The New York Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1861, Page 10

THRE REVOLUTION. hhfe apd this orgamkaton Was 10 be feud embodied in one sdex— ‘Vorlavery. Their great party keader, Mr. Seward, secret of their success lay in one idea—the ail wep. Aga, Lincola deckared that the of slavery was their avowed object, and con 80 thas ali men might hepe for its ultimate ex- ‘wection, The emphatically declared sentiment of the \party was that siavery wae % So2a), moral and political evil, This was the docirine of ‘the men who must witupately contro) the whole of the popular feoling in ‘the North. It was umpossible to adopt ap opinion of this and without making up the mind to carry what it pro- fesses. In other words, it was smpossible for the South ern people i jom the republican party without a great revolution in the policy of that organization; and, there fore, ihe republican must bo a sectional party. In proof ot it was only necessary to show that no portion of the people in the Southern States could join them without committing themeelves to a ralical ehangs im Ueir yhole social, moral and political system. Therefore, beng sectional amd “the stronger par. ty, they wil contro! the government, to the detriment of the weaker Southern section, While the stronger would engroes co themselves all the emoluments ‘ef office, aud enjoy the patronage of the government, the South would have w pay the taxes, help to fight the bat ‘ve and extend the boundaries of the confederacy, Thus the South would be isolated, and left to gradual decay, without hope of redemption. Thus the federal patronage und power, and ail the moral sad political intiuence of the government, would be brought to bear against Southern titutions, to the final overthrow of slavory. s would follow, even though the moderate men of that party got. into — power, Sapposing, (00, that they would not interfere with slave- vy Jt present Linits, nor in the District of Columbia, yet they exclude it (rom the Territories, which are large emough Wo make twenty new States, and upon which they iy & food of emigrants from all parts of the world. Seward foreshadowed this policy, and their Home- wtead bill was the tirst measure to bring it taio effect. They say that they would not interfere with slavery in the South, that they had no power to do so, nt that their consciences commanded them to resist it. Ww hke manner tbeir consciences would prompt them to vesist it on the formation of new States from the Territo- ywes, and thus they would have complete power over the ratablishment of slavery. Nor would they desist until they Ihed fina}ty taken measures for its utterexctusion. In this way they would give up the whole public domain to the foreigner, to, the exclusion of their brethren in the oathern States. The anti-slavery doctrine would bo pashed even further. Being the dominant party in the eountry, possessed of all the federal patronage, and hav- ing the’ control of the law making power, they would provide for tariffs, and pass sectional appropriations, and dn every oppressive manner build up the North at the umpense of the South, until they would render slavery utterly worthiess, and compel them to give way before the increasing Bombers aud power ef the free “'aces. This would be the natural result of Who dommancy of the republican party, even - “supposing their most moderate men were at the head of the government. Mr. Garnett then referred to the his- tory of tbe emancipation of the West India slaves, and weat on toshow that under the policy pursued by the Yepublicans the now smiling fields of the South would be dduserted and become barren wastes. He would ask fatr minded man, could the Soath tamely submit to auch nve domination and degradation as this’ They ‘would not do so. They would take steps in tine to avert ‘Moevil. They could not hope fora change for the bet- ‘er in the policy of the sectional party, with a corrupt gevernment in all its branches, Congress reduced w the shame of expolling members for corruption and re-electing them soon r, Rot a claim «llowed qaly through the ail-poten® influence of bribes, and even ‘tho clestion of a President almost as much a subject of traffic and corruption as was the Roman empire in the first days of ite dec A few years ago, in Wisconsin, the Legulature, thegxecutive and the Judiciary, was 60 eeevictea of corruption, and the practice was s0 univer. mal that there none jet to punish. Even in the Biate of New York, in the present day, all the papers wpanimousiy agree’ that never was there known such eorruption as existed in the municipal and state govern moat. Therefore it was vain for them to hope for re- drens, or @ look to Congress for any rolief. “It would mot do to depend longer upon chance. Jt was the in both sections to seek a more permanent The struggle between them could endure no donger. It paralyzed every portion of the government, and created intense heartburnings and hatred intensified between both sections. The South could no longer aiford %0 hold their slaves at the mercy of the North, and ‘erofore they were cemmpelled to seek satety and honor ewtof the Union. If they were to remain in the Union the South must be invested with the power of an abso- Jato veto in overy departioent of the government. They mo longer oxpected Justice from the North. The crisis ‘was now spon them, and each must meet it as beet they might. But the people of the North were now anxious to vonceie in, of their former demands. He did mot nay did so in any craven spirit, that they to ‘threats; but ‘While he admitted the +4 of conciliation to which they yielded, be would ask y: could they think that nine ‘millions of Southern 6 would show a craven spirit in tamely submitting Sibeis wronga? The masses of the Northern people had wever seriously considered this important question bo- fore. But danger to the Union has awakened them to the question which 's pressing upon them. If an appeal was made by the South to the mon of the North, no doubt the North would rally to the reseuo of the South and hurl from powor the men who have usurped the dir affairs, who have refuged all conciliation, and den aneans’ of adjustment necessary to save tho fede zal Union. His own State had called a conven on, to meet on the Lithof February. at State and her tached to the Union, and would Joed not long since would have the Southeru Btates to bi rms, But while gene se Beagle had wo Ny presery welled and advis copted mierate @breatens the publican party, who had br: ings, folded theit arms and maintained « solid and insulting silence. While they offered no terns of compromise or conciliation, they threated military eo woion, Their rejection of all means of compromise bowed untmistakeably that the South had nothing to Lope from them in peace, and in that conviction Virginia had st inst determined to take efiective measures to sccure her own safety and honor. Let so man deceive himself with ‘the idea that secession will etop where it now is. It wil! not stop till the Union is thoronghly disrupted. ‘The border States will follow and join im & great Southern eoofederacy. Virginia considered her material interests tadissotubly bond with the South as she was by ties of hood considered her political position, it woirld -ginie wae sti!) more closely allied to the Hoath. in a Northern confederacy Virginia would be a mebordinae; in a Southern confederacy she we a ieader, The South could not sa! wwait for ihe slow process of change arising from any attemp? tof amend the constitution, therefore wevera) of the Southern States had resorted to the only semedy left to them, of withdrawing from the the saine manner and by the same authority by whic: ‘ey entered it. It was of little