The Daily Journal from New Bern, North Carolina • Page 2

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. the Confederate works lueu hisper. On the esplanade in Charleston scarcely loot moves on the graveled walks. Aboard the iron clads orders are given in low, stern tones full -of terrible earnestness. The hundreds of men looking on from the reserve fleet and the bloekaders fairly hold their breath.

The whole world might well look on and tremble with excitement. The mightiest problem of war is alnmt to be solved. jSow the leading iron-clad is iu range of the first Confederate work, Twenty thousand pairs of eyes look for a sudden puff of smoke and flame, but it does not come. The tons, and it is being repeated once in 100 seconds from every one of those thirty-two guns. Here in Fort Sumter, as in Moultrie, Beauregard and other works, they are using great bolts with the Brooke gnus solid shot and great shells with the eleven-inch cannon rifled shot and bolts with the English guns which have run the blockade.

As the action continues, Sumter brings seven ten-inch, mortars into play, and Moultrie two, and now the crash is terrific beyond description. THIS IK ON SIDES. The lire from the Confederates was at first by battery. At the AXMOl'NCEUK T. 24eoluinn paper i-W daily except (.

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Payments for transient advertisements must made In advance. Refcular advertisements will "coWaeotprompliy at" the end of each month. 1 Communications containing news or a discussion of local matters ar solicited. SocummunU cation mosi expect to be published that coutains itijectiontible personalities witiiltolda the narae if the asthor or that will make mora than on i.iluma of thiinaper plates cracked, and limping out of the fight with her pumps going, i TnE PATAPSCO. i This vessel fired eighteen shots, and was hit forty-five times, but most of the shot glanced off.

She had three or four plates cracked, was ''bulged' in three, or four spots, and one Confederate bolt peeled a furrow through solid iron three inches deep, THE MONTAfK. Vi.1--?- Until just before the signal to drop out of the fight, none of the iron-clads were nearer than ta mile to Sumter. All of a sudden the Keokuk, provided with double-turrets, steamed ahead until within rifle range. She was one of, the stoutest, if not the very best of the fleet, and her guns were served in si maniK'i' elicit-this-admiration of the Confederates. She was hit; ninety times sixty of the shot, striking her in the space of ten minutes.

When she steamed ahead, thirty-eight guns concentrated their lire upon her, and the sound of the projectiles striking the iron was plainly heard in Sumter and Moultrie. Here was the real test of the light. Solid iron plating six inches thick had to give way before the Confederate shot. Weehawken steams slowly ou, aiHiienu 01 ten minutes orders were the others come upiu turn, but that (given to fire at will, and then some gnm silence is unbroken. of the closest shooting ever record- Straight on until, within easy oil was made.

It seemed almost range of tlienoxtpaird yet that impossible-for- a- 1-Vdentl shot- to same grim silence. AY hat does it! miss the forts, but on the other mean! Have the Confederates jliand tlie iron-dads sat low in the deserted their works on Morris Is- water, were kept on the move, and land? appeared to otter no chance to lit And now the Weehawken is best, artillerists. The Ironsides was within range of a third Contederate i under the guns of Sumter at close work. Its flag is flying, but not a I range about fifteen minutes, and at man is visible. That same pro-1 long range for three-quarters of an found silence that stillness whicli hour, moving every minute, and tries a brave man's nerves far more, yet she was hit ten or twelve times than the confusion of battle.

One in five, minutes. One of the by one the other eight creep up and iron shutters over her gun port creep past, and ten thousand men i was shuck and sent living through whisper to each ot her: "What does it mean? Why don I they lire?" bows and tore her in a frightful A FAlB Ficurr. manner. She divided her lire be- -As has been written before, (between Sumter and Moultrie, but attack had been anticipated fori owing, to some disarrangement of days and provided tor. Instnetion machinery fired less than a dozen had been sent to every Confederate noiiuds.

