The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1861, Page 4

4 ; Tw Sones OF FORT SUMTER. York of Yee Upinions of the New . chiang om tne errgnaes of wore Samter t is lost, but freedom is saved. There is no ~. thought of bribing or Coaxing the traitors who nave dared © aim ‘heir capnoa bal at ve tag of the Union and those who gave thetr lives to de’end it but yesterday that at least two thirds of the journals of this sity Were tbe virtual allies of the secessionista, their apologists, the champions. The roar of the great cir- ete of batterirs pouring their iroz hai! upon devoted Sum- wr, bas struck all dumb, It is as if ono had mae a brilliant aud efleotive epeech setting forth the ismoceace of murder, and, having juss bidden adieu to the cheers and the garl'ght were to be confronted by the gory form and staring eyes. of a victim of assassination, the first fruit’ of bis oratorical sueccss. for months before the iste Li oe er les age majority of our jourasis prediete: paist- tance to the ereaaee as the natural and necessary consequence of a republican trlumph: for months since, Steps ‘been cherishing ond enconriagng the slavo- ’ rebellion aw if tt wore a very natural and pro- per proceed: Thetr object was purey partisaa— they wished to bully the repubiioan administration into shameful recrewacy to republicam pricciple, and thea | call upon the peoplo to expei from power & party 60 pro- tigate ond cewarcly. They did not succeed in this; thoy aye succeeded im evtiviag their southern proteges and some ture allies into flagrant treason. ‘There cannot be a rational doubt that every man who aidea or abested the attack ov Fert Sumter is involved in the guilt of treason, Lhe tedoral constitutien (Art. 3, see, 3)g Bay 8— Treeson ast the United States sball consist only in le- vying wr deat them, or on adhering to theb enemies, giv- ng them aid aud comfort. ‘That all the besiegers of Forts Sumter and Pickens have incurred the penalty of treason—which is death—is indis- patable; bat tow Moreh do those come short of it who still persist im pettifogging the cause of the traitors’ ‘Witness tho following {10m Mayor Wood's personal or- gan:— ‘The great fact 1s upon us. Civil war has beem commenced. ‘Where it will eud ts known only to that Higher Power “that ebapes cur Gide, rough hew thein as we will.” Of one thing, bowover, we are thorunghly convinsed—the footh can never de subjugated by the North, wor can wpy marked success be sebieved ngainst bem. They bave us at orery van age They Oyht upon their own soil in bebalt of their dearest righte-tor heir ‘publle tnstitutiens, thelr homes end thelr ry. ‘They are sbundanlly supplied with tae means and 6 commanded by oilicers wno | ing. Appliances for the conte the side of tb se again: waren Cay are nner Coraned: wilty ranks 468. by mon as iD: whom they arerew teliigent, patriotic and brave ase'er faced a foe, and & deter. imdnaticn bever to be defcated. * 4 ¢. “d ‘Abe South, in self-prevervation, has been driven to the wall, and forced 0 p,ocleim ita independence. A servile lasurrec on and the wholesale saughter of the whivca will Alona sutis- fy the murderous deeigns of the abolitionists The sam fais- tration, egged on by the hallo of the black republickm jour: ‘nals of this city, hss sent on ite merceoary forces to pick a uarrel and infuate the work of desolation and ruin. Ac made for an ® ty of Volunieers, under the oo ‘an invasion ia apprehended of the federal capital, and the ‘ext step WHl be to summon the sive population’ to revolt and mastacre. if any journal issued within the limiis of the Jeff. Davia confederacy wore tv puolivh anything like the above on | ‘the side of the North, its editor and ail his obertors would at cnce be strung up vo the bandiest lamp post or gome | couveuicnt hinb of a tien. We rejoice that wo live in a | and to the punishment prescribed by the laws | of view we bave lost leas than i uae "hat "eon aed them. , The could pot give without o because it would rd sented to its own subversion. It has now fort, Dut under ciroumtaness, whieh, hae Gameutteaio’ iS firm determtoation to maintsin - The ques tion 18 no longer whe'ber the government has the spirit, the courage and the energy of which this grave emergency requires, but ouly the military and naval resources of the loyal States are on overmatch ‘or those