Reverses Near Port Royal

A letter from Ui! ton Hoad, S. C, receíved saya : From North Edistp we have stirring intelligcnco. 'l'US rubela have come down in considerable forco, and Buoceeded n cutting oír', tho otlicr niglit nearly an entTre conipany beloxigtDg to tbe 55th Pcunsyli meut, whicb was on Little Edisto Ishuid as a picket. Strangely enongh theyneglected to guará t he bndge betwceu thcm aud the main fovee, and tlie enemy succccdod in buroing tliat, aud tben surrounded thc pícket, killing tliree and wouiidir.g a dozen,and capturing about tliirfy of our ra a Tbe baláuoé eéuaped to Norlh Ëdisto; sinee tben tbete has Be skirmisbjDg, ivith no result. Ampie roinforcemenís will be sent ío Cul, Moore dircctly by Gou. Benhatn. Fifteen of the Forty-sixtli New York vülaiiícors wero captured, togetbev witb a field-piece, yesterduy, on Wilmington !, on the Savannah Eiver. Col, Rosa took tbe responsibility of leading thirly men on a reconnoissanco on "W i I - miugton Island, orders, and wa.s tlicre surrouudcd by a superior forcé of the rebels, and half of bis nica captured ; all the officers and the balance of the men esoapftá. The fieldpie.ee was lost, and is doubtless :iow on exhibition in tho city of Savannab. This is one rosult of the orazj mode of oooducfing nffairs. Tybee romains quiet. A Port Ltoynl letter says: An iron elad rebel guuboat made its nppearauee in the Suvannah River, coming down last week, nenr the h-ead of Elba Island, wh'in ït was pla.iiily seon from on board our vussel.s wbioh lay in Müd Rivet sapporti ng our batteries, and a drawing of ü waa .. . :t ii deseribed as vcry mueh reseribbling ilie Mcrrhnac in appearanee, but is rauoh smaller ín izo, and is eonsidered to be cvery way !css formidablo.