VOLUXE XVI,- -NUMBER; 47, THE POTTER, JOURNAL • •PIIIII.ISHED BY H. W. IlleAlarney, Proprietor. • $1.50 Pit YEAR, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. * * *Devoted to the caue of Republicanism, the interests of agriculture, the advancement of Education, and the but god of Potter county. !Owning no guide. except that of Principle:it will endeaver.to - aid in the work of morn fnlly i Ereetlontizing our Country. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the following rates, except where special bargains are nide: 1 Square [lO lines] 1 insertion, - - $1 50 9 ) Each subseque.nt insertionless than 13, 40 1 Square three months, 4 00 1 " six " -- - - 700 1 cc nine " lO 00 "d l ue year, • 12 00, 1 Columni six' months, 30 00. I t . 17' 00 u ; 10 00, 1! 1 " per year. ----- - 50:.00 u c r f 30i 00 A.dministra..tor's or Executor'sYotice, 300 Business qards, 8 lines or less, per year 5 00 Special and Editorial. Notices, per line, 20 . I ra.nsient advertisements must he' paid in advance, and no notice, mill he takim of advertisOnents from a distance, unViss they ; are accompanied by the money or' satisfactory reference. • , * *Blanks and ..TL,b Work of all kinds, at -7 tended' to promptly and faithfully. _,, I I 3 M BC 7..•____ ~... . . ' Free and) Accented Ancient York Masons. BUL4LIA LODGE, No. 342, F. A. M. STATED M .etings on the 2nd. and. -ithWednes days of•e tell month. Also Masonic gather ings on every Wednesday Evening, for work and: prat ice, at their. Ball in. Coudersport. D. C. LARRIBEE,. W. M. Atainttv.v, See'y. • 11. IN . M I JOHN S. 'LAN N, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR. AT LAW, I CouderspOrt, Pat., willztttend 'the •several ' :courts in Pot.Leit and )['beau Counties. Al! business . nit-tutted in his care will xeceice prompt a t tention. °ace corner Of West • fLrid. Thirc street= HUH G. immsTED, . Airk ATTORNEI.I .3 _'ouilerspd .ntrusted and Four COUNSELLOR AT :L.ArIV, rt, Pa., will p i ttend to nl,l businfss to his care, with prc mptne,:ind I ilice on Suth-west comer of 'drain .11 streets. BENSON. • r AT LAW, Coudersport, PaL; will 11 business entrutetl to him, with coinidn . Lis.Ce on Second L4t., lle , beny • F. W. KNO..k, ATTORNEY attend to : rare and y near the . , AT LAW,`, Condersport: Pa., will ttend the Courts in Potter . and i nn l Counties.' • I I .T. LTASGN, ATTORNEY' 'regularly the adjoin cou;l,n ,, ,lort. Pa. informs the of ',11 , .! vii EIRACTICINI respectfull 'nd_ \ spond to it Office on cupied by l icinity . that he -w 11 prcnnply re -1 calls for profe. - -: Lionel services. ;tin .-A., ili' hnildil !4 -- formerly oc- I C, W. Elli,:, i-7., ,, 1. L , kE. 30.StS, Plzu - Gs, MELPRIX:ES. _Vrticles;Staticlery, D r y G„ o d : , Gludessport, Pa. DI. E. OLMSTED, • DEALERS L Oils, nine Groceries, DEALER DRY' GOODS, READY-MADE Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, &c., Main st., 'Coudersport, Pa. C9LTANS SMITH, DEALER in I ry. Goods,Groceries, Provisions; Hardware, Queensivare, 'Cutlery, and ell • Goods lieu. Hy found in a country Store.— • Couderspor , Nov. 27, 1881; COUDERSPORT HOTEL,. F. "GLA.sMlRE,'•Proprietor, Corner o Itain and'S4eond Streets, Coutlerspot;t, Pot tnt Co., Pa.' A Livc tiou with this ry - :Stable is also kept in connect I Hotel. Is. OLIVIST.?D, DFAX,EIZ. IN S i OVES, lIEET moN WAlta, Main st., -nearly opposite the Court House, Coudersport, Pa. Tin and SheQt Iron Ware tnade to order, in good style, on , .short noticel TT ade to. W.ll. B. MILLER J C M'ALARNEY MILLEift s, IllicAL•6nNEll, ATTOANEYS-ATAAW. HARRISBURG, PA., A GENTS foi• the Conevtiou of Chit XI against the United States and State Goi ernments, such as Pension, Bounty, Arrea; ; of Pay Ix. Aildress Box 95, Hairisburg, Pa. Pension Blij.r lunt,3r and War 0. Agency. . ENSTONS .ro . eured for soldiers of the present wa who are disabled by reason of wounds receiv d or diseas'e eantractracted while in the se vice, of the united States ; :log pensions, boun , y, and arrears of pay obtained for widows or heirs of those who have died or been killed While in service. All lette: .6f 1 ',inquiry promtly answered, and on receipt yy 1 mail of a stateera of the case of claimant 1 n_ will forward. th ' necessary. papers for thei:.' signature. Fe s in Pension eases as...fixed by law. .., . I ~ . . REFERENCES,-11011. TSAACNSCIN, HMI. A. G. 01,11.STED . - J. S. MANN, El. F. W. lisox, ' • Esq. , DAN 13 -I.R.ER, Claim Agent Couderport Pa. hue 8, ' 4.