Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1861 — Page 2

WEEKLY SENTINEL WflMESMT APRIL 17, 1861

intra MMtra Caagresa Tb lYeaiden ha issued a 4ih day"of July. on the I resident Call for HI lit la. Tbe FmMkU has issued a proclamtion calling upito tbe States for 75.0OO militia to sup press the combinations in toe seceded Sum mod cans the law. to be duly executed. The first .Trie will probably be to repossess the forta that :. ive been taken by the Confederate States. The War Department is preparing the detail to eesn tnuuictte to the Statae. i msmsaa .... Ten- Palter at the President. In the telegraph column will be found the reply of the President to tbe Virginia Commission era aa to the policy of the administration in refer eoea to tbe seceded States. If bis answer is cor rectly reported, it is about as indefinite as language ein express it. It is, also, contradictory, upon its face. H ''represents it his purpose to iiold, occupy and possess the property and place dengir.g to tbe Oorernment, and collect the duties on imports;" but he states be "shall not col lect dutie by armed invasion," and, "if the war newt proves tree, be shall probably withdraw the troops from the seceded Sutes." The Utter declaration indicate a semi -official recognition of the independence of the Confederate States by the ad skin ist ration, or else a suspension of hostili ties awl submission of the whole question to Con ress when it shall incmhlr If the President had given a bead, explicit and manly avowal of his polic , be would have gained the i es pect of t'ie country, even if it did not command general approval. a.- swa - a ted CItII War Commenced la j ( harl tton Ho. r bar The Abelitiea War at beward, Lincoln and Ca. The telegrapbte dispaeches anaoanciup timt civil warcesamenced in Charleston Harbor, on y ester j d v morning, will cause intense excitement all j over tbe country. Civil strife has commenced, i he Abul tioi and disunion administration have r empted the coercion of the Confederate States. Such are the first fruits of Republicanism the . end ajo one end foresee. Mr Lisoolx will seek to evade the responsibility of inaugurating civil war, by charging the overt act upon tbe j Montgomery Government. If war was not intended, why was a military and naval ! Spedition fitted out, with the men and i pliances to reinforce and occupy Fort Sum er at all hazard? This was not a peaceable lisaiou. It was sa expeditien intended to convince the people of the Southern States, in Republican language, that we have a government. Lt was known that the demonstration would be regarded as an act of war and the men of the I South wonld have been regarded as mere brag .--arts if they had not resisted unto death. Their honor was at stake. If they had yielded without .esiatance they would hero stood disgraced be t "re the world. What will war accomplish? If tbe Confederate Siates are not defeated, after the contest for the i ist ery, the same resuh will fellow which would ave been secure-1 without a resort to hostilities. The political difficulties will become a sulyect of negotiation and compromise, with probably a re cognition of the rights demanded by the South, i r else a reparation. If subjugated, the povernuent will hold conquered and hostile provinces. It must not be forgotten that the Confederate States have made no hostile demonstrations upon the Kurth. They Com to seek j an adjustment of the difficulties, bat they were remised. Tbe door for reconciliation .compromise, or a peaceful separation, was closed against them. The Declaration of Independence is our authority ill at any State or aaoea deliberately resolving t i.it its government is intolerable has a right to hace it. And the ConfelenUe Slates, not we, . ire tbe right to judge whether our Government oppressive to them. But enough for today. 1 ur heart sickens at the terrible calamities which il war will visit upon tbe country. Wo can nly hope that wise counsels may yet prevail, and a we may stop upon tbe threshold of hostilities. I f we can not live in peace with the seceding -tates we say "Let them go oat." It is better to have them friends out of tbe family, than enemies in it. Such conisderationa should influence every wise and good man. We refer to the telegraphic columns for the details of the commencement of hostilities and its pi og test till night. erfVo Is the crisis an artificial one? The Surrender af Part Mimtr-A it leodle Campaign -'Mobed) Hart." The telegraph reports the surrender of Fort unter, umwaahmsaally , wfchoat tbe loss of life the bes?iged or the beseiging parties This en .'agtment may be regarded as the most remarkable on reowd. For thirty -six hours there was sere care onadtne from formidable batteries, two thousand bot were fired and "nobody hurt!" It pears almost incredible that such can be the case, hut as the firing was at fortresses and batteries, and not ir en, such a result may have occurred. The accounts state that the defense of Major . n : frso was gallant and all that could be ex pected of a brave -and skillful officer. We have no doubt the official account of the engagement will confirm the telegraphic reports as to the a very of the garrison at Fort Sumter, and that the defense was all that could be expected or required, iu confirmation of this view of the ease, it is sta'.ed that the sympathies of the people of Charleston were with Major Andeksos, and indignation was expressed that no effort was apparently aade by he ( Government vessels to relieve him The fall of Fort Sumter places the control of the harbor in the hands of the Confederate States for tiie time being. Whether the Government res -els will retire, having failed in the object for which taey were especially sent, or remain off Charleston until further orders are received, will deend upon instructions. It it not prebeMe that an attempt will be made to retake the forts uatil the determination of the Admini (ration is made known as to the further progress of hostilities. To ascertain the future coarse of the President will require delay, and that suspense will continue, and perhaps increase, if possible, the present excited sad feverish state of tbe public mind. Whatever the policy of the Adminis '.ration may be, we hope it may be well considered, decided and arm, and that it aiy b boldly and unequivocally announced. It is due to the ountry that there should be no concealment as to the purposes of the Administration, and a policy adopted which will maintain its honor and commend itself to the aober judgment of the people. The responsibility of the present crisis is in the hands of tbe present Adeahiatrat on P. S. The latest dispatches say that five of AxDiasos's men were wounded one it was thought mortally. Awonao surrendered be cease the ships could not or would not aid him, and bis men were overworked. Great damage wae done to Fort Sumter, and also to Fort Moul trie and "he houses on the Island. at ef ihr Preee. Oar Rapshhisn friends, far a few years past have hei much to sav about the freedom of speech the freedom of the press, and claimed to be the peculiar champions of freedom generally They bare, also, freely exercised these constitu aaaal rights ha denouncing the men and the policy they hare opposes. Weaeed not go from home to vindicate the truthfulness of this assertion. To sustain tae charge, we need only refer to the vin "ease, if not maHgnant. phillippic which have rilled the columns of the Republican organ, and which have characterized the speeches of Republican orators since tbe organization of that party against their political opponents. As a public journalist we claim the right to criticise, censure aad condemn the avowed doctrines and prorooed measures of ear political antago nests aad the public speeches action and policy of their representative men. If we did not exercise this privilege, right we may eay. whenever circum stances cr the pea lis iataresSs reeairo it, we should fail of our duty as public journalist and should

