New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-14
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR AT CHARLESTON
SEIZURE OF THE MARION.

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| PREPARATIONS FOR WAR AT CHARLESTON
SEIZURE OF THE MARION.
| From cu Own Correspondent
| CHARLESTON, Jan. 8, 1861.
| The excitement which reached its highest
pitch week since, has materially subsidized within
the last few days. still the warlike preparations
Of the Revoutionists steadily progress. Batteries
| have been erected ct several points, designed TO
| guard the harbor from the entrance Of hostile
,essels or the landing Of troops. On Morris
| Island there are two batteries, mounting 10 Co
lumbiad guns which are in range at Fort Sumter
a. well. At For, johnson, opposite Fort Sumter,
| there is another battery, which frowns az beet it
| can on Major Anderson. Fort Mouhrie has been
! restored the spikes withdrawn from the guns,
and the Fort placed in q condition for effective
| service There ars other batteries on Sullivans
Island 10 guard the ship channel adjacent 10 that
| shore. Castle Pinekney is strongly occupied. "A
| coast police gusrds the coast for many miles
| either way; and steamers with rifemen aboard
cruiEe at the mouth OF the hsrbor, just inside the
ofing TO intercept everything suspicious, and
give warning If anything should appear too for
midable for them 10 cope with. Oatposis are pet
al distances of from FIVE TO twenty miles around
Charleston, to give warning Of the approach Of
theAenemy by land 10 the rear. in this way
net much abort Of 1900 troops are kept con-
siantly under arms. Beside these, upward of a
thousand negroes have been employed in erecting
batteries. Thus far, the service which the ohy-
airy have been compelled to perform hiss been
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been substituted for the nusket aud sword.
Thus, here the representatives Of Cardinals best
blood labor Edc BY side with the blacklist slave.
Founaeres for casting shot have been placed in
operation: and practice at the large guns 10
vigorously kept pP.
| Col Huser snd Major Donoysnt, late of the
| United States Army, are in immediate charge Of
| the movements Of the military, seconded by such
! talent "to the manor born" ss Col. Desaussure
| and Col. pinckney, the former Of whom served
in the Mexican Wharf.-The whole under Gov.
Pckens OK ommander.iD-chief.
| The idea Of attacking Major Anderson in Fort
! Sumter has been abandoned The ReTolutionists
| hope, however, 10 stsrye him out They say that,
while he has got ak months supply Of provisions,
| he il short Of wood TO cook them with. That
4 the Majors supply OF wood is less than that Of
provisions is probably true, and perhaps there Is
bare possibility that in time some Inconvenience
might result from this circumstance.
| No supplies Of any sort are suffered to approach
| Fort Sumter There is no intercourse between
the For. and Charleston except by the special
permission OF the ReyolutiOnists. Mrs. Anderson
| visited her husband on Saturday.
| Inside OF Fort Sumter the work Of mounting
the large guns goes vigorously forward, end not
many days more will elapse before her en-.
| tire armament viii be- in available position.
| Fort Sumter keeps the American flag flying, and
bids defiance 10 the enemy that swarms all
| around her.
The Reyolutonists ore supplying themselves
with heavy guns from different quaters-some
from long distances. They therefore feel deep
interest in the seizure Of forts elsewhere, for it
il by such means they expect TO be able TO defy
the Federal Government in Charleston.
This morning the steamer Marion, Capt. Jas.
| Whiting, arrived at an early hour ct the mouth
| Of the bsrbOr, and went ashore on what is
known ~ the North Breakers. Within the last
| few DAYS the ReyolutioDsts had removed the
buoys, burned up Che beacon, put cut tho light
| in the Lighthouse. And, as if to ehoctually
blockade the harbor, and insure the destruction
| of shipping buoys had been placed 50 as to be-
tray ships upon the breakers II was under
these circumstances that the Marion approached
the barber about o'clock this morning, while it
was yet quite dark. Deprived of all the usual
warnings and guides she was obliged TO feel her
why 20 best she could. When near the Bar che
was met by the steamer Gen. Clynch, Capt.
Relyea, who could not have failed to soc that
the Marion was headed for the breakers.
However, he offered no warning, but
instend 20 maneuvered az 10 lead her pilot TO
suppose he was right Thus betrayed, the Mar.
ion strack. Capt. Reyea, instead Of rendering
assistance CURLY demanded to know what
steamer was in the ohing, to which Capt.
Whiting replied he had seen none which prob
ably greatly relieves Capt. Relyea and the squad
of soldiers on board, Of the dreadful Dpprehen.
sion that tho Brooklyn or some other var
steamer near Of hand. Though Capt. Whiting
requested the captain Of the Clynch 10 assist In
getting the Marion of, the gallant Csrolinisn
steamed hxsy, probably TO look after some iu'
aqinary foe. subsequently,, however, the steamer
Gordon, Can't. Thomas Lockwood, with the true
courtesy and manhood for which that commander
IL distinguished, came 10 the assistance Of the
Marion, but she being hard on, IL was finally
determined 10 transfer her passengers TO the
Clynch, which, probably ashamed Of tho conduct
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