-ly. . ' . to ASSOCIATION ,ILADELPHIA, PL. ROW the Nervous, Seminal, Urina 1, al r,3 stems—new and reliable •ports of 'the HOWARDI AS .at by mail in sealed let er of charge.. Address, Dr. I. 'HTON, Howard Associatio; , h Street, Philadelphia, Pa. • DISEASES o 1 11 ry and sex treatment—in r • envelopes, free SKILLIN BOUG No. 2South Nint 13.41864, •-• c'' • '',' 1 -. „,•----. • ( v / , ✓ i . .1 . 1 -,: i ~.! 1i,.. 0 •-• • 111 I 1 0 1( ) 11 ---,...i. fal . i .---...--- 9. , ' l, '"/IP" ego. -, . , • ) - 1 1 ~ 11111 I ;krona rrespondence of Ye'', York Tribune. CHARLr4oN,S.G,,Feb 20,21 1 22,'65. Here beginneth the re pening of Tim • I rritrißulfs' special. corre ,pondenae. from I 'CharlestouJ which has bee n suspended • ! since the early, period of toe greatilebel lion-against the progress-of the Demo- Cratie idea America, and its grandest add purest incorporation. in the world— the Constitittien and Government of.the United I States, Hew marvelous, how vast, boy sublime have been the events that haN 4 e marked ouii• history since your last rep l reseutative trode the' streets of this insurc.rent city Then it was ruled With a' rod of iron by a barbarous-and aristocratic . cla's, a', inflated and , infaivated by tire l enturids of power; proud of their position ( glorying in' their phathe ; 'confi heir . dent of ability to arrest and turn back the advan'eing tide of Northern civ ilivation; detesting its' apostles (as the i?harisbep onee hated the disciples of Christ), 'whom they had lOng and every- Where pqrseeuted to the death; then. they Were so bold and strong and fierce that the brav'est hettits atuong!us, those who loved the Union abeve all !earthly goods, Were, deubtful'at: times of the final triumph of the nl i tion and the right. It was the high car ival of despotisin in America, , the Belshazzar - s Feastl of the Slaveholder. 'The writing on the Wall was visible to ;hilt one eye in all the delirious city—one voice only read the' impending doom ;aright. lAN lief rd the voice, but none !saw the t ian. He wore TILE TRIBUNE'S 'cloak )nf, darkridss. ' Who was he, that k ) 1 invisible aniel whom the slaveholtilers ;of Charleston sought, so eagerly? . Let ~ • 1 us learnithe well kept secret now, and lolve hudOr to whom honor is due ! , ITo•clzi, how changed the scene ! The 'Rebellion, plantedhere, which grew as i rapidly :s Jonah's godrd, and threatened - 1 . to',,bligli q .all the gland with its Upas shad- I e 4, is wiillterlng up now as quickly as did the prophet's I City after city, State after StatO, is being dragged into the sun liglirt of ii,e - e,Join '; and already we see, uo longerat i lir off, , but near at hand, the daWning of the day of liberty. For, our "liabvii•n'the great has fallen, has fallen," anil its setting is' the rise of the sun ofd liberty. - 'I kIiIN TUE BAY. '/Ilre 1.1, eir l',,e harbor forseveral hours before (1.0,1.1:c,11: 7 when the trip to, the cid; taus 11, , 010ed. A brisk breeze was bliiwine, filout the'land, but its chilliness kept nonejof the pLssengers inside. Ev ery-eye wzi l s eagerly gazing at the broad. strewn. the luiti•:, the torts, the !distant city, the shil•s of-war, the blockade run net?, and tilie monitors, which formed the saiii:nt feajures of the scenery before us. TO:tlzei left lay MOrris Island, wi th; ;Fort Wa! , •••ner and the Cummitm's bat• I Point; , terns;' further off, on the shore, large) • . l, ~,, , , mounds of band—the Rebel "battery-B;' 1 , • t a little further up, with our flag hying) • t • over it, Fort Gregg;. to the right, on the -1 loWsandy ihore, with one or two little ; groVqs' of palmettos near by, the earth ! woric, S of Hort Moultrie ; .between them, lap arently b mass r of ruins in the middles , of .11 strewn; but really one of the most I for ntdable 'f,rtitlea'tions in the worldl, was th renowned Fort l ,Sompter ; and behind . i I , it lay Castle Pinckney, with its cannon i landcity, I ' POI I t l ed at , us, the captured c f wit . re , ~R ebll. i on was begotten and born,; an }began its career of carnage and des elation. I 11 I , I •It is not merelyl what we see, but the memories artakeued,that make landscapes) full of chart} or of interest. 