our self respect as we would that of the

people. And if the press is not left free to dis cuss all questions of public policy an. I criticise the action of public men. freedom in Republican America is but a name and the public sentiment which will not tolerate th.i t ree lorn of 'lie press is a despotism no better than that of Lot is Nxro leon or the Czar of Russia. The Republicans are just now denouncing those who can not agree with the doctrines and policy of the party in power as "traitors," "to ries" and "rebels." Have they forgot that every American has honored the great Karl of Chatham for his eloquent denunciations of his own government tor its pot icy toward thehannamnaaa colonies, and his predictions of the -results that would follow if George the III did not yield the concessions they demanded? WssChatham a tory, a traitor, a rebel to his government f r censuring and opposing the policy of the crown? Would it not have been wiser for the British government to have heeded his counsels? Neither can it be forgotten that many of the leaders of the Republican party, now holding high official positions, denounced the Mexican war as "unholy." efused to vote supplies to the army then fighting for the country upon a foreign soil and one, the present Minister to Mexico, in a speech iu Congress, declared that if he was a Mexican he "would welcome our irallnnt army with bloody hands to hospitable graves." Did any of these men, or the party who acted with them, then question their right thus to criticise and oppose the policy of the Administration in power? No, they deemed it patriotic, a holy duty. If they were conscientious in those convictions, it wa a patriotic duty to avow them. We honestly believe that the doc triues of tbe party in power hive brought the present troubles upon the country, and have we not a right to express those convictions? If we can not do this, we are no longer freemen, and our free institutions no lunger exist We claim to luve the rights, the honor and the welfare of the country as much at heart as Abraham Lixcol. or 0. P. Morton, and as deep an interest in the integrity of the Government and the perpetuity of the Union. We as sincerely tie sire, as much as they, to h and down to our children the institutions won by the valor and framed ! by the wisdom and sagacity of the Fathers of tbe Republic. To secure these objects we are ready j to make as many sacrifices as the men who j denounce those who can not agree with them in j political sentiment as "tories" ami "traitors.'" and who threaten personal violence to those who will j not follow their lead. Chatham believed tbe! concessions and compromises were necessary Sa secure the allegiance ol the American colonies to the British crown, and it is our conviction that concessions and compromises are necessary to i perpetuate the American Union. So believing, we shall express onr'opinions of the true policy of the Government in the present crisis of the country, without being intimidated by threats of persnal violence, or the charge of being, therefore. a "tory" or a "traitor. we claim tins as me right of an American citixen, and the privileges we demand for ourselves we sh .11 certainly con cede to others. And, to repeat, while we oppose, earnestly, the doctrines of the party in power, we will be found as loyal as the most patriotic Republican in maiut lining the honor and advancing the prosperity of Indiana and the Union. f,ef Them Go in Pracr. We quote the following extract from an article in the New York Tribune, the leading organ of the Republican party, in which it argues, with great force and ability, the "inalienable right of com munities to alter or alx-lish forms of government that have become oppressiveor injurious" These ! positions were taken when the country was free from excitement, and were deliberately avow ed as the fundamental theory of our Republican Government. We quote: The telegraph informs us that most of the cotton States are meditating a withdrawal from the Union because of Lincoln's election. Very well: they have a right to meditate, and meditation is a profitable employment of leisure. We have a chronic, invincible disbelief in disunion as a remedy for either Northern or Southern grievances; we can not perceive any necessary relation between the alleged disease and this ultra heroic remedy; still, we say. if anybody sees fit to med itate disunion, let them do so unmolested. That was a base and hypoeritio row that the House once raised, at Southern dictation, about the t in of John Quincy Adams, because he presented a petition for the dissolution of the Union. The petitioner had a right to make the request; it was the member's duty to present it. And now, if the Cotton Suites consider tbe value of the Union debateible. we maintain their perfect right to discuss it. Nay, we hold with Jaffa sou to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious ; and if the Cotton States shall become satisfied that 'hey can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists neverthelcss ; and we do not see how one party can have a right to do what another party has a right to prevent. We must ever resist the asserted right of any State to remain in the Union and nullify or defy the laws thereof : to withdraw from the Union Is quite another matter. And whenever a considerable section of our Union slull delihcr ately resolve to go out, we shall resist all coercive measures designed to keep it iu. We hope never to live in a republic whereof one section is pinned to tbe residue by bayonets 1 1 these doctrines were correct and sound on the 9th of November last, the day they were uttered, they are none the less so now. Ry no one has the principles avowed by the Tribune been maintained with more force of logic or terseness of language. It presents the whole issue in a nut shell. Now the Tribune takes an opposite view of the question. The people of the Confederate States have suddenly become "rebels," anil "insurgents," who should be severely chastised, against whom coercive measures should be employed for doing just what the Tribune declared their iualien ble right to do. What is its language? "Whenever a considerable sec tion of our Union shall delilieratelv resolve to go out, we shall resist all coercive measures designed to keep it in." Aud it goes still further than this. It will not only re ercive measures against a community desirous of withdrawing from the Union, but it declares 'we hope never to live in a Republic whereofone section is pinned to the residue bv havonets." Can language be more emphatic than this? These doctrines were received by the Republi can party as the true exposition of the theorv of our Government and the principles avowed in the Declaration of Independence. The Indianapolis Jsmrmal adopted the text of the Tribune, aad elaborated it by .ble and Irnirlhy artti-lrn.. .ml will give it the credit to say that in ability and force they were not excelled. And the Indiana Rofeiblicna organ, like its pro totype the Tribune, has changed front. Why do these two organs, in direct conflict with their previously avowed principles, now advocate "coercive measures' to keep States ithin the Union which not only desire to with draw from it. but have left and established an in dependent Government'' S i far a- the Trite. 1 is concerned, we can readily give a leason for its abandonment of its vaunted theories of' "inalien able rights," and It is one in which the people of the North west have a deep concern. That paper lias a hobby which it has steadily and constantlv advocated a protective tariff. Among its thousand Utopian theories upon morals, society, finance and government, which it has adopted and abandoned iu rapid succession , it has been as true to the cotton lords of New England and the iron masters of Pennsylvania as the needle to the pole. In its issue of last Friday it lets the cat out of the bag. The Confederate States might have gone in peace, so far as the 7Yietrnr in con cerned, and the school of politics it represent-, if the Montgomery Government had not made a fatal stab at the tariff system. Hear its groans : A new tariff has just gone into operation under Federal law. Does anybody suppose that there will not be Northern traders who will seek to avoid payment of duties under Federal law, by taking their goods to Sinthern ports, and smu: Sing them in under the rebel code proclaimed at ontgomery? There is but one way to put a stop to this contraband trade, and that is by de claring by act of Congress that all along the rebel lious coast there are no ports of entry . But such edicts are not worth the parchment they are written on unless supported by a blockading force "Coercion! There must be no coercion hriek the border States. "Inevitable bloodshed!" scream the advocates of what is called the peaceful policv

What shall we do with this new "military neeeasity?" Shall we repeal the tariff? It is to precisely tiii- point the German Jews an i other foreign bag men who fill our warehouses witbgoods,and whose ; i .nor persuaded weak meu that they are the commercial intere.-t of this city, would boglad to bring us. Put in contrast these deiffa ration with those it made when it was eloquently advocating the in alienable rights of man; "we hope never to live in a Republic whereof one section is pinned to the residue by bayonets." But it is willing to plunge the country into all the horrors of civil war. Let us look a moment at the interested patriotism of the 7Viounand the taritfiites so far as it effects the people of the North-west. Wheat can be raised iu Canada as cheap as in Indiana, Uli nois, Iowa or Minnesota. By the reciprocity treaty, it is admitted free of duty, or at a mere

