New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-15
FROM MARYLAND.
JUDGE BLACKS PREDICTION.

JUDGE WAYNE's ADvICE-JEFF. DAvIs's CoUE-
CIIs-oUR SECESSION CONFERENCE.
From Our Own Correspondent
BALTIMORE, March IA, 1861.
In my last, limited about strange things In
JEFF. Davis's councils. Here's something tangible:
On Monday last, Judge Black, who ought to
know, is said to have openly predicted that there
will be no war en- the part Of the rebels, that
JEFF. Davis will, within ninety days, have the
Cotton States oil under the Federal flag again,
nice and snug, and will be the Democratic can
dldate for the Presidency Of the United States in
1864! Our Senator Kennedy, who vas present,
10 reported to have indorsed this prediction.
The ho,o was not discussed.
Judge Wayne, of the Supreme Court, on the
other hand, / learn, advised the new Admins
tration, few days ago, to reduce the garrison
at Fort Sumter to corpor,rs guard, simply as
an ordinary administrative measure, and to leave
to the rebel authority the responsibility Of dis.
placing that guard. The argument is, that q,
Mr.. Lincoln claims there is no disruption Of the
Union, he is precluded from recognizing the
existence Of hostility to the United States on the
and, therefore, can deal with the garrifon At
Fort Sumter ut his discretion.
Ger. Scott, upon whom rests the responsibility
of originating military suggestions, it is urged By
those who favor the reduction of the garrison at
Fort Slmter, 10 not bound by the action Of the
late Administrations and as there is no military
necessity for reinforcing that garrison, upon the
principles Of the Inaugural, he may, for military
reasons alone, advise its reduction, aud the boUor
of the Federal Government will not be in the
least involved, nor the policy Of the new Admin.
istration, which is peaceful one.
Military men with whom have converted do
not deny the soundDess Of these arguments, when
viewed from q military standpoint. They cay,
further, that the rebel States cannot touch Fort
Sumter, if left in charge Of d corpora's guard,
without everlasting disgrace; for it would be
confes,ion OF their inability TO, capture it from
seventy men after tive months preparation. My
own Judgment is that they will incur the odium,
nevertheless.
learn that tho suggestion of our Withdrawing
from Fort Sumter has its origin in JEFF. Dayiss
councils aud that it will be followed BY the With
drawa Of the rebel forces from the forts now
held by them, so that the United States can, N
it pleases, reoccupy them as before their seizure,
or leave them in charge Of State volunteers for
the nOpce. The same thing, it ia said, will take
place with the arsenals and other Federal prop
erty now in possession Of the rebel authorities.
Nay, it is whispered in certain quarters, that
since the mint fund seized by Louisiana has been
paid over TO JEFF. Davis be viii authorize the
payment Of the drafts Of the United States upon
it, when made by the new Administration.
The JEFF. Davis Commissioners, minus Gov.
Roman, who is said to have returned to his al
leQinnce 10 the United States, it is thought will
not present themselves formally to the new Ad-
ministration, but be content with exerting their
outside influences in favor of restoration and
amnesty. One thing is certain. and that is, that
JET. Davis il either In earnest In trying to get