New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-11
TIE PnC-SLAyEay EfeElLICN.
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
TUE WAR NEWS IN CHARLESTON.
rrou. Our spee,I Core5pOndent

We have a Government, and The heDes a'o - !
ing TO find it ont. Last night dispatches "oro
received by Gov. PlckeDs and oilers taS c0h-
ycyed the most amPo assurance on TINS point
The tenor was that feet Of vessels OF war
wcud appear Of our barber prepared to make
a loud knock for admission to Font Sumter in
order TO provision the garrison; ond that the
demand would be supported by forces cO0perat
iuc in q manner calculated 70 render tbe expo
aton not doubtful. Thank God that that gar
rison has lot been deserted. and are not going
t. 10 withdrawn To the Rebels this is ter
rble shock. Lately they had been nursing the
expectation, which had grown TO strong belief,
that they were t. have a boodess triumph, and
tie possession Of Fort Sam,er. The change ia
81 great aud sudden that il has absolutely set
The entire community crszy--saying and except
iug. always the band OF Union men who watch
pnd prays
THE military are ordered 70 30 ready for IN
staot action. Officers and men are taking their
stations TO wait Tor tie foe aud word Wat is
lie feeling and WHAT is being done in Fort sum
.es can only conjecture. Cut of from the out
side world, they can only observe the renewed
impulse gwen the movements 81 around them,
and wait for whatever il in store. They have
bad severe schooliog, and can. NJ doubt, con-
template tlsir situation with a degree OF eooi'
uess to which men ordinarily are strangers.
Men are engaged in doing something to tho
Floating Battery, and az attempt is making TO pro-
cure mon to so aboard OF it. The intention is 10
carry into execution immediately The plau some
time since declared of placing It within few
hundred feet Of the walls of For. Sumter. II
hey succeed in doing so, which | do not believe
Major Anderson Will permit its guns Will be the
on, ones within practicable preaching distance
Eve hundred yards Cummings Point, being
eleven hundred and fifty yards, and Fort Moul-
hio and the water-battery adjacent, which are
the next nearest, being about two thousand yards
distant. As the exact distances from Fort
MOultlie's principal points IN the neIshborBood
now become a matter Of interest, give ihem:
From Fort Snmter TO Charleston It is three ami
three-e ght0s Of mile; to Fort Moultrie, one
and one.eightb OF mile; to Point Cummings
three. Quarters Of a mile; 10 Fort johnson, one
aid shree-eighths miles, and to Fort PlcbeDs tso
;.nd fye-eigh.bs miles. The recently erected bas-
tories on Sulliyan's and Morris Islands are at
various distances, from one to five miles, some
oi them being qste beyond the reach OF the Fort.
Precsel, Oh what rei.ance is placed to render the
reduction of the Fort certain do not understand.
The starvation process is far more to be dreaded
than the rebel batteries process which am
rejoiced 70 know is not going to be submitted to.
Now has this people are brought face TO face
with the Federal Government, whose strong arm
has been RACED against treason and in defense Of
The Constitution, it becomes interesting TO observe
the effect produced On them That men are
rushing desperately to the Notifications does no.
/, aisproye wha, / am prepared 10 assert TO Wit:
n that there is very general feeling Ike that
which an individual experiences when some long
dreaded calamity or stroke he had hoped might
b. ayertci, finally falls upon him. D sinking down
aud a "heart.siok iaintness" that gives thc lie
4 t. all brave words and looks They cannCt
reconcjle the price they are about to pay for Sc
cession with the boosted benefits. Had they a
. right TO expect anything less Did they suppose
that the Government would submit to have the
county torn in pieces and Itself destroyed in
this way are the leaders now rcproached, even
by many who are preparing TO die in the breach
seejn Carolinians viii fight this battle because
taoy have said they would. 1t ID not the Kind OF
feeling that men Ike to have when tbey go into
such a conflict.
| only hope that the Government is coming
down On the Rebels with sufficient power oud
strength to make repetition unnecessary. TO
BE- sure, the smashing Of them by tic fewest
number would be all the more effective. The
future effects Of such contest, and the iDhu.
ence it will exert on the final settlement Of our
difficulties canno. be oyer.estimated. Treason
has ran rampant simply because it has thus far
not only not been opposed but, up to 2 month
ago, actively encouraged by the Federal Govern
ment. lie. il be met with a firm hand at
Charleston and Pensacola, and it, days will be
numbered. 1t is the only true way to deal with
TIE question. There has not been President
from Washington to Buchanan who would not
bnye thus dealt with ii all the statesmen during
the whole Of that time proclaimed this doctrine,
and it il glory enough for Lincoln to revive it
and give it PRACTICAL application.
This city is camp and every man soldier.
You cannot imagine the state of the public mind.
Ii is painful to witness its manifestations. No
community was ever so nearly crezed as this.
no one doubts that a collision il at hand, aud
The effect OF toe uncertainty Of the result which
even the mos. confident secretly confess to them
telyes, is manifested on all sides.
Let the conflict come--the correspondent Of
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