--The
Courier, of Tuesday, says the bombardment of
Fort Sumter was continued until dark Sunday evening, when the enemy ceased firing at the fort.
The number of she is fired during the day was one hundred and thirty-one, of which one hundred and fourteen struck, and seventeen missed.
The firing, as on the previous day, was from a two hundred pounder
Parrott at Gregg and a one hundred pounder
Parrott at the
Middle Battery.
It was directed against the southern angle of the fort.
There were no casualties.
A steady bombardment of the city has been kept up since our last report.
One hundred shells were fired from half-past 5 Sunday afternoon to half-past 5 Monday evening. The enemy shortly after that time opened a very heavy and rapid fire upon the city, which continued steady up to the hour of closing our report, at 12 o'clock Monday night. Two persons were slightly wounded--one, a white woman, by a brick, and the other, a white man, by the fragment of a shell striking him in the ankle.
The family of
Mr. Morrissey had a very narrow escape Sunday night. About half-past 9 a shell entered the house from the south side, upper story, and passing through the first floor cut the pavilion, and glancing off demolished a table at the foot of a bed where two grown persons were sleeping.
It then passed through and exploded in the cellar, tearing off the weatherboarding of the house, making a large hole in the brick foundation, and scattering the fragments in all directions, without other injury to any of the sleeping family than covering them with dust and enveloping them with smoke for some fifteen or twenty minutes.
There was no change observed in the position of the fleet, except in the absence of two blockaders.
The Monitor nearest the fort appeared to have what are supposed to be beams projecting from her side, similar to that of the
Ironsides.
A Yankee letter from
Morris Island dated the 24th inst., says:
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"There was a big scare in the fleet a few nights since, caused by some rebel obstructions floating out to sea. If our iron-clads were nearer
Charleston neither torpedoes nor sea horses would run against them with impunity.
The obstructions in the channel between
Sumter and
Moultrie are entirely gone, and the opinion of the naval officers is that there are no impediments to the progress of our fleet, except those extending from
James Island to the middle ground.
Of their nature it is impossible to judge, though they are probably not half as formidable as imagined.
A rebel iron-clad, probably the
Chicora, was seen yesterday west of Fort Simpkins.
No less than three rebel iron-clads are seen daily."
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A letter from
Folly Island to the
Commercial says:
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"Rumors are still prevalent among the troops of a meditated expedition towards
Savannah, but nothing of a reliable character was known."
"There was a
general review on the 20th of all the troops on the
Island. Seven thousand men were in line besides two full battalions.
General Ferry is in command on
Folly Island.
All hopes of reaching
Charleston this winter have died away among the troops."
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