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Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington: Sir --Yesterday was begun another series of operations against the enemy's works. Early in the morning General Gillmore opened all his batteries upon Fort Sumter, firing over Fort Wagner and the intermediate space. About the same time I moved up the entire available navalur trenches, but inflicted no damage. Opening of the great cannonade. At half-past 6 all our guns at present in position were in full play, from battery Gillmore, the Navy battery, in command of Commander Foxhall A. Parker, to the extreme left battery, doing good service. The gorge wall was repeatedly struck by huge bolt who was in Charleston the night Gillmore commenced shelling the city, thus describes the same: The citizens, as it seems by an error in the transmission of Gillmore's answer by the signal corps, were led to believe that they would have until Monday night to remove their families, and were surprised by a second midnight attac
Charleston. --A telegram published Friday says: "Gen. Sherman says if Gillmore has taken Charleston and fails to lay the city in ashes, he will be sacrificed by his troops. His superiors — the Northern people — demand the utter destruction of Charleston." The usual grandiloquent and Bombasts Furioso style of Yankee bulletins! "If Gillmore has taken Charleston (which he has not,) he will be sacrificed by his troops unless he burns it down at once, that and nothing less being the demand of his superiors — the Northern people! What a very short pattern of humanity Gillmore must be if the Northern people are his superiors! But they need noGillmore must be if the Northern people are his superiors! But they need not dread any insubordination on the part of their subordinate tool. He has shown an inclination to burn Charleston before taking it by launching without notice his incendiary shells among its women and children, which ought to satisfy the most truculent of his many headed masters. He has doubtless come to the sage conclusion that<