on against its authority. Imagined
evils, in connection with the Union, were then converted into real
ones, and these have been augmented a thousand-fold in the
severance from that Union. When the South shall 'come to
herself'--if she ever does--like the prodigal son, she will find
her condition quite as pitiable, and in rags and wretchedness, she
will seek her father's house, willing, no doubt, to occupy a
servant's place in the national household. Nor until true and
genuine repentance shall come to her, can she hope for a father's
forgiveness and a prodigal's reception and restoration.

Boom! boom!! boom!!! as if the last great day of vengeance had
come, and you could hear the screeching of a thousand fiends in the
air hastening to their destiny, come upon the ear, as Tybee utters
her thunders, and pours out her vials of wrath. See that cloud of
dust which shoots up like a volcano, and looks as though the whole
east side of the fort had fallen in! Bolts of iron, like winged
battering-rams, are ploughing fearfully through her belabored side.
Before this cloud has passed away, you see, just above it, another,
not dark and angry, but in appearance white and spherical as the
moon. A shell has exploded, and rained its iron fragments into the
fort.

It is now past meridian of the second day. Pulaski still fires her
heaviest guns; but at greater intervals. The batteries from Tybee
have obtained so exact a range that nearly every shot does
execution. At length a breach is made in the vicinity of the
magazine. The fate of the fort and all its inmates is now suspended
upon a single, well-directed shot. There is but a step between the
besieged and death, and as all hope of raising the siege is
abandoned, the rebel flag is hauled down, and a white flag of
submission waves in its stead. Pulaski falls, and the day is ours.
The hope of Georgia is gone. In vain did the citizens of Savannah
offer a prize of one hundred thousand dollars for the relief of the
fort. Had that sum been increased to a million, it would have been
quite as unavailing. The same inevitable doom awaits all the other
forts and intrenchments of the rebel confederacy. With some of
these, the event may be delayed; but the day of doom will come, and
the broad flag of the Union will float o