'Under other eircumntanchs, and at any other time,thisl, laudicape w i ould have drawn but few ofj the isasseligi3rs faorn their berths, but, now a sandy plain was gazed on with profound ititerest as the scene of the heroic charge of the'.Massachusetts 54th. With tCe t sight of the six monitors) were Irevived recollections of that [minor able itight 41 Ilainpton. Roads, and of many,a gallant action . since; with that mass of ruined brfek work was inseparably inter Wren the story of how the Rebels dared o fire On our flag in the v - adtonness of their prid ‘ , and thereby provoked the; , •• uprising of the North and the develop-, tnendek the most imposing and resistless; o all modern military powers. Every brain liwas populous l with memories of' history: events,and every eye was strained to its Lt tmosti to notice with - the minutest fidelitY every) featare of the scenery. i r 2 "YA.NrEE DOODLE COME TO TOWN." 1 f post brasswe neared " too, wharves the post brass Vand, Which -had come with us from Hilton I Ilead struck Up the spirit stirring air of l,- 3Nuiree Doodle:, That tune should be heiid under such Circumstances to be, duly 4Preuidtcd IlagT APPEARANCES : wharyes looked as is they had isertmi for half a century--broken dilapidated, grass and moss peep. IbetwLn the pavements, where Irony feet of commerce trode tl • -,,k ware houoes ucar the The been 'd ddwn,l4 in ( o. + 0 i once th lucessari bebot - 0,3' to tfje T,Tilleiples"of COUDERSPORT, h4rleston. rqa Deii)ockpep, 410 ilia Dis:seNiinfiort of g.ifehfi t he qqo ffeus, OTTER COUNTY, PA„ WEDNESDAY MARCH 15, 1865. river; the streetsas we eater them ; the houses and the stores and the public buildings s —we too at them and hold our breaths in utter a azement. Every step we take increases too astonishment. No pen, no pencil, no .ongne can do justice to the scene. No imagination can con ceive of,the utter wreck, the universal ruin, the stupendous desolation. Ruin —ruin—rnin—aboVe and below; on . the right band and on !the left; ruin, ruin, ruin. everywhere and always—staring at us from every paneless window; looking at us from every shell torn wall; glaring at us from every battered door and pillar and verandah; crouching beneath, our feet on every sidewalk. Not Pompaii nor lierculaneum, nor Thebes nor the Nile have ruins so complete, so saddening, so plaintively eloquent, for they speak to us of an age, nut ours, and long ago dead, with whose people and life and ideas we have no sympaty whatever. But here, on these shattered wrecks of houses-- built in our own style, many of them doing credit to the - architecture of our epoch•—we read names familiar to us all; telling us of trades and professions and commercial institutions, which every modern city reckons up by the hundred ; yet, dead, dead, dead ; as silent as the grave of the Pharaohs, as deserted as the bazaars of the merchant princes of Old Tyre. Whoever among, us . wished to know how his spirit Would feel if he were to revisit by the' pale glimpses or the moon the ruins bf his native city after the present civilization shall' have passed away, learned it to his complete satisfac tion on the morning of last Monday here. r It was early—few stragglers were abroad; just enough to make the desolation still more desolate by contrast ; and the still ri6s, not of the Sabbath, but of the 'des ert, hung heavily ,over all: ..flard.ly a building.in ,all this part of the city--- 7 and this is the business part—has escaped the terrible crashing. and smashing of the 'shells. And right in the centre of it, are at least, (I should judge) ten acres of ruins, the monuments of the great• fire which occurred 'three years ago. This is in an open space—only slackened walls and solitary chimneys remain in it. And, all around this area of. desolation, are the ruined houses that still stand—"Gill more's Town," as the negroes call it; a triumph of military skill—of the art destructive of all arts; a proof to the Christian that God's judgments are sure, and