Had she remained ten work providing for the smallest minutes longer in the position first details. The Confederates wanted taken she would have been sent to a fair light. They wanted to give the bottom. She was hit upwards the iron-clads a fair chance to test of sixty times, or once- for every their The building oi'i litty seconds of the engagement, these monsters had frightened the The shot she fired would have dis-South. If they could whip the forts jabled any two wooden ships afloat, and batteries in a fair fight the i One of her shot cracked (ho-para- ADVERTISEMENTS.

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10 1883. entered sPthf PoR W' TuS'cw" IleiHe aivecond-class matter. 'V V. rroTiT AND FLEET-; The First Federal Attack oh Fort Kmit- trr Iron-Claila Against Brick mid Stne Learn Lesson. j'f Itlsviwiow inflieViftenioon of the 7t of April, 1SC3.

An 4piil Ylit.V began one of the Woodiest' wars oft he century. This April day two years latter is to witneirtjjgjit n' war which no nation has ever seen before. The federal iron-clads are going to attack Fort Sumter! Thafc'riieaB more than yon dream of. It means revolution all over the world in the manner of building and arming ships of war, and it nieaiiftihattfForfc, umter will; be the last uricft fort erected on the American, contiment to withstand a bombardment from the water. It is a glial poch in the history of war.

When the sun goes down this evening the wooden navies of Europe will be worthless, and stone forts of England and France will be 0 i WE SHE. We stand, on, the. walls of Fort Sumter and look seaward. Off the bar artheWwkaders wooden vesselii)iV5llS'lth front; to mix and eight guns each. Inside the bar is the iron-clad named Weehawken Pasaic, Patapsco, Ironsides Nantucket, 'Nahanr, Montauk.

Catskill, Keokuk. These nine iron-clads ha ve reserve of Ave vessels which can throw their projectiles1 into the Confederate batteries en Morris and Sullivan's Islands. The-chiyiiielaliavabeen obstructed bj- ilesjuidjraftitand filled with nets ani torpedoes, and iron clads will find themselves under the fire of Sumter, Moultrie, Beauregard, Hie EedaBviand within1' long range! of CastleliPinckney." nTliea there is the Wappoo Creeks Battery, Fort Johnson, Fort Ripley, Battery Bee, Fort the Star and the Sand Batteries. More than seventy heavy gnns will be trained ou the nine iron-clads. It is two years since Maj.

Anderson was bombarded oat of Sumter, For two years the Confederates have been adding to its strength and and England's whole hayy would be. no match for-it this hour. Fort Moultrie has also been strengthened iu many ways, and the newer forts and batteries are terribly strong and pr vi ed-, Every commissioned officer but ipnteris at dinner. That onejf eh raiiimrts frith 'a spy-glass to his eye. Ho sees the iron-clads fall into line and begin the and he1 reports the movement to the post-commandant.

Not anotlrcer leave's the dinner ta: meal is coolly and deliberately finished, and then the long-roll is beaten and every human being within those walls moves to the plaee assigned him without excitement or confusion. It Is the same in every other fort and battery no demonstrations, no In a fort every man is one of the pieces ot great machine. When the machine moves every piece knows it place and falls Into ft. It was a Btrange sight to see those grim iron-clads tail into line and advance. War had never witnessed such a spectacle before.

When it was seen that long-anticipated attack was about to be made, Fort Sumter threw out the flag of South Carolina and saluted it with thirteen guns, while the -imusic of the band on the ramparts was heard in fort and battery aboard the iron-clads beyond the bar where the bloekaders were lying on the. A GRIM MTSTEKT, The iron-clads will be under the fire of the Star and'Sand batteries and Fort Wraguer before Moultrie or Sumter can fire a gun. After salute of Sumter there is silence. In Before she could back out Hie position in whicli she had vol untarily placed herself she had twelve men wounded, her turrets pierced in live or six places and twenty holes in her iron hull. As she moved off down the bay the sea washed into her in a dozen Her pumps kept her afloat through the night, but at daylight she went down like a stone.

