New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-30
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The WAR FOR The UNION.
MPoRrANr FROM RICHMOND.

wrote to you yesterday. and hope that my
lstter, which l forwarded by an extraor-
iisary courier, who obtained q pass from his Ey-
ssllency Gov Letcber, will have duly reached
ysa. He had my orders to post it at Washing
ten, or to carry it to the first post-office which
y mt cut of from direct communication with
Av-York, an impression still prevailing here
tkst Washington is cut of from direct communIcs-
tan. The papers to-day came out in flaming types,
sammoning the Rebels to the ballot-box. have
psrameulated the city in all directions, and gain
Ae experience that great many persons nave
aSslaiDed from voting altogether. With the excep-
ton of Maine and Franklin streets, there was little
vctsog hustle, but, no doubt the vote viii be
made to appear Overwhelmingly unanimous In
hvor of treason. The destiny of Western Viz
sinia, however, is likely to be sealed to-day in
fsvor of Freedom and the cause OF the Union,
and what the usurpers here fear most is to zee
Federal troops occupying Wheeling, not as an
hvadipg force, but in obedience to the wishes of
DO people of that part of the State. The ciVh
wsr there will not be between Nrenian traitors
md Federal,sts, but between Vrgnian traitors aud
vneinian loyalists, and Carlisle, the leader oi
Western Virginia, who 10 a man both OF integ-
rity and genius, has now chance to immortal
he himself, by rallyng under his banner all
Tie Unionists in the other parts Of Virginia.
Thus treason may be perhaps crushed within
khs limits of the State, and the Federal author
ties may be only called upon to assist the Western
Virginans in that noble task.
Here at Richmond, crude, rough crowds OF
uncouth but belligerent youths continue to pour
Ia, aud the belief is that in case Of any actu-
L invasion of Vrgnian soil, reenforcements Will
be Immediately sent from the Carolinas,
from Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Ala
bama and q murdsrous onslaught made on the
Federal troops. 1t is JEFF. Daviss pet plan
to bring all the Southern troops to bear upon
one point 10 such overwhelming masses as to
obtain both the moral prestige and material
advantage Of a first victory. SO, l say again.
let no invasion be attempted, unless it can be
made simultaneously from many different direc
lions. with $4,000 men strong each, 50 as to
enable us to seize Richmond, while the Seces-
sioDist forces marching TO meet portion of
our army, and at the same time to eDclrcle the
other rebel troops in such manner as to Ensure
their defeat The most efficient troops to
be stationed at Harper's Ferry. The South Car
eGnians, hot from their mock triumph Sum-
ter, have rushed there in considerable numbers,
and although it cost them four months to fortfy
their position at Charleston, they are infatuated
with the belief that they can make Harper's
Ferry impregnable in SO many weeks.
The Maryland rebels are also most anxious to
Be at Harper's Ferry, and among the command
ere there are many Msry landers by birth, includ-
Inc ct fnruerlv Canfan in no
United States and now Major in the so-caled
Confederate army, but more properly speaking,
the Confedel ate Humbug;" Tor IA trul. tho
Gun shnes upon this deuded people, go truly lie
this Confederate bocus-p pocus the greatest swinde
ever imposed upon mankind, as e7ents will pres
emily show. The fact Is that the South has been
humbuggiDg the North successfully since the
foundation of the American Government, that
the knaves and fools are slow to perceive that
they are driven to their wits end, and that
fearful reckoning day is at hand To give you
IN instance of their perversiOD, will only men.
ton that this very day an ex-Member of Con-
gress-one of the f. f. V's-was boastiDg Of his
intimacy with the Baron and the Baroness
Stock, the Russian NJ mister and Ministries at
the United States Government, and with ever 40
many prominent ladies and gentlemen in Wash.
Igton, who, ne he AYERS, syDpathlze with the
South, and will hail with delight tbe triumph Of
JEFF. Davis.
We all know that Washington society has been
corrupted by the Southern social and political n-
hOeDce; but We know too, that all ths is about
to be goriously changed and that " fine la,ies
''and diplomatic gentlemen" with sy ympatbies for
the civilization Of bygobe ages Of bsrbarsm will
be gradually spurned and driven out of the so-
ciety of freemen of the Diueteenth century. II is
another evidence of the intrinsic stupidity Of the
Rebel leaders, that their hopes for success in the
Free States based upon the frivolous re-
marks of a handful of frivolous and unprIncpled
ladies' and gentlemen in Washington, and that
their hopes for success in Europe were based
sp0n the senile smiles of one diplomatic bon
sioant or upon the medieval tendency of some
other diplomatic nonentty. Pryor, the dasbing
Pryor, was foremost among those who prated
here about the entente sordiai. with the cons
dipiomotique, and Mrs. Jefferson Davis actually |
cAerishes the belief that the millions of freemen |
in the United States would hail with delight the
advent to power of a woman such az she is, and
Of man like her husband
Of course, taking their impressions of the
American people from the contaminated social
atmosphere in which they have moved ut Wash.
ington, they were perhaps justified in forming such
hopes; but that they should have been capable of
taking the miserable rOues and cOuIietfes nf tha