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go into the fort and explode inside, some passing through the east wall, going in one side and coming out the other. An easterly storm prevailed on Tuesday to Wednesday, but broke away Thursday. We now have fine weather, and it is expected the monitors will go in force to attack Sumter this afternoon. The Ironsides and our wooden vessels have shelled Wagner and Gregg every day keeping them quiet, while the shore batteries are hammering Sumter, Seven North Carolina deserters from Sullivan's Island were picked up in a boat last night by the Montauk. They say the rebels are preparing to abandon Sumter and blow it up. That they have been taking the guns out ever since the attack in April, which demonstrated their inability to hold it. That there are not more than six or eight guns now in the fort, the remainder being quaker. They also say that the cordon of beer barrels is merely intended to sustain telegraph wires between Sumter and Moultrie, and is no part of the obstr