consequence whether the zepublicans believed it or not, but whe fact was that the ‘Union is already dissolved. “If they resorted to coercion er civil war, that very war in itself puts an ond to the ‘Union of the States. Peage meant recoustruction, it meant union in same form or other, but war was feevitabic and eternal separation. From the moment at one drop of blood waa shod, from that moment all or ulion was at av end, : vain to hope for conciliation, He trusted that none wished for war. There might be a oped ‘those Who dad brought ef the phe oped ti wi ad brought edou: ike prese ( state of things had acted blindly, and ‘Mut they deceived themselves. They talk of the en- Sorcement of the laws, and the cvercing of a people who are unanimous for seoertion. This could not be done. The firet wctou pt 6! cerciod would bring on a general s the laws be enforced in South were no federal courte or federal yecords? The bi kade of the ports was a remedy poker ) mt the emergency. But suob @ biockade woud be on act of war with a Stae, and was an acknowledgment of the exintenee of a de farto gevernment in that State, a fact they now demand. Suppose they blockaded the Houthern ports for a year, they would require a large avy, to be maintained at an immenge cost, while they be no nearer their obect—the subjugation of the people. Tue men of the South were the descendants of mon who defeated the power of Pngland. But wonld the Hoath be abasdened to their fate by the nations of Murope? No, por by the American propio either. The sonsequences to NeW England of a biockale of the South would be quickly felt. Threefunrths of the people of dey for subsistence on the cotton of the , 0, .pon the Southern ana’ neither France nor England would permit ‘a Northern blockade of Southern ports. ‘Ami if they thought that they cou'd reduce the poo to, depended ple by au armed invasion, he would tel! chem they were greatly mietéken, for their armies would melt before the eourage aud determination of the people as xnow melted the presence of the Southern sun. Before they under take such an enterpriee let them remember the glory Which gikis the rocks of and the renown w yet rented upon the here moppiae. These ‘wore slaveboiders. They were slave owners who car whed the Ronan eapi¢ to the farthest onde of the und who bequeathed to the world thoee Reman which still command the respect of all Ist them remember it wae a nation of slaveholie everthrow the power of Great Britain. And why should Gy be wovaded? What would be the pretence? Yor. oh, Weonune they had insisted on the right of roif they sought to If they ‘attempted t ‘id in eriine, to baptiae et them do this, and prociaim ¢ d¢ on which Southern men bat ion in former times. But bo. he blood of their men—aye, of dren—wenld inearnadine their and the country will ston. Sneb must be the they led peace—neace peace each asthe t the old Roman pave t Why, no sane man cond Could they not repure bie new, not contd Without war tx coke! upon make | 0. Bot wh far was not de mocha war? any eubseqvent harmony. two friendiy nations, The Mion, Wai the receding States ia ree jan tho oaly remedy le*t them for the ern intererte and honor, and in reap eorrcion, Why should t Tat thera take facts ae they seceded, In afew days n of the Uswm. to th ae ow geopile will repud.ate cor authe feorckon upon Any one of these t goushern States would ollow. How abs 40 tei of coordion, and t treat fob o move merely rebellion. ‘If it be cailed robs necessity arome to ireat with them by 1 Peace could onty be restored and the C-nsr't etrneted npon ac equality of right#, equal to both ee tions and with fal) spoteniion for ther » property. Whether thera «mid ve A reconsiracioe, fedora) govern Went on Finn viar pring pee wt the prevent, or an alargay Of & Mparale and indepeadent op rove NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY VY, confederacies, ¥Y) ¢:d met know; but at all evente they could go 00 a8 ‘onder the devel ‘her nas ‘this way 6) manent ffl sive bei have all ot the Sho inte advantages. They should have free national and th they’ would consolidate their foes, such a8 woe provided for Thus they secure for each confederacy internal peace and national indepen- dence, and be free from the poseibility of influence: or dissension about the interests of vena would be a much bettor solution of the nt difficulties than engaging in rood rsd and Tench per Lnperd advance to wards the great American fect self-government than they had yet attained, Mr. Gcriey, (rep.) of Ohio, representing part of Cincin. nati, said that its citizens and those opposing in Ken- tucky lived on terms of most friendly mtercourse, and come what may they will maintain that condition of affairs. Those whom he: tod were for the constitution and Union, and theenforcement of the laws at all bazards and atany cost. He epoke of the seizure of forts, magazines, c., and to crown all the South Carolina authorities have fired intoa vessel in the service of the United States, carrying at her masthead that fig which everywhere is a shield of protection. ‘The South has ingulted and treated roourse, jus strength against all foreign by the presont opnatitution. Northitrn men as conquered people, Merchants of Cin- cimnati bnve been ordered home by Louisiana for no other reason than upholding a Presidential candidate of their own ehoice. fe should stop this work of traitors, and, vindicate the laws. They must prevail, and the government mnust put down traitors by its sipong arm. Forbearance has ceased to be a virtue, He ac terized the Southern movement as cold blooded rebellion. There was no eanse for rebellion. in a government where people make and contro} it. Re- bellion is a le - in the dark—a high crime—wilkd anarchy ; and if successful, must end in civil war and consequent desolation. He ga; ted to the secessionists, would it ‘be an act of prudence for them to stand U the ten millions of freemen of the West, where there would be gathered a storm, if attempts were made to interrupt the navigation of the Mississippi? The now = founda- tions of New Orleans would become the bed of a lake where fishes would live instead of men. Mr. Mavxarp, (opp.) of Tenn., asked that if such acts as those to which the gentleman alluded were done in the Union, what would be done if the Union was broken up? Mr. GuRuxy replied, that if the Union was broken up there would be war, and the test would be as to who is ‘the strongest. Did Southern ‘lemen expect that the people of the Northwest would fold their hands with in- difference and see their steamboats fired into and their merchants driven home? How jong were the Northwest vo continue peacefu) under this state of things? Ifa bill should be passed giving the President authority to sustam the national government, you could have a hundrod thou- sand men from the West, and then let the worst come. The people of Ohio have, through their Legislature, recently unanimously passed @ resolution in favor of maintaining the government. Mr. Homtan, (opp.) of Ind., argued against secession. No one would question the right of revolution for intole- rable oppression, but this did not exist. Therefore, if the government was overturned, it would be without Justification or excuse. The people whom he — would not consent that the Union should be itroyed. They would rally around it. He could not, however, despair of the republic, and trusted that it would con’ tinue to endure. “we wera D5 of ht said pre 5 eee. et constitution, and it has grown to portions, and its heavy footsteps are heard all polling us. The most hopeful begin to despair of the republic. ‘The sooner we make up our minds to resist disunion the better. We should move on with steady nerve and un- suitering step in the line of duty. Such is the verdict of every patriot. The last screw in the Lecomp- ton drama has been played out, producing on one hand the overthrow of the democratic party, and the other the destruction of the goveroment. Who would have sup- posed that Mr. Buchanan on his return from abroad would have become the instrument of the nation’s ruin? Nero tiddled while Rome was burning, and Mr. Buchanan, while the whole republic’ is falling ? complacently comes forward and says he is not responsible for it. Buthe (Morris) said with the whole country as Nathan said to David, ‘Thou art the man."’ The blackness and darkness wil) overshadow . If there were needed any other inscription on his tomb it should be, “God have mercy on him.’ (A voice from the republican side—‘Amen.’’) He referred to his former remarks to show that his pre- diction had ben realized respecting the breaking down of the demo: atic party by an odious demonstration. The Preside: had descended from his high posi- tion to maliciously operate against Mr. Douglas. It had been said by outsiders that Buchanaa is the last of the constitutional President, but it might with more truth be regarded that he is the first of constitutional tyrants and usurpers. The President had virtually surrendered the government to the sccessioniat, who gained his car. He travelled with them to verge of dissolution, but refustug to teke the leap they turn their keen blades against him apd he now cries for help, while he preaches like « patriot, but his acts are like those of a traitor.*| He would say to him, ‘deceitful man be eure that your sins will find you out.’ In the the course of bis remarks he said that the adrninistration lent itself to disunionists, who, emboldened by his course, destroyed the democratic party. The Union would have been in safety if Douglas had been elected President. The Southern people are alove to blame for the defeat of the demecracy, und the election of Lincoln. The object to be obtained in this was the dismembermeut of the Union. Mr Tuomas, (opp.) of Tenn., obtained the floor, The committee rose, and the House rdjourned: THE SECRETARY OF WAR ON THE CHARLES- TON FORTS. Sin—in answer to your letter asking for information erla porbts specified in a resolution adopted by the mittee on Military Affairs, of the House of Represen- taliv om ghe 18th ultimo, I have the honor to state as follows'— According to the latest report of the engineer oviicer having charge of the construction of the defences of the harbor ot Charleston, everything practicable had been done to place Fort Moultrie in an eit at condition, and, with aay per gar- risen, it was deemed. suseeptible of an ‘energetic derence. There were then employed at that work one oilicer and one hundred and twenty workmen, independent of the regular garrison. On the evening of the 26th ultimo, Mayor Robert Anderson, First Artillery, in command of the troops in Charleston harbor, apprehensive of the safety of his com- mand from the insecurity of the fort, and having reason to believe that the South Carolinians contemplated or were pre- Paring to proceed to a hostile act against him, and desirin: event 2 collision and the effusion of blood, evacuated Fort Mouterie, after leaving orders for spiking the cannon and dis. abling some of the s, and removed his forces to Fort Sumurr, where they now are. Castlé Pinckney Was, at the date of the latest report, in good condition as regards pre} nm, and, With a proper gar: rison, as defensible as it can be made. One officer and thirty workiuen Were engaged In the repair of cisteras, replact and attending to other matters of etal Pinckney have been taken po if tate of South Caroling, acting under the orders of the hor, and are now held by those troops, with all the ar- ent and other public property therein at the time of their Teuclose a statement (No. 1) of the number and description dnance abd artns, at the date of the last returns, at Fort muitria, Castle Pinckney and Charleston Arsenal, ¥ ively. That Arsenal, with all its contents, was also taken Jon of cn the "sth ult. by an a body of South na troops. acting under ofders of the Goveruar of the A nted in the following report of Frederick C. uiltary storekeeper of ordnance in change, the vin: rsetial militia of South Carolina, of Governor The commanding oilicer was allowed to salute hia fag Jowening st, wish one gun for each Stage now in the Calon (thirty-two), and to take tt with bim, and the detachment to occupy tbe uarters until instructions from Washington can inined. At that time the force under his control consisted of nine enlisted soldiers of ordnance and six hired men. The other information asked for, in regard to the num- ber and description of arms ‘distributed since the Ist of January, 1860, and to whom and at what price,” will be found in the accompanying statements, Nos. 2 and 3, from the Ordnance bureau. It is deemed ‘proper to atate, in further explanation of statement No. 2, that where no distribution appears to have been made to 4 State or Ter- ritory, or where the amount of the distribution is small, it is ‘because such State or Territory has not called for ail the arms due on its qnotes, and remains a ereaitor for dues not distributed, which ean be obtained at any time ‘on requisition therefor. Very respectfully, your obe. dient servant, J. HOLT, Secretary of War ad interim. Hevsawiy Sraytoy, Chairman Committee on Mili y Aftairs, House of Representatives. ND DESCRIPTION OF ORDNANCE AND Ans AST VINCENPY ANT ens. before Hon. r yoRT ORARLESTON ARSENAT. er 42 pounder jron gone - 4 32 pounder iron guns woe 14 +, ~ 24 pounder ‘rom guns... = eS Hight inch iron colambiads 10 - Fight ineh iron wearoast howitzers & 4 24 pounder fron (lank howitzers 4 - 12 pounder brass held how!tzers 2 Six pounder brass fleld guns... 4 Six pounder old iron oid guns 24 pounder old iron fel be witzers Fiint lock muskets, calibre €9 F altered to percussion ‘cussion muskets, calibre 69....... Percussion riftes, calibre 54... Same altered, wita long range sighta Flint lock Hall's rifles. co... eeseeee Percussion ritied carbines. Percussion earbis Flint jovk pistols Percussion pistols. eisetee em ae STAVEMENT OF AKAD! DISMUNUTEN RY RAL aENCR THOT Ter JANTARY, 1960, 7O WHOM. SOLD AND PLACE WINE 1860, reemate. eo Springtield. springtield avon Rouge Baton Rouge State of Alabana.. tate of Alabama, Washington... : 2 St. Tonia, Nov. 24... Watervliet... t lock muskets altered to p At $2 00 each, except those py: ain G, Barry and by the Phillips County of which §2 each were paid. State of Virginia, A all and were all sold chased Youu TRNAS. Ave PROCTAMATION OF GOV. HOUSTON, Novntom has jesned hia proclamation for the tion of seven commissioners to represent Texas in a law of Ube it Leyilatnt ne eee eee on of the k elatnre ection to r the Ath day of Februarpe nooo to tale place on ARRIVAL OF The Gaiveston Mev of the Se Tolved States olleer in charge of the here, har, wo wnderetand, rece ordered so Be nent here y the net nays The new fort, buliding ved invoices of “the nema federal goyernn ent * HE RESULT OF JUDGE SMALLEY’S CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY. KERRIGAN, CONGRESSMAN ELECT, TO BE ARRESTED | POR MISPRISION OF TREASON. It will be remembered that some. time ago an adver. | tisement appeared in tho Hxeatp, signed by Mr. James | Kerrigan, Congressman elect, and calling for volunteers | ‘to, protect the South in their constitutieaal righta.”