New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-11
TIE fRu-sLhEEny REBELLION.
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
pI.AEsroR RE ENFORCING FoRTSuM' III
p,scoyrENr OF TuE REBEL s"LItLHS'

Santb Car0ina is o baIFch h''' '''
: ,rsiuess: hence, those wb" pave zee" 80"
:, % recruit have been compelled I" go Wy md
: horasrs or return without men. AS conse-
p4nee squads of new recruits ar .',e almost
.;,r from Georgia, Asbama, occ' .,iopaly from
,orth Carolina, and even Vir' >nuia aud Mary.
Ind. Nearly the eatire 10s9 .5le force Of South
carolina is already in che eeld, mostly os volun-
ezra. The exyererlce already had in the busl-
teas he's que.ncled the ardOr Of her sons, ana
made them unwilling to enlist. A number OF
Companies have shawn an omiDous uDeas,ness,
aud rvny men have returned to their homes ana
buaises. Most of them volunteered under
ripsosed emergency, to engage in KIND OF
ystriotic spree. The fun of the thing hss worn
sway, and uothipg but drudgery and an rks"me
service rem AIMS. The case has rot been improved
NJ all by the fact that the control of matters
hss beel transferred from themselves to JEFF.
Davis, thus allowing them no longer 70 % lae"
own masters, but mere soldiers under the ureo
tan Of officers not Of ther own choosing OF
Site, with policy foreign to their own. Inns
oh,pce h.s had the necessary effect to destroy
the tone and spirit that promised 30 much
ct the outset The two monihs 'nae nave
elapsed have afforded time for fenec'ion.
The great body of the soldiers called
irto the Geld during that time under sudden
impulse are men well to do In the world many
nj them gentlemen of wealth and ease; planters,
professional men, and men of business OF some
lind or other. which they forsoOk with no e1.
recitation of being long absent. This 10 the sea-
con Of tho year when planters desire 70 DO on
their plantations and when the welfare OF the
State. az well 40 their own in particular, re.
sures their presence and supervision. Their alb
seoce is working serious injury, not only 70
themselves, but TO the aggregate products OF the
State. Professional men have been away from
their business quite as long as they can be with.
ont entailirg rlinous sacrifice, which they did
NOT contemplate when toey volunteered. Few Of
all the four or FIVE thousand men now under
arms ever contemplated long absence from
their homes aud business, and least OF oil did
they intend 10 become mere soldiers. 1t was what
ma, be termed the high duty of citizens that inn
peled them to take up arms; paramount duty
laid on every man in times of invasion or great
sudden emergencies. Probably the very last
thing a angle one Of them contemplated was the
contingency that JEFF. Davis would be over them,
with power to prevent the very thing for which
they particularly volunteered, compelling them to
await hi. time, to adopt his ways and policy,
aud abandon their own. General Beauregard
could not have failed to discover these things on
his visits of inspection to Morris and Sullvan's
Islands within the last few days. Csrolinisns do
DOT know him, and little wish his presence. 1t
reminds them that they have been transferred to
another head and direction, and they, and the
officers Of their own choice in manner humih-
,x.a and superseded. 1 an assured BY some OF
the most discreet of the Cardinals that blow
has been dealt the cause. from which 1t will not
Uncover. and the morale Of the army well Iigh
destroyed.
learn from . New-York paper that has fallen
Into my hands that plan has been matured by
Gen. Scott for reinforcing Fort SUMTER and that
a distinguished officer of the navy has volun-
teered to conduct the enterprise; and further
more. that no doubt 10 entertained that troops
will be safely landed at the wharf Of the fort
I suppose that if Gen. Scott has matured any
such or other plan, it has been done with full
knowledge of the situation of the rebel batteries
that line the harbor, their number, capacity, &c.
I scs by Secretary Hollis late letter, in which
he commits positive homicide on the traitor
Secretary Thompson, that when the Star Of the
West was ordered here Government bad no
knowledge of the Lighthouse Battery which sent
her back, or Of other batteries that could inter.
Eerc with her mission. / could hardly believe
tbis, did not the late Secretary Of War make
he statement diItincay. I consequently fear
that Government 10 yet 10 ignorance Of many
things of the highest importance 90 bearing on
tho contemplated reinforcement of Fort Sumter.
In place of tbs single Lighthouse Battery, which
proved sufficient 10 drive back the Star Of the
West, there ere DOW, cannot say precisely
bow many, but lt least hslfadOzen other bat
teries bearing directly on any channel that ships
Of light or heavy dIaft could take TO reach the
fort. Bat suppose that by the greatest good
buck steamer, with men and provisions aboard,
should succeed ia passing by all these batteries
without receiving single fatal shot from their
twenty-five or ffty guns, most of which
would bear directly on her for the dis.
tAnce of from tbree TO five miles, when she has
done 30, shs VIII only have approached the point
W still greater peril; for she viii have escaped
these outer teeth of the harbor only 10 come
fully into tbs jaws Of Fort Moultrie, and two
mortar batteries adjacent on Sulliyans Island,
end Cummings PORT Battery, aud o nearby
mortar battery on Morris Island all Of which
xOuld Ilsy upon her at distances ranging from |
tbrse-qlarters Of mile to Que and tbrce.quar, |