Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-02-13
Tmpsr.an. nrom Fort suntsr.
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Y. herald, sends the following interesting
dsspatebss, relative g Feft Sumter
W8aHlHoTon, F6h. l

/ Dispatches relative % hort oRmteE
WARRINGTON, Feb. 10.
The War Departments has received adviees
| from Major Anderson 70 the 7th inst. he
writes in good spirits, and q fully prepared
4 for any cmeEgenoies thatmaY arise. He had
not heard bow the negotiations between he
President and Colonel Hayne bad terninstea.
He knew, howevor, for be had already been
informed what position the adninistratlon
would take IN regard % the demands Of South
CarolinA. He bad received his INSTRUCTIONS
some tins ago, through LieuienAnt Talbot
and be had been preparing and efranging
his plans accordingly, he expects b Be At
tackled immediatsly aaor Colonel HRyhs'f
return.
he says, judging from ths activity Of
the people and the extensive prapasatlons
which are being made, that they Pill present
q pretty formidable display and make .
most desperate saort q aka re tOrtf He
.isftily prepared. sss
K las very short time after the attack is
made the government will attempt 70 throw
reinforcements into Fort Sumter. They have
made allluscss5aFy arrangements, and if il ia
! possible 70 get men, munitions end supplies
into that tort Il win be done. H9'
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Major Anderson Is of opinion that be can
maintain bis position and resist an attack
for an indefinite period. He has been in
formsd by government that ss soon as an at
tack is made be will be Immediately REIN
forced. That is al he desires. The Secrets,
rieS OF War and Of the Navy haVs been en-
gagged for some time in arranging matters to
/ that ID rl fa ..arirIFE
| Il appears BY letters received here from
Charleston that the people doubt their abili-
ty to take Fort Sumter. A gentleman there
writing to this city says the impression is
very general amsng military men that they
would not be able to take it; that whether
they take it or not there must be fearful
loss Of life.
The President has received intelligence
from Charleston stating that Governor Pick
ems had referred the question Of Fort Sumter
it having now become q national question
TO the government Of the Southern Confed-
eraey at Montgomery, and that no movement
would be made locking to an attack until
action had been taken by the Southern re-
public. But on the heels Ofthis intelligence,
! information has been received here to the
effect thHt the republic had decided at once to
invest forts Pickens and Sumter.
This latter intelligence was received by
secession Senators. -.-5
Every effort possible is making here by
the secessionists to prevent an attack on
Fort Sumter at Charleston. The fear still
prevails that the authorities cannot control
the masses, they being more like mob than
anything else. If they can be controlled
there is no doubt that the whole subject Of
attacking Sumter will be referred to the
Montgomery Convention, or to Jefferson
Davis, the newly elected President of the
Confederated States, by the Convention.
The secessionists here are aware that the
6gst gun against Sumter viii not only pre-
cipitate q fight at Charleston, but at
Savannah, Pensacola, at the mouth
Of the Mississippi river, and perhaps at
New Orleans. They are not ignorant Of the
fact that the federal government has recalled
a sufficient number of naval ships to meet
present emergencies; that recruiting for the
army and navy is actively progressing in al
the principal commercial cities and, besides
that an army of fty thousand men stand
ready in the Northern States to march al
\ moments warning, in the event their ser.
vices are wanted by the federal authorities
This new Southern Ooufederacy are no
ready for any such q demonstration, and theil
friends Eere know il, and are shrsWd enough
to act upon it.