New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-17

commerce.
The number Of soldiers regularly on duty her
is estimated at between 1000 and 5000, and
new regiment Of volunteers is expected tomorrow
from Marion County. This number includes only
the yolunteers-not the citizens, who will, am
told, at any moment swell the military forces TO
tens of thousands in case Of danger. During -
FIRST revolution, the boast here is, thai tho city
when bombarded, was on fire in fifteen different
places before il surrendered; and in case OF
bombardment now, q more determined resistance
is promised, as, it is said, the enthusiasm OF The
people il called forth with far greater impetu-
osity now than in the days Of Seyenty-six.
Major Anderson, on the other hand, has DOW
hardly more than 90 or 40 effective men, and it
il said that even these are not 10 be depended
upon. There are rumors, possibly absurd, but
certainly credited, that the Irislmen among the
troops at Fort Sumter have been forbidden by
their priests to fight against the CaroGnians; and
among the low Irish in the city the story has
been circulated, and has found ready credence,
that these mutineers have been killed by Major
Anderson's own hands Bishop Lynch, the pre-
late of the Roman Catholic Church here, IA
secessionist to the backbone, and prominent in
the patriot ranks; and the proverb, Like
master, like man." may very well be translated
" like bishop, like parish.
The greatest apprehension of the South Caro-
linan volunteer ia that be will have to fight, II
even he should get On opportunity, against pie
beian hirclIDgs, feeling very similar to that
III tba Ia Of fha
patricians when about to measure their swords
against the bloody and brutal soldiers OF Austria
The compromise speech of Senator Seward, an
idea of which is given in the Washington tele-
grams Of to-day attracts but little attention here.
Compromises are no longer taken into conSdera-
ton. The only question which is discussed here
is the right Of secession. Should this not be re-
sisted BY the Federal Government with the armed
hand, although it be protested against in legal
and diplomatic form, more gracious feeling
may be expected in this Empire toward that
foreign Government known a. the United States
of America, and the fury Of secession will proba-
bly, abate in degree M the separation shall be-
treated by the Federal Government with indif-
ference, with forbearance, with kindness, with
generosity, or with magnanimity.
But il is felt here that any attempt st coer'
cion, any attempt TO compel people to remain in
partnership when they are sntagoni-tic in every
sense. must result in bloodshed and that if, in
actual war, TIE Southern Republic should he con
qucred (Which il not considered to be probable).
and the Southern States should be forced 10 re-
main in the Union, the cause of strife would b.
perpetuated through generations TO come, always
ready TO break out in renewed revolution on the
slightest opportunity.
The CITY Of New.lork is looked upon with
much more favor, and regarded as much more
friendly to the cause of South Carolina than even
the Government OF Warrington, including the &C.
cessionist Senate. Men Of large property, like
the planters here. feel certain affinity for the
millionaire Of kew-York. But, IL is said that
while many Of the planter. Themselves put their
hand to the political and military wheel aud ser'e
in the legislature and the forts, the property
holders Of Now.YOrk maintain an apparently in
different position, and let their work he done by
those who held o subordinate place in the ar--
tocracy of wealth, fashion, and enterprise; gen.
orally by such men as in their ombiti"n 10 rise
in the scale Of society and influence through Pc.
cuniary success, desire to pave the way for the
restoration of that tranquility under the
wings of which the money Of their suPe-
riors has been accumulated. So il is argued
here that the first men of New-York do not
move because they c9n secure the same end,
more easily by the employment OF secondary men,
ike Hamilton Fish, and still smaller fry, TO do
tLeir work, and especially because some OF them
are hoping TO secure diplomatic or other snecures
upon the peaceful installation OF the Republican
regime Such men, they say, would be the most
Pro Slavery Of Shareholders if they lived here
and would at present be ultras among secession
ists. In th. way the Charestonian scumen traces
resemblsnces between South Carolinans and Yam
kces, and finds certain intellectual affinity, as
far az sharp acumen of judgment is concerned.
Some degree Of faith is also expressed in men
Ike the heavy publishers and literary mon, whose
object il to accumulate wealth and whose habit
Of drifting with experiences makes them on all
such occasions partisans of the largest moneyed
interest
j give these as specimen of the arguments
OF those hore who are cool enough for cOntem-
platon and argument-not very many, it is true,
but yet it may be interesting TO New-Yora 70
see itself from this new foreign point OF view.
WHEN WILL THE FIGHT BEGIN.
Prom Our Own Correspondent
CHARLESTON, $. e. Saturday, p. m.,}
Jan. IL, 1861.
Huge cannon are every day transported
through the streets to strengthen the batteries
L Il.