the rebels, Anderson aad of not aguivet “deen making ue most ekilful and cco npirhed engt- | neers in the country, is nothing; but it ig much, it is | overything, that wo have a government that 's daunted by no diiculties. that-quails in ube preeen ss of no dan- | kr, that is resolved to do its whole duty to itself and | the country. The free States have never for a moment | ‘oubied the suilleienoy of their military resources; the 16 has been as to whether the administra. mough vigor aad determination to use them. Happily, this doubt is now resolved, and as It waa a fore- gone conclusion—a “military necessity,” if you will— Ubut we were to lose Sumter Mayhew, th country rejoic- % that it bas not been yelded up oy pusillanimity, but wreeted from energetic resistance. We have re-enacted, in spirit, the famous reply of tho Spartans at Thermopy- le when summoned to give up their arms:—Come.und take them,’ Civil war is, no doubt, an evil; of maniiness to cbavnt joremiads over it when it 1s" a0- tually upon us. It bas been certain, from the beginning, that the seev#sion of weverat States from the Uatoa could bot be consummated psaceably. the government bas forborno while it ¢ ; but acts of war per; agaivat it by the rebels render longer forbearance impos- sible. The people of thiacouutry cannot atlord to live undor & government which may at any time oe dissolved @t the caprice of any State or combination of states. We live under a constant _ sense of insecurity 80 jorg a8 we are without any adequate assurance that {be government will survive the next Presidential elec- tion. If these seven States can go out because a Precideut haa been elected against their wishes, the Now Englond States, or the Northwestern States, may withdraw for any frivolous pretext it may suit them to set up, and the Uaicn has no more coherence than a rope of sand. The principle on which the south. orn rebels are acting cannot be aomitted without aga | tho door to general disruption and universal anarchy. thy rebels havo sufficient miliary strength to accomplish but it is not the part | @ successful revolution, wo shall at ast acknowledge their indepeadence; but they cannot be allowed to have it on too easy terms, lest States that remain should be tempted, in a fit of transient disaffection, to follow an ex- ampic that would haye in it more of invitation than of warning. The only course now left for the government is to make its power felt. The public voice demanis that, since we are ia te of war, the contest shall be sharp and terrible, in order that it may be short. {From the Sun.} ‘The bombardment of Fort Sumter is certainly a battlo ‘by iteelf, and the whole affair a transaction without a paraliel. Except the glorivus career of Anderson in Charleston harbor, now sadly but to him houorably ter- munated, we need not remark that we have no single Point of satisfaction to dwell upon as American citizens. tho whole conduct of attairs at that point, on the part of the United Statee, is one tissue of unmitigated mortitica- Son and disgrace, As if it were not enough for us to fmart under the pity of the world and the humiliation of ~~ where every offevce is leit to the cognizance of the aribanais of the land. ‘Moat of our journals lately parading the pranks of the Roceseionists with scarcely disguised exultation have ‘deen suddenly robere! oy the culmination of the slave. | holding conspiracy. fhey would eviseutly like to justi’y | and encourage the traitors further, but they dare nut; 30 | ‘the amen ati-ks in their throat, The aspect of the peo. | ple sppals them. Democrat as welt as republicaa, conecrvative and radieai, instinctively feel that the guns fired at Sumter were aimed at the heart of the American republic. Not even in the lowest groggery of our city ‘would it be safe to propoee cheers for Beaureg urd and Gor. Pickens The tories of the revolution were rela- | tively ten times as numerous here as are the open sym- pathizers with te Pa’metto revels. The manijestations at the Stock Exchange on Saturday were symptomatic of ‘the feeling everywhere. It is hard to lose Sumter; it ts a consolation to know that in losing it we have gamed a ‘united people, Heuce’orth the loyal States are a uoit in uncompromising hostility to treason, whevever plotied, \ however justitied. Fort Sumter is temporarily lost, bat