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k fire, and our wooden gunboats go in every day and amuse themselves by shelling them. At night the rebels shell our land batteries, and we shell them in return. On Sunday next we will certainly hold Sumter, and to thin a few days after Charleston or its rains will be in our possession. Two 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 wit