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Show TUB ATTACK QN SEWALL'3 POINT. Tbb Alexandria Gatf it, of May 22d, gives the following particulars in relation to the attack on the battery at Scwall's Pblnf, whichf H says, were furnished by an eje-wituess: Tlieso steamers were about a quarter of a, mil from tho unfinished works. duriog .the, time, they were, hammering away at them.M, but w.e learn have -scarcely soiled the works, the 'only -damage being the staring of log: of one of the eabrasqrts. Oat of abont thirty shot and shell only pne Uwk effect ajt'abaye,, The 'women and Wldrtt living' luVthf .n5ghWrsood'were iwr B&itKW,,!rimk'wfc heb'Kj v.aMhi MlfHf TtWIfK . .j If '" ). t 1 ;,Thtro was no' one In, 'the lUcd nrmcd A whttc-mah, had a Sliarp'si rifle. Ibiticdi with which ho stood ujiOii the workit, took aim; and 0M;'tbotig1t It'wai Vot krioyvo' with what. effect. . Atiothof'.hiah.had diie of Allen's old' atylij nookct-pl3tbl; .whlefr heliad t left 'near thc.bcach.ilnjthe crotch ,6f a tree." He. mentioned the circumstance to, a negrd, who volunteered to go nfter.lt fo'f him he told Jdms not' tb tio.sb Tho negro; however, watched 'hi chncc between be-tween flrc, aiid darted to the-'Uco'atid got t thus evincing tt'remarkabfe degree of fcarlcssnes?', v - a " .'-'-' ''.Tlio hands', nV , the;' work were strongly .tempted "to scaWpcfofr, till the qr' twA or;thrrd shots from tbb. JMonticclto'.wcrc fired; but ..finding- their ability tb "dodge them'-to'-finely; they hcht their- places iii .order,to.we 'the'fmi. Jinny brthV shots ttjok"cfreet Hi ,iW ,trets,-limli4ifroni' which rwc'ro'cttt 6flV which was tho most thknger-; bus feature" tr the whrilqf- aflnlft theyv however Jtep$ clear of-the. trees, nnd avOlded-.thc'dairgcr from that'-Source. The baUittnl-jh'clI; mostly fell iu't'ho'reijfr of the worksiif a bog.Hhe mud from which some of thi-ra woiihl' scatter like a hailstorm. hail-storm. - . f During the catiuonitditig, we understand some of the infantry sallied, out on the bench and discharged their small aruH '(Miuie riueiy we presume), fit the Monti-cello, Monti-cello, she being what was considered at' tho lime within range. It is said that1 every man engaged on shore acted the part.of a hero, the only tfgret being that they were not' more thoroughly prepared, for the occasion by having their ordnance in better condition for tho reception cfi tb enemy. |