zhe country is raved. Live the republic! [From the Times. | It is by no means impossible, after all, that what | Beemed at first to bo a wational cxlamity, aud which | rendered yester¢ay a memorably dark day in tho expe | Fience of every patriot, was after ail a substantial and | Crowning advantage, auticipated and provided for in tho plans of the admiusiration. Its policy han been uniform and consistent—to provect the property of the govern. mont and enjorce its Jaws. It will yield cothing peloug. ing to it unless dispossessed by superior foree, but it wil not woaken the reputation of its military arm, by a reck- Jees waste of men or means in the mitintonnuce or at- tempted recapture of any comparatively vaiueless psi tion. Thi3 arm is whelded by that illustrious chief and trict, whose forty years of active servivo haye never } wp dishooor or defeat, who, in the disyppesrance of + our great kaders, is providenttally left to ue, end under | whore guicance, though wo may not for the time be advised of his plane, We are always sure of boing ind wo mabetontial euce:ss. It ig altogether probable that Fort Sumter could not, st any reasonable cost, heve been relieved attor Mr. | Zinooln easumed the reius of government tll _he haa collectd the army aud navy, dispersed by Mr. Floyd, in | order to render Washington and the forts wand magazines | at the Soath un easy prey, and could aseume someting | Hike vigorous offensive action. It wes important tha, Fort Sugator should be retaiaed, as & polit upon wich to | coucentrate the military strovgth of the rel Seo Tring to him precious hours in which to covesntrate his 1occes ‘upon more important and menaced points, To abandon. ' it would wetan:iy selieve a iarge force to orerate aga i‘ Washington ant Fort Pickens. To hod this foro in active Lill they could be reinforced in 4 mannor to defy | | Wes a macier wtroke of policy, ana does credit | reputation \ attacl even to General Scott's millt This udvartage beiog gaint then prepared to test tue question whotler the Coniede- Taio States would allow the sending of euppties to a handful of fumished soldiers coped upJin Fors Sumter. To relieve thetr wants wes an act oy as wo as peace. To would be ap act This war the rebels . ron’s orders were to act aa he cit at Fort Mouttrie—to consult the emergency; to yicli, if necessary, to superior force ‘The feet did not rouder gesietance, a pot with ‘Out the risk of being disabled, and, perhaps, destroyed, Goverawent was (oo weak in its naval arm to encounter any such rirka. It wou erfere with its propor com mand of the sea, and with ‘ta pions, to commonce ay im Mediate eaforcement of tae revenue laws at the ports of the rebel States. F i¢ point, is Of po sort cf cons. qu ncted sulely for dofence agaiost foreign invasion, which is uot contom plated by the governmont. ‘The port of Charleston, we lourn by way of jontgome: ry, is blockaded. Every veseel entering or leaving 1 is th’ pass the surveillance of a ehipof-war. No wonder | | that “the Chariestontane regarded with exeoration the feet that refused to come to the reaoue of the gallant | Anderson.” It wus not the plan ol the sdminisiration | that they ehould go to his rescue att. greata peril It | was from the start destioed to en entirely diferent fod | and mode of action. Neither the of Vort Sumter couki bave any, bearing on tbe government had marked out {uF itself, Th lated case, that stood solely on its own ment coud not allow its {lag to be disgr It is strengthened 1 every part by the pu fort. It may not attempt, at present, its mr ooptare. ‘will notify the Confederate States Unat, till it i res the commerce of Charleston must pass over Lue de: a ship of -wer. The Gret act in the rama which hua terminated in ‘the enrrencer of Fort Sumter, ineterd of being # defeat, is, when we come to look at its ofl success. It has throwa upon tho C entire reeponsibility of comm: 1VeD us tine to arin for olfansive operations, and to ject and to place before every southern port feet # cient to enforce U eB, and lo protect commerce from Souther pirates. ‘We ot\il hold iat of valao in the Guif—Vort Pickeus, Key Weat snd ugar. We turn the Confederate stalce upon chem Selves, We hold the command of the #ea, upon which ‘they capnot even float Alderinan Boole’s ecows. Their armicé, which they nave collected aod armed with