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The ammunition explosion at City Point — terrible effects.
Fifty-eight Yankees were killed and one hundred and twenty-six wounded by the ammunition explosion at City Point on the 9th instant.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune, who witnessed it, says:
Every frame-house in the town was jarred by the concussion alone to the extent of having its inside plastering knocked off, beside other damages by missiles, &c. Against the houses and other obstructions near the wharf, and even upon the hill, hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of broken, twisted and splintered muskets, and such debris, lay in drifts, like straw drifted by the wind; and all over the ground for at least a quarter of a mile from the scene of the explosion, shell, solid shot, grape, cannister, musket and Minnie balls, pieces of shells, nails, screws, bolts and bolt-heads, and fragments of almost everything — wooden, iron and leaden — you can think of, are strewn and drifted like hail and chunks of ice-immedi<
Additional from Mobile.narrative of the passage of the forts — account from on board our fleet, &c.
Mobile papers of the 9th instant are received.
They contain additional particulars of the entrance of the enemy into Mobile Bay.
The Tribune has a very interesting narrative, written in Fort Morgan, from which we make the following extracts:
The opening of the fight.
As the sun rose on the following day, we discovered that the fleet had, during the night, hauled off to the eastward and contracted their line into a semi-circle, nearly due south of the fort and within not more than three miles from the main inlet into the channel.
Their appearance was quite martial; the broad pennons that floated to the breeze from the top of their dark turrets seemed to bid defiance to the diminutive forces that were manning the ramparts of Fort Morgan, and called up a sneering comparison between their bulky forms and the almost puny size of our own little fleet, which was coolly expecti
Ran away from my farm at the Half-way, House
on the Richmond and Petersburg railroad, Chesterfield county, my man Richard.
He left my farm last Tuesday morning, the 9th instant, and had on when he left a pair of dark pants, white cotton shirt, and bad on a pair of shoes, no coat nor hat He is about twenty or twenty-one years old, five feet six or seven inches high, black, has a small moustache, and speaks slow.
I bought him last April, of Lee & Bowman, in Richmond.
He formerly belonged to Miss Margaret Bottom, of Amelia Courthouse.
He has a wife at or near Amelia Courthouse, and may be trying to go there.
He was last seen near the Half-Way Station.
I will pay a liberal reward if caught and put in jail, or delivered to me. Address J. M. Wolff, 64 Main street, Richmond, Va., or Proctor's Creek, Chesterfield county. au 17--6t*