St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-04-18

Fort sumptcr South Carolina will be held
responsible.
1t is not the intention of the President to
treat with jeff Davis or the Confederate States
5000 or 1000 men are known to be enlist
ed at Baltimore ready for any desperate de-
sign which may promise reward. Measures
have been taken to break up this pernicious
organization.
WARRINGTON, April II.
The communication from the Southern Com
missioners charges the Administration with
gross pertidy that, under the pretext that they
would evacuate Sumpter, they have sent an
army to reinforce and provision it, They say
the Government at Montgomery earnestly de.
sired peace, and the responsibility of civil war
rests upon the Administration. They return
to an outraged people with the conviction that
war is inevitable
WASHINGTON, April -.
A private despatch has been received from
the South which leaves no reasonable doubt
that hostilties were commenced at Charleston
at an early hour this morning. We are in
momentary expectation of full details.
Only one wire is working South and that
badly. There is not word from any points
South thus far to-day.
DISPATCHES FROM NEW YORK.
NEw YORK, April II.
The Steamship Coatsacolas arrived TODAY,
She landed two companies of infantry at Kew
West, and had to go to Havana for water.
Over 1000 troops were brought here. The
troops still in Texas, 1000 in number, are in
excellent spirits with abundance of provisions
and means of transportation. Some of them
have marched 700 miles to reach the coast.
Two companies of Virginia troops left Rich
mond last evening for Charleston 1t is sup.
posed they go to reinforce Gen. Beauregard's
command.
Before leaving Washington the Confederate
Commissioners sent to Secretary Seward a re-
ply to the propositions assumed in his answer
to their demands.
The Post says it is reported that the agents
of the Confederate States received the cold
shoulder in unmistakable terms by several of
our largest capitalists in the matter of the loan
Of the Seeded States.
The Commercial says the report that jeff
Davis had telegraphed to Charleston not to
fire on vessels carrying more supplies to Stump
ter is confirmed, by a dispatch from Charles.
ton to shipping house here.
Especial Despatch to the New York Times1
CHARLESTON, April 18th.
Three steamers were seen of the coast yes.
terday for long time.
Major Anderson fired signal gun this morn
ing.
An attack on Sumpter is momentarily ex.
pected-business suspended that the
fight will commence at o'clock this evening
unless Anderson surrenders.
The Harriet Lane was seen off the bar.
Thousands of people are lining the shore to
witness the attack.
Herald Correspondence
The members of the West Point flying artil.
lery, now in Washington, received orders to
Keep their revolvers constantly loaded, and be
ready for immediate action.
Part of the volunteers will be detailed at
the bridge across the Potomac so as to defend
it from an invading force
Nearly one thousand men arc now enrolled
for regular service from the ranks of the dis.
trict militia. Those who refused to take the
oath of allegiance were marched back to the
armory, disarmed and their names stricken
from the rolls. Kisses from the spectators &C.
companied their disappearance from the pa
rade ground.
Gen. Cadwallader, of the first brigade of
Pennsylvania militia, has been ordered home
Immediately by the Governor. The move.
ment is supposed to be in connection with the
occupation of the Capital by Pennsylvania
volunteers.
Gov. Hicks Of Maryland has been in con.
sultation with the President for several hours
to-day. He came here with feelings of regret
at the course the Administration had taken in
its seeming coercive policy, but when the Gov
ernor heard the reason for the present course
OF the President and his advisers, and under.
stood the records by which they had been
guided, he modified his opinion to a very grea,
extent.
New York, April IL.
The Commercial says Reverdy johnson, now
here, expresses warm approval of the Pres.
dents movements and emphatically affrms
that Maryland will give the administration
cordial support.
The Herald's special says Fort Moultrie be-
gan the bombardment with two guns to which
Anderson replied with three shots from his
barbette guns, after which the batteries at Mt
Pleasant, Cummings Point, and the floating
battery opened q brisk fire of shot and shell.
Anderson replied only at long intervals uu-
til between and o'clock, when he opened
from two tiers Of guns looking toward Moul
trie and the Stevens battery, but at 3 o'clock
had failed to produce serious effect During
the greater part of the day Anderson directed
his shots principally against Moultrie, the
Stevens and floating battery and Fort johnson
they being the only forts operating against
him. Fifteen or eighteen shots struck the
floating battery without effect.
Breaches to all appearances are being made
in the sides of Sumpter exposed to the fire
posts Parts of the parapet were demolished
and several guns shot away The fight will
continue all night The fort will probably be
carried by storm