Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-01

What determined command can do in de-
Tending well-constructed and carefully pre-
pared fertilization against long continued and
vigorous attacks, is well shown by recent
communication to the London Index, giving
an account OF the shots which were fired
against Fort Sumter, in the months Of April,
August, September, October, November, and
December, 1868, and January and February,
1854.
Il appears from the tables submitted BY the
writer, that in those eight months twenty
seven different kinds OF missils were fired at
the fort, ten from smooth bored and seventeen
from ritied guns ; q AZ shots were fired from
our batteries, oil which 20,2l6 hit the fort.
OF the sum total, the Monitors delivered l.
+i3, the mortars T,l67 the land guns by day
Il. 235, and BY night 4,402. The estimated
weight of the iron used in these shots was 81
62T 800 pounds or little more than $40
TINS. IL is asserted that only seventeen men
were killed outright By our FIRE; eleven more
are returned as killed BY the explosion OF a
magazine, and thirteen BY the falling of q
wall of the garrison barracks, caused by the
bombardment. The writer OF the returns es-
Inmates, therefore, that thirtv-nine and half
tuns Of iron were hurled at the fort for every
man killed and carrying his ingenuity lit
would, II turned into railroad iron, have suf-
feed 10 lay single track twenty and quar-
ter miles.
Amongst the missiles used by General
Gilmore. the Charleston writer notes ten.
eleven, thirteen, and tifteen-inch round shot
shell and rife bolts Of various shapes, ten,
ten and half, twelve, sixteen, eighteen,
twenty, and twenty-three inches in length,
and from four and half, to FIVE, six, eight
and ten inches in diameter. One missile is
called Mormon" and was an immense
hollow shot filed with small shells, which
burst. Others are denominated Columbiad,
Dahlgren, twenty-four FOUNDER Morton, Par
rott, Wizard, Whitworth and Shenkl.
OF the l,443 shots fired by the Monitors,
only l06 missed the fort, and l,270 hit. or
the l4,535 missiles from land guns by day,
1902 are asserted to have missed; while Of
4,4O2, shots from land guns fred at night, l.
40 (nearly one third are reported to have
flown wide of the mark. If this is correct it
is probably accounted for by the fact that
changes in the direction Of the wind could
not be allowed for at night.
The account Of the different commandments
which is added to the tabular reports from
which we have taken the above figures, as
serts that our fire gradually Clipped of
block after block of the wall, after silencing
the parapet guns Of the fort; and the debris,
falling upon the bernie 1.-THE space between
the parapet and the ditch), formed defense
through which no shot could penetrate"
Large quantities of sand were securely pack
ed in the classmates, the guns being first re-
moved. In the bombardment of the 18th OF
October and subsequent days, the heaviest Of
all, according to the writer the pier of an
arch, seven feet wide, BY five feet thick, Of
solid masonry, was demolished BY one stroke
from three hundred FOUNDER bolt" 1t was
Parrot shell, he relates, which, striking on
the arches of the garrison barracks, broke
! them down and buried thirteen men in their
ruins.-.Nep York Erening Post, June |.