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The Federal Fleet Attacking Two Sand Batteries—Their Capturing Six Hundred Prisoners, &c.
The steamer Louisiana, Capt. Cannon, from Old Point, arrived Sunday, A. M., and brings the following important advices from the Federal fleet, which sailed from Old Point on Monday last. The steamer Adelaide had returned from the fleet and proceeded to Annapolis on Saturday, having on board Major General Butler and fourteen wounded Confederate prisoners, bound to Washington. We understand that the entire fleet, consisting of five war vessels, surrounded and engaged two sand batteries on the beach, at the mouth of Hatteras Inlet, and after considerable firing on both sides, a shell from the frigate Minnesota, caused the explosion of the Confederates’ magazine, when the entire body, said to number six hundred, were forced to surrender, from loss of ammunition and no means of retreat. Included among those taken prisoners, was Com. Barron. They were all sent to New York.
The world has never produced a man who is destined to receive the execrations of mankind and to merit the lash of the satirist, in a larger measure than ABRAHAM LINCOLN, first the low baffoon, and next the bloody tyrant. This man is, like all tyrants, weak of will and of a miserably contracted intellect. This weakness of resolution makes him the tool of the bolder and bloodier men that surround him. Having no clear views of statesmanship, and having devoted his mind and soul to dogma, he has surrendered himself as the read, victim of cruel counsellors, and of the vindictive party leaders who control his conduct. Day by day he issues some new decree by which constitutional liberty is crushed out and the way prepared for absolute despotism.