Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-01
IMP nrt ant Letter from one OF Maj. An
derson's Officers.
WASHINGTON. ia

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.
The following is an abstract of let
ter fl ON Capt. Doubleday, at Fort sump-
ter: While the leaders are becoming
more pacific, the mob is becoming more
outrageous and ungovernablc, | hear
they are lo1d in their threats about me.
They say there may be some excuse for
other officers as they are supposed to be
Southern men performing duty agreea-
bic tothem, but l am an-open Repubh-
can ana enemy. Some influential
Southern men have written to Governor
Pickens that his refusal to allow US to
hold any communication with the city,
and his interference with our mails, has
made South Carolina enemies in many
Southern States, and he has been urged
to relax his severity. We have been
living on our rations and few vegeta-
bles laid up for Capt. Fosters workmen,
who went away, and yet the Mercury
has the impudence to say we are fed by
them. We have received no supplies of
any kind from Charleston, with the sin
gle trifing exception of a box Of candles
smugglcd in. If Maj. Anderson is al
lowed the privilege Of contracting for
fresh meats and vegetables, as is done
everywhere in the army, he will exer-
else it, but if they are offered as presents
from South Carolina, he will not-receive
them Country people who never saw a
gun or fort, and who have no educa-
ton, and own little property, are raving
mad to attack US. We may be too in
credulous, but feel no apprehension:
and don't believe the Fort can be taken.
Day before yesterday the Carolinians
landed two or three mortars on .tIm
ming's Point, on the nearest point of
land fer attacking the fort. There is
not a particle of truth in the story of
mutiny. 1t was stated in Charleston,
to induce the government to surrender
this place. There have been no prison
ers in the guard house for a long time.
Men are behaving admirably, and are in
good snirits, full of fun, and spelling
for fight.
GAS for surrcndering, under any cir
cumstances, they never dreamed of it.
You need pay no attention to anything
you see in the Charleston papers in ref
erence to our affairs. IF you will reflect
that when boat with white flag comes
from Charleston, none of our men are al
lowed to communicate with it, you will
readily see that all their stories about us
are mere inventions. Men bear their
privations and severe guard duty very
cheerfully. They miss their tobacco
more than anything else.
s'Two stea mboats were on watch oVel
US all last night, one in the direction ot
the bar, and the other towards Charles,
ton. This totally contradicts the stories
of supplies and free communication with
| Charleston.
81 have no faith in the result of the
conference called by Virginia. [ have
good reeson to know that the extremists
in the Virginia Legislature consented
to the appointment Of Commissioners in
order to deprive Union men of all argu.
ments against secession. The Commits
sioners will be entirely controlled by the
Legislature, and compelled to present
such ultimatnm to the North as she can
! uot submit to. Then the cry will be
raised that the North refuses all com
promise, and Virginia visl be thus car.
ried into secession. This ! know to be
! the plan.' s a