nominal rate. A protective system cuts off the foreign demand. This brings the farmers , (it Cauatia auu llie OiitVCT nc imic 11 iiuc-i ... direct competition in the manufacturing dis tricts of our own country, with the advantage of transportation largely in favor of the former. This would be the effect of the Morrill tariff if it operated in the Confederate States. The Southern tariff defeats the Yankee protective scheme, and opens the maikets ot the South to the agriculturists of the Northwest. That's where the shoe pinees. If the revenue system of the Montgomery Government did not kill the fa orite tariff schemes of the Tribune, l day it would have advocated with all the fervor and ability it did in November last, the "inalienable riht" of the people of the Confe lerate States to withdraw from the Union ujxan the very grounds they have assumed to do so. Why the Journal has changed its tack we can not divine, unless it be its greed for the public spoils. It certainly can not justify its somersault njon principle. Wc hope the people of Iudiana will consider these things when they are seeking for the causes which have brought the country to the verge of ruin. The w'ar-What 1st It? The opposition to the Democracy, including the Quakers, constituted the Tories of the Revo lution. With what party are the Quakers now ? When, in 181-2, this country, to vindicate its rights, was engaged in war with Great Britain, tin- Democracy stood by and upheld the nation against a foreign foe, while the opposition to that party the progenitors of the present Black R e publican party joined the enemy ; they, with their allies, the Quakers, constituted the Tory party then. When, in 1844, this country became involved in a war with Mexico, the Democracy it was who again bore aloft the banner, :uid shed their blood for the defense of their own country against a foreign foe; while Mr. Corwin, Mr. Lincoln, and the Black Republicans in general, were opjiusing their own Government, refusing eupplies, and praying that the Mexicans might bury our patriotic soldiers iu foreign graves. Who were the Tories then? When peace was secured and territory acquired, who opposed its reception by this Government, because it might allow slavery? And who were the Tories then? But now when a sectional party of fanatics from tlie stronger half of the Union has got possession of the national government, upon a past history of outrage and aggression upon the weaker section, strewed all along with threats of crushing out the great interests and overturning the local institutions ol" that -ection by force, whenever they did get the power, has commenced its sectional Jvil war to force its power over this weaker and comparatively helpless section, when, in short. Republicanism seeks to force its odious, unconstitutional, and unjust dogmas upon an injured, unwilling people, converting this government, as it is doing, into a military despotism, then, then, the patriotic Republicans, who cmld not fight Great Britain, who could not fight Mexico, are eager to draw the sword, to bathe it in fraternal blood. It is the American England crushing down the weaker Ireland of the United States. Give the South justice and her constitutional rights give her some guarantees that the Republicans, now that they have retched power, do not intend to carry into effect their threats ol thirty yeirs repetition while striving to obtain power! Instead or fbrctng her to M.tunit to ecctional Republican aggression by the sword, and you will soon have peace, permanent, lasting peace, followed by unbounded prosperity and happiness. Why did the Republican Peace Conference, as if to mock the hope3 of the South, assemble and yet refuse to agree to auy guarantee-"? Jackson. Latter Day Politic. We copy from a letter ol Hon. G. W. Ji man, the Republican member of Congress from the "burnt district," an abstract showing up some of the beauties of "latter day politics." The sketch develops the weakness and vacillation of "honest old Abe," his duplicity and double dealing, the way that "lies are twisted out of him," and the "arrangements" by which fat positions are se cured. No one can peruse the statement without coming to the conclusion that the President is a weak, irresolute man, without any adequate idea of the crisis of the country, its perils, or the questions at i?sue. We ask our Republican friends to read an intelligent Republican's opinion of the Republican Fre-iidcnt, and one, too, who would natura '.lv syiup vthize with the radical views of the "hero of the prairie land:" The protracted controversy which has been going on here about the apointinent of Commit sioner of Patents was closed ou Wednesday by the confirmation of Mr. Hollow ty. The history of this case is a little remarkable, and if fully written would prove highly interesting to the .tu dent of iatter day politics. I can only give a fewfacts, out of many which I have gathered from reliable sources. Early in this mouth a virtual tender of the office of Canimissioner w ;ts made to Mr. Fogg, of New Hampshire. The telegraph so announced, and Mr. Fogg and his friends so understood it. He leturticd to New II impshire iu the full assurance that the office was his. In the mean time the Secretary of the Interior warmly urged the Pies ident to nominate Mr. Holloway. Mr. Lincoln did uot wait to do it. but such appeals and repie ajejUtkiui were made to him as finally to induce him to send in Mr. Holloway s name. The announcement of this through the news papers took tin country by surprise. Mr. Fogg was especially astonished, and ou retuminir to the city went to the President for an explanation. The particulars ot this explanation it would scarcely be proper to state. Sidfice it to say that the President regretted the nomination and was anxious to recall it. His anxiety was increased by the active demonstrations of Fogg and his friends, and by fuller information a? to. bis duty. The IHenuoTor Mr. TTollowiiyTiudfiig his position iiise. ure, rallied with much zeal. The President was greatly perplexed, and alternated between the contending forces. More than mice he resolved to recall the nominalem, but each time was prevailed upon to reconsider hi- purpose. Meanwhile both parties were laboring with the Senate, which yet had to pass upon the question. At first a decided majority of Senators ptood op posed to the confirmation. Action utou it was for several days suspended in the hope that the President would relieve the Senate from the uei e-sitv of acting. The business of electioneering Senators still continued, and the (rieuds of Mr. Holloway were found in quite intimate relit, tions with Democratic Senators. Senator Bright. in particular, was quite zealous for the confirmation. The President finally determined that how ever much he might regret the nomination he could sec no way out of his dilemma, except through the action of the Senate upou the case. The session nearer! its clo.-e, and several Republican Senators who at first declared against the confirmation, finally declined the somewhat deli cute task of voting against the President. Sev eral Senators who at first were among the fierce-t of the opposition, at last acquiesced, in virtue of certain arrangements by which fat Examinershins were secured to their purt'.cular friends. So that when at the end of a struggle of two weeks, the case was brought to a final determination, the nomination ot the President was confirmed. I have no time for comments. It will hardlv fafi to be regarded as one of the strangest noliti cal dispensations of the nineteenth century. It a Patent Commissioner ought to be a good law yer, a man of large and peculiar intellectual gifts, and of rare scientific tastes and attainments. and if the country contains any men of this description, then the nomination of Mr. Hollowav was eminently not "fit to be made." " The Ar chives of the Patent Office," says the New York Titne, " contain many strange contrivan schemes of perpetual motion, plans tor the ireueratiou of power out of nothing, and what not ; bur there is no invention that can quite take rank with the art of transforming pettifogging law yers, rural editors, and backwoods politicians into competent judges of the subtleties PI pure and applied science "

Honesty." The man who lustily cries " stop thief,' i sure to have his integrity questioned, upon the ground that the greatest scoundrels affect the ut most parity. Let us test the Journal editor by this rule. He advised the modification or amend Dient of the public printing law, so that tbe public printer should furnish the paper required for the State work, and be paid for what was used for that purpose. This amendment or change in the law he thought was necessary to prevent fraud. In accordance with his suggestion, the lowe; branch of the General Assembly oassed a bit! providing that the public printer should furnish the paper required for the work ordered by the State, and be paid for just what was used in aid work. No honest man could object to a law of this kind, and especially one who had recom mended a provision of that character. What was