snc cost, they may turn vgainat cach other, to help to stule | the ‘isthe freedom of thought or expression that yet exist, They are harmless against us The | om ™ that may stil seek their porta must subrnit to our { rovenne Iaws | All Usta the confederates at Vomtgomery may their Ympotent rage, contemplate wiih the same oxesration that the people cf Charieetom did the fleet that refused to ex pove itself to fire. Woter ie not their elemeut. and theavenue upon which thoir existence dep They have commenced the war. We now propose to give them a taste of our power without exposing ourselves to their attacks. Mr. I Davis bad good cause for | Doing ick in bed at the reception of the news. The mag: | nitude of the advantage gai’ utter inability of the confederate forces to cope with us in the arena we bave chasen in which i carry oo the | contest, accounts for the lowered tone adopted at Ment gomery and the feeble salyo of seven guas at thir Ariumpb. We aro now prepared for a contest ina fielt im | ‘which wo bold their lives in our hands, and ov which Abey capnot harm us to the extent of a hair. Wo are | ‘prepared to follow up such a contest tt) Uney are entirely atistiod. | [From the World } | Tho surrender of Fort Suinter, afier (thad heroically | chen forth defiance for two dave in reply to a heavy | cannopading from muititudinows battories, is a result Which cieappoints the wishes of loyal men; bat the pain- | Tul feeling it ewnkens is only regret, not humitation. ‘The national honor is untouched. If fortune has favored the side whieh had the heayi y and the advan Sage of numbers, abe has only rendered more conepicu ove the invincibis enporgy of determination which re Bides in the government, and which timpelied it to | wttempt provisioning the fort in the face of | Hopeless odde. The most glorious ovent in the Miltary anuale the world waa also feat. It was as evident beforchand that mopy!e could not bo held, ox ahat there Was a ‘military Beoosity” f Jocsumed of Sumter, But to the heroie Leonides ‘dea of retiring from Thermopyle, because it could no | longer be defended, was intolerable The high souled | Sparten king would ttot listen to the advico given him by y nt officers among his asgociater, and avandon a po. Pition that had become aptenable. With bis immortal | threo hundred Spartans, be made Thermopyle a watch ‘word of liberty and an incentive to herole daring fore J<feat thos voluntarily encountered is the prolitic so: a Tutore victories, jut a Ube kernel of wheat which por- | ‘ehes in the earth developes the vitality which creates | the bearded ear, Salumis and Platea vindicated the wis om M Leonidas, and relleved his sublime heroism from | | precipitate Abe impuiation of raehners, If Presicent Lincoin had Jelded to supposed military Tecewelty, and made a volun evacution of Sumver, the Febelt Would have come in posapasion of a strong. well. equipped fortress insiead of the burned and battore’ and Mmnoke begrimed ruin over which they have raised thoir ing. The difference in the condition of ue fort is a small Pmatior, bot, bating this email difference, the rebels have |, the adwipistration wag |. | suruggle, and ihe reurement of | casion od at Washiugtow, and the | « | States now comporing the Souther our own reticetions, we must be subjected to the scorn of perjured traitors, who, if they have neither truth nor honor, ner love of country, have metile, audacity and foree ‘of arm to redeem even them from pure con- tempt, To think that a petty State, inferior to one of our covaiderable towns, revoited for purposes that poor bumanity iteelf abhors, bas advanced ia three months to swollen and menacing success, and with swift and uncheckedytride, conquering and to conquer, over the dishonored constitution aud Jaws, the cowed govern- ment aod the overpowered forces of tao once glorious and great American republic, To think of five thousand ‘“coufederate”’ felons, without one gan, Or slot, or OULEE of powder, Which they bad not atolen with treachery and violence from the United states in time of profound Brine: deliberately getting reaay nineteen tromendous alteries of our own pest guns, and pouring a forty hours’ storm of shot and shell upon a faithcul United States ofti- oer and sixty men, while a United States ilect, loaded down with Iand aud sea artillery, lay quietly in