Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-03-20

Tho Proposed Evacuation
Day by day the public looA for further
news of. ihe proposed evacuation, bat The
order has not yetgone out. The N Y. Times
OF Monday, commences an editorial with the
following startling paragraph:
There is probably not particle OF truth
in The report so widely circulated that orders
have hetn Issued.to Major Anderson 70 sur
render Fort Sumter Indeed, we have good
reason, i not authority, for saying That in
spite oi all that has been said on the subject, |
the proposition 10 surrender that fort has not |
been considered Hor epea made, "a the councils |
Of the Presidenl at Washington.
The Times considers that an attempt will |
be made to reinforce the fort. Their Wash
ington correspondent telegraphs that
The Administration is exceedingly discreet
relative to its movements, aud the Cabinet
counses are carefully guarded from outsiders
am we'll satisfied, to-day nevertheless, that
there has beeu some hitch relative to the
Fort Sumter matter. No fnal order for the
Withdrawal OF troops has been given thus fat,
and tits by no means settled that they will
be wi hdrawn
The Washington correspondent Of the
Tribune teiegraphs as.lollows:
Various modes have been suggested for re-
enforcing Fort Sumter, but not sne Of them
can stand the scrutiny OF scientific military
authority and al others are unworthy OF
eOnsderati n Some emenate from civilians,
aud others from naval officers Of respectable
standing. They propose a demonstration at
night through the shallow parts OF the en-
trance to Charleshn harbor, sending in the
men aud supplies by boats. These plans
have been discussed for some time IN naval
circles, but with few exceptions they have not
been regarded as practicable, though there
are many officers who would cheerfuly COM
mand such an expedition.
! If vessels of light draft or gun-boats could
/ run the guantleJ OF the extended coast guard
and batteries which line the entrance TO both
chandes s. it is questioned il they would be
able to land reiniercements under the ere Of
| Fort Noultrie, because they could not escape
the vigilance Of the lookouts everywhere,
and any suspicious fact would be Immediate
/ iy.sighned to that and all other points.
| Ii is stated upsn the best military author
ity tnat Major Andersons present force could
not hold out iorty-eight hours in the event Of
a collision with the batteries now eoneeh-
trated against him in full play The physi-
cal endurance required 10 work his heavy
guns would be exhausted in that time. he
could, doubtless, destroy Fort Moultrie and
sacrifice many hundred lives beside, but
would be compelled TO surrender from causes
beyond human control. It's easy for those
who have no responsibility TO propose plans
| and to blame others for not adopting them /;
but if an experiment should be tried against
the advice Of the most experienced soldiers
and fnil who would avert the execration
which would follow it? Mr. Lincoln will
deliberate well before deciding.
ThsiC siCharleston correspondent of the Trib-
une writes thus Of lhe feeling in that city in
view of the proposed evacuation
The Chivalry are especially jubilant this
morning, The telegraphic news upon which
/ place no reliance) iavors the idea that the
garrison will be Withdrawn from Fort Sum
ter on Wednesday. The Quattlebaums and
Falslaifs are tickled TO death with the antici-
patton of returning from the islands. Their
command there has been confined to Irishmen
and Dutchmen whom they could only bully;
they retnrn to lord it over unfortunate mig
gers, whom they can kick st their pleasure.
Their nerves have been shaky, and theis
stomachs bilious for long time, with the
fear that they might become targets for tie
United States Artillery. To-day it is per-
fectly ludicrous to see the airs they put on
Two companies, who have just passed
along, strutted with an evident conviction
upon their minds that their invincibility had
stricken terror into the heart of the old Gen
erAl at Washington. The Palmetto Guard
were out in full force; there are not nearly
so many members 'sick, now that the
probabilities OF fight have decreased, and
they say that, although their Uncle has CAN'T
nlatad l.ailit,- ases 41l1lai r4rsrnTained.- -
While the b'hoys are hus ehuckling at hay-
! ing escaped powder, however, the knowing
ones still keep at work The arrangements
az Fort MOultrie, which have been deemed in
complete and unsatisfactory by Gen. Beaure-
< .rd, are being altered in every respect; the
EIIospital in the Moultrie House, which was
in the center, near the magazine, and in a
convenient spot to receive a shell frCm Fort
Sumter, has been removed to the back Of the
island the iron batteries at Morris Island
have been to some extent strengthened, but
great hopes are entertained, in the event OF
4 fight, that Major Anderson will abstain
) rom firing at the foundations beneath the
sand. If one shot should strike there, down
goes their 'apple cart y -----.--
The correspondence the Times gives the
following interesting items from Charleston I:
Gen. Beauregard told one Of my friends
this morning thatit was al a military feint :
that he knew General Scott Of old. etc. but
know that the tprivate dispatch" that the
| bulletins Of the Courier and Mercury alluded
to this morning as indersing yesterday tel
egra ms, came from. Lieut. Gen. Scott himself
/ who sent letter to the only prominent
/ Union man here, the distinguished lawyer.
Col Pettigrew, that the considered the evaU-
uation of Fort Sumter a military necessity.
in view Of the bad State the previous Ad-
I ninistratiOn had left Major anderson -in.'7'--
4 Latterly the CemmandaHt has been allowed
to purchase from day to day whatever he re-
! quired, with theT exception of oh, which
might be used 10 light the easements with az
night, in case Of an attack.
Ii is proposed that when the evacuation
does take place that the entire garrison shall
be escorted to the city in full military style
on the Fioaung Battery; that grand din
ner shall be given to Robt. Anderson, and
that the city shall stuff him with kindness
after starving him with the opposite for neat-
ly three 1Onths. One red-hot Secessiouist
who turns out to be "hut1ieg Stale man.
proposes that the grand Iron-plated Floating
Battery shall be sent to New York now that
her mission to kill and main is apparently
gone, and that she shall be exhibited Ia
Chinese j'Rk commend tito Barnum as a
good chance for speculation,
By a special favor have been permitted
to see this nslaughter-peS 1t is esti-=
mated that s., 600 win slide into the pockets
of her contractors ere she is finished They
are now plating her roof with sheets ofproyed
India-rubber, laid between the iron Plates
The magazines are on board, ready to contain
ten thousand tons Of powder, which they
have been fondly hoping they might be al