The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-01
FROM CHARLESTON.
,r,lll connrspoxprycE OF THE DISPATCH J

CHARLESTON, Jan. 80, 1851
YoU need not rely al all upon any of the
thousand and one rumors by telegraph ana
letters sent from this place concerning poltl-
cal affairs and complications of South Caro-
Ina. They are all guess work ana vague re-
norris No one IN this city, outside OF the
Governor and his Cabinet knows what are
the instructions to Col. Hayne, or whether he
I,instrue ted to demand Fort Sumter or not
and now write hastily to say, nothing that
la, been or may be said unless 1t be over the
Goyeruor's signature, can be relied on at all.
All that have said 10 you on the subject, has
hreu the general impression of scet-5nJorme0
citizens and my own, and we kno'o actually
nothing and in these times of excitement, II
!, best, think, not 10 add unnecessary alarm
and uueasinesS.
have two friends here, gentlemen hereto
fore qafip9dtS in their belief as to the ultl-
mate direction things would take, who now
agree there will be no war. Both these gen
ilrG"n stand 1T the head of our bar as law
yprs men of sound practical sense, men OF
discretion and prudence, of speech and action,
both South Carolinians, and both deeply in
pSted in all that concerns Carolina. One
has held office under the General Govern
mrnt Tor years, and who looks at things
through the eye of reason, and Is slow ever TO
give an opinion not well matured lie says
there viii BE- no war. The other, in every re-
sprct his equal, more sanguine III tempera-
Eant, possessing more ardor, and who, untl
now has been impressed with the belief there
would be- Il conflict, he now thinks differently
am thus particular, in order to allay any
unnecessary alarm and unedslness OF many
persons in YOUR State, who are mmedlateiy
Interested in our affairs, either politically, pc
Cuuiarilv or on account Of friends residing
here
Ny own opinion is not worth straw, com
pared with such gentlemen as alluded 10, yet
may venture to give my own, and that Is,
there Will be Il conflict, either during MI.
Blchanan's administration, or soon after MI.
Lincoln Is inaugurated.
The general feeling here is, that we would
rather prefer the border States 10 form their
own Coniederaey, or remain in the " blessed
Union, TO act as - break water, or bul-
@ask, to the Cotton States.
We Nirginians, resident here, don't feel dis
posed 10 become aliens to our dear old Com
monwealth, yet. if ii be for mutual good be
II 20 but how that blessed old mother can re-
man in league with her bitterest enemies, |
cannot imagine.
We are All quiet here, and the only thing
lhat breaks the monotony, is the arrival OF
fresh troops daily. Our batteries are all
now nearly complete, and formidable affairs
they are.
Cur nne ocean steamer " Columbia" Capt
Berry, which ran upon bar last Thursday
night, was got off yesterday without injury
after taking out all her cargo. Capt. Berry il
ihe Oldest Captain ont of this port-ha!
Deem running over our bars for twenty fiyt
years, and this is the first time he ever go
aground. 1t was owing to the Imam shil
channe! being obstructed and taking mar
fow-a strait channel. Yet we have plenty
u water for any craft, and if they will take
plot there is no danger. NIRGISICs.