tho offing, looking on at the horrid battus Mvery true Ame- rioan heart ls ths day sick witb shane. It would be # premature judgment & censure unsondl tionally, at preseat advices, the coadict of (hg oitic srs of the expedition, whoge cool inaction tn sight of lie despe. rato extremity. Lola upen the noble heacted anderson more heavily than all the gun of the enemy acd forced even the bold outlaws who veleagured hun to send caeers of acmuipg sytupethy mingled with their enov, and to Vout curses aad groans for the pasillanimity 0 races who should have succored him or tow man. We cunnot help thinking there was an oppor- tunity for an act of daring hervism, whieh migut or t not have bocn succeasful, bul which the world have admired forever. Insiewi of this, is the impression from present appea ances, that whoever held the responsibility at soa on saturday has earned peshaps tne reputation of “a die. erect and prudent officer.” Lhe singuiar description, + bloodiess vietory,” which the con‘oderates are enabled apply to this ailair, 18 a scathing sarcasm yoo the citi cier.cy of our bousted ‘retief tet.” Jt i$ safe enough to say there is blame and disgrace vesting somewhere, If the force was so small that any silempt to ratge the stege would have been sheer mad- ners, Why Was it sent, with notico two or three abcad of its arrival, of the intention t tut peaceably, or tailing that, to reiarorce 1 Eltrer the government or its afllvers appoar to have made an imbecile both ef it’ We can only wope that official ces patches may show that eflicient proparatioas and sol- ‘er like purposes were thwarted by the clomente or r causes beyond human foresight or control. ihe feeling of the confederates themselves oa the sub- Jeot ought 19 Dea lemsoe—if a lessou could be of any use-—to thove who suink mild caution the right way to with treason apd meet insurrectionary war. Major it Anderson is almoet as popular for bis stera iidelity among tho epemy at among his loyal countrymen. Tue imbe ) ‘ehty and cowardice, ou the other {, whien the ad mivistration of the government has herctotore saitered w be imputed to it without contradiction, oxcite only coptempiand cruelty instead of kind consideration among the assacains with whom it temporizes. Lf this goyern- ment had made ieelf respected and feared it would bave been obeyed—or at least, not bearded, insulted, plan dorea, defied aud trampied in tae dust by a handfnt of | breggarts. Virginia herself will stand by the Union, if at al), Dot as her conyentionists threaten, on condition’ of it# surrender, but om condition that {. makes itself re- Mut there will be no more tomporizing. The blood is ep, and both sides know that here can be no quarter, ‘The nation was awakened by the gune of the 12th of Apel, and will stard no more nousense at Washington, V'rior'to Friday last there were tv riled, but no two parties can now beJound. Th. 0 coufederates know and anticipate. ane therefore, even though it were vot true, thelr own desperate advance will goon make it so. President Lircola w.l have to fight for the capita., unless has filty thousand “peace makers’ in resolute hands, end ready for ite defevoe, within s few days. Dickens JL follow the fate of Sumter, if not speedily relaforced. shout an effective biockace of the revel ports, the aa thats and even naval armament of the great con- racy will be rapidly raised to a formilasie fores, e More power and energy the government puis forth sow, the less :t will need nereafter. {From the Journal of Commerce We are evadled wo before our reader, qnite tn tail, the important intelligence from Charleston, com- corning the attack "pon, and surrender of, Fort Sumter, wod also information, appare atl authentic, from Wash ington, indicating the policy which the President will rsue, in the present condition of the country. We u not say that never during our counection with the pros, have we been called upon to chronicle news 80 alarming, or involving such vital consequences to the | y and Provably none, in which the people on th | ! } We have neither space nor inclination to comment led accounts of the nesault upon Fort Sumter by the forces of the Coufederate Statos, its @ur- | render after a hotly conteste Anderson and his | menirom a tortreas which they bave gallantly hold in | the face of threatened assault, antil ite