? Some days after this publication an explanation of the advertisement appeared in one of the New York dailies, saying that the object of Mr, Kerrigan was political and not military, and that he intended to form an organiza tion in opposition to that of Tammany and Mozart Hall, Other papers have since charged, however, that Kerrigan intended to raise a corps here to proceed to Charleston and aid the secessionisiz. An appearance of reliability was given to this report ty the fact that Mr. Kerrigan bas but recently visited Charleston, has but just re- turned, and was there durag the excitement consequent upon the firing ito the Star of the Wests It is now rumored—and the rumor is believed by Ker- rigan himself—that Mr. Kerrigan is to be arrested for misprision 08 treason, under the charge of Judge Smal- ley; {that the warrant, is made out and is wready in the bands of United States Marshal De Am- gelis, and that the arrest will take place to- night or to morrow. We g've thisonly ag a rumor, but from, the sourees from which we obtain it we might state it as a fact. if thie arrest shall take place it will yery much compii- cate snatters, There are very grate doubts whether the charge of Judge Smalley in regard to misprigion of treason can be sustained, as the constitution gives Congreas power only to determine the punishment of treason, but not of what treason shail consist. The constitution itself does that sufficiently. NEW YORK TROOPS FOR THE UNION. CORKESPONDENCE OF GENBRAL SANDFORD AND THE GOVERNOR. Major General Sandford has tendered the whoie of tho First Divieion New York Militia to the Commmnder-in- Chief. The offer bas been accepted, as will be geen by the following correspondence:— His ExCerixxcy Ewin D. Moncay, Governor, &6., &. Str—I have the honor to communicate to you the una- nimous passage, by the Division Board of Officers of the First Division New York State Militia, of aresolution authorizing me to tender to you their services for any dnty which the present emergency may require. Thave also the honor to state in response to the inqui. ry receutly made through the members of your military staff, deputed for that that the organized, un). formed and disciplined of this division, alvided into sixteen regiments, now includes upwards of seven thousand men—oflicers, non-commissioned officers and rivates, Prthe uniformed militia of this division, now enrolled, amounts to upwards of eighty-five thousand men. Of these a large number are men who have served their seven years in various regiments of this division, and who are liable to be called into service in case of in surrection and invasion. There men would generally de. sire to serve in their old regiments, and in cage of emer. gency would flock to our standards, and the unifurmed corps could then be increase: Ww fifteen or sixteen thou- sand men. ‘A large number of the officers and men of this divl- sion are trained as artillerista, and in case the United States government should find it necessary to withdraw the residue of their trocps from the harbor of New York for the Southern fortifications, I could detail a sufficient force to supply their places in twenty-four hours, and could replace from time to time, as long as might I hope to have the pleasure of seoing you in the course of the next week, and will, in the meantime, prepare such additional items of information respecting this Di vision as may be desired. 1 am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, CHAS. W. SANDFORD. New York, Jan. 12, 1861. Sian ov New Youx, Exacunve Dev anracer, “Aumaxy, Jan. 14, 1861. Sm—I have received your favor of the 12th instant, in- forming me of tho unanimous oF @ resolution b the Board of Officers of the First Division of New Yor! State Militia, tendering, through you, their services for any duty which the present emergency may require. In ‘accepting, as Ido provisionally, the proffered service, 1 cannot omit to conamend the promptness with which offi- cers and men throughout have responded to the call upon their patriotism. The alacrity exhibited by the First di- vision is but an earnest of disposition of the people of New York to rise to the aid of the federal authorities in this or any crisis, with the same readiness and una- nimity that they would rally to the defence of their State and municipal institutions, I am, very respectfully, yours, KD. MORGAN. ‘To Major General Cris, W. Saxnroro, New York city. THE ANTI-SECESSION MOVEMENT. MERTING AND DRILL OF THE NEW YORK UNION VOLUNTEERS—TASSAGE OF RESOLUTIONS DI8- CLAIMING PARTY OR SECTIONAL ‘TS—TENDER OF BERVICES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, ETC, The third meeting of the Union Volunteers of this city was held last evening at the Mercer Honse, Mr. Allan Rutherford presiding, and Mr. F. J. White acting as secretary. Before proceeding with the routine business of the meeting, the members were formed into line in the room, and Captain Rutherford instructed them in the first elements of military discipline. The drill was car- ried on without arms, the company being taught merely the manwuvres of marching and forming into siles and squares, ‘After the drill the members assembled for business, The minutes of the previous meeting were read and adopted, and, on motion, @ recruiting committee ap- pointed. Mr. Flassurr then proposed the following resolutions, which were submitted, be said, to confute the statements in some of the papers that the object of the organization was a political one:— Whereas, ft appears from an article published in some of the daily papers of thia city, that the integrity of our organt- zation Upon its avowed bakin ia doubted and suspected of secret political objects, ®ow, therefore, that our object may stand fully avowed before t and intelligent public, Resolved, That as the Union of these great and Tree Slate: each an empirety itself, all teeming with prosperity, wealth a1 the elements of happiness, is how undergoing ‘one ot those great intestine political striggles, which, threatens to destroy and sunder it, it becomes duty of every freeman whi cherishes with price and affection its hiatory of greatness aod ‘the prosperity of tis institutions, to rise above the heat of partisan strive, which only serves to cloud the mind and. ob: seure the vision, and standing upon the broad foundation of that constitution which was cemented by the glorious blood ‘of the Revolution—the fraternal affeetions of the States— plaim to the world that we know “no North, no South, mi Fast, no W but the “Union, the whole Union, and no. thing but the Union,” and that “it must and sail be preserv. bin, "Resolved, That we, the young men of the city of N ded by the fives of en illustrious dead, chad wm corda are woven around the ptilars of our ment, can- Bot but look with deepregret upon the onthe ateitude St our thers of the North and South, hurrying on the destruc. tion of this great Union, led “by’ politicians who only seek their own ambition without pausing to conaider the misery, the suffering and deep distress they are about to i rate. 