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From Charleston.

Charleston, Nov. 18.
--A slow but steady fire has been kept up on Fort Sumter last night and this morning from the enemy's mortar batteries. Everything else quiet.--No casualties at Sumter for the past two days. Major Elliott and the garrison are all well.


[second Dispatch.]

Charleston, Nov. 18. P. M.
--The firing on Fort Sumter continues steady. Our mortar battery on Sullivan's Island has been shelling Gregg and the Cummings Point batteries all day. No casualties at Sumter to-day. The enemy fired at long range to-day up Cooper river at a passing steamer, it is supposed with one of the same guns with which they have been firing into the city.

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