further ocoupa- tion Became impracticable. Theee are matters of which the render will need enly the facts preeonied in our columns, and respecting which there ry little oo for discussion or argument. Our province is rather to deal with ihe great question which now agi tutes the country, and which, a4 soon a5 intelligence of tue transactions in Charleston harbor shall be undor D UI produce the profoundest sensation throvghout hized workt exiets In formidable proportions, and um fol epirit shall be epeedily arrested, the ‘country deluged with blood. The speceh of Prealdoit ivere:t to the Committee of the Virgiaia Gon on on Raturday, taken in connection with tae other and circumstances, by which we are at this time Opens up, in the most alarming magnitude, y of the goveroment at Washingtoa, and gives us au insight into the purposes which have thos far centrol- ed the new administration. The President's own tuter. pretation of the inaugural Message fully eastains the un- derstanding which we had of it at the time of its first pebiication, aud proves that at no time has the polloy been one of peace, He now declares that ln malting known hie purpore to “occupy and possess property and pisces belocging to the govorament,’’ he intended, so far ae he could, to retake (hove which had been seized before the government came into big hands, and he still adheres to the theory that the Cajon is unbrogen, and thit the milt tary post# and public property belong to the val go ernment as much as (hey did before the secession of Lise confederusy If this position of the President's was foly when first oD facts announeod, it is madnees now, when tue goveroment of the Confederate states 18 thorooghly orgupized and in operation, and all the milfary poets within their Limite, With two OF three exceptions, in thelr possession. As w 4 {n Commenting upon the [naugural ai troas, it ‘ing up the theory of an unbroken Union agains ractical fact of a ied and disseve " “4 ministering the government upon a theoretical assump. than upon the practical } from ox ig facta, What we doman ple of the United States and the sex demanded ot Mr OLD—WAS & Pract : acl known wexiat, and a polloy based upon t) tual, cot upon any theoretical ideas of “the s covnWy. Instevsd of this, he started with a governmental \beory, and attempted to make the facts and fis ad nt nistrative polley conform thereto, Need the reador be printed 1d the consequences of such statesmanship? Be. held it in & nation inveived in civil war~ brother Wehtmg *gaingt brother, state against Atate, section againat sec- ‘ion, and at thie momeut an hundred thousapd .men pre paring (0 engage in a savage and destructive war. ‘The action ct the Soathorn people has been rash wad Tt baw not heen marked by that pracence and pationcs which we bad hi to witness. They remar of the | have assumed thet the rights which bave been dented them will cootinne to be withheld, and .that their oaly remedy was to be found in a separation, We, on ihe contra, Tony a agh scheme equal rights, from delay and an appoai to the people, and ‘we urged upon them that polloy.. They chews the direct but nearly bloodiess | ™¥. to them, for justice and | Sumter was barning!! our ‘The statements contained ington, from All some ‘Ob gage. 8 midions of money Hed | on—if an enlightened nation like ours, in this enligbtenud | ege, i» to settle ite domestic differences by tho sword aud | not by reason, we must prepare fora sacrifice by thou- | Fands and tens of thousands, and for the prostration of | ail our highest and expectations, It is not too late to appeal to reason and justice, to restore peace aud avert | the ore and sacrifices of civil war, | . What stands in the way of such a solution of our dif- | floultiest The Confederate States do net waut war. | The United States do not want war. The former ciaim | the right which the colonies exercised in tue revolw | tion, of eatubliehing an independent government. latter have notbirg to paik Na oreriog them ¢) remain in the Union against will. That would dostro tho principle upon whi sh the whole fabric of our institi tions rests. Let us then resort to the methods which | civilized nations employ to settle their aiferences. Let hostilities cease, and ai ‘be substituted Tot us learn from the Coptoderate States what they demaud, and {f consistent with