'Be- lieving that a new spirit of patriotism «bould be kindled in the breast spirit which should tind tte life and vitality in the constitution and Union, submerging party and elevating the standard of political greatness io ia rue proportions of wisdom and junticr, Resolved, therefore, That we, ihe Union Volunteers of New. York, are banded together ax were the "* Pons of Liberty” of 1776 or the common det ence, believing that nothing vn human affairs can transcend the blessings of peace, and nothing equal the of civil war, Hy call upon our reprenniatives im the national councils to bring to their aid in this terrible Fnwae oh all the vor the past, the multiplied Ddlessings of present, and the dangers of the future, and counsel toge- ther for the on of this our great and glorious repub- ie from the impending dangers of cfvil war. Regolved, That we are banded together for no section, but for, the whole Union: and, seting aside all party aa liations and ties, offer our services to batile for the Union, wherever and whenever our services may ba valiiable, Resolved, That with these Views we offer our services to our country. On motion of Mr. ¥, J. Wurre, the captain was instruct ed to tender the services of the Volunteers to the Presi. dent of the United States and to the Governor of tho te. After the disposal of some rontine business the mecting adjourned until Saturday evening next. The drill: will in future take place on Wednesday evening of each week THE SECESSION OF FLORIDA YROCEEDINGS OF THE FLORIDA CONVENTION. vent pay, Wensvepay, Jan, 9, 1862 The Convention met pursuant to adjournmont—s quo rum present. After prayer by the Right Rev. Bishop Rutledy the transaction of some minor busine se, Mr. Saxpensoy, of Duval, Chairman of the Coruittes on Ordinances, made the following report:— The Select Committee oa Ordinances respect! mit that they are now prepared to report tu this ¢ tion an ordinance of secession, In view of the grave import of the subject under their consideration, they deem @ recurrence to a few of the leading principles in. volved in the formation of the confed Which we are about to sever, not imappropriate. Your commit- tee regard the constitution of the United States of Ame- rica as simply a compact in solemn form entered into be- tween equals. At the formation of the confederacy the revera) colonies, the then contracting parties, hud de- clared themeelyes free and independent States, These thus declared and mutually acknowledyed t) be and independent, for the purpose of forming a fede- ral government, delegated cortaln of their rights, ‘Thoro rights, with wise forecast and prudence, they poo\floally enumerated jn the instrument a0 made t) conatiture the bond of union between them, and with equal wiedem de- clared that all powers not Le ~ oF prohibited wore re. served to their perp'e, The federal governinent was therefore limited by the plain sense and intention of the {natrument constituting the compact, Your committee find no clause in the constitution prohibiting ths States from resasuming these delegated powers, and are of the opinion that the righy of secession, or taking back tne powers #o delegated ty the federal government, was one of the righta reserved to the States respectively. in sup- ¢ this opinion reference is made by your commit t » the f the States of New York, Virginia and Rhode Island, ratitying the federal constitution, Fa of these States distinctly affirm tho right to ro assume the powers granted “whenever jt should by. come necessary to the happiness of their people, or shoul be perverted to their injury or oppression.” These States , and ba’ thus entered into & compact, the reservations made vy them must of nesersity enure equally to the benefit of the other contracting parties. The constitut on ‘waa formed by the sanction of the States, given by each in Ite puvereign capacity. That these righta reserved by the original states belong equally to tho State ef Florida. Tey the act of Congress of the Mnited Sates of Amer a. paced on the third day of March, A. 1D. 1846, ea.) Cop ee® declared Florida to be @ State of the smerica, and ‘admitted into the Union on equal foc *ag with the origiaal States m all respects whaisoever. To these terms of admission into the confederacy aus Union of the United States, Assembly, passed on agreeably to the sixt ber coustit ted and e, the powers enumerated im the federal constitu: tion, and that she would not exercise the powers there- in prohibited to the States. The ‘nducements which led Florida t0 become a member of the United States were those whieh actuate every people in the formation of a government, to secure to themselves and their posterity the enjoyment of all the rights of life, liberty and pro- rty, and the pursuit of inesa. Your commiiwee Paty ‘concur in ‘the opinion that the consideratioa for which Florida gave her assent to become a member of the federal Union has wholly failed—that she is not per- mitted the enjoyment of See in the Union, and is not therefore “on equal f with the original States in all respects whatsoover’’—iuasmuch as she has not by said Union secured to her pom, and their poate- rity ihe enjoyment of all the rights of life, iiberty, and property, and the pursuit of happiness, which was pro- mised her on her admission into the Union. contract is, therefore, wilfully and materially broken. Acom- pact thus broken ia past is broken in whole. States being the parties to the constitutional compact, in thoir sovereign capacity, in the absence of any umpire pro- vided to decide in the last resort, it follows that the States must for themselves determine the time at which and the manner in Ww) they will interpose. in consequence of these and other grievances the General Assembly of the State, in with the — prov! of the constitution, bis aszembled this Convention to take into considera tion ‘the dangers ineident o the position of this State in the federal Union, established by the constitution of the United States of America, and the measures which may be necessary, and therefore to take care that the Oom- monwealth of Florida shall suffer no detriment.” To dis- charge this duty in-an effectual manner, your committee recommend that the State of Florida do, ton now assembled, secede now, and reassume all the rights by her delegated to the federa) government known as the Me apart of America, baw aed sage Seg a soverel independent nativn, and to this " 7 nis Raoptien of the ordinance of sevession berewith v respectfully subwitted. J.P, SANDERSON, Chairman, A. K. ALLISON, JAS. B.UWEN®, JAMES B. DAWKINS, 8. BAKER, J. PATTON ANDERSON, ‘On motion, the report was received and concurred in, Mr. Davis, of Leon, Chairman of the Judiciary Com- mittee, made the following report :-— ‘The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the ordinance reported by the Select Committee on Ordi- nances entitled the Ordinance of Secession, with instruc- tions to consider the same and report thereon, have had tho same under consideration and report the following ag & substitute for said ordinance, and recommend its adoption, All of which is respectt anbmitted. W. G. M. DAVIS, Chairman. ORDINANCE, OF SECESMION. We, the people of the State of Florida, in Convention as- sembjed,.do solemnly ordain, publish and declare, that the State of Florida hereby withdraws horsel? from the confederacy of States existing under the name the United States of America, and from the existing government of the said States; and ‘that all political connection between her and the xovern- ment of said States ought to be, and the same is fereby totally annulled, and gaid Union of States dissolved; and the Siate of Florida is hereby declared a sovereign and independent nation; and that al! ordinances heretofore adopted, in go far as they create or recognise said Union, are rescinded: and al! laws, or parts of laws, in force in this State, in xo far as they recognized or assent to suid Union, be and they are hereby repealed. Several attempts, by resolution and amendment, were made to postpone the time at which the ordinance should take edect; but all were voted down, and,.on motion, the Convention adjourned till ten o'clock next morning. SIXTH DAY. Twunspay, Jan. 10, 1861. ‘The Convention met pursuant to adjournment—every member present. The Rev, Mr, Eilis ‘as chap- lain. The ordinance of secession, being the special order of , Was taker! up. the day, Upon the question of its ye, the yeas and belng called for by Mesers’ Dawkins and Finegan, the ‘vote was:— Yeras—Mr. President, Messrs. Alderman, Allison, An- derson, Baker of Calhoun, Barringto., Beard, Bethel, Chandler, Collier, Coon, Cooper, Daniel, ‘Davis, Dawkins, Deval, Dilworth, Finegan. Folsom, Gary, Gettis, Glazier, Golden, Helvenston, Henry, Hunter, irwin, Kirkaey, Ladd, Jamar, tamb, Lea of Madison, Leigh of Sumter, Lewis, Love, McGahagin, Mclean, Mcintosh, MeNealey, Mays,’ Morton, Newmans, Nicholson, Owens, Palmer, Parkiill, Pelot, Pinckney, » Saxon, 5 Spenegr Simgcon, Solana, Stephens, Thomas, Tift, Tor: man, Ward, Wright of kscambia, ‘Wright of Columbia, and Yates—62. Nays—Baker of Jackson, Gregory, Hendricke, MeCas- kill, Morriaon, Rutland and Woodrut!