New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-18


their oaths bv fighting against the Goversnent
they had sworn to protect and deleno. lhey are
now in the city guard house. where 1t Is proposed
to detain them until the close oil the struggle
There are hundreds of true American hearts
here. grooming under the despotsm Of the rebels,
who would hail with Joy the approach of United
States Army, and with pleasure take their places
in its ranks. Two honest working meu this very
morning begged of me TO devise some means OF
putting them into Fort Sumter, and expressed
their perfect willingness to be taken down the
Channel in fatboat ard be dropped within
swimming distance of Sumter's wharf The Con-
yention yeste day adjourned sine die. Previous
to doing SO, they clothed Gen. Bennregard with
full power 10 make war and declare peace.
The papers are making q great noise this
morning over a rifle cannon which they have i'm
ported by ship Gondar from Liverpool. I saw it
Yesterday, and was surprised this morning TO find
that the papers gave description of the powers
which belong 10 the large rife cannon in use by
the British artillery. The article they have re-
ceived ia on exceedingly email one, and not at
all of the same character or manufacture, and
by an unknown and untitled pateptee.
You will have imagined that the detention of
Capt. Talbot and Mr.. Chew at Florence for
twelve hours was not entirely accidental. 1t is
usual for the train to Wilmington from that
place to wait half an hour for the Charleston
mail train. have received positive aud trust
worthy information that the engineers had strict
| orders not to connect at Florence; and this is
a., tha Il. hat
whatever occurred, and that during the entire
route there was not the slightest cause for dctcn
ton.
Some "wag" caused the following advertisement
to be inserted in this mornings papers. 1t has
ceeded in drawing ont paragraphs strongly recon-
| mending the "enterprise." One secret | happen
to know connected with il IT, that the advertise
ment was not paid for, and probably originated
from the heated brain Of some printing office
lOafer. Here il is:
WANTED.-A First Class Strongly Built CLIP
PER STEAMER. She be sh, draft and capable Of
ing cited out Address suxTtH through the
| Post.Ofce.
| The great event with which Yesterdays excite
/ ment concluded, was serenade ut the Charles
! ton Hotel, TO that degenerate NirgiuiaD, Roger
| A. Pryor, the man whom Potter frightened, by
proposing TO fight him with weapons that would
place them on an equality. He devoted the
greater part of his speech to fulsomc fattery OF
South Carolina. He understood his audience per-
fecty; it was composed entirely Of the guests
and baDgers.on Of the Hotel, and did not number
moro than hundred. At every ridiculous and
absurd compliment paid to them, the Palmetto
ans yelled with delight. Ii is really astoni,hiOg
how much soapDg they Will stand They re-
mind me on all such occasions OF tipsy party,
| drinking their own health with three cheers.
| The stump speaker went on to assure the de-
lighted audience that be lad learned bis political
creed from South Carolinas Statesmen, and con-
| Guided with peroration in which he used terms
very freely which were utterly inconsistent with
the cause and the place; none but luDa,ic
could have dared 10 prostitute such sacred words
as Liberty, Freedom, Equal Rights, aud the
memory Of our Revolutionary sires, by using
! them IN I~r---- n 81 .ssi"ss "a piratical and
despotc mob.