natioval honor, gract it aud lot them go in peace. If une war is ever to csase, negotli- tion must produgo such cessation, not negoviale now and fight atterwards, if fight we must . but lot not the foily be porpotrated of fighting first, aud resorting | lastly to a method woich might have averted the war. We suppose no sape man — to coerce the seceding States back into the Unicn. How much satisfactiou then can be derived from tho utmost humiliation, if taal snail prove practivab‘e, of their people through the sgency of military power? Bow will the prosperity, the glory or the heppiness of the people, in either aectioa, be pro moted by any victories which’ either may achieve over the other If the leaders in the two governments are men of sonse, and not maddeved with fanaticism and folly; iG tho poo: ple are not porsessed with the war spirit, to the degree of banishing reasoa from her throne, an etiort will be made to atop this monstrous evil, and substitute for it the reign of peace. Woat is now demanded ia not the courage to fight, bat the courage which dares to arrest the war avd carnage which pow toreaten the destruction of our liber tes, [From the Courter and Enquirer | Sumpter hus faller—surrendered, we foar, 07 ® traitor; ‘and that traitor Major Robert Anderson. This is harsh language; but it is the language of truth demauted by what appears to be the grossest act of treasou ever per. petrated in thig cr any other country. The treasou of ‘Twipgs te admiited by all to have exceeded that of Benedict Arnold; but the names of both Arnoli sad ‘Twiggs will sivk into insigedficance—incced, are almost Tepacred respectable—when compared with the more damning infamy which, from present appearances, must forever attach to that of Robert Anderson. ‘The c'rcymetarces of this abominable treason are so palpable and transparent tbat no man who reads them can hesi- | tate in arriving at the conclusion that Andersou srrangod | with Beauregard for the surrender of Sumter before it was assaulted, that the defence was but a sham, and that it was deemed important the surrender should take place before relief could be afforded by the government fleet, hourly expected to arrive with troops, provisions and munitions ef war. Of course, the puolic were not prepared for weason on the part of Anderson; and yet pubitcations have recently been made in various presses which created doubts in the minds of many whether such & catastrophe as that which bas happened was not with in the scope of poesibility, We certainly have doubted | his patriotism; but with the extraordinary tact in oar poe- scation to which we are about to reier, we did uot because we could not anticipate such an act of ucmiti | gated treachery. We believed a sense of honor, if nota | teeling of pride and self respect, would havo compelled him te diecha go bis plain duty to the public and to him self, knowing a8 he hid that in so doing be would receive 4 reward at the hands of his fellow citizens far above any that the rebel confederacy could beatow. The public knew that Major Anderson's sympsthies were all with the rebela; and yet, knowing this, they not only couii.ied in his honor, but’ estimated more highly the chivairic feeling which they imaginod prevented his aaking to be relieved. But alas, insvead or remaining at his pst from. a sentiment of honor or duty, it is now but too evident that he did not abandon it, simpty beciuse he would then have placed it out of his power to serve the traitors | aud rebels with whom he was in icague, to bring up0a bjs country and hie country’s lag this deep diegrace and infamy. When the Star of the West was fired upon and driven beck by too rebel battery on Morris Island, the defene of Anderson (by bits (rieuds) for not opening bis Ore upon ubat battery and Moultrie, was, that he vid not and could not Know t 10 contained troops for the relic! of Sumter, 4 in augwer to this, 9 friend shortly cot uta it letter from Cuptain Doubleday, the eecond {n command, in which he ditinctly fays, we did koow that the steamer hud troops on bowd intonded to refoforee ua, and I begged and entreated of Major Anderson. to peemit | me toopea a fire for ber protection. Evers thing wae io | readiness oud the men at their posts; but the Major peremptorily refused tolet me tire, on the plea that ne | would not {ire uti! Fