The Attack On Charleston

-Rebel View. The Charleston Mercury of the I6th, has the following : " It appears to us to be useless to attcmpt to disguiso from ourselves our positioa. 13 y whose fault we got into it it is vain now to inquire. ïhe Yankees having gotten posession oi the southern half of Morris Island, thoro is but one way to save the city of Charleston, and that is by the speedy and unflinching use of the bayonet. If the fight on Morris Islaud ia to be now a iight by engineering contrivanees and cannon merely, the advantage is with the enemy. With their ron-elada on the water and their men in oooupation of the land, it is likely to be a mere question of time. The fall of Fort Wagner ends in the full of Charleston. Fort Sumpter, like Wagner, will then bo assailed by land and sea, and the fato of Fort Pulaski will be that of "Sumpter. General Gilmore, commander of the department, was the mau who redueed Fort Pulaski. Charleston must be saved as Richmond was. The greatcr part of tho soldiers who aohievcd the triumphs by the bayonet had never before boen in a charge. Tho Yaukees here have as yet few or no formidable works. They have but a few thousand troops. If our soldiers and officers here are not equal to the kind of hghtiog fought by the armj of Vüginia and triod by tho Yankees against sucli works as Planners and Secessionville, then Charleston falla. This it appears to us is the only course of eafety, and we uiay add too, for economy of lives. Otber means may protraet the fighting to days and weeks and postpone tlie termination of tho struggle. No other meana, in our opinión, will save tho city. Wo beheve it can be easily saved with proraptness and energy, and it is too late for engineering alone. Hesitation and delay are fatal."