--Since our last report, eighty-six shots have been fired at the city up to 6 P. M. Sunday evening, and twenty-six at
Fort Sumter, The enemy on Saturday and Sunday, from some cause, stopped firing on the city for several hours — the longest intervals that have occurred during the last two months.
A new rifle-gun, believed to be a two hundred-pounder
Parrott, bearing directly on
Fort Sumter, was mounted in Battery Gregg Saturday.
The Yankee gunboat
Flambeau steamed up
Beach channel to a position off
Colonel Rhett's headquarters Saturday, and sent in a flag-of-truce boat, which was met by a similar boat from Battery
Marshall.
The object of the truce was to send some fifteen boxes of clothing and some letters for naval prisoners in our hands.
These have been brought to the city.
The enemy's working parties, since Friday, have been busily employed on
Wagner and on the battery bearing on the city.
A small squad has also been at work on
Gregg.
Their wagons are still engaged hauling ammunition to
Gregg and
Wagner.
The enemy's work on the
Long Island battery, opposite
Secessionville, is also reported increasing.
A schooner deeply laden, from the
North, came inside the bar
Saturday.
Another passed the bar going South.
There was considerable signaling in the fleet Saturday and Sunday.
The flag-ship, about half-past 9 Sunday morning, hoisted a small blue flag, which was immediately answered by all the fleet, both inside and outside the bar. Two of the Yankee tugs were very busy during the day cruising about among the rest of the vessels.
The
Yankees are still at work on their new observatory on the south end of
Morris island.
The Confederate prisoners were guarded by some twenty sentinels outside the pen.
There has been no change in the fleet.
Five monitors are now inside the bar.--
Charleston Courier, 26th.