The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1861-02-01
Items aud Gossip from Charleston.

Itcms hhu UOSSip from ChhflcNtou.
From the Charleston cIrrespond.
orc of the New York Tribune, we
quote a few par 'graphs:
Meantime, there is no idleness al
Fort Sumter. They have just built
sort OF wooden tower, (Magiculli.
| believe they arc called technically,
name taken from the ltalian) in
order to be able TO reach the enemy
from an elevation.
One thing is worthy Of remark
Although it was claimed that the
entire South would fly to the rescue
and help Of South Cirolina, and
that there would be contest among
the sympathizing states for the
privilege OF fighting her battles, as
yet, not an offer beyond single
company from Savannah and one
from Maryland, had been made. ---
The plain inference is, that the other
states have not much sympathy with
the precipitaic acton of South Car.
olina. She now finds that she has
to fight her own battles, AMI pay her
own charges.
Things have come TO q provoking
pasa with the Rebels. The thing
has got u chill. Three thousand
nen lie encamped around Fort
Sumter and lis little garrson of lcss
than one hundred men, their guns
all pointed and shotted, and yet
Gov. pickens, with whom solely
the discretion rests, refuses 10 give
the word tc fire What are we here
for, say the three thousand, but to
fire, and what cnrmy is there except
Fort Sumter's handful of men!--
How long are we to exhibit ourselves
to the world in this diculous light -
three thousand men nre encampcd
against II hundred!
Thus say the valiant throe thous-
and unto Gov. Pickeus, Commander
in Chief, who, in reply, says--no-
thing.
The ob4tiaacy of the federal gov
crnment in refusing to surrender
Fort Sumter To the Rebels il pro-
voking beyond endurance. They
want to disband their army. cease
their warliko preparations, and there
by stop expenses, which are not less
than $4,000 and are growing
continually. That's the spot where
the shoe pinchcs worst. The pocket
has begun to reflect: or rather has
been rejecting, and 10 going to
speak out. Wherefore the acts that
have driven away the commerce OF
the port? say the shippers, vessel
owners, and commercial property
owners. OF all the unnecessary
Injurious acts in the world, say they,
Tho sinking Of the four ships in the
channel to the harbor was the most
extraordinary. No measure Of the
federal government, not even the
worst, could have been 50 bad. We
have bitten our own nose clean of.
Thus the commercial men bring in
their Indictment against the mcu
who have manage the secession
business. All classes are beginning
to uttcr their complaints. We're
their perfect liberty Of speech in
South Carolina, those leaders would
20 under in less than thirty days. .--
Within the last twcn,y.iour hours
| have more than onco heard the
remark made, Secession is played
out" or words to that import. AMI
in every instance from mon belong
ing TO the representative classes ---
The utter impraciicability oi the on
tcrprisc is every day more and more
manifest. The expense for soldiers
and other warlike requisites is by
no means the leading item. 1t il
the prostration of business, the ruin
o, credit, the destruction Of valuabl -
the depreciation of all kinds OF pro
pcrty, the infringing Of everything
and last and perhaps chiefly, the dc
morallzatlOn Of the community by
the dreadful episode.
! The lidc ia at its turn. There i,
but one thing the rebels can do t
: prevent IA complete collapse, an,
that is the employing Of all thci
force in an attempt to reduce For
Sumter. That ut least would keel
up tie interest, but it would keep uI
the interest at terrible expense q
life. Those who have sons, father
and husbands, who will iall "A sacr
flee, warn the authorities how they
exercise their power. They are no
yet prepared to purchase separation
at such price.