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they had time to blow up the magazine. A number of prisoners were captured, but the larger portion of the garrison made good their escape to Wilmington. A pursuit was immediately ordered, and at the time Lieutenant Cushing left with his dispatches for Washington, Admiral Porter had ordered the monitors Monadnock and Canonicals, with the gunboats, up to Wilmington. It was expected that the city would be in our possession on Monday, beyond a doubt, as rumors had reached the fleet that Bragg was rapidly evacuating it. Fort Anderson was the only work of any importance that barred the passage of our troops and naval vessels up to the city. The evacuation of Fort Anderson is said to have been hastened by a daring adventure of Lieutenant Cushing, he having floated a large scow up the river with the tide past the fort. It was discovered by the rebels, who thought it, in the darkness, to be a monitor that had flanked the fort, and caused a precipitate retreat. Foreign relat