The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-05


rida wal: sne Is now used as a quarantin
hulk; during the yellow fever months bell 2
loaned by the Treasury Depar tment to the
Charleston Board of Health for that purpose
The lighthouse tender schooner, Governor
Aiken, Is Used in transporting supplies 10 the
lighthouses and In removing and replacin u q
| ouoys In the harbor. The surveying schooner
| Crawford-thisy vessel vas formerly a revenue
| cutter, and was the flag ship OF the reven ne
fleet ia 1882, during the N1liincation; she
with eight others, captured and took posses
sion OF the smuggling brig General Hane. This
schooner Crawford is the old one of that name
| rebuilt; she is row engaged surveying the
harbor and inleis near Charleston. The dimin.
| utive steamer FREELY (ccast suryeyl pur-
chased Of Commodore Vanderbilt for tue sur
| Ney OF the Savannah river; was two mon hs
| on the passage from New York 10 Charleston,
| having to keep in shore. A Colts revolver
placed on a pivot would be an efficient bat
| terry for her, and In factthe only one she could
| carry with any degree of safety. The above
| Ganed vessels are a collection of old rotten
| pianks and not worth if requireo) the pow
| der and she'll to blow them ont of the wafer
| There is iight-yessei stationed on Rattle
snake shoals, twenty-five miles from the city
| of Charleston.
| MAJOR ANDERSON.
| The New Hork Herald OF Thursday has
the following paragraph about the present
commander at Fort Sumter:
| Major Anderson is the man of the hour
The people OF the n or hern $ ates hear tily en-
I COIsS MS aNO III almost every DE1uCl-
pal city guns have been fired in his honor
| Mrs Major Anderson is, we have before
| announced, spending the winter at the Bre-
| wort House. and ON New Years day hum
d!eds of the leading citizens OF New York, IT,
| respective of parry, called upon ner to testify
their sympathy with her htss band, and their
| appreciation of his conduct. Mrs. Anderson
| WAS 100 unwell TO receive calls, however, but
| during the afternoon visited Mrs. Col. S2oit.
| Ma jor Anderson's youngest son, boy Of about
tUenty-one months old, attracted much atten-
| ton by his dress, which was an exact fac sI-
| mile of that worn by his father at Fort Sum
| ter. The action of the President in sustain
| ing Major Anderson so gfatfied the Uemoc-
| racy Of New York that they had one hundred
| guns fired in the Park last evening, in hon1r
| Of the President and the gallant Major. 1t
| was arranged that similar salutes should he
| fred at the same time in Pniladelphia, Boston
| and other cities.
We are permitted, says the Boston Journal,
| to make the following extract from private
letter written by Major Anderson TO a gentle
| man in this city. II will ne seen that the
| weakness of the tort and Of his garrison was
| greater even Than the public had reason TO
! suppose, his whole force consisting OF but
| sixty effective men. Major Anderscn's letter
is dated Decent ber "a, the day before he re-
| moved from Fort Moultrie TO Fort Sumter:
| DECEMBER "a.
When l inform you that my garrison con-
| sists of only sixty effective men, that we are
in very Indifferent work, the walls OF which
are only about fourteen feet high aud that we
| have within l61 yards OF our walls sand hills
! which command our work, and which afford
admirable sites ter our batteries, and the fnesi
covers for sharp shooters, and that, besides
| this, there are numerous houses, some OF
| them within pistol shot, you will at once see
that If attacked in force, headed by any ons
| but sim pleton, there is scarce possibility OF
our being able 10 hold out long enough 10 ena-
BILE our friends TO come to our succor.
Trusting that God will not desert US in our
thour Of trial, l an, very sincerely. yours,
RoBsRr ANDERSON,
Major lst Artillery, &c
| GOV. BANKS AND THE CRISIS.