the result? By some act of legerdemain, in which the Journal editor is an adept, the bill was mysteriously lost in its transmission from the House to the Senate, or so long delayed on its journey that the latter branch could not act upon it. Now will any body for a moment supp-ise that the honest editor of the Journal did not aid in the suppression of this bill, in putting it out ot the way, or in keeping it back until it was too late to be acted upon? Why did he do it? Did he have any honest purose in defeating the bill? Did he not prevent its becoming n law. so that he could have an opportunity to defraud the State'.' The Journal man knows he could have had no other object in suppressing the bill. (.imii Heese lbaiiaa for War! The Republican journals are really jubilant at the prospect of civil warn From the very first, thev have advocated the employment of force to punish and subdue tho-e State- which their own aggressive acts have driven to revolution ; and now they hear with undisguised joy those exten sive n ival and military preparations which are to inaugurate an era of fratricidal war and blood shed. They regard with satisfaction the embarkation of hired troops which are sworn to spread desolation among peaceful hoines.and the depart ure of war vessels that are to slaughter and destroy those for whose protection they were con structed. " We are in a lighting mood," says one rabid editor, and the indications that a "vigorous policy" is about to be pursued, he hails as " good news !" " Hurrah for War '." But who is to do the fighting ? Where is the hattle ground ? If here at the North were the seat of war, and those ouly were compelled to shoulder the musket who clamor lustily for strife, including fighting editors, choleric parsons, and fanatical slave stealers.they would perhaps, be less va'iant and less eager. But the battle is yet afar oft". Here all is yet peace on the surface. Men quietly pursue their daily avocations as in prosperous times par. They are not called to the trenches, and batteries, or held in nadiuess for sudden emergencies thatmaysummon them to the defense of their homes. Our harbor is not encircled with newly-constructed batteries and earth-works. There is no daily martial iarade nor beat of drums in the public thoroughfares. Even of the activity at the forts and navv yard, the drafting of troops, and the equipment of w nr vessels, the greater part of our population are not cognizant, except as they are informed by the morning journals. When we are not menaced by the stei n realities of war, we can not properly comprehend its evils. We may cry "war'" when we are far trom the scene of conflict w hen our home are secure IVora the inva der. and our lives are not exposed to bullet and steel ; but were such persons familiar with the actual bitter experiences of war, of civil nur, thev would stand appalled before -my one act tltat would tend to precipitate it. When the conflict is brought to our own doors, regrets, however sincei e, will come too late. As has lieen remarked, here all is apparently peaceful. What a different picture is presented at the South! Troops and munitions of war are com eyed to the seaboard by every train, and con centratcd at the points of anticipated attack. 1 he muster roll is called in every town and village of the interior. Shops, farms, pulpits and newspaper offices, are deserted for the field. Doctors,editors, ex Congressmen, State Senators, lawyers, plant ers, merchants and mechanics, occupy the ranks, many of them as privates. One company at Charleston is said to have ten divinity students in its ranks, and to be officered by a clergyman. Other companies represent wealth as-essed at "tie and two millionsof dollars and upward. (Mil men of seventy years buckle on their armor, and join their sons and grandsons to offer their services to the Government. Slave thes ime slaves whom the Abolition plotters of all our troubles prophe sied would eagerly rise against their masters to secure their freedom demand to go to the want and share the late of their owners. Those that can be spared from the field, work laboriously in the trenches and in throwing up sand halt Te thers of wives, sisters and mothers, flow while theveticwnrage the young men to heroic achieve ments, and pntr f4low tbo-. c who may nev return. All who are old eiiOU'jh to bear arms,a. resignedly given up. Many ladies even in? upon following the fortunes of those thev love With the people of the South these are the stem realities of war. made more terrible because it is civil war. There are no idle vaunting?, but action. Believing their cause just, they are con tent to sutler and endure. Thev are prepared for the worst that may happen; and the noble spirit of patriotism evinced, may bear favorable comparison with that displayed throughout the trying Revolution of '76. Of such material is the Southern army com pose I. When men of hiixh social and official po--ition, and unaccustomed to hardship, volunteer to toil with the shovel and haul the ponderous machines of warfare, nothing but an overwhelming force can crush thein. The spirit that er vades all classes alike, must render them in vin cible while breath and life remain. There are no hired mercenaries who make w arfare a trade win) offer their lives as "food for powder.'' They are worthy of more noble focinen than many of the emplovc l troops that have been sent against them. If "a life for a life" is tobe given, let the vaunting editors of the North, the Sharpe's ritle preiehers, and the w hole horde of abolition fan ttics, who are so clamorous for war. coercion, and "no compromise with traitor.-," and who cry "Irani: the rebels!" volunteer t" march against them The country which they have ruined cai well spare ihein, and they will not have to complain of the reception they will meet with Those who have raised the war, should do the lighting. JV. Y. Jonr. of Onn. ALI, SORTS OF I K A;1C Al'IIS. Counterfeit 2 50 gold pieces have been pnt in circulation in Philadelphia. The police of New York now cost the sum of a million and three-quarters of dollars per annum and yet it can not stop a dug-fight! A man in Walton. Maes,, has sue! a man for $1 ,000 d .in i-e- for seducing his wife. Some of these Yankees hold their wives cheap enough, certainly. More than half of the convicts in the Massachusetts Slate Prison are under tweiity-.-ix Mart, The youngest prisoner is fifteen, and the oldest seventy years old. The Portland Argu denounces, in severe term, the new Republican tariff. It says the measure will not bench' a single interest iu Maine, but makes it worse for all Carl S.-hurz is now bitterly denounced by some of his compatriots, wh see that in viola' tion of his promises he willfully neglected everything but his own interest. Lord b!c-- u! they've got a boy in 1 empfiehl. Pa , who was bom with but one eye, and that in his forehead and no nose whatever. The rest of him does well enough. The taxes of New York now amount t tweUc millions of dollars, equal to two percent of the value of its rail estate, or one third of the entire rental, which is about thirty six millions. If is estimated that the agitation of the slavery ijuftslion has cast this country in twenty five years three thousand millions of dollars. " And now, at last, it has cost the Union its existence. Under a recent act of the Hawaiian Parlia went one of the duties of the Slteriff is to "proi wide healthy lu.d merchantable women for the foreign commerce of the port." The Washington States says that "Mr. Lin , coin is reported to have Mid to a confidential ; friend the other day, 'I am utterly disgusted, and am mighty sick and tired of the whole thiur.' I Whv don't he resign . I , A?wopos of a Mrs. Brown, who the other day I became the mother of three how at a birth, we don 'I object to the Browns maintain present ratio of numbers in the world but throwing triplets isn't fair pla According to the late United States census it I takes 730. paper mills and 'J.IMHI steam engines to supply book publishers and newspaper establish j ments with printing paper, at a cost of $27 ,000.IKK) per annum. 1 . M- I A rouL-h old captain, in a storm, who, when I the terrifierl i Heaven tor a cessation of the temjest, preferred the foMowing brief request: "O, Lord! 1 haven't been in the habit ot calling on Tbeeoften; and if youl shift the wind from sou' west to little more sou . 1 won't trouble vou again." The ceusus returns reveal the fact that Han cock county, situate in the "Pan Handle of Virginia, has lst one third, or a fraction more than thirty three per cent: of iu slave population with. m tne last ten years. In lfCsl thtro , . ti,,o. it ... IST ij e ,mw mere are only two Should this rate of decrease be niaintaiiieif. then will not be a slave in the county in l&jO

