AMEERICA.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 68, 30 June 1863, Page 2

AMEERICA.

The public feeling at Washington thill we are actually contending with reuH Britain as well as the rebels, an thiM Britssh guns of . the latest improv tn|H and greatest powerj sent to South anjll lina to maintain slavery and to bn :' sijl the republic,, saved Charleston on tl ?t|n from her merited destruction. * , .m THE ATTACK ON OHARLESWN.I The New York Herald of the nil contains a letter from its correspond \&\ board the iron-clad fleet, fiom whi [ tffl following are extracts: — _ 1 ' The attack would have comroen da | hour or two earlier than it did, had b,ao : been that the admiral was advised t \tfai for the ebb tide rather than sail n wj the flood-tide, as the former wo j I more apt to discover the locality > I obstructions in the channel ; and t ; I turned at 11 o'clock. During these I of suspense the e^e had an opporti I , taking in the features of the sc< I which the great act was to be playe I blue waters danced in the sunshin I , flocks of sea birds dipped their I wings in the waves and uttered ft shrill cries as they swooped do> I after their prey. Over the para I Forts SunKerand Moultrie the ret fenders were watching our moveme I signal ishing them ; and even on thy ■■ and steeples of the distant city w& m see hundreds of spectators. Disti! t 9 view were the numei ous batteries, ■ ing from the Wappoo Creek on the! ■ river, following the countour of ■ Island, down to the Lighthouse bat tl the south point of Morris Island. I t M other side they were more numeroulL I Breach Inlet battery, on the lowerJßElß Sullivan's Island ; Fort BeauregardJ ■■ up to Fort Moultrie ; while in the! IH of the picture, rising as it were fr< 111 water, stood Fort Sumter, displayi 111 rebel flag at one angle, and the F 111 flag on the opposite angle; and ' Jjll Fort Kipley and Castle Pinckney, t -Iff] filling up the background. Meat '||ln the attacking vessels lay at anchor |||h main ship channel, within a mile flip batteries oh Morris Island, uithouFiflj voicing a hostile shot. The Weehli BMi was in the van, aad the other. vesßelst|Jß| order in which tliey are named in thklw of attack. Precisely at half past tj^lffi o'clock the fleqi commenced to qkjis The distance to tie positions at whiclff^ij were directed t| attack was nearly),: JH miles, and foraluost all that distanceiiffl were within rangp of the enemy's batuMn But again there h a delay. Grapp|9] irons attached to he Weehauken hav#vH foul of her antior cable, and it txtral nearly an hour 1) set matters rightJmM last the difficultyjsgot over, and oncenmaj the vessels are v der way. Slowly they] move up the nip channel; they tassl within easy rjige of Fort WagSerl on Morris Islnd, but not a sltot] disputes their prgress. They pass thai battery at Cunnings Point, named, I $J lieve Battery Bel but still not a disenable! from a rebel gu/; and it is bot till [ m vessels have g</ fairly between the II ! upper points oMorris Island and Si m j van's Island, wtch are about a mile ap M and are rouadit to make the entrance M 1 the harbor, tha the ominous stillness! 1 | broken. Fort junver opens the ball w if j her barbette gjis ; Fort Moultrie \# M up the loud refiin. The various baft || join in the deaning chorus, and thetoj % dads find i|iemj;lves within a circle oj? h % concentrated ftm all ihe rebel gun7f~s Pjl can be bvoughj to be»r upon iheiP j M Moris that all that itese little fIL j ]| turrets have toßontem\<with. If Hfe— j 'M , they might hay held c| their wavi 1 ) wj [ antly and run tie gaurjet of all trfA t $■ [ tries that stood betweerihem and CirM S I ton Th« vei- side cj Fort Suni '. m »ell known ft be its iorth-west i - If That was the joint agai\t which oui m were ordered it be direcfl ; but tha'r j m the point whicp the rebe\<ei jineersiX E \ deteripined l^at we sliui not g| VW& From the north-east an[e of the I,—4|™1 ,— 4|™ across the channel to ForV oultrie/ I^J| suspended, floating from tfels and TF^| taut by weights, heavy «, and c «»ffS Ranees of roping so fixed ai >be su; ffja act entangled' in the propa^ appa'^f^ >f vessels, and also connect! :-V{th I6rp^-p Joes. Into this net th4Vehawkf.jp <-hichled the van, felJ, and T long fit \ p | \k machinery was uselesi a^he drift Tk | wth the current. At last, !l great c 1 1 erions, she extricated herse'.rh e qf hi vt pels sheered off and avoic^he s| pi pcil. There was no getting the; J I gored position in this way, a t( e J^ 1 to ]3rsevere in that course Id f ; 1 rentered the fleet unmanagea an) j ;^ jJ || pos^ it to destruction. Baffl^ the &-} J| ► temtttoget round or past Fcjmtei/I Jll that'way, the bull-dog. Monj Boujv]?j| anoiier opening ; but evene el H M grouid between the Fort animm I | »|| Poin\wa» barred up. with piijln 1 1| ■■! Fort?umter was found to bu ape a|'p a trii^gle, the two sides of Uh i i v ||| imper^trable to our vesselsi I at rife base Ine of which they wereWej ijH a condntric fire from Forts Moultre, the Redan, Battery ieeXPl|l Fort tieauregard. Thus brolpte \mm stand, aid nothing being ; lerV^if .l^ri^J ip batfcei down Fort Sumter, ire" '/ ; " j ironclad! went resolutely -ioW uA... Wm Sfcretchiie themselves, m? ** lv 1P j fIM Samtoil&id.Houltne^an^:'Qiil%f f" M occasional shot;;^i the flitter ■ pVI---'- \WL plied theij guns opoa the waw|l' [^ jfS The Kejiteik irteaimed upii^am P}Jifi three huifflredyar^ ll I «^la ; the ; 'dth^|^^e{B'?JayT^/il^ej[m p^l--:MH ■ tances /ftßt^weerj that fcah4 n«i( j -'\ I yards. IThe Ironsides, the Ad ft r ■---{« , ship, hai^ {become » ; refuain^o a^vrer:her=helnV j^so N'--A M:i theexceMon pi 3|| ? par-t : :i^|fe £ a^^ajth ; ough"|i#^ mm ; ; seJf viheiyff|ilt:^()ir inajny ; 'pJfvtiS?i| ; -*r| ' larges|J^Bi^dj^^:.h^;i^S^/ J i- seventS^<^«Ustain^^owp|p|J v .| - :e;rial : ':da^i^-- <^^^f^»n-fejpS|« t

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