that the cries of the -poor are heard I at The Great Throne and avenged by the all Righteous Judge. They. acted, the men who lived in these mansions and trafficked in these stores and marts, as if God were dead; as if their own will was the only. standard of right—they mocked at any "higher law" ; they sold the *poor men in their avarice and killed the good men in their, hate; when, lo I . the people whoui they despised rose up against thein and the race whom they enslavea trode their Streets under the banners atickas the comrades of their conquerors I A NEGRO DiAqE-DREAKER. We found :The lfeitcury office deserted —a pegro family already quartered in the l room which bad been]the editorial sanol tum In the faont I.rootn, there were four busts of eminent Americans—one of them Calhoun. I have no respect what ever fur mere intellect; unless it is em ployed for the benefit of the race; arid' when it is perverted and made an emzine for the oppression of the poor, I have a cordial detestation of it. These human infernal machines, these torpedoes in trowsers, should be treated just as their mechanical images are treated—=destroyed or put out!of harm's way. Now, Calhoun did more than anyone man to make Sla very respectable—he used all his great( powers to crush the negro. So i bate{ him: I said to the negresS who - . showedi us into the room ''That man was yonr great enemy—ire did all he could to beep you slaves—you ought to,breair .his:bust." She raid nothing, and as I was occupied in examining manuscripts c l did not notice that she left the tonal. After a while, having finished my search, I tho't that the bust of Calhoun would be a good trophy for THE TRIBUNE Otfice,and wade up u.iy mind to 'spoil the Egyptians" to to that extent. The neoTo woman was there, and•l saw that the bust had - disappeared. I asked her where it was. She !lad "done gone" and broke it! So perish all Queen, Liberty's otipmies'i .71tq Courier office 'was in poseessiox(of x i the Provost Marshal. ' After vario 4 re• searches, we obtained the current ews pf THE EVACUATION./ The •recent movements, /Planned by Gen Gillmorc along the/line of the Charleston and Savannayßailroad (under Brig. Gen. Hatch), and up Bull's Bay .:1 (a naval and tram 7 expedition nod& Gen. Potter), alar cci the Rebel military authorities and )4 steped the evacuation of the city. was known . from Rebel sources that z nirdee designed to evacuate; the city, but it was thought that it would take place on Wednesday, Feb. 22, or later in the week. But Potter's demon “ration deceived them (for they believed that he had-a very large force, while, in fact, he had but 2,200 men), and they began to leave the city ouFriday. dee himself left Charleston on Friday night, and the last of the Rebels took their leave early On Saturday. DESTRUCTION OF COTTON AND PUBLIC • • ST RES. Before leaving, details of Soldiery were sent to 'fire every building without ex ception in which cotton was stored. It is estimated that . 2,000 bales were con sumed. The western portion of Charles ton' suffered severely by,, these fires. The cotton thus destroyed belonged chiefly to the Rebel Government; but hundreds of bales, the property of citizens, shared the same fate. Thirty thousand bushels of nee., Government property, and allarge warehouse filled with commissary stores, were also destroyed: The fire engines were brought out, but were powerless to extinguish the flames. They succeeded only is paereating it: from spreading. HORRIBLII CALAMITY. When the starring poor people heard tliat the public 'store; were beiug burned, they ran in great crowds to try to save some of the rice. This was about 8 o'- clock in the worninu. Some boys dis covered where a large%upply of gunpow der was stored, and abused themselves with tossing handfuls of it into the large piles of burning cotton Suddenly the tire communicated to, the magazine, and a 'fearful explosion tooli nlam The scene isdesefibed as being eXtremely horrible. It is estimated by the citizens that up ward of 150 men, women and children perished in the flacues l , and that nearly `26,0 were injured, burned and wounded. Possibly this may be an exaggerated estimate; but there are no public