The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-29
FROM Montgomery.
rEcrAI coRREsrospEscE OF THE DISPATCH


MoxreoMERY, ALA, April q, 1861.
Capt. J. II. Hamilton, the a BILE and lng-ni-
Gus protector OF the Floating Battery. which
poured into Sumter such destructive fire, and
passed unscathed through the terrific orueal
% which the heroic Anderson subjected II. mss
been engaged all the morning in exhibiting
model of il to the Secretary of War, who, af-
ter The delineation, will authorize the imnne-
late construction of a similar one to be used
III the boubardment of Fort Picsens.
The United States commander at that place
has recently declared to Gen. Bragg that he
should act entirely on the defensive. conse-
quently there will be fighting for two
weeks or more. Capt. Hamilton will have
ample time to construct his ball and bomb
proof battery, and Gen. Bragg sufficient de-
lay to charge with the most crushing thunder
the war cloud that now overhangs the doomed
fortress. The moment the preparations are
completed the attack will commence, and it
must and will be reduced, whatever be the
cost of the victory.
sides will be terrific, and the joyous cry OF
nobody hurt" which came To the War De-
partrnent simultaneously with the surrender
IF Sumter, will give place when the battle of
Pickens shall be fought to the cry of the
wounded and dying. There can be no doubt
that the fortress, too, will be ruined, if not
wholly demolished
Like the stubborn oak. which can only be
shiveret, and will not bend and quiver to the
storm. so will the mighty stronghold be shiv-
cred by the eannon's breath, and crumbled
with the ponderous balls of this Government
in a conflict that will he made, if need be,
desperate as the bloody siege by which
Coriuth in story was lost and won.
The Cabinet held an unusually lengthy ses-
| sion on yesterday-of six hOurs-iu discus
sion of the startling events of the past week.
There is no doubt that it VIII extend to Eir-
giDia and the Border States every sympathy
and CO. operation in the war they are waging
against the mercenaries Of Lincoln, and prove
| that the young and vigorous Republic has en-
6PStInipS s.
men and warriors equal to any emergency
| In addition to the 32, 900 troops for which
| requisition had been made, the service OF
~ 600 more were accepted. One thousand
| brave and determined spirits, composing the
| second Alabama Regiment, commanded by
| Col. Lomax, will leave this city on to-mor-
| row for Eirgi lia, leaving about fifty com
| panieS raised by this State awaiting marching
| orders from the Government, whose ranks
| with the war fever now raging, could bt
| swollen, il necessary, to forty thousand mer
| in twenty days.
| The county Of Barbour has IL lawyers IL
| the army, who, with the mechanics and ply
scians that have left their werk shops ant
| labratory's, have forsaken their books, x
| sharpen anew the dirks and claymores o
| their revolutionary sires in the defence o
| their homes, their wives, God and their native
| country. We have intelligence thai five com
panes raised in Sou thern Illinois, ARE en- rout
| for the Southern Con federation, and tha
| 20 Irish regiments from the North have ten
| dered their services to this Government.
| letter was shown me by a Government Off Gel
| on yesterday, from a man of influence in thu
| States of Illinois and Indiana, declaring tina
| any number of men cOnld be enlisted for th
| Southern Army in those States and in por
| tions of Ohio.
communication appeared in the Mai
| newspaper of to-day, signed Caution" allu
| ding 10 the location in this city of agents O
| correspondents of abolition Journals, pointin
| directly TO the immortal George n Saunders
| the "Spcession corr Dondent of the New \ or
| Trtbune," who, it = ans. enjoys quite an int
| macy with some of the officers of the Govern
| ment here, who believe him sincere in his pro
| fession of friendship for the South
| In company with on- or two others, he ha
| been processing u desire to make ARRANGE
| ments for securing entrance into our seryic
| as pIivateers Yankee snip owners. Saun
ders' loyalty is conceded extremely doubtful
| and l should not be astonished at his arres
and examination us dangerous and suspi
| ciOuS character t5IeSA.