THE I'LKKT. The idea was that none of the nine iion-chids could be pierced by any projectile in the hands of the Confederates. They, therefore, went into action with perfect confidence. They were permitted to pass several batteries which could have at least greatly annoyed them, and lo take up such positions as soiled them best. After that it was give and take, and they were fairly whipped.

THEFOUTS. Federal history has asserted that the fleet was oposed by at least a00 guns. The number was exactly sexenry-six, and not one of them was the equal of the new ordnance on the ironclads. Fort Sumter was. struck about sixty times, and had four men wounded.

The damages-were repaired in a. single day. eon; Moultrie had one man killed, and an work would repair all damage. Wagner had three men killed and three wounded, but the loss of life was the result of an accident in the fort. None of the other Confederate works received damage or suffered loss among the garrison.

The total number of shots fired by the (Jon-federates was 2,200. THE LESSONS. If Dupont could have run a part of his fleet past Sumter and attacked its weak side the result might have been different; The first lesson learned was that no wideawake fort would permit such a maneuver, If again attacked a square tight against its sea front must be expected. The second lesson learned was that no iron-clad could be made impregnable. None of the European iron-clads said to be impervious to projectiles of any sort have ever been tested as Dupont tested that fleet.

All iron.clads must have port, shutters. Make I hem as they will, and shot striking square and fair will jam them so as to render the gun behind useless. A turret can tie jammed by a shot, and a projectile from a fifteen-inch gun striking the pilot house will crack the plates or start the bolts Sumter likewise learned a lesson. Though not badly damaged, it was easy to see that brick and stone could not resist shot aud shell at such close range. Let such- an attack be repeated often enough autl the fort must be knocked to pieces.

The sand forts were undamaged. Fof years and years war had sought for the best material to construct forts, and lo! a conflict of two hours had proved that it was the despised sand over which massive stone had been laboriously hauled. No other day in the world's history had learned the world so much of war. M. QUAD.

The Second Crop, Wo were fdiown yesterday evening a lot of largo, fine Irish potatoes, grown by a gentleman of tliis city in his garden, being the second crop, this year. In July he dug the first crop, which was an admirable one; he then picked off the smaller oneB, some not larger than marbles, which he replanted, from which were grown those laid on our table yesterday eveningl This latter crop are certainly and proves beyond a doubt that two crops of Irish potatoes, with the proper care and cultivation, may bo made in our section. H'iV. Review. Kalamazoo is a great celery-raising town.

What the young men of this country want to find, however, is a salary -raising community. Hie iir, a part of her stern was shot- inway, and three shells entered hei pet; wall ot Pbrt Sumter for a (lis tiince of twenty-eight feet, and another struck and demolished a columbiad and its carriage. TIIH MAIIAXT. The Isahaiit did not nearer than 1,000 vards. advance and yet She pre-to the than a certain sue was nir eigiity imes, seated no more of a targei big guns at that distanci floating hogshead, and yet pieces trained upon her from Sumter and Moultrie did not miss more than one shot out of six.

Her crew went into action believing her im- ii i i i i i pregnaoie, out mo second simr re niW uno el her plates wide open. In ten minutes three plates had been fractured, and she was leaking, in twenty minutes it was seen tliat she could lie pounded to pieces even at that distance. One of the last shots received was an enormous solid holt from a rrooks gun. Tnis bolt struck the pilot-house square and fair, driving in a dozen bolts and cracking the iron plates as a stone cracks a pane of glass. She had six of her crew wounded one fatally by flying bolts alone.

She went out of the light half a wreck, having fired about two dozen shots. THE PASSAIC. The Passaic was hit over fifty tunes. One gun in Sumpter st ruck her six times in succession. Had she been lying alongside of a three-decker she would have driven her shot clean through her every time, and every one would have made a hole like a barrel, but of the nineor ten shots she fired at Sumpter only two struck and those with no damage.