southern Kewt. ('aiu.KjT"N, Thür-!. . April 11. Roger A. Pryor has been appointed ou General Beauregard's Staff Gen. Beauregard, at two o'clock this morning, demanded the surrender of Fort Sumter, which Major Anderson declined, probably with a reservation. It is currently reported that negotiations will be opened to morrow between Major Anderson and Gen. Beauregard about the surrender of Fort Sumter. I ntcrcepteil dispatches disclose the fact that Mr. Fox. who had been allowed to visit Major Anderson, on the pledge that his purpose was pacific, employed his opportunity to devise a plan for supplying the fort by force, and that this plan had been adopted by the Washington Government, and was in pro:, ress ot execution. New Ohlkaxs, Thnrsrtny, April 11. A special dispatch to the New York Herald, from Kx Governor Roman, Commissioner to Washington, siys Sumter and Pickens are to be attacked, but doubt - whether war will follow. The Delta's Montgomery dispatch, to-day, ivit has been resolved to mtick Sumter and Pickens immediately on the approach of the United States fleet. Pun.ADEi.PHiA, Friday. April U. The Inquirer has a dispatch from Charleston that President Davis h is consented to the entrance of a supply vessel into Charleston Harbor, and that not a gun will be fired. The reixirt is doubtful. lansrata, Friday, April 12. Dispatches have been received here to hold the Kentucky volunteer regiment in re id'mess to move at a moment's notice from the War Department at Montgomery. B.u.TiMoE, Friday, April 12 The war news is received with regret. General sympathy with the Government is expressed. MuxTiMiMEKT, Smtunl iy. April 13. The President and Se-'retary of War we e setrenadel last night. The latter was called out. lie sni.1 the Confederate Hag would soon be wav ing over Fort Sumter aud from the Federal Capitol at Washington, if the independence of the Southern States was not recognized and hostilities continued. The only dispatch receive! last night was from Beauregard, aud that was believe! to be favorable. The President has appointed T. Warreu Morse Judge for the District of L'llisiai, i. Gen. Beauregard telegraphed to the Secretary of War, late last night, that there had be. m heavy firing all Friday; that four guns on Fort Sumter had been dismounted; that the Confederate bat teries were all safe; that nobody was hurt; that four steamers were off the bar, and that the sea was quite rough. Nothing of to day's date has been received by the War Department from Charleston. Major Chambers has arrived, bringing Lieut. Warden, of the Federal Navy, as a prisoner of war from Pettsaeola. He was bearer of dispatch es to Fort Pickens. Guns are being fired here, and there are great rejoicings in honor of the victory. Xf:w Ori.e vss, Saturday, April 13. A grand muster of the city volunteer compa nies was made this morning. Preparations are miking to defend the Missis sippi in the best possible manner. Savanxah, Saturday, April 13. The lights at Lybee,in this harbor, have been discontinued for the pre-etu. lfoeM, Saturday, April 13. Orrlers have been received to fit out the frigate Merrimar immediately.

If ostilitleti Commrarrd. The ball has opened; war is inaugurated; the batteries of Sullivan's Island, Morris Island, and other points were opened on Fort Sumter at four o'clock this morning. Fort Sumter has returned the fire, end i brisk cannonading has been kept up. No information has been received from the seaboard yet. The military are under arms, and the whole of our population are on the streets, -and everi available space lacing the harlx . is tilled with anxious sjec tu tors. Portions of the parapet "were destroyed and several mnis shot away. The fight will continue all night. The tort will probably be carried by storm. It is reported that the Harriet ljane received a shot through her wheel-house. She is in the oiling. No other government ships are in sight. The troops are pouring into the city by thousands. LATER. The firing has coptinued all day without intermission. i woof Fort Sumter's guns have been silenced, and it, is reported that a breach has beeu made in the south-e.ist wall. The answer to General Beiuregard's demand ' Major An 1t n, vas that he would surrender i his supplies were exhausted, that is if he w a- nut remloiced. Not a casualty has yet happened to any of the r - if the nineteen batteries in position only seven ve opened lire on r ort Sumter, the remainder are held in reserve for the exoected fleet. Two thousand men reached this city this morning and embarked tor Morris Island and the neighborhood. Two were wounded on Sullivan Island. A iiumbei were struck w ith spent projectiles. Three ships are visible iu the otling. It is believed that an attempt w ill be made tonight to rc.nforce Sumter. " t From the regularity of the fliag it is thought Anders "Ii h is a larger force than was supposed. It rained to-day. The I 'oiiibai-dmc.it continues from tiie floating, Stevens and other batteries. Sumter continues returning the fire. It is reported that three war vessels are now off tlie bar. Firing has eeased fur the night. It will be re hewed early iu the morning Ample arrangements have been made to prevent reinforcements for the night. LATE8T. The bombardment has recommenced with mortar-, to be kept up all night It is supposed that Major Anderson is resting his men tor the night. Vessels can not get in. A storm is raging and tbe sea rough, making it me '.r to reinforce to night. The floating battery works well. t UMliiRirtou t orrmpondi nce. Naw Yok. Friday. April 1 The men of West Point (lying artillery now in Washington received orders to keep their revolvers constantly loaded to be ready for immediate nctioii. Part of the volunteers will l.e stationed at the bridge u i the Potomac so as to defend it from an invading force. i 'en thousand men are now enrolled from the District militia. Those who refused to take the oath of allegiance were marched bu k to the armory, d: -missed . and their names stricken from the rolls. Hisses from the spectators accompanied their disappearance from the parade srround. Gen. Cadwalrader, ol the First Brigade of the I'ennsx lvania Militia, has been ordered home im mediately by the Governor. The movement is supposed to be in connexion with the o.-cupation "I r ue Capital by Pennsylvania volunteers. Gov. Hicks, of Maryland, has been in consultation with the President for several hours to-day. Ho came here with feelings of regret at tbe course of the administration in its seeming coercive po! icy: but, when the Governor heard the reisons for the present course of the President and his advisers, and understood the record by which they had been guide!, he modified hi opinion Ut a verygreat extent. Some ot the troops w hich arrived by the steamer ('oatxacolcos will probably proceed to Washington immediately. The steamer Yundcrbilt proceeded tothe Xaw yard this morning, having been chartered by the im eminent. The CbmSnsraW says Kevenly Johnson, now here, expresses warm approval of the President's present movement, and emphatically affirms that Maryland will give the administration cordial support. Among the passencers on the Sörth Star, from California, was .). H Wade, Ksq., and family, I Cic eland V , aiderstand that Mr. Wade, a- the representative ot the Western Telegraph C ..was entirely successful in perfecting arrange merits on the Pacific side for the immediate con stru'-tiou id' the telegraph line from San Fran eisen to Salt Lake, at which point the wirea will meet others now iu course of rapid construction from St. Louis. The Herald's Secial dispatch says Fort Meu?trie began the bombardment with two puns, to which A i ill eis-, in replied with three shots trom his barbette puns, after which thr batteries ai Mount Pleasant, Ciimining's Point, and the floating battery opened a brisk tire of shot and ?hel!. An isifjstni replied only nt long intervals until between .even and eiirht o'clock, hen he opened from two tiers of guns looking towards Moultrie and Stevens' battery, but up to three o'clock failed to produce serious effect. During the greater part of the day Anderson directed his shots prinei pally against Moultrie, the Stevens and floating batteries and Fort Johnson, they being the only ones operating against him. Fifteen or eighteen shots struck the floating batteries w ithout effect. Brcaches.to all appearances are being nude in the sides of Sumter exposed to the fire. Private dispatches have been received from the S'ntth. which leave no reasonable doubt thathos tilities were crutneiced at Charleston at an ear lv hour this nrwnjng. We arc in momentary expectation of fi.ll a The reeeiriti from customs for the two weeks ending April 7th, 1S60, were $1.471,241, aud for 1 tun mit .ninr. k, thi ear, $1,51X1, Kb7. increase fMl The Secretary of the Treasury opened bids this evening. These exceeded the amount of

treasury notes offered, namely $4,901 .000 about $439,000 at rates ranging from par to 27-100 premium. The treasury is now in good condition, no part of the proceeds of last week's loan has yet been used, nor will it be needed for some time The receipts from customs lor two or nree w eeks past has nearly equalled all the demands on the treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury has prepared a circular of instructions to Collectors of Customs. The circular concludes as follows:

