The Siege Of Charleston-what Gilmore's Guns Can Do

The Washington Slar remarles: ''la connectioR with the pperations now in progresa at Charleston, it is interesting to know tliat a hollow shot weighing eighty pounris can bo thrawo Irom a 100 ponnd parrott eight thousand ionr hundred and fifi y tliree yards with tx charge of No 7 poundèr. With a charge of No, 5 powdor tho same shot can be throvvn eight tbousuid eight hundred and forty five yards. Th is is forty fivo yards over fivo miles. By increasing tho chargo of ponder the rango cnn bo c.onsiderably increased The elevutlön oí' the gun to attain this great range is so considerable as to materially reduce the number of firings tñefenn will boar, bnt the iaut is well established that a 100 pounder can th'row shot from oür batteriea into Chai-leston, aud that our 200 pounders eau do it with ;roat degree of certainty. So General Gilmore does actuallv cotnmand Gharle.-lon with his batteries, irrespectivo oí' his 300 poonder.'. JK3L" Why is a lawyer like a restless man in bed ? Because he lies first on one side aud then he turDs over aud lies on the other.