officers yet from whom the truth can be ascer tained, and rumor is wholly untrustwor• thy. This frightful calamity occurred at the North-Ea:item Railroad depot, which was totally destroyed. The miserable victims were seen tumbling about in agony, literally roasting alive; their wild ,lirieks were appalling—and all help was impossible: DEETRUCTION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY The flames rapidly communicated to the adjacent buildings and four large blocks were almoSt entirelyiburned down., This fire ravaged ehapet, Calhoun, East j Bay and Laurens-sts., in the 'vicinity of the, N. G. Railroad depot. Two large brick buildings on the corner of East. Bay land Laurens-sts. and Minoty sts. were also destroyed. An hour later five build ings near the. Court hoMic, ou Heetitig st., were added to the list of total, losses by i the fire. The new bridge frOm the city ,to James Island was similarly destroyed.l 1 1 ESTE.UOTION OF THE GUNI3OATE While these s'ceries of horror-were g o. ing on, the Rebel ion clads were burning These vessels were named the , Palmetto ..State. the .Chicora and the Charleston. The Palmetto State exploded with a fear ! ful •• noise about 9 o'clock, and the IChicora followed suit, shortly afterward. - ' The Charleston held out till - ,11 o'clock, and then burst asunder. One of these iron clads had 20. tuns of gunpowder on board; and the effect of its ignition was terrific. Red hot iron plates were thrown as far as the wharf, and soon set them on fire.. But the wharves were Bard. from i destruction by the sire Derrtment. The iworks were in danger, but were success ! fully protected. .. - We still have gas, therefore, such as it is—but as it is made ' wholly of Southern pine, it is far from i beim; a brilliant light. The Marle.s i ton! Courkr of Monday. (No. 20.001), m'end tiens a curious phenomenon connected I with or caused by these explOsions.,"Thei explosions," it says were terrific. Pre-! mendous,eoiids of smoke went 03 forind ir.g lieautiful wreaths. /A full Palmettol tree, with its leaves _r stems, wasinoticed by many 'observer . As the la.sti wreath of smoke disapp - red, the full forth of the rattle snake in the center= was re3iiarketl by many as *gradually faded away." me Co trier made no coma Cents on this signi cant phenomenon ; but when 'its fugAie editors return (if they. ever -do opine back), they will find 'that the PaMato and Rattlesnske " welt up" st Saturday, never to descend:; They ended as' the Confederacy will and—in kla/ 1 1 smoke. • , THE NEGRO TROO*S ENTER CELARESTON The first national soldiers that Ilanded in Charleston in the capacity of masters , of the Rebel city,, were the Soutl Caro lina negroes (thank God !) of the wenty first United States Colored Tromps. -There was also a detachment of the gallant Massachusetts Fifty-fouith, who Ore the first negro troops to demonstr4te on Southern soil the splendid fighting qua'. ities of the colored race. They wire the heroes of Fort Wagner, where ? Shaw lies biiried "under his niatrers," as thti brutal ruffians reported. Thc Pennsylvania I - --- Fifts-second follmed the rest of the forces I ; of occupation. I , I ' Soon the Star Spangled Banner floated from the top of the Custom housn, the Citadel, and the Arsenal—waving 4r the first time here over free soil and a people free. 1 "INSOLENCE" OF THE COLORED TROOPS. "Do the Yankees trouble you ?" was asked_of this person. "No," ebe, said, "the Yankees don't; but your negroes jdo." "They do not insult; you, do they ?" "No, not me; but they doiothers "What do they) do ?" l' "Oh I they won't turn off the sidewalk for you, and theyl wilL go up to a white 1 ! * man and ask, him fon a light for their Cigars I" t 'To appreciate ;this enormity fully, it ; !should 'be known !that it is a part of the unwritten laws' of Soiith Carolina that levery negro on tneetiu4 a white_periOn tan the sidewalk,shalll give, them the inside or "the, wall." 1 Some seditious Yai, I llecs hake 'probably ad4lsed the negroes of the fact that this los non script& is repealed, or at least played out. Since some of our soldiers went into la I Catholic cathedral in 'Mexico, and re quested a priest to! vivre him one of the .( 1 , tapers to light his ciga r at, there has I probably nothing been doneby Amarican troops so offensive 'to the feelings of the natives of a conquered eoun&y as was perpetrated•wtien the first negro soldier stepped up' to ono of the scions, of the chivalry here'and asked hint.for a light. "But things like this, you know must be,' after a famous victory.,' as tbe' uncle of little Petei• Kinvey judiciously remarked. MASSACHUSETTSTHE MASSACHUSETTS PIETt-PIETH.. On Tuesday evening, about i 7 o'clock, we heard a prolonged and lie:A•ty cheer- ' ing in a neigtboring street. Irran in the direction indicated by the snouts, and found that the MassachusettsFtfty-fifth (Colored) regiment had just landed in, the city.: ' ' , John Brown's body lies a, moldering in the grace, John Brown's body lies n moldering in the grave. John Brown's body lies" o. moldering in* the grtive, His goul is marching on!'; Glory! Glory I Hallelujah ! Glory ! Glory! Hallelujah I Glory Glory ! I W go mh.rching on! We'll hang Jeff Davbron a cob-apple tree, We'll hang Jeff Davis on a crab-apple tree, We'll hang Jeff Davis on a crab-apple tree, 'As Ve go rnarchin,g,on! Imagine, if you can, this stirring song chanted with the most rapturOus most exultant emphasis, by a reginient of no g,ro• troops, who bad been ; lying in sight Of Charleston fiat• nearly two years—as I they trod with turuultuouS delight along !Soil streets of this pro-slavery city, whose Soil they had just touched for ..the first itime—imagine them, in the dim light of Ole evening. peeing, on every side groups of their own race—men, wooden, maidens and little chili*, who greeted them with a joy that kdew no bounds save that of physical ability to express itself fully --imagine them, as they finished their song of triumph, unite with ecstasy, in joining in that other thrilling. melody : Down with the traitor ; tp them the flag— Imagine cheer, as only triumph troops can cheer, in honor of the "stars and stripes,"' and you may conceive, (albeit very faintly,) the sublime and unequaled scene that: I had the privilege of witnessing on Tuesday night in Charleston. DAHLGRN ; AND GILIZIORE Major Gen Gillum.° and Admiral Dahlg,ren, as .I t you in my last dis patch, landed in this city on Saturday morning. .It is said that whenever a negro was told that it was Gen. Gillwore who commanded the Nationalarwy here, a broad grin tTould a once make him show how find a set of teeth helad for his own private use. It was a happy accident that eniabled Gen. Gillmore to be in command l of this Department now. It makes the taturoph poetical and, com plete. i3LOCK3DD RUNNERS A fine, fast blockade runner was in the harbor, when the city was evacuated, , land eow flies the stars and stripes. It is the Syrene. On Monday night still another walked Ova waters like a thing of life, and wake up to find itself in a Union harbor, lan easy prize to the fleet which it thought it had eluded. •, It is an old offender—the It is believed that there are others nearly due. They will be allowed to comei in, freely. Our. success is !making us a ithle careless. I believe there are naval officers whowould just 0 lief as as' not let all the blockad ers still afloat come in here.now. 1 I CANNON'. 1 1 Twu maznifice i nt Blakely guns Kris hunled pounders l ), one of them stationed at th "Battery" here, the other at , the fort near the Custom ' House, were ex plojerJ oniSatutiay moping ; by order of 1 1 1 T .ERNS,--$l5O PER ANNUM. Gen. Hardee., It is worth a trip, to Charleston. to !see the 'damage done by the bursting of the. gun at the battery: it' has completely . ruined a !sage and princely. house (the property of Mr. Pe- Saussure) which is situated about a hun dred yards from the spot where the gun was planted. Every pane of the thick plated glass - is broken into little pieces, and the whole interior of the hottest is torn frightfully. The exterior fared no better. COTTON-FII.I . II.TE'STON There is a quantity of cotton hid away and buried t. In and around •Charleston I but what is In cellars will soon be brought to light, and, as Pope said of Johnson, we may say of the rest of it, that it will "Soon be deterr6 " There are also orilf nonce stores concealed—but in