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the spars of the hireling fleet may be discerned above the low, marshy banks of the intervening space. It is not easy to conjecture the object of this determined effort to gain an entrance into this river by a channel which is available only for the very lightest draft steamers, and those even of the smallest beam. They will be forced to do that to remove every vestige of the wreck still remaining. It may be that they wish to introduce a number of small steamers into the space between Forts Pulaski and Jackson, with the hope of being able to shell out the occupants of the latter post, and obtain such complete possession of the river as to cut off the supplies of Pulaski and open the way to the city. I cannot but think that the design, if attempted, would equally fail, for many reasons. I believe that Fort Jackson could maintain its own against any such fleet as can be introduced by that avenue, and I have the necessary authority to state that the lower garrison is amply provided