Thecontrol of the ware houses of the govern- j ment in the several State ot South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Florida, having been usurped under the aliased authority of thee Stite and the tlicers of customs acting under the authority of the United States, having been forcibly excluded from their positions, it has become impracticable to continue the privilege of bonding for transportations to those ports, the Collector of Customs are accordingly hereby instructed that no entrees for transportation in bonds to these ports can be permitted until otherwise direeteu by this Department. In the case of merchandize bonded for transportation before the receipt by the Collector of these instructions, transportation bonds to the ports of South Carolina, Georgia. Alabama. Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and Texas will be cancelled on payment ol the duties at the Collector's office at the jort of destination after the Unite! States officers at such port had ceased to issue the lawful cancelling certificates. D. C. Jackson, of Madison, has been appointed Marshal, and J. B. Cogeswell, of Milwaukee, District Attorney of Wisconsin. The Virginia Commissioners arrived here this morning. Only one wire is working South, and that badly. There is not a word from anv point South thus far. It is said the expedition to reinforce Fort Sum ter was against the advice of General Scott, who urged the evacuation of both Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens. From Cliarlnston. Cu vKi rsTox, Saturday, April 13. The canonading is going on firecely from all points from the vessels outside and all along the coast. It is reported Fort Sumter is on fire. Chaklkstos, Saturday, April 13, 10:30 A. M. At interval- of twenty minutes tiring was kept up all night on Sumter. Major Anderson ceased tiring from Sumter at 6 o'clock in the evening, and all night he was engaged in repairing damage and protecting tlie barlette guns. He commenced to return the tire at 7 o'clock this morning. Fort Sumter seems to be greatly disabled. The battery ou Cu minings Point does Fort Sumter great damage. At 9 o'clock this morning a dense smoke poured out from Fort Sumter. The Federal flag is at half mast, signalling distre--The shells from Fort Moultie and the batteries on Morris Island fall into Major Anderson' strongest hold thick and fast and they can be seen in their course from the Charleston battery. Tw o of Major Anderson's magazines exploded. Only occ.tsioual shots are fired from Fort Moultrie. The Morris Island batten is doing heavy work It is thought that only the smaller guns have exploded. The greatest excitement prevails The wharves, steeples and every available place is packeu with people. The United States ships are in the offing, but have not aided Major Anderson. 'It is too late now to come over tiie bar, as the tide is ebbing. The ships appeir to be quietly at anchor. They have not tired again yet. Tlie entire roof of the barracks is one sheet of Cime Shells from Cumming's Point and Fort Moultrie are bursting in and over Fort Sumter in quick succession. The Federal flag still waves. Major At .demon is only occupied in putting out tire. Every shot on Fort Sumter now seems to tell severely. The people are anxiously looking for Major Anderson to strike his Hag. It is state ! from a reliable source that up to 10 o'clock to-day no one at Moultrie was kiliod. Eleven shots from Fort Sumter penetrated the lloating battery below the water line. The lew shots tired by Major Anderson early this morning knocked the chimneys from the otficers' quarters at Moultrie like a whirlwind. Major Anderson's only hope is to hold out for aid from the ships. T worships are making in toward Morris Island w ith a ie to laml troops and silence the batteries there. Chakulstos. Saturday. April 13. Fort Sumter is undoubtedly on tire. The flames . . a ... m . . 1 are raging all arouno it. aiajor Anuersou nas thrown out a raft loaded with men who are pass ing up buckets of water to extinguish the tire. The fort is scarcely discern ible. The men on the raft are now objects of tire from Monis Island. With glasses balls can be seen shipping over the water sinking the unprotected raft. Great havoc is created among the poor fellows. It is surmised that Major Anderson is grad ually blowing up the fori he scarcely tires a gun. At half past eleven o'clock flames were hurst ing from all the port lioles. The destruction of the fort is inevitable. Four vessels, two of them large steamers, are in sight over the bar the largest appears to be engaging Mori is I -land. The flames have nearly subsided in Sumter, but Major Anderson does not lire any gun-. Gen. Beauregard left the wharf just now in a boat for Morris Island. The excitement, if anything is increasing. I have read a letter from S. C. Boylston. dated Moultrie. 6 o'clock this morning. He says not one man was killed or wounded. The iron battery had been damaged. The rifled cannon of the battery did great execution on Siimtoi and were all aimed into Anderson's port holes. Three of Sumter's I .arbeite guns were dismounted, one of which was a ten inch Coluni biad. - A corner of Fort Sumter opposite Moultrie w a- knocked ofl'. The steinicr- Water Witch, Mokaick, and Pawnee, il was thought were the three tirst vessels seen in tlie oiling. The batteries of Sullivan's Island, Cu minings P.., nt and Stevens' haitery, were tiring shot and shell into Ft. Sumter. Maj. Anderson does nt return the lire. Ft Sumter is still on tire There has just beeu two explosions at Ft Sumter. I he Federal flag was again hoisted over Ft. Sumter, when Puruber Miles, with a flag of tr uce, went to the fort. In a few minutes the Federal flag was again drawn down by Maj. Anderson and the white flag again unfurled. The breaches made in Ft Sumter are on the skle opposite to t ummiug's Point. Two of its port holes are knocked into one, and the wall from the top is crumbling. I hree vessels, one of them a large s?zed steamer, are over the b ir. and seem to e prep.u ing to Mrticinate in the conflict. The tire of Morris Islan and Moultrie is divided between Sumter and the -hips of war. 1 he shiphave not yet opened. Fort Sumter has üurrendered . The Confederate flag floats over its walls. None of tlie garri on or Confederate troops are hurt. Another correspondent says the bombardment has closed. Major Anderson ha drawn down the -tars and stripes, and displayed n white flag, which has been answered from the city, as a boat is on the way to Sumter Gen. Be iu regard has just gone tn Fort Sumter, also three fire companies, to quench the tire be fore it reaches the magazine. Til i an DISPATCH. Fort Sumter has been unconditionally son en dered. The people are wild with joy. No Carolinians were hurt. Tw-j thousand shots were fire I altogether. M due Anderson and his men were conveyed to Monis Island under guard. M " r Anderson has reached the city anil is tie guest of Gen. Ileiuregard. I nc people sympathize witn Aii'ierson, out no h r those in the steiiners iu sight, w ho did uot ! even attempt to reinforce him. The wood work and officers' quarter? of Foit , Sumter are all but ut. No officer.-, were w ounded. The fort was taken possession of tonight. t'rm cii Inrk. Srw Ymja. Saturday, April 11. Dispatches were received from Col. Waiie. Commander of the Texas forces, State that a strong Union fi-eling is grow ing. Governor Houston predicts the return of the secessionists to their allegiance. They are terri btf taxed. Houston has been offered avowed support by the Mormons in every part of the Suite, but declined it. A Washington Tribune dispatch says com mander Fox commands the vessel with provisions which is to lead the expedition into Charleston. The Government is said to have chartered the steamship I'hiladi Ij-.'iia and Ericxon, the former is being rapidly filled with provisions, army stores, and munitions of war. The latter is to be held in reserve for any emergency. i'aion .fleeting- nt TOudison. MaDtsnx, SuiKtay, April 14. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held here last night. A number of speeche were made. The following resolution was passed: Resolved, That we will, with all the means in our power, maintain the Government and flag of the United States Several volunteer military companies are form ing here

