rRoaR,ss oy fw siscg cssrissTos.
In the way Of besicging Charleston much real work s
being me- though batteries have not yet opened and
the navy has not yet gone II has been stated 10 some
of the Northern papers that the feet waiting for
the N ro batteries. This is not SO. The army is all
ready and bcen for any work that may be required
Off,
GENERAL GILMORE ApxrRlr p,srcryS.
And nov, that I am correcting false Impressions
ict mo say thai there h quarrel between
G,noc ard Dablgrcn The latter has al all times given
the torncr Whatever cooperation has been asked OF him
In the Morris kand in the slow and toisome
approach up tho beach, tne Smelling OF Wagner aid
srcss and IN the bombardmont OF Sumter the feet of
iron cads has participated helping the land forces ma
terribly V accomplish their task. What the people on
shorc cotian OF n that the Admiral that Gillmores
work is done, shows no activity IN beginning his own
We expected when sumter le that the Monitors would
pass IT, Nearly months have elapsed. and stu the
aeet rides at anchor OF range of the encmys guns
suppose that the Admiral and the General know why The
delay. Certainly there Is quarrel between them, Do'
has there been.
ASSAULT oS usTya
win regard 10 the unfortunate assault upon Sum
Ger by the navy another de> prevails In som'
gusr,ers the North Let agnin make correction
Pagers stated that tho assault failed because CHI
,noee refused 10 co-opcr,te fIe did refuse. III
had party arranged wort m concert with the navy
The land forces were their Ny TO tho fort whcI
the s,,Iors we're ro2used, asd, seeing that tb
s.,r,ssu wus Alarmed carc back. N probaJi
that tho attack would been joint cos sui for tn
fact that tho Admiral declined TO allow any other than
naval officer 70 assume command.
,ss gxIEyrox 10 cUr CHARLESTON AND sAvAxxss
rgEArL
There was an expedition TO the mainland fow week.
$50 70 tap the telegraph limo between Charleston an
savarrah. IL occurred while temporarily ahsen
from ths department. and version of 'be asaf ha
already oail rs way into print Perhsp' no''co 4" ih
s~resi,,ou and ts scquci however, may BE- coz .