—7. The ordinance was declared wlopted at tworty-two minutes past twelve o'clock. FORT MARION. Fort Marion, which is called one of the defences of St. Augustine, Florida, was built by the Spaniards when Flo- rida was a Spanish province. It is not a fortress of much magnitude or strength, but #@ is an interesting relic of the style of fortifications at the period when it was con. structed, It is situated at the extreme southeastern of the town, while the soldiers are garrisoned at the bar- racka, Situated at the opporite portion, and which was once the convent of St. Francis. “It is probably the old- est fortress in the United States and is interesting as a reli¢ of the style of ancient fortification, and for its asso- ciation with events in the old Spanish, English and In- dian wars. The preciso date of its construction is not definitely known. It may have been commenced by the Spaniards in 1665, or not until many years later. It was named by them the castle of St. Wark, and was cempieted in 1756 It is situated at the northern ex- tremity of the town. It is built of stone; its walls are about ‘twenty-one feet high, ‘terminating in four bue- tioned angles, at tho several ‘corners, each of which is surmounted with towers corresponding.” It is casemated and bomb proof. ‘The work is enclosed by a wide, d ditch, with perpendicular walls of masonry. over which is thrown @ bridge, which was originally protected by & draw. The fort sea walla mile in length, Duilt the main purpose of a breakwater. The int old fortress 1s said to be full of dark, gloomy retreats and subterranean passages. A little work of “Sketches of St. Augustine,” published in 1848, says of «Within the bastion of the northeast angie, far under ground, is a dark, dungeon like recess, constructed of solid mason work. This place was accidentally discovered soon after the work fell into the hands of the American army. It was then, walled up. as to, the b'stor of the pl whether it was once an inquisit mm scene Of vengeance—there is silence.” eta THE WORK DONE AND TO BE DONDE. STATES SECEDED. .- Jamuary 9, 1861. January 11, 1861. January 11, 1861. SECESSION CONVENTIONS ORDERED. Georgia, now in session. Louisiana meeta January 23, Arkansas, probably January 28. Texas, January 28, Virginia, Pebruary 12. North Carolina, February 18. Tennesaee, Fobryary 18. The following Softhiern States have pot yet called con. ventions Maryland, Miesouri, Kentucky, Delaware. MISSOURI. SEIZURE OF ST. LOUIS POWDER IN NEW ORLEANS. orty-ive hundred Koes of powder worth ay 4 gs of it, about $23, 000, ei from tho Hast via New ‘Orleans, to ae, , of this city, on board ship Tornado, has been seized in New Orleans by ihe secossioniste.’ The corres its of Mesar#. 1., 8. & B. have tel the Santas ausae the pri to sell it to Rtate for qual, otherwise tearing they Wout not get anyth.ng THR MILITARY GUARD AT THR 8UB-TREASURY, The presence of a military guard of forty soldiers, and one officer commanding, ii the Sub Treasury office yes- terday, wat the cause of attracting crow ls round the ‘Custom House ali day, who manifested a great deal more curtesity and excitement than the circumstance war. ranted. The Custom House is the property of the gene- ral government. and it has a perfect right to occupy | with troops. True, there is no apparent necessity for pissing A guard over the Sub-Treasury, but when ev: 01 ur brings tidings of the seigure of government bul ings and property by traitora, to jon with whom an organipation in this city is) publicly Cry pe is it any wonder that the military authorities should ndopt seme Precaution even here? if they erred in thie instance, they erred on the right side, and are entitled to whe thanks rather than the oriticisma of the public. MPORTANT COMMUNIVATION OF THE MAYOR OF SY. LOUIS. Mavon’s Orercr, St. Lows, Jan. 11, ‘ser. } Geyruanry ov no Bean ov Common Govwen.— A very general and uonsual excitement pervades our community, and although I do not ed that any actual disturbance or interference with the rights of our citizens will ensue, yet I deem it best tha: all proper Precautionary measnres should be taken to be fully pre- pared for any event. | would hence recommend that the Members of the Council from each ward select from among their best citizens such a number cf men as the exigencies of the care may seom to require, and to orga- nigo them soaato be ready for any omergency, Our citizens are entitied to the full pro‘ection of the laws, and must havo ft. 0. D. FLLEY, TO THR ROMAN CATHOLICS OF 87. LoUTS. Briovy Saenmen—In the present dietorbed atate of the public mind we fee) tour duty to recommend you to avoid all occasions of public excitement, to obey ‘sno laws, to respect the rights of all citizens, and to keep away, aa much as possible, from all assembinges where the iniseretion of @ word. or the impetuosity of a mo- mentary passion might endanger Pw tranquility. Obey the injunction of the Ay , St. Petor-—" Fallow peace with all men, and holines®, withont which no mua ean pee God. PRTER RICHARD KENRICK, Archbishop of St. Lovie. THE ARKANSAS LEGISTATURE, Mewrns, Tenn., Jaa. 16, 1861, ‘The Arkansas Tgisiature has uranimously paweed a bill gubmitting the question of calling a convention of tho people on the 18th of Fevruary. i’ a majority favors a gonvention the Governor {s to appoint the day. RESIGNATION OF A NAVAL OFFICER, Noneour, Jan, 18, 1461, 7. B. Milla, moster of tho sloup-of war Brooklyn, again tendered bis resignation lar! night, and wl) immaliatly go Bowih, Myers, Lieutentant George S. James, Lieutenant W. H. Gibbs, Lieut. James H. Hallenguist. From the federal navy—Commander Henry J. Hartstene and Lieutenants Master Wm. E. Evans and wlated Attack famter | Rolando Dozier; ad * ot ae Hamilton, John Grimball. These officers have had from areiina Treops—Fallare ten to twenty-five years experience in the regular ser- "Col. Bayne to Washington — vice, and the greater number of them were promoted for th Carolina Carry out her brave and meritorious conduct. THE GARRISON IN THE FORT. —_—_—— eers—The Army of —TOriginat on Regiment) try Born uth Carolina, Rank. \ur Corps.) seret a ae, de. B. Anderson. | Major | 1a ceesicn rom Wasngon | Saas poene lenient Be « ist Arty. |Suly 3, » o eur gy -ila s f Fea eT Eibot tat Lieut... Ist arey.| May 22, an47[D. o. ae wel Hayne, the Commissioner from } Jog '(‘Davis...“|lut Lieut... Ist June 17, 1348] Ind’a. South an interview with the President ‘ x pet. ; enh . ole Ane ya ia i is relatiy ¥ evacuation of Fort Sumter has signally | GW er... at Lient: «gin re Suly 1 Bai failed in getting the Executive sanction, but, on the con: | ¥ {id Lieut. ..