From IVaahinajtoit. Waswkoton, Friday, April IS. The Commissioners arrival in this city this

morning, aud during the afternoon they visited the President, bat not in their official capacity , and were received by him directly after the Cabinet meeting adjourned. The President has made tbe following Massachusetts appointments : Charles A Phelps. Surreyor of the port of Boston in place of Fletcher Webster, who was removed at the earnest request of the Massachu setts congressional delegation. Eugene L. Norton, Navy Agent. Boston. Richard H. Dana, District Attorney. .lohn S. Keys, Marshal. John A. Goodwin, Postmaster, Lowell. C. C. i. Baldwin, Marshal, and George Howe. Attorney for Vermont Jas. C. Aiken, Marshal, and Ed. G. Bradford, Attorney for Delaware. Lansing G. Vance, Postmaster at Norristown, Pennsylvania. Harmon Bennett, Postmaster, Norwich, N. T.' It is deniei that any portion of the Confederate States' loan has been offered in New York. More than the entire amount has been arranged at par within the limits of the Confederacy. Washington, Saturday, April 13. The President has directed that Capt. Wm. B. St. John, of tlie Third Infantry, and Lieut. Abncr Shead, of the First Artillery, cease to be offi cers of the army. The regular troops here have been ordered to proceed to the outskirts of the city to watch every avenue thereto, while the volunteers mustered guard the avenues and public buildings. Videttes are constantly seen riding through the streets. The President, in die exercise of his discretion to designate a newspaper here in which the ex ecutive advertisements shall be published, in addi tion to the two papers publishing thein by virtue id' their circulation, has designated tlie National Republican. There is comparatively but little excitement here relative to affairs at Charleston. The war news is received here with feelings of regret. There is no excitement, but the prospects for the future creates a general feeling of depres sion. The Commissioners from Virginia had a pleasant interview- with President Lincoln this morning. The result was simply a statement by tbe President that he will act according to the in augural programme, hold the public property, and maintain the defensive. The President's reply was given in writing. It will be recollected that the Commissioners came here under instruc tions to respectfully ask the President to communicate to the Virginia Convention the policy to be pursued in regard to the Confederate Strtes. The reply of the President to the Virginia Commissioners represents his purpose to hold, occupy, and possess tbe projicrty and places belong ing to the Government, and collect the duties on tiie imports; but not to use force except when necessary for this object. He says: "An unprovoked assault on Fort Sumter has been made and I sliall repress it if I can, and take places which have been seized shall, to the best of my ability use force if necessary. If the war news proves true I shall probably withdraw the troops from the seceded States. I consider that the forts and property iu those States yet belong to us. I shall not collect duties by armed invasion. I do not mean, however, I may not land a force to reliete the Fort. He reaffirms his inaugural except that part relating to mails. The President received the war news calmly and with a confident feeling that he had done Iiis duty iu the matter. Senator Sherman arrived from Ohio, and reEorts tlie Republicans there ready to stand by im to the last. The opinion prevails that an attempt will be made before sunrise to arm the light draught vessels of the Ueet up to Sumter to reinforce and pro vision it. Washington, Sunday, April 14. In Mr. Lincoln's reply to the Virginia Commissioners, after expressing his regret that the public mind is still uncertain as to his course, he reaffirmed the policy marked out in his inaugural address. "But," he said, "if, as it now appears to be true, in the pursuit of a purpose to drive the Unite i States authorities from these places, an unprovoked attack has been made upon Sumter, I shall hold myself at liberty to repossess, if I can, like places which have lieen seized before the Government was devolved on me; and. in any event, I shall, to the best of my ability, repel force by force. In ease it proves true that Sumter has been assaulted, as is reported, I shall, perhaps, eanse tlie United Sutes mails to be w ithdrawn from all the States which claim to have seceded, believing tliat the commencement of actual war against the Government justifies and possibly de mands it. Whatever else 1 may do for the pur pose, I shall not attempt to collect the duties and imports by any armed invasion of any part of the couutry not meaning by tin-, however, that I may not land force, if deemed necessary, to re lieve a fort upon tlie border of the country." Arrangements have beeu made to concentrate the military at any threatened point. The greatest anxiety is manifested to hear further Southern news. It is rumored that an attack will be attempted on Fort Delaware, Md. The War Department has taken steps to prevent it. Five officers of the Navy tendered their resig nations, and they were refused. Their names will be stricken from the list. The National Volunteers passed resolutions denouncing the military operations of the Government, and expressing their sympathy with the Secessionists. The guards at the depots have been largely in creased. The President will issue, to morrow , a pro clamatiou calling for 75,1)00 militia to suppress the combinations iu the seceded States, and en see the laws to be duly executed. The first service will probably be to repossess the forts that have been seized from the Union. He also convenes Congress on the Fourth of July. The War Departmeat is preparing the details to communicate to the States. Hew the War eiwa is Recrlrea. i'iNriNTi. S.ourdav. April la. Great excitement throughout thecfty. Business comparatively neglecte I Sympathie ot si! par tie with the Government. Pbovimckck, K. 1 , Saturda. April U. Governor Sprague lias tendered to tlie Govern went the services ot tlie Marine Artillery and 1.000 infantry, aud offers to aeeompany them Iii m self. Boston, Monday, Vpril 13. The war news from Charleston creates a pro found sensation iu this city and throegheei the State. The general sentiment is, that the Federal Government is right, and shoe Id be main tained. Intense excitement prevails. The surrender is not lielieved by many. rfwl I1m.hu. Saturday awtl 1 The news of the bombardment can-el a profound sensati iff. and the Legislature paserl a resolution that they heard with deep sorrow a re eret of the war among neighbors, am! without expressing mi oinlon. Prayers were offered for a reconciliation. PwtunruniA, flitiirlay, April VI. The war feeling is rampant. The people are incredulous about Sumter's new. Two regiments of militia will be ready to march in u few days. Mawm, tsatardar. April IS. There is great excitement here. The people are gathered together in great crowds. Cannons, rockets, bonfires, music and ppeeche ure the order of the evening. s Irrraorr, MwsUj-, April It Tlie war news creates n profound sensation The unanimous sentiment of the State is, that the position assumed by the Government must be maintained. An impromptu meeting of the members of the Detr.'it bar and influential citizens was held yesterday afternoon, composed of all parties. They pissed resolutions denouncing the reliellious organization e.iUH fhe Confeiere States, and de clarinir their intention to tand by the old nag at Another meeting of the citieeni will lie heMtn morrow n it tit. Our aim, Samiav. April 14. The news .if the surrender of Port Snmtci rr ateil a profound sensation. It was at fir-t di credited: but. when late !-: itc'ie- unite I firming previou.- reports, the excitement wa in tease All parties express a dcuvtmuaiiott to up hold the Got eminent in entiwvuig the lauaiii maintaining the supremacy ol the national tli. Kate. I'.. Swtdav. April 14. The new s from the Sonlh creates the inort in tense teeiin- Men of all partte- expre-s their de termination to stand by tlie Government, and fight for the supremacy of the United Sutes flag All our volunteer cntnpaiifa will offer ihrir se.a I, e. t . t:.. Governor to tnorp.W. hi r ti ii. snmt ir, April 14. Accounts have been received from numerous Eastern ritie repreicnting interne excitement ! he niiliti i are t .ilunteei in the , M l vires, and a general determination to support the Government is manifested. lliniji.ip, Sunday. April 14. Demonstrations of joy were made during tbe night. A party hoisted tbe Southern fla- in the captto! but it w,i ubeiiucntlv removed bv the guard. I rum llnnfon. ft.-T.., S.ati.nl.i- . V;,rd 11. The Adjutant General's office was crowded thi forenoon with officers of tbe State militia, offer ing their commands to the government. An extensive war feeling nas !ecn aroused. Governor Andrews leaves for Washington this afternoon. Thr Star and Stripe nianlnyrd. LASCAtrta, Pa. , Saturday, April 13. The stars and stripes are displayed in honor of Major Anderson. The volunteers are leing en rolled.

Later fraaa Charleiien. Caajujvrex, 8 relay, April U. T. M The firing has ceased, and an unconditional surrender has been made. The Carolinians are surprised that the fight is so soon over. After the flagstaff was shot over Wigfall was sent by Beauregard to Sumter with a white flag to offer assistance to subdue the flames. He was met by Maj. Anderson, who said be had just displayed the white flag, bat the batteries had not stopped firing Wigfall replied that Anderson must haul down the American flag surrender or fiu'ht was the word. Maj. Anderson then hauled the flag down. Several of Beauregard's staff came over and

stipulated that the surrender be i the present, subject to the terms of mm i a I m i . m ijor aiknbss was atioweu to remain in acT, April 14. The negotiations were completed last night Major Anderson's command will evacuate in the morning aud embark on the war vessels now off the harbor. Five of Anderson's men were wounded or.eof them thought mortally. After the surrender a boat was sent from a Ship of war outside to Morris Island, requesting permission for the weasel to enter and take off Anderson's command. It is reported that Anderson's surrender was because his quarters and barracksweredestroved. and he had hope of reinforcement. The fleet lav by for thirty hours, and could not, or would not, help him. His meu were prostrated bv over exertion. The explosions heard at Fort Sumter were caused by a lot of shells igniting. The barracks caught fire three times from hotshot from Fort Moultrie. Everything is in ruins but the casemates. Manv guns are dismounted. The walls look like honey comb. Fort Moultrie is badly damaged, and the houses on the Island are badly riddled. A boat from the fort, to night, officially notified the fleet of the surrender of Fort Sumter. It is not known what will be done with Fort Sumter or the vanquished. Major Anderson and his men leave to night on the Isabel for New York. The fleet is still outside. Prestdeat's Prorlamallon. WAWwrnw Sunday, April 14. The President's procalamation says: When, as the laws of the United States have been, and are now opposed in several States by combine tions too powerful to be suppressed in the ordinary wav, I therefore call forth the militia of the several States of the Union, to tlie aggregate number of 75.000 to suppress said combinations and execute tbe laws. I appeal to all loyal citizens to facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the laws and integrity of the National Union and the perpetuity of popular governments and re dress wrongs that have long beeu endured The first service assigned to the forces wall be to repossess the forts, places and property that have been seized from the Union. The utmost care will be taken, consistent with tlie object, to avoid devastation and destruction or interference with property of peaceful citizens in any part of the country and I hereby command persons composing the aforesaid combinations to disperse within twenty days from date. 1 hereby convene both houses of Congress for the fourth of July next to determine upon measures which tbe public safety and interest demands. Si0Tied, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President. By W. H. Srwann, Secretary of State. Virgiaia on t em ion. Kichmok, Saturday, April 13. In the convention to day Messrs. Carlisle and Early deprecated the action of Sooth Carolina in firing on Sumter, and expressed devotion to the stars and stripes. Tlie Se essionists replied, applauding tbe gallantry of South Carolina, and claim that what ever the convention did, the Bute would go out the Union. The Governor communicated a dispatch from Governor Pickens giving an account of the bombardment, saying there is a furious fire on us from Sumter, but we will take the fort and sink the fleet, if an attempt is made to land elsewhere. We can w hip them. We have nearly 7,000 of the best troops in tbe world and a reserve of 10,000. We will triumph or perish. Let me kuow what Yiigmie will do. Iu the debate it was said the Southern army would march through Virginia and thousands would join it. southern Jtf mnntalsers at Nashville. NaaavnxK, Saturday, April IS There is much enthusiasm at a public meeting to-night. Resolutions were uuaoimoosly adopt ed, condemning tlie Administration for the pres eut state of affairs, and sympathixi'.g with the South. Zollicoffer, and other, spoke. Cerrfpsadracr. The following is the telegraphic cot ence between the War Department at Montgom gery and Gen. Beauregard immediately preceding the hostilities. The correspondence grew out of the formal notification by the Washington Oorernment, which is disclosed in Gen. Bearegard's first dispatches: Re. 1, IV L. P. Wulher, SrcrHary ITar j An authorised messenger from President Lincoln just informed Governor Pickens and myself that provisions w ill be sent to Fort Sumter t aWy, or otherwise by force. (Signed) G. T. Bkai i o. s.i Mor rsoNXBT April IS, IM. Ik Gmrrü O. 7. Bamurmwmrd, Chart lit: If yon have no doubt of the authorised character of the agent who communicated to you the intention of tbe Washington Go vein ment to supply Fort Sumter by force, yeu will at once demand its evacuation, and if this is refused, proceed to reduce it. (Signed) L. P. Wal. Secretary of War. mw H ms i asarw admV I -- AmmU VTt rarr Caasiacm.x, April M. 1SS1. L. I'. Walk Ainar V or: The demand will Ire made to morrow at twelve o'clock. ' Signed i 0. T. Bkat skoaju fS. . M" ro. ht, April IS, 1M1. 75 Oenenrf Bettreatir4 f Unless (here are especial reasons connected with your own condition, h is considered proper that you should make the demand at an eariy honr. (Signed) L. P. W Amt, Secretary of War. ftaC Onaaaj-aTOK, prilie lfltl. 75. . Walkrt , jfonlffrmrrf : The reasons are special for 12 o'clock (Signed) G. T. Beat aru. aap. taamjaros, April 11, 18S1. To L P. Talk Secretary of War, Mottaumery . Demand sent at o'clock to answer. I o'clock. Allowed tiU f (Signed) G. T. Bxai at.o vsu. l- 7. j - , MiNrruoetUT, April U, 75 &nral Ba regard. L'kartsstm: Telegraph tlie reply of Major Anderson. .Signed; L. P. Walkbx, Secretary. CaAJUMTt. April 11, Utl To L P. Wmtlcsr, SeereUiry of War, Mnnlj mwy Major Anderson replies: "J have the hsswc So acknowledge tbe receipt of your eerttmunicatroii demanding ihe evacuation of thi fort, aud te say in reply that it is a demand which 1 regret that my reuse uf honor and my obligations to my Government prevent my compliance." He addr "Probably I will await ' tbe first shot, and if you do not batter as to pieces, we will be starved out in a lee Have. Mgnei; O. 1 . Hkai i Na S.J . April 11, 18S1 vmT$ aweiyvgiiMf, Charleston: Wc ihi iot desire needlessly to bombard Port Sumter Major Anderson will ute the time t hiyff as Indicated by him lie will evacuate, and ajrec that tu the meantime he will not use In i""!1"1" u unless oars sboald be em ployed aAiiist Fort Sumter, you are thus to atoid tlie effusion of blood. If this or its equiv alent be refused, reduce the fort aa your judgiu: nt d 'ide i ' f h m -t a-Acticahla v Signed) L. P. W tuen. Sec'y of War. So. is Chajuajto. April 13. Ual. To L. P W.tlhmr, Srerrittry of War, Mtnifamsarp; He would not consent. I write to day. (Signed) G. T. Bhai atCASD I rota iiinriOiiim. II twnurra... Prissy. April It A bill has been reported in the How-e apreonri ating half a million dollars for arming aud equip ping the militia of the State. It provides for the appointment of Adjutant. Commi-.rv and Quartermaster (ieneraUi by the Governor. " The war bill passed Ixwh booses of the Legisla ture to night . without anew! ment. .and bv the Governor. Vlreinin a KKViwatav Tfcar-a.r. April 11 In the convention Mr. Scott offered an amend ment to the fourteenth r-erlntioo contemplating - v of thehordei States in the event of a response not lieuig made by the non St ue- o aclmn" was taken There is less excitement in this city. Fxtra Min ot ongreee. HoaTBosnrav, Friday, April W. An eitra session of Congress haa been called for April 59tb.