New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-06

liable to be set on FIRE by hot shot, 1t was IN
tended to have it in readiness TO receive the guns
this day; but If a week more brings it to that
point, the contractor will do well. The whole
structure is strengthened and stifened by the in
PRODUCTION of rods Of iron, though even then IL
will manifestly lack stiffness considering the great
weight Of the peculiar character OF the timber
used. In this respect it is wholly out OF proper.
ton.
The citadel contioues to disgorge its heavy
guns, and gang of men are kept employed
in mounting them on carriages to be transported
10 different points, There are now, and for some
time have been, from dozen to twenty ready
mounted in front of the citadel. They are mostly
twelve Founders. IF the editors of The Mercury
and Courier think / am in New-York, and only
guess at what have written above, let them 80
and look for themselves and then say whether 1
ta'e guessed wrong.1
With references TO the practcabty of reSn.
forcing Fort Sumter, will say that they who
know most about it here do not doubt It, Though
il would be at considerable risk, and perhaps
some loss. IL must be confessed, however, tnat
the practicability is diminishing every day, IN
consequence of the perfection to which the mar
Dor defenses are being brought. At the time tie
Star of the West att pied to come in, the FEAST
bihtv of the undertaking, if made with full
knowledge of the situation Of things, was I'M
doubted. That was bnngling affair, at which
the Revolutionis,s will never ceaFe to laugh.
make the following o"otation from the Wash
iuston letter published in The Mercury this morn
ing 1t is in the same vein Of the editorials OF
that paper and matters not whether written III
Washington or Charleston. As t. the plain duty
Of the Government it enforces the same views 1
have frequently expressed:
1h much plain Buchanan ought either to r cen
Anderson recall him He has not yo REINFORCED him. aud
b. rec him Does any suppose be meals TO enate
nS Of The Ses Of those who viii a sssantmeey
pnt Il honor CSouans decei'ing yourselves Mr.
Intend TO ban over For and Font Pssn' hs
hat may hewAn,s 20 e'l',os o.. ~.
the his feing' BY pO.tpos the ca 'nie o. the'e
oundins interest Of your blood BY delay afford Zine
ior pest Jasions within the fo ara you hLd con
tnnAy exposed IN. dangers Of suces'io Ie.ni
Il IN hos,i and ooye,nment Msny miiay and
naval think that 1t can be readily affected u BOAT.
and ~i MT fail the eaor made South Car l1s
l. drifting into poi where bloody battle viii b. nsV able
OF backing down aud reconstruction Of the Union
| VIII say lnhb tnIo Wow VI 'Hc INV ~ NV
pretty generally concurred in here. Scarcely any
one now expects to avoid the impending conflict.
| I am persuaded, however, that there are in
South Carolina a considerable body of men-the
most cold of her citizeDs-who, if opportunity
were presented, would do almost anything to
| preserve the Union; who view this secession
business as the greatest folly and crime OF which
men were ever guilty; who pray that the Border
State movement may succeed; and whose eyes
are turned toward Washington, and not toward
Montgomery But the State IN in such hands
| and under such control completely stiles this
sentiment. These men are az nothing IN the
| nresent state of affairs aud there must be a
counter revolution before they can be heard
meet daily, men who do not hesitate TO speak
with some degree Of hope Of the turning point 10
| this Revolution. If there were anything like Tree
speech, free acton, or free ythiDg, the time
would not be far of.
/ perceive that a writer of letters to The ".
y Christian Inquirer ssy', that almost everything
written 10 the Northern press concerning The stale
4 of affairs in Charleston, is Misrepresentation. The
I writer wears rose colored glasses, as well as u
! white cravat He walked through one OF our
handsome streets--CalhOun street, by no means
the handsomest, seemed TO have pleased him most
saw the Asylum and College; and because be saw
nobody tearing down dwellings, garroting and rob
bipp men, plundering stores AID banks at mid
day, and a general riot, he therefore concludes
that whatever has been raid about mob bearing
sway here, is a malicious fabrication. more
obser,iDg maD while he will probably see no not,
will see this: the great body of the community
at fever beat armed, rushing everything TO q
climax without federation, permitting no argu-
ment, tulerating no difference Of opinion, slencing
all expressions of doubt however honest forrstall
ing by power what might otherwise be a healthy
puolic sentiment, and intmidating everybody and
every thlng-even the authorities themselves, into
acquiesceDee. This is the sort OF mob-an Or
gaDized armed mob-that has possession of Charles
ton and the State, for in this matter CharestOn
is the State. The writer could not see anyth ng
of this sort. Not he. He could see nothing but
fine steeples and churches, Of which there 40
many here; nobody but professors and "nstitu-
tons" of whom and which probably too many
good things Cannot be said. As TO pros'raton OF
business, high prices Of provisions, &c, presume
that the business men would be glad to know that
business was not at dead standstill, and getting
worse; and all who 90 to market and have mouths
10 feed and bodies TO make warm, would be glad
30 know there were no high prices, every day
| growing higher, for about everything but rice,
which is cheap because there is little or no ex,
| narration in consequence of the striking down oil