New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-13
TIE pRO-SAilERY REBELLION.
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
WHAT HAS BEEN MAJOR ANDERsON's
POLICY.
yurpp nors HE sTAEDi A GLANCE AT TIE
PAST,
From Our Own Correspondent

Prom Our Own Correspondent
CHARLESTON, s. c., March 9, 1861.
The rebels have OF late turned special atten-
ton to the harbOr defenses, as though the game
they are playing depended on them. Capt Hart
stene late of the United Stats Navy and the
moot regretted deserter from it, has been GIVING
the subject his special attention since be entered
the service of the rebels and 1T Is evident mat
important results are believed 10 depend on their
completeness. The plan clearly is, to render the
reinforcement of Fort Sumter, or. what is OF
anite as much consequence, the supplying "i Tue
garrison with PROVISIONS, as near an ln'p'sslou'ty
ma they can. II Major Anderson is not supplied
with provisions, be must IN time surrender II he
is not withdrawn by the Government There
has been deep game il this part of the bus
mess by the rebels, and / am able To state
for a certainty that it proceeded from JEFF.
Davis, upward of two months ago, while he was
yet ia the Senate. He urged the c1lnvatng
aud maintaining of good understanding win
n ior Anderson, and made specinl plea
in letter to GOVERNOR PickeDs that De
might be- permitted 10 purchase supplies ior
Fort Sumter in Charleston market. The reasons
be ASSIGNED were fit for traitors only. HIS ad-
vice wos followed. aud IT was about tins tme
that protractcd interviews took place at the fort
between Mai Abdrrs"n and leading Rebels who
visited him on two successive days under nag
of truce. Then followed the mission OF Col.
Ha,ne and messenger from Maj. Anderson TO
Washington, and the promise by Mr.. Buchanan
u do nothing but maintain the present status Oh
affairs in Cbarlest, Harbor, and the other
movements by which the Rebels gained tine Which
they improved 10 render their position os nearly
iu,prepuable as possible. All the while The Gov.
erun.ent did nothing, and Major Anderson con-
tinued to advise movement to relieve bn''
II vas about this time also that reports leaked
out from the Executive branch of the Govern.
nent prriadicial to Msjor Anderson, and which
were mentioned at the time IN tins correspond
ence. With o maguanmlty extraordinary as IL
was unexpected the permission was accorded
the garrison to obtain provisions from Charleston,
though in small quantities. Fort Sumter, II not
then actually short of provisions, could count lie
DAYS v hen il would be-. but record piece oi The
bist,ry OF the last two months when l state that,
nevertheless, Msicr Anderson not once, but t"'ce,
and thrice assured the Government at Washing
ions. nor fuel. He steadily advised against any
attempt to supply him with either, although at
that time it entirely practicable 10 d" so,
and every body but he said he might soon have
these supplies During the ensuing Six or eight
weeks h, saw coiug ON all around him the q.
gabtic preparations to wall hun in. HIS late
was as clear as the unclouded sun, II he was not
relieved made no mention OF The 'act that ne
failed to assist the Star Of the West 10 eb'er
with men and provisions, or to protest even WIN
no much as u single shot against the drlSing ot
her back: nor Of the fact that he has permitted
the rebels to transport their munitions daily aud
hourlv under the walls of Fort Sumter. For
near two months he has seen the h'roor close
gradually but surely against his Government,
and be could almost count the days when any
attempt 10 throw into the fort provisions or men
would be attended with extraordinary difficulties
if not an impossibility And he at the same
time gone on all around blm preparations to
besege him that told for a certainty that the
time must Gene when he must have provis-
ions and men, or his garrison sacrificed, II he
did not eyacuats the Fort. Aud yet, II we are
to credit undepied reports, he assured his Gov.
eminent as late as twenty days ago that he re-
CURED nothing, and later still, that he could
maintain bis position, while then, aud for rome
time before. he was in q large measure subslst-
ing from day to day on tae bounty OF the Rebels
"a bounty which they could at any moment cut
of. mean no injustice to Major Anderson.
While for the time that have been IN Charles
ton, which is upward of three months, have
seen these and many other similar things, have
invariably spoken Of him as brave aid merito-
rious officer, not daring to oppose any sugges-
tion of my own against his wisdom. Not to be
egotistcal, may soy that repeatedly have de-
scrioed the preparations going on, and predicted
the very state of things which we nov see,
namely. the evacuation of Fort Sumter lmpera-
tive. or its reinforcement under circumstances OF
the greatest difficulties, if not an absolute im-
practicability. / described it as the crime OF
Mr.. Buchanan's Administration that the fort was
not relieved, and foretold, as any one might have
done. what would be the Inevitable result OF the
treasoDous policy of Withholding relief The
reader will recOlect that l more than once re-
ferred to the fact that Notwithstanding the prep
aratons Of the rebels and their evident inten.
tons, in face of the clear Indications Of lat
must surely come from maintaining the status, TO
which there was such strange ,,commital, Major
Anderson, for reasons which, as then observed,
were probably sufficient for himself, though not
seen by others, continued to report that he stood
In nesd of nothing, aud to advise against re-