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Charleston.

--We are not in the habit of making predictions, and we do not mean to do so with reference to Charleston. But we say now that we do believe that city will not be taken by the enemy. We have verbal accounts about affairs there which encourage this opinion very decidedly. The enemy are much disappointed, and not a little chagrined at the powerful resistance they have encountered.

What a painful event was that by which our own batteries sunk one of our steamers bearing off a Georgia regiment which had been doing duty at Fort Wagner! That men who had undergone such an ordeal for their country should be shot at by our own guns, several of them killed, wounded, and drowned, and the boat which bore them sunk in the harbor, is indeed shocking to the public mind! The occurrence, every one would suppose, must be due to some culpable oversight or blunder. If so, those who are responsible for it ought to be held to a proper accountability.

The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. September 2, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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