//Kngin’rs. July 1; ing’. trary, received a prompt refusal to bis proposition. We one get . also learn that Lieut. Talbot, one of the subordinate | Artillerists. officers under Major Anderson, and who went Total . mth TY Washington in company with the representative of Under the most fayorable circumstauces this force South Carolina, returned to Charleston from Washington | ould only be sufficient to operate nine guns; but we ap- yesterday afternoon, carrying with him the written re- | prehend the attack will be so sudden and in such forea fusal of the President to accede to the demand made on | ay to render those guns useless. the part of the republic of South Carolina for the evacu- RANGE OF COLUMBIAD SHELL GUNS. ation of Fort Sumter; and furthermore, it is said Lict- | sfany persons are under the impression that cannon of tenant Talbot carries instructions to Major Anderson | very large size, such as those with which Fort Sumter is to defend his position from any attack that may be made } armed, can do great damage at a distance of four or five omit. The peremptory demand of the Palmetto republic } mijes; but such is not the fact, as ascertained by actual for the evacuation of Fort Sumter may have more signi | periment by the United States Board of Ordnance, Com- cance than some people are willing to give to it; but it 8 | ander Dahlgren, in his work on heavy artillery, haa nevertheless believed by those whoare familiar with | piven the result, The furthest raze of a hundred military matters and stragetical prognostics that this | pound hell, even at an elevation of thirty- last refusal of the President will precipitate an attack On } five degrees given to the gun, is 4 yards; the Fort Sumter by the South Carolina troops, and that we | time of flight being thirty-five seconds. The great may be prepared to hear of its assault at any moment. | twolve.tnch Columbiad, the largest gun made, kaded The proposition to attack the fort has been supposed | with twenty-five pounds of powder, a shell of 172 practicable by some and impracticable and certain mad- | pounds, and the piece at an elevation of thirty-fve nese by others, ao that one‘of those propositions, although | degreeg, has made @ range only of 6,409 yards, the pro= Aiametrieally opposed to each othor, must be correct. | iectile occupying thirty-two scconds in its fight. By We therefore propose to review the resources of the fort, | ‘increasing the elevation to thirty-nine degrees only 100 with its present garrison, for defence. yards moro was gained in the range. From the sama PORT SUMTER. gun, with a charge of powder twenty-eight pounds, a Fort Sumter is 2 modern truncated pentagonal fort, | shell of 180 pounds and anelevation of thirty-five degrees, Duilt upon an artificial island at the mouth of Charleston | q range of 5,671 yards has been attained, and at an eles harbor, three and three-cights miles from the city of | yation of thirty-nine degrees a range of 5,761 yards Charleston. ‘The island has for ita base a sand and mud | (throe and a third miles), which is the greatest that hag bank, with a superstructure, if we may so term it, of the | ever been accomplished by any gun in our service., refuse chips from several Northern granite quarries. These | The flight occupied thirty-six seconds. Charleston ig rocks are firmly embedded in thesan(, and upon them the | therefore perfectly sate from the guns of Fort Sumter. present fortification is reared. The island itself cost | If it were even within the farthest range of those guna, half 2 million of dollars, and was ten years in construc. | the angle of elevation necessary to accomplish such a tion. The fortification cost another half « million dollars, | distance isso extreme that to hit the city would be a and at the time of its occupancy by Major Anderson was | matter of extreme uncertainty. The guns of Fort Sam. so nearly completed as to admit the introduction of its | ter can only be raised to an elevation of tuirty-threa armament. ‘The wall? are of solid brick and concrete | degreeson account of the casemates, and consequently masonry, built close to the edge of the water avd with- | could dono damage beyond about two miles and a half. out berm. They are sixty feet high and Aten inch Columbiad, at an elevation of thirty-threa from ight to twelve feet in thickness, and | degrees, will throw a shell about three miles. There ara are pierced for three tiers of guns on the north, east | no such guns in barbette at Fort Sumter, and if there ara and west exterior sides. Its weakest point is om | any casemate guns of that calibre no such elevation could the south side, of which the masonry is not only weaker | be had. The wpper surface of the gun would etrike than that of the other sides, but it is not protected by | against the top of the embrasure at an clevation far short any flank fire, which would sweep the wharf. Once | of thirty-three degrees. landed, an entrance may. at the present state of the con- MORRIS ISLAND. struction, be easily made: for the blinds of the lower ‘The batteries on this island are unquestionably rather embrasures, though six inches in thickness, may yet be } formidable, and of much more importance than Forg easily blown away, and even if this was impossible, | Moultrie, They command the entrance to the harbor, and soaling ladders can reach those of the second tier, which | mount some'fifteen or twenty heavy Columbiada. Addi« are not protected in this manner. tional batteries have been erected within a few days. The work is designed for an armament of one hundred | The approach to the harbor is obstructed by the sinking and forty pieces of ordnance of al! calibres. Two tiers of | of a ship in the channel; vigorous preparationd ara the guns are under bombproof casements, and the third | pushed forward for an attack upon Fort Sumter; the sup~ or upper tier open, or, in military parlance,en barbvette; | plies of the garrison are reduced, the men becoming dis~ the lower tier for forty-two pounder Paixhan guns; the | pirited, and everything tends to the ultimate surrender second tier for eight and ten-inch Columbiads, for throw. | of the fortress into the hands of the South Carolinians. ing solid or hollow shot, and the upper tier for mortars Fort Sumter is regarded as an ugly customer, and tha and twenty-four pound guns. The fullarmament of the | taking of her under any circumstances could be only fort, however, had not arrived there when Major Ander- | with a fearful eacrifice of buman life, son took possestion; but since its occupancy by the THE ARMY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Present garrison no eftorts have been spared to place the | We have spared no pains to get an accurate statement Work jn an oficient state of defence, by mounting | of the number of troops and the names of the compa- all the available guns and placing them in salient | nies of the troops now under arms near Charleston and points. As we before remarked, the full armament of | aysilable to attack Fort Sumter, the fort is not in position, as only seventy-five of the one hundred and forty guns required for it are now mounted. leven Paixhan guns are among that number—nine of them commanding Fort Moultrie, which is within easy range, and the other two pointing towards Castio Pinckney, which * ig well out of range. Some of the Columbiads, the most ef. fective weapon for siege or defensive operations, are not mounted. Four of the thirty-two pounder barbette gans TH GENERAL STAFF, General-in-Chief., Surgeon General... Engineer-in-Chie! Brigadier : Adjutant General... Brigadier General. —— Cunningham. Quartermaster General 1. M, Hateh, 4IDE-DE-CAMP TO GOVERNOR PICKENS, WITH TUE KANK oF URUTENANT CULONKL, are on pivot carriages, which gives them the entire range 4. Jonathan Lucas, R. & Duryea, of the horizon, and others have a horizontal sweep of ag te hn) Abram Hug fire of 180 degrees. In addition to thea weightier pre- parations for defence, the walls are pierced everywhere for muskets, of which there are endless numbers ready and loaded. The magazine contains sever hundred bar- rels of gunpowder and an ample supply of shot, powder and shells for one year’s siege, and a large amount of miscellaneous artillery stores. The garrison {s amply F. W. McMaster. bisss‘uibeaie-s 2 THE COMMANDANTS OF Time Torts. Adjutant and Inspector General Dur ovant, late Caplaie S.A., Fort Moultrie and Sullivan's, Jeland. J. J. Pettegrew, Castle Pinckney, Captain J. Johnson, Jr., Fort Jof neon. Colonel John Cunningham, Arse gal, THE TROOPS NOW UNDER ARY a. oe RY g NKAR CIARITSION. 