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more mortar schooners, making five in all, and the wooden gunboats are striping for the fight. The weather continues delightful, though there is great suffering for ice, lemons, and sugar. Cannot Boston, New York, or Philadelphia, send some cargoes here for the use of the gallant sailors and soldiers? As the Arago leaves, the Ottawa, Marblehead, Seneca, and Ironsides are engaged shelling the Cummings Point battery. The Washington Republican has a description of a 10-inch 300-pounder Parrott rifled gun about to be used against Fort Sumter. In explaining its breaching power it carries out a comparison with a 24-pounder siege gun, and says: A 24-pounder round shot, which starts with a velocity of 1,625 feet per second, strikes an object at the distance of 3,500 yards with a velocity of 300 feet per second. The 10-inch rifle 300-pound shot has an initial velocity of 1,111 feet, and has afterwards a remaining velocity of 700 feet per second at a distance of 3,500 yards. Fro