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s in the tug of war, with gleaming steal and face to face. Another conjecture is, that finding an attack on the main land, via the frowning walls of Fort Pulaski, rather an impracticable affair, they concluded to concentrate their force at a more assailable point. Still another is, that the forces were originally thrown on the island for the purpose of erecting the necessary defences to control the entrance to our harbor, and having finished the work were taken back to the rendezvous on Hilton Head, or to construct fortifications at some other point. The indications on Tybee yesterday, as observed from the fort, seemed to warrant, the belief that a garrison has been left behind, sufficient in their opinion to hold the Island against any force likely to be sent against them. Saturday afternoon a large ship, equal in size to the New York and Savannah steamers was seen from the fort to enter an inlet to the South, supposed to be Warsaw, and run up several miles. Supposing he