New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-04-25
The News im Warrington,

The Washington correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury, writing on the l4th gives an interest
ing aud amusing account of the way the news of
the fall Of Fort Sumter was received by the AbO-
litonists in Washington City. We quote as fol-
lows:
The Black Republicans are shaken up amazingly.
Last night they refused to believe the news. 1t
was not frue. Lincoln had got dispatches from
Charleston (of all places in the world y that the
! Unrcd States flag was waving over Fort Sumter
| Army and navy men did not understand how
strong fortress could fall in thirty-siX hours 1t
| was absurd and impossible. So the Black Rapuh.
cans retired, uneasy and ncrcdulous, to their
| "virtuous couches." Lincoln and his confidential
advisers held stew over it up to o'clock that
night; when, unable to tiX up things to his salts
| faction, he retired to his royal couch.
| - UneRsy head crown"
| But sometimes the tongue lies easy enough eide
| the pacific - mission OF Capt. Fox and Col La
mond to Majoy Anderson
Sunday morn comes and brings them all no bet
| ter news. SuOng into " Wizards, y the Bia elk
Republican headquarters, it was pleasant to note
the suhhupd look of the whole crowd. There was
| a pc Ceptib'e want of dash, of hope, of that
quality which the French call elan. They were
| evidently med,tating PROFOUNDLY upon the mutA.
| hy of human affairs, Sumter had not " Knocked
| Mouluie INTO Il cooked hat" The batteries at
| ummngs' Point had not been demolished. Five
| hundred men at Muultre had not been killed. The
| pleasant rumor of the day before, that Gen Beau
| regard had " seut flag of truce to ask time to
bury his dead" had exploded before the lights of
| tolegraphic history. In fact "nuhudy was hurt"
| What Il pity If Anderson had only been killed.
| how it would have excited the Northern feeling
Sumter lost, and the 'sympathy dodge " lost, too,
at the same time. "Truly, Fortune has spite at
| US to-day ~!
| At the door Of Wizards a group was gathered
| of Black Republican sdcdnS. They had not
| much OF actual war, except perhaps tf,tti2ht
| between boys, but they had heard of BATTLES,
and had had dreatns of Sumter shelling Charles.
TOM The latter they had read about in the Tri-
| bune. War upon women and children tp demon
| Strate that we - have Government Bnt albeit,
unused to the camp, these gallant men who came
here to storm the Secrct0ry's aute-chamher for
Offices gave to the listening public Htfi' views
| ing done his duly in the premises, that was all
humhug. He had been merely pretending tn fight.
II was all arranged beforehand between him aud
the ClarleSonlaus that they were not to hurt one
another. No! Anderson Il traitor like all the
rest OF them. The idea of b0mharrling each other
two days and not killing anybody, WAS absurd,
prepnSer0uS and Impossible. In point of fact,
Anderson stock is so low this morning among The
Republicans, that should hesitate give you the
quotations.
OLD VmGINIA.-The Richmond Enquirer of the
l7ih has the following:
| Governor Letcher received. yesterday, a reousi-
ton from the Secretary of War for three regiments
| of $50 troops each under the Act of Congress
for calling ont the militia to execute the laws ot the
| Union, suppress insurrec1inns, repel iuva>nns,"
| etc., approved 2Sth February, 1885. The S-CrP-
| tary should have called for the troops under the
resolutions of the Chicago Cnnve1tion. Certainly
| ne might nave done so just as legally, and far
| more appropriately. Virginia will send seventy
five thousand troops to Washingtnn if need be- in
response 10 his call The appeal TO the patriotism
OF The Old Dominion will not be disTegarded.