vain, ai the omnipresent he,gro was there to See it and is here Wiwi'. The quantity of cotton supposed to be in Charleston and vicinity is estimated at from two hundred to five hundred bales. _ VISIT TO FORT SXMTER On 7uesday we accompanied C-ens. Giltnerf& and Webstelf to Fort Sumter. Gen. Gill More generously extended the coveted opportunity to visit new classical ruin to a large number of loyal ladies and gentlemen. We went out in the W. W. Colt, which soon lay off the fort on the side nearest to the city. A steamer 'had sunk near . the Fort. We landed in small boats, as the water is trite shallow there.l, The General and staff and some ladies' landed 'in the first boat. The wall to the right of the fort, looking toward it with the back to the city, is aboUt forty feet high, one cornet being strengthened by-heavy timber work outside. In the center 'it is perhaps about twenty-five feet high on en average. This side, Of conrse,.has been less dam. agetT than those - winch were exposed to the fires of the batteries on Morris Island and to the fierce bombardment of the iron-clads. You enter though a very low passage way, a hundred feet or so in length, and emerge into an area of about an acre. Viewed from the inside, the wallt , , od rather defenses, look high and are really formidable. ' The fort oniginally was a pentagon, !milt of brick, stately : and high. Every one is familiar with its external 'appear ance before the insurrection. Its siege hak revolutionized the art of military engineering. It is now shown that the lolcr style of brick or stone-wall defenies are far less efficient than earthworks di. lines of gabions. Gabions are large, deep wicker basket filled with earth or Sea or quartz, sand. ' The blick walls of Sucetef 'that ftieed Morri r s Island are almost en tirely demolished i but behind where they stood are layers of gabions, with terraces and bomb pitoof both for soldiers on duty at the guns on the parapets;and as quar ters for the officers and men. The de. felons average, T chould , think, about 100 feet in thickness. Eveny shell that . de molished a portion of toe exterior brick wall, therefore, only st i rengthened the defenses, as it tossed the brick from posit tion's where it was of little use to make the interior lines heavtr, Sumpter re mindA.one of, the innoce t criminal, who told her confessor that she love dt ob e ruined. The bomb proofs of the sentinels and soldiers on duty are little steep holes, aown which they ran and hid themselves as soon as they sas the smoke of the ghns onMorris Island, remaining there luntil the shell' exploded. The he'avv siege guns are concealed 'and pro tected beneath these , impregnyble . fences, ' and are' ,corked in nuderground galleries. The' quarters , of the effteers and men are also bomb proefs—under grouna, or rather undergabion rooms ; commodious and safe,if neither command t, in a ,r4 l ood view nor extremely luxurious. I The e area is entirely unoccupied, with the I exception of a Tailway ; which runs frOut l i the entrance toward .the officers' quarters I on the Ifurther side. - To guard the, fart I againstlan attack on the-sides that have been battered dosvn ; there are wires stretchcl Hong the parapets, and lines.ot clierat4 de f ricze at the bottom to trip up and .arrest the charge of an assaulting I party. I The. fort, which looks like a'ruin, lis thus ' stronger in its dilapitude than it. -was in its "original state. On Chi left hand side, looking from the city beay,y timber works protect the old. brick walls, which are there quite high, but weio badly damaged by the 'bombardment of the monitors under Admiral Dupont ! . Here a. pen description of such ascents is necessarily soreetihat or exceeding!" obscure; but those who desiro to see home . 'Fort Sumter. looksl on the ' exterier, can I find accurate 'drawings'of it in Gen, Gill: more's recent book on the siege.'ind twa of Frank Leslie's artists took sk:•tehes or i the interior during oar visit tb . it. When Gen: Gillthore 'and bis party reached the parapet of Sualter,they wave4.l their hats and cheered. I. It was agrati.i... fying sight fur a patriot to witness-- not
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