There were a dozen places where the Confederate shot had plowed furrows in her iron plates as a plow leaves its mark on the soil. One plunging shot which struck the top ot her pilot-house lelt a cavity in the solid iron whicli would have held two quarts of water. She had nine plates cracked by one single shot, and such was the jar when -the heavy shot struck her that men were knocked down. She showed hree spots where the iron plates were forced inwards until huge (tones appeared on the inside, and she went out of the fight with her big gun disabled and her turret out of order. THE This niouitor fired iii'tecn Knots, nine of which were well planted.

aud was hit over fifty times. Three of the in Sumter fired only sit ner port shutters, and tor seven or eight minutes eighteen guns were trained upon her at fair range. At the end of thirty minutes her large guns could no longer bo worked, her turret was out of order, and she had received such wounds as proved that her destruction would bo only a question of time under that firo. THE CATSKILL. This craft lired twenty-five shots and was hit fifty-one Three of the best, shots planted in Fort Sumter were fired from her guns.

She was scarred and furrowed from end to end, her plafes cracked and and one bolt went square through the iron deck, leaving it hole as large as a man's head. THE WEEHAWKEN. Despite her misfortune at the openingof the light, the AA'eehawken i lired twenty-six shots, twenty of which hit. In turn she was struck about sixty times, having several lears would be well louimeu. they could be beaten off they would no longer be a Lmgaboo.

lhe -instructions w(4re to let the ironclads advance as near as they desired without seeking to obstruct hem. THE I'll! ST (iVX. The head of the advancing line is full within the harbor of Charleston and within range of every work on Sullivan's Island before, the silence is broken. Then a pud' of smoke shoots straight out iioiu the ramparts of Moultrie, followed by, a second, third and and the mightiest fight of the century has opened. It is iron-clad and turret and ironside against brick and stone and sand.

Let the whole world look on, then 'is a lesson to be learned. TIIH ODSTKUCTIOXX. Humors had reached the Federals of obstructions in the channel, but, I if credited, no one knew what they were nor how placed. The instructions from Dupont expected at least half the fleet to pass Fort Sumpter and fire upon it from the rear. It-was only when the Weehawken steamed ahead for this purpose that the piles and nets and torpedoes were discovered.

Indeed, he iron- clad had picked up a seine with1 her wheel and was deprived of alii before, the character i ot the obstructions were hilly known. Thus fouled and unman-1 ageaoie, tne iron monster arms with the current, and the fire of her guns as she drifts seem like signals of distress. The Ironsides comes up and tries the other channel, followed by two others, and in seeking to evade the obstructions there is a collision and an entanglement, and for twenty minutes the whole three are under a hot without opportunity to answer it. When disentangled and in position to open fire the real fight begins. Dupont bus discovered that it is to be a square fight, and he accepts.

Here, then, are the nine iron-clads within the circle of Confederate fire. They are supposed to I be impregnable. They have ordnance warranted to knock a brick fort to pieces. Watch the fight we shall see. I SHAKING TIIH WOKLl).

The heaviest old-fashioned ordnance of the world is. mounted upon the Confederate forts and batteries. The most' effective guns of modern date are iu the turrets of the ironclads. "Nearly eighty Confederate cannon are! belching their fire into the circle in which the nine iron clads move slowly about like bewildered monsters of the deep the iron-clads answer with thirty-two guns. It is a roar which sways the tree-tops in Charleston.

It is an earthquake which raises bubbles of air alongside the bloekaders seven miles away. It is a sound which rolls along the sea for fifty miles. THE TIIUN DEEBOJTS. On the iron-clads they have coolly settled down to their work. Thirty-five pounds of powder is placed in one of the monster guns, a shot weighing 450 pounds goes down after it, and the discharge seems to drive the vessel ten feet.

Think of 450 pounds of iron, tipped with steel, driven square against Sumter by such a weight of powder at a distance of 1,000 yards Such a bolt would pass through ten ordi nary tirick walls as easily as a stono flies through a sheet of paper. The force of that lilow is at least 15,000 I i i I.