New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-16

character, if they could not burn granite
Another gentleman came in to where / was
standing, breathsss with the news, that the fire
engines Of Charleston had succeeded in putting
the fire out! Some wag announced very gravey,
that regiment of sword-fsh had been mustered
into the service of the Rebels, under the COM
mand of Jefferson Davis in person, and that they
succeeded in sinking the United States feet out
side the barbor A drunken man on the street
blurted out that the process of wiping out the
North had begun, hut before he got through he
slipped into drinking saloon to refresh himself
again.
So, you see, people would crack their jokes
even over the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
But underneath all this leyity caused by the
Bobadl character of the dispatches, there was
an under.current Of vengeance that broke out in
strong expressions every now and then, and it
was responded to. But in the countingr0om
and lawyers Offices, and other outof.the-way
places, have heard of good deal Of sympathy
with tho Rebellion and rejoicing over the COL
lison. How the fall of Sumter and the defeat
of the United States forces (if possble) will af.
feet tho public mind in our city, remains to be
seen. Ny impression is that the feeling against
Secession will be strengthened.
II is rumored that Governor Hickss views have
undergone q great change since his interview
with the President. l hope this is true, forihe
Governors own sake, for there is something
Ikeable in his general character. 1t is said that
he has been sounding the feeling of our yolun-
teer military, and that with here and there an
execution, it is true to the Federal Government.
/ fear there is some error in this, but l am
willing to hope for the best. Whenever the call
is made for Federal troops, feel sure it will be
promptly responded to, but rather from the ranks
of the working people than the soldiers in peace.
But we shall see.
The True Blues of the Fifteenth Ward, ! learn,
intend to organize company of 100 to night,
and to tender their services to the Federal Gov
eminent The Democrats are foremost IN this
thing. The same feeling will be called out in
the other Wards, if there should be anything like
reverse TO the United States. On the other
hand, there is some commotion among the Seces-
sion rabbe, but it viii hardly dare show itself
in open day. though there is no telling what 1t
will not attempt.
The prompt dealing OF the President to-day
with the two loggard officers, whose names he
caused to be stricken from the rolls, has met
with universal communication. Let this thing be
followed up s.ernly, and the army and navy will
soon be purified Of all excrescences. The bottom
Of the old ship of defense had become barnaele-
covered. IL Ia time that it should be scraped.
/ cannot stop 10 tell you Of all the criticisms
heard to-day upon the strange dispatches from
the seat Of conflict. They viii, doubtless, find
their counterpart in your own city and over all
the country in the minds Of thinking people. II
the dispatches reveal the truth, which / do not
for a moment believe, there has been some hard
thinking about men and measures IN other quar-
terra than those OF the Rebels.
But every body hereabous feels and recognizes
the solemn fact that $50 0O0 slave owners, holding
4 OO0 coo Of blacks in seryitude, have reached
out their wicked hands TO destroy the liberties
aud interests and Government of q ,OOO,OOO Of
free white men owning no slaves.