5 supplied with water from artificial wells, which are sup ny ; plied by the frequent showers of rain. Coen Chard Capt dons a 4 In a defensive or strategetical point of view, Fort Sum- | Artillery Company, Capt. Jol in B, s tor radiates its fire through all the channels from the sea | Caner Riva eee om P asell. 0 Approach to Charleston, and has a full sweep of range in | Sumter Volunteers, Gapt, pd its rear, or city aide, The fort is sufiiciently out of range | Charleston Ritiemen, Capt 83 from ® land artillery attack, so that all approhen. | }S!ant Rifles. 95 sions for breaching it from that source may bo put at Ld reet. The maximum range of the guns from Sumter is 100 three miles; but for accurate firing, suffeient to hull a 82 veasel, the distance would require to be reduced one-half 4 of that figure. The war garrison of the fort is six | Abbeville Guard, ’ dape, James te hundred men, but only seventy-nine of that number aro | EAmbUrR (tieo. no within its walls. Governor's Gur pq, ¢ Having thus hastily reviewed the point of contention, | Columbia Volv guage 103 We now pase to make euch remarks as the nature of the | Cplumbia Art 4 case will permit. Brooks Guar gout W. We 4 Thousands of schemes have been devised by unmilitary }| Phenix Ritl 9, 69 men for taking Fort Sumter. One man thought that it nae ards 3 might be taken by floating down to tho fort rafts piled Ric icta mo with burning tar barrels, thus attempting to smoke the | Total. |. * 1,963 American troops out, a8 you would smoke a rabbit out of | Afte’s carefully weighing all the circumetances above ahollow. Another was for Milling bombs with prussic acid, and giving efch of the United States soldiers a amei!, And still another thought that by erecting a bar. rieade of cotton bales, and arming it with cannon, a fioat- ing hattery might be made, which, with the aid of forte Moultrie and Johnson and Castle Pinckney, together with redoubts thrown up on Morris’ and Jones’ islands, and with further assistance of an armed fleet, an attack might be made on the forts, and at some convenient point a party of sharpshoote ge might be stationed, who would pick off the carrison, * aan relat a, we aro inclined to the belief that, considering the pmucity of the garrison of Fort Samter, and the lar pe number of troops now at the disposal of Governor 4 eons, of South Carolina, an assault upon Fort Sumter will be practicable and successful. That such am attack will be made as soon as the news of the result of ‘Coionel Hayne’s mission to Washington is known, we have not the slightest doubt. Such a questionable mea = sure, if it shall be carried into offect, will be attended with fearful loss of life, especially on the part of the aseailante. by man, thus giving an opportunity to a party of intr ay to scale the walls of the fort. Suck a storming, reid La MEWEEATER AQOOUNTS FROM THE ever, could only be accomplished by an tmmensa racri. fice of life; and the only practicable mode of talcing the fort would seem to be by & protracted Ainge, aud By the unchristian modo of starving them. (From the Charleston Mercury, Jan. 14.) THE. CADET RIFLEMEN, ag! fetechiont, of about forty of this ‘corp! embarked je re s. y ia ThOOn uj & steamer : proceeded down the ‘bor. ing by these opinions, we now advert to what is | orders are to cruise around the et aad wee fee, tormed by military men ® tangible and practicable plan | Do*tile vessels that may bo sent hither. ee Of attack on the fort, under the preseure and strength of pre eg which ¢he garrison will surrender. The remounting of on Sera The gaier wien a wer the guns at Fort Moultrie, and erection of hatterios on | the Brooklyn war steamer was abundantly digoussed on Saturday morning, and the fact that the negoti tions known to be pending betwoen Port ‘Sumater and tha State bad resulted in the suaden departure of Attorney” Morris Ialand, and to which much importance is attached by many, is probably nething more than e strategical movement to cover the real plan of attack, | General Hayne aud Lieutenant Hall for whieh we are led to believe is contoraplated | (nuiiny evening, furnished the ‘onde r and decided upon. The question so often racated, | has been made publican, yet Ommsetaien ‘ede 4 tor impregnable against any attack thet may | Hons, although we have reason to think that before the middia the South Caratina troops? wo answor omg | thee errant the mit have traneptred tn relation phatically in the negative, Jn making this statement we DONATION OF pode TO ph od i have the opinion of an officer who bas served twenty: TIRADQUARTERS QU ARTRRACASTER’ rea, ’ feven yoars in tho American army, who says the work ft aierdd the Ciartastox, Jan. 12, 1861. fH) d J ter oan de carried by an assault on the south or gorge silo of the fort—'ts weakest polnt—and thus force the main gato- to acknowledge the gift, By Mr. nea, much pleasure two thousand bushels nee. ayant, of of rough rice, way entrance to the work, and by attacks with smaller de. 1. M. HATCH, Quartermaster Gouerai. tachmonte effecting an entrance through open embrasures Bimtene Gree ee of the fort, at which no guns are mountod. The attack Camaros Jan 10, 1861, what would no doubt be made just before daybreak, so that | _ His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Obiet the moversents of the aeaitanta would bo covered by | fork Moultrie ppemcOrs and troops at Fort Morrin ant darkness, At all events, the only oltacte to the ap- | they repulsed the attempt Pte comet on Mac Proach of a flotilla from Charleston would bo expo. | £aFtison at Fort wer. The readiness mite sure to the fire of a few barbette guns; and if th at- | hor toteten i ees re the, State have rallied icx tacking force should be so fortunate ne to gain a poition | memories of the time when, ar oe nae iene within one-half a role of the fort, these guns could not | .¢ Foldiers of that day won for tod’ thoie be depressed enough to kosp the assailants in short So'ber: seas, win tary inne meecens may rately confide range—heose the defence of the fort woald depend upon | risk of life and sacrilice of vase, to manera wrees ee tho musketry of the garrison, and when the nssailants | Mghts of their State, His Excellency the Governor ate rects this order to be Fort Moultrie. waite we, D. eT eae e vai » and N. L. Coste have been uly appote oe: shail approach near tho walle of the fort, to complete the defence with hand prenades and shells dropped from the ramparts. That the asmwult of Fort Sumtor is fully Planned we have aot the alightest do: Aci ; , Fespoctivel tha: attack, whan it shall be put the tute of took Cheenene ant third=in the orien 9 tion, will be made upon the most solontifis — and stragetionl principles. To bear os ont in VIRGINIA this assertion, let us see who the sepposed authors of such a plan may be. In Charlestan today there are the following officers, lately holding comntieaiona in the federal army, who are now actively engaged In eve the honor of their new republic, vig-—Major 5 ‘Onptain Donovant, Captain Barnard PF. Bee nptain A. Cc. ARMING TRE VOLUNTERRS _, The Lot fy Mi ee was recently odered ia thea City Council of Richmond, Virginia — Resolved, That the Comm'ttos on Pinanee he instracted? to raise $50,000 by sale of bonde, from time to time, ag may be needed, tor the purpoar of arming and equigwping sue ef the yoluateer companies at aro now commisalon » od or may b@ hereafter sommiac joned.