New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-20

body but herself, she dashed ahead, without
regard to consequences" and eat all hazards"
She was in her element, just as his Satanic Ma
jesty lie said to be in gale OF WIND, ana every
body was Jolly But there has been change
South Carolina can no longer do az she hkes
Her darling projects are knocked on the head
so suddenly as to make the flre-Eaters beads
swim. In the first place, men were chosen res
ident and President committed TO ideas To-
tally at variance with those for which South
Carolina commenced the Secession business
Then, her project for reOpeniDg the slaye'trade
WINS stranged ct the birth. South Carolina
wanted cheap negroes and more Of them, and
she proposed to supply herself from Congo River
direct. Notwithstanding such commerce was
opposed to the ideas of every Christian nation
on the face of the globe she cared not Ing Tor
that. A supply of negroes direct from the
:" mother country was her grand idea, apart
from which Secession had but little significance
Defeated in this ,cheme, the interest OF the
original architects of Disunion and Southern
Confederacy has wonderfully waned.
In regard to Fort Sumter, the case, though on
aporavatinc one, is not quite 80 hopeless.
Although the word Of command to make The at
tack has been transferred to Davis, Stephens d
Co., which will insure prudence and delay, we
are comforting ourselves with the assurance that
the word of command will finally be given, and
tbe chiyalry. who have been SO long "spoliDg
for a fight" gratifed to their hearts content.
will state what appears to be the prevailing
idea in the best informed quarters touching the
manner in which the questions growing out OF
the occupation Of Fort Sumter will be treated
by the new hands in which they have been
placed. While the purpose of South Carolina OF
mixing an immediate attack on Fort Sumter, in
pursuance Of Col. Haynes threat 70 Mr. Bu'
chanan. will not be sustained in its extreme
shirt there will be no backing down by Presi-
dent Davis from the position that the occupation
| BY the Federal Government Of the Fort and the
maintenance of an armed force within the limits
of the Southern Confederacy, will be regarded as
wholly incompatible with its dignity iOnor, and
safety, and if persisted in will be deemed Hifil.
cient cause for war. Unless the Federal troops
are withdrawn and the Fort given up, no doubt
| exists that President Davis viii carry out the
| threats of South Carolina and besiege Fort Sum-
| Ter and all other forts similarly situated only
| with greatly augmented force, in which the
several States comprising the new Coniedefacy
will participate; ard it will be the pnr-
| pose TO have that force largo enough
and sufficiently well appointed, to ac-
| compli,h the object The Federal Government
NAV take notice, that thcro now exists n
| more certain prospect of war in earnest than OF
any previous moment. We are therefore count
ing on n grand combat in our harbor, unless one
side or the other backs square down, Of which
there would Seem 70 be not the sightest prospect.
| This assurance THE r-n.rAst. 70 n great measure
relieves the injured feelings OF the chivalryj ana
the hope thus held out that after all, and OF no
very distant day the threat to be'iege Fort sum
| lci IL IL 40 not given UP, restreins tho three
thousand men in arms who surround it, from
putting the threat into immediate execution or
sell their lives in the attempt The opinion Is a
growing enc that tho work Of taking Fort Sum-
ter is a greater one than II has been held TO be
BY South CaroIians generally The best militia.
| ~ minds among them do not now hesitate to eI-
press grave doubts as 10 the practicabiity Of the
undertaking, under the most favorable cifeum.
stances.
The only blood that has yet been split has been
the result of accident On Tuesday last, Mr.,
| Allen came TO his death on Sulliyan's Island by
running against bayonet, which entered his
brain through the eye, causing instant death.
| There have been some half dozen deaths among
the rebels from accident.
The rebels profess TO expect the early arrival
Of number of Armstrong rihed cannon from
England. This description Of gun would soon
work breach in Sunter's walls, and battery
of them, or even a single piece, would put a
somewhat new face on the undertaking, though
after breach shall have been effected and all
made ready for the assault, by far the most
difficult part remains.
Having nearly completed their batteries, the
| rebels now spend much time in drilling their
troops. The daily reviews on Sullyans and
Morris Island present quite an animated scene,
which 1t is designed shall be witnessed by not
single outsider. Notwithstanding this regulation,
your correspondent manages to obtain On occa-
sional peep at what is going on in those Localities.
| THE REACTION-TIIE REBEL PREPARE.
TIONS.
From Oar Own Correspondent
CHARLESTON, S. C., Feb. Is, 1861
While there are positive symptoms Of reaction.
hope no one will jump to the conclusion that.
therefore, South Carolina and some Of the other
seeding States are about to run race back
into the Union. There has from the outset been
a vital Jra;on aantmant in fb;s Qtata. bara he IA