The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-08-15
Leading Editorials from the New York
Papers This Morning.
ADMIRAL FARRAGUTS VICTORIES IN
MOBILE BAY.


MOBILE BAY.
The detail, Of the glorious news from Admiral
Parrsguts fleet, which VIC publish this morning,
fully sustain the conclusions drawn from the tee-
graphic report 90 the importance of the victory
gained
II was early on the morning Of the jth Instant
that the feet got under way, and passed the forts
at the entrance of Mobile bay. At first 1t was
intended that operations should commence on
the 4th; but the land forces uuder General
Granger were unprepSred 20 cooperate against
the forts and all the demonstrations made on
that day consisted in throwing sOmo shells at
Rebel craft lying against Fort Gaines.
II was found, as the attacking feet neared Fort
Morgan, ION the right as you enter the hMoor),
that, running across the bay from that potnt TO
Fort Gaines, which Is five miles distant, there
was constructed continuous tier OF piles, fis-
tened together by a network Of chains, bus leay-
ing an open chsnnel a considerable distance from
each post about fifteen hundred yards Ia width.
These openings were necessarily needed for the
use Of blockade-ruuners. Outside OF toe tier Of
piles were the Rebel tOrpedoes and inside, on
the eve of the 5th, lay the Rebel ram Tennessee,
which was destined next day TO surrender.
When the start WAS made on Friday morning
by the seventeen vessels Of the feet, the monitors
led the advance, and the wooden vessels followed
In pairs. At point blank range of Fort Morgan
the vessels lowered their speed so rs 70 close up
the line Of attack and just as the line was formed
the concentrated fire of the forts and the Rebel
vessels opened upon our fleet
The first return fire was made by the 100
FOUNDER PARROTS placed on the bows of our
advance yeesels. The flagship, bearing the gallant
Admiral, steamed directly abreast of Fort Morgan
before the order was given to open fire, when
succe ssOu OF nTo tdsdcs were delivered from the
9-inch guns of the Hartford. Each brotdside
told with tremendous effect, and by the vigorous
cooperation Of the land force under Granger the
Rehtlr were shortly driven from their guns.
While the attack on Fort Morgan was In pro-
gress, the monitors eugaged the Rebel iron clad
ram Tennessee aud her fite was shortly decided;
not however, until the Hartford with Admiral
FarraRut had steamed up aud given the final
broadside-makng good once again the truth of
. his famous tribute at New Orleans to iron
hearts and wooden ships" How much OF the
work was done by the monitors before the old
sea-dog him elf was in a position 70 tackle his
enemy we do not learn but an eyewitness tells
us that
"Aomiral Faagut anxious TO close the engagement IN
started to eards tho Tcnnetsse Al ull
hela, struck the Tennessee smdSips, and withdrew In
MIST suersnSn when The smoke cleared away ffom he
two vessels white Rag was seen to naye rom the Isn.
Jeraud, vhn vent IN a. volunteer on the OsSppe A.
HSmiT Al BncS SnaN, and tba SfrGe e1sas Of Ss,trac
tion although gained at great loss OF lite
Almost simultaneously with the capture Of the
Tennessee, oLe Ot our monitors, the IechIpSeh,
ran against torpedo Immediately outside of the
tier OF piles-at distance, ii must be noticed, of
at least fife, n hundred yards from Fort Morgan
"a fact which brings into the foreground TWO
points of considerable speculative interest. Tho
first is, what purpose was to be secured by run
ming the TecUnSeh into the face of the piles, with
their outer guard of torpedoes, while there WAS a
chaDpel fttet n hundred yards wi'le to run up
Fort Morgan, too, had been silenced. aud the
highway Of he blocks de- runners on that side of
the bay must have been perfectly open. Another
point " prompt Inquiry is the immense wasec-
LAT f.E
the bay. OF the five miles If channel between
Fort Morgan aud Fort Gaines, fully one mite aud
three-Qusrters appear to have been LETT free FROM
obstruction of any sort, except that it was within
the range of the forts.
1t Is not easy 70 conjecture on what the Rebels
rally depended fer ANYTHING like an effective re-
sisianCC 10 our feet. IL is impossible to believe
that thev placed any very great dependence on
such rams the Tennessee, which surrendered
to our wooden flagship, or their less courageous
iron-cla, 8, The GaineS and Morgan, which took
speedy ght in n cove unapprOachahe bV our
larger vessels, and which now lie there cUn-
pletely blCckaded.
Respecting he bomhRrdment OF Fort Powell
the fail Of which seems to have taken place
about tie nigh of the 5th-lhe Rebels themselves
having blown it np-the particulars are u'tgIvcn
with great minute ess; hut one Of the mOnitors,
the ChickdSato, Lieutenant Commander Perkins,
has the credit of having sttamed un against the
fort aGd pounded IL vigorously fer half au hour,
in spite OF fierce concentration upon ner of the
fire of the X, bes, which caused consider Ible
loss. Another monitor, The Hetaconlet. has the
credit Of having sunk the Rebel gunbost Selma.
We are alsu destitute of the details OF the sur
reBder Of Fort Gaines, which, we take it, must
have been the work Of SATURDAY, the 9Th. The
fact OF the surrender II, however, undtsputed,
and along with the announcement OF that fact
comes the assurance that Admiral FaITagut will
now push right on for Mobile city.
The in briefly summed up includes the cap
ture of Forts Morgan. Powell, aud Gaines; the
capture of "ne Rebrl rlm, the des,ru>tiou of Que
Rebel RuIbOat, the licking up If two more in a
shallow iuiet calico Navy Cove, ha removal 81
the har TO the inEer lay, aud the reduction Ot the
labor OF main ai'ir perfect blockade lf the city
is not Immediately reduced).
The national losses in meu Is computed in sll
At two nundIed and forty including the "a liQt
Captain Craven, ut the 1ecUm'eh, WIN went
brHvoly down at his post. The loss in vessels
includes, besides the TecHH,seh, the damsge (said
to he consiGeiahl,). 10 the Chick0Sap a. Fort
Powell, and the accidental Stavng in Of portion
OF the HdJtfOrd's sce by one of our own montOrs
having run foul OF the flagship. Il is an easy
price 10 pay for so grand victory.