The two branches Of the Massachusetts
| Legislature assembled at the State-House
| Thursday, TO hear Gov. Banks yaiedictory
| address. 1t gives u detailed review of the
| material, educational, and military progress
| of the State during the three years he file
| the Executive chair. The assessed value o.
property Of the State is SS97 100000. The en-
rolled militia numbers $3.50 men. A con
sidera Bile space is devoted 10 the Personal Lib
erty law, ard its removal from the statute
books Gov. Banks concludes his address a.
| follows:
| There can be no peaceable secession o
States whether the Government is compac
between States or union OF the people, 1t l.
nevertheless a Government and cannot b.
dissolved at the bidding OF any disaifectet
Safe 1t has pledged its raj to the people o
every ian J, and that pledge Of faith cannot b
| broken. II has been saGctif1ed by the sacrI
flee of the best blood of the people, and tha
sacrifice has made it a na lion Indlssoiubla ant
| eternal. Neither can that portion OF the con
| tinent now occupied by the American States
| be portioned out to hostile nations. BY wa
and by purchase every part OF the country ha
| acq uired indefeas bic and perpetual rights Ii
| every other part. The interior will never al
low the keys of the continent on the Oceai
and the Gulf shores to pass into TIE hands 0
| al enemy, nor can the maritime cities or State
| exist inaepe., dent OF The good Will and sup
| port of the plantation and farming cJmmunl
! lies of the interior, and though We should as
| sent TO an unnatural and reasonable separa
| tion, the generations that succeed us Woul'
| contend, for centuries, to recover their righ L
| until conquest or annihliation ended III
| struggle. But no such result can follow as III
| destruction of the American Government
The con test will be too terrible, the sacrifice
TOO moInentouS; the difficulties in our pau
| are too slight, the capacity OF our people 1
100 manifest, and the future too brilliant Il
justify forebodings or TO excite permanen
| fears. The life OF every man is heightened D.
| trial, and the strength OF every Goyernmen
| n ust be tested by revolt aid revolution.
| doubt not that the Providence OF God, tina
has hitherto protected us, will preserve u
| now ana forever.
LETTER FROM SENATOR BAYARD.
Senator Bayard, Of Delaware, has written
, letter, in which he hopes, if a separation mus
take place, which he thinks likely, that it Will
| be peaceabie. or coercion, he says:
1t is but vain to moot the quest tion whe.he
| coercion would be within the powers OF tn
| General Government, and could be bene
f1cially used to achieve It's object II slngl
| State seeded from the u MON WITHOUT canSe.-
No such state of things exists; though IL
true that one State has already withdraw
, from the Union on what she deems suficien
, cause. But public opinion in nearly ever
|, Southern State is almost unanimous, tina
grave cause of com plant exists, and that resls,
,, , | ance in some mode is requisite; and In nv
| or more States, it is also unanimous, or grea
| ly preponde"ant, that the only MODE OF re
!, dress is by Withdrawing from the Feders
| Union. Should they do so, though the act {
. | severance may be separate, combined actio
Twill Immediately follow, and any attempt b
the Federal Government TO restrain ana 6 6
cree their action by fierce, will but increase ii
! | combined resistance. This seems to me so ey
I. dent that should seriously distrust ths
| mans attachment TO the Union, or hold !
: | light estimation his Capacity and 1udgmen
| wnc on the occurrence OF events which al
| now nearly certain, should advise the use
: | force by the General Government as a meaI
: | of preserving the Union.
q MEETINGS IN VIRGINIA.
i A meeting at PittsyivaDia Court.Hou,
! Va. was held last week, at which the follow
!, lug resolu tions were adopted:
. We, the people of Pittsy lvania, in general NEE
9 Rssoirs, list. That cur Representatives. ID bo
I houses OF the General Assembly of Virginia b
and they are hereby, instructed to advocate In u
d extra session of the said Assembly, which h
been called TO the Tth January, is6i the passage
, a bill providing Convention OF the State, to me
: | at Iee ST as early as the l5th February, 1851
I'd That in our opinion the State OF Virgin
! should cordially cooperate with her Southern 81
| teIs in any final action which they may take upt
}. ! the nome ntous issues now presented Tor the
u consideration.
: Ameeting held at Parkersburg, Va, Wi
. q H. J. ]. Jackson in the chair, on Tuesds
last, adopted series ofresolntions expreasii
|. devotion to the Union, deprecating the cour