New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-16
TIE MELANCHOLY" NEWS.
TEST oUSATIoss-A BELLEvERETT BoMBARD-
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BALTIMORE, April A. 1861.
4 bright sunshine and charming temperature
ushered in this Sunday morning making glad
soul and body aud imparting buoyant spirits,
but the darkness. Of the pact night poured IN
upon us a shower OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of
the Bombastes Furicso order-culminatiDg in the
boodless catastrophe Of the surrender Of Fort
Sumter, the reinforcement of Fort Plckens, and
the arrest u flag of truce, in the person OF
Lieutenant Worden, man the Rebels viii pro-
badly convert into q second Andre.
At an early hour this morning Baltimore street
was crowded with eager hosts OF people, look
ing out for the last tdings About 10 o'clock
The dmericaa issued an extra, containing what
ia STYLED the MELANCHOLY intelligence, and it was
pungent enough to stir up the black bilc OF even
a member OF the Peace Congress. This last
batch Of kilograms was received in silence by
the vast multitude, and the general feeling Is
reported to have been in deep sympathy with
the Government The Rebellion has evidently
lost ground, and is hourly waning though hear
this morning that Secessionsm is still tourlshing
To some extent ameng certain of our Monument
arstocracy; but it has not yet taken on any
thing like active form. 1t is Overdwcd by the
power Of the Federal Government aud the &C
knowledqcd anti-Secession sentiment Of the
whole city.
People do not know what to think Of this re-.
ported bloodless bombardment. If 1t IS true III
all the details given by the telegraph, then the
nation will turn from it with disgust, for where
every body had expected to find serious dealing
with serious subject, there has been the most
contemplate triAing the most ridiculous chlds
play and pottering inanity. But it is impossible
to be true, and therefore the public mind is walt
ing for the smoke to clear away before it decides
upon the character of the conflict. Meantime,
people will talk, will ask questions, and clouds
of doubt are made to envelop the conduct of
tue Administration and Major Anderson. The
grand question is: How came the bonbardment
10 be bloodless 0nei On the solution of this
question turns the whole story, 30 far as Fort
Sumter is concerned. Again: Where was the re-
enforcing fleet
Turning from peaceful" wars alarms to the
far more desperately fought field of politics, /
have to note that the Belleyerett party Of this
city are making a second Characterization as
sault upon the Administration, with view to
the capture of all the Federal Offices in Mary
land. The manifesto of their bombardment was
made in the leading article of the organ of that
party, The Clipper, Of yesterday. 1t consisns to
the "demnition bow-wows" the 1000 Republic
cans of Maryland, and claims for the Bell men
the exclusive right to the Federal Offices Of Bal
tmore, on tho ground that they voted against
Lincoln, which was vote against Democracy,
while they who voted for Lincoln gave the State
to Democracy If this be sound logic, and they
should thus succeed in carrying their point,
desire to make . prediction Just here that TIE