New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-15

fess how wasterly was Maj. Andersons move
ment in evaeuating Fort Moultrie 10 occupy
Sumter. To-day they lament, and confess anoth-
er instance in which the Major OutgeneraIed
them. They say that be Outwitted Gov. Pickens
in gaining the opportunity to send fall dispatches
to Washington BY Lieut.. Talbot, who was per-
mitted to leave last evening. They confess it to
have been master stroke Of diplomacy. Nobody
exult the qualities of Maj. Anderson more than
the leaders of the Revolution. They say he is
consrmmate strategi.t, with other qualities TO
ma'cb--and may say oyermatch them.
Fort Sumter and her immortal garrison never
was so conspicuous as at this moment. An hour
ago. as the last rays Of the glorious setting sun gded
her bsttlements, viewed the stars and stripes
floating over them with greater pride than ever
before j beheh my country's ensign. know that
it will be calamity defended to the last.
The upper works of the Marion are to be re-
moved tomorrow and guns placed on board.
With the harbor blocked up know not what
use can be made of her. It 10 suggested that
she may 70 in and out OF the Beach channel,
not much resorted to, along the shore Of Sulli.
vans Island, and which is guarded by number
of batteries Of heavy guns.
The crisis lie expected to be reached at high
tide in the morning, which viii be about
o'clock, at which time the Brooklyn, with the
Star Of the West no doubt, win make her ap-
pearsnce. Whatever takes place, your CORE
.pondent will undertake to report as faithfully
as circumstances viii permit.
THE STATE OF FEELING IN CHARLES
TON.
From Our Special Correspondent
CHARLESTON, Jan. 10-P. N.
A dispatch received from Norfolk, announcing
the departure Of the frgate Brooklyn, with
sealed orders and fully equipped for war, has
been the theme Of conversation to-day. The
colored seryants, after reading the news posted
in the front of the newspaper Offices, ran home
with saddened faces 10 report it to their m.s-
tresses, whose feelings are thus kept in q per-
petual state of alarm. The excitement OF the
Charleston ladies must command the sympathy
Of the most inveterate enemies of South Carolina,
for they trembe for the lives Of those dearest to
their hearts; while at the same time their
patriotic ardor causes them TO urge their male
relatives to the field Of action. The Battery
| Yesterday was crowded with ladies, and even the
warning that Major Anderson might at any mo-
ment turn his formidable guns upon them had
no effect upon their wish to watch the progress
Of events. Many of the most beautiful mansions
OF the city are situated on the Battery, and the
feelings of the inmates Of these houses, with the
guns of Fort Sumter leveled against them, while
| many Of their relatives are on duty 10 Castle
| PiDckney, Morris Island Fort Moultrie, OF James
| leland, can be better imagined than described.
/ To :he picturesque element Of the noble harbor
| of Charleston, are now added the association OF
strife and battle, and where but short time ago
nothing was seen but the harbngers of commerce
busy in unloading goods, IRE now the messengers
| Of war occupied in loading guns. Having paid
I homage 10 the cheerful determination with which
tho MEN Of Charleston yesrn for a battle. il is
but Just to show also the other side Of the pic
| ture, in the domestic anguish which weighs upon
| the hearts OF the women of Charleston, and upon
| the conversion Of the former commercial pros.
| perity OF the city into its present position Of
comparative stagnstion and desolation. Yet even
| this gloom ia borne with meekness aud res G.
nation; the weather is "a delightful and warm as
in Spring; the sun smiles upon the distracted city
| with unusual mssnifcence for this time Of the
year, and the colored children gambol and frolic
in The street, unconscious Of the terrible convul-
sion around them, which has originated in con-
nection with their race. The Legislature holds
| its sessions at the Hlbernian Hall, in Meeting
street, few doors from the Mills House, and
near Broad street. Both the Senate and the
House has the appearance Of respectable political
bodies, in which the debates are conducted in
an orderly manner, while Gov. Pickens and sey-
| erol of the other high funtonaries of the new
| Government, have high-bred and statesmanllke
appearance. Indeed, no where is the supremacy
which Southern politicians have held in the Coun-
! ellis Of tho United States, and the sense Of power,
which plantation life seems to beget, go percepti.
| bic a. just now here in Charleston, in the easy
manner with which the leading men adapt them
| selves TO the existing circumstances. Whstseems
arrogance in the Federal metropolis, where the
representatives of plantation life are brought into
contact with civilization several centuries
ahead of theirs loses here all its repulsiye fea-
| lures, and impresses one az legitimate, aad as
much TO tho amer born as is tho attitude Of the
Sultan in bis Diyan, or Of the Arab chieitain in
his tent. 1t is only when plantation civilization
strives TO assert its sway over communities bred
under different auspices, and endeavors to drag
more advanced societies back within its own,
| that its influence becomes intolerable. But in
its own home where it rules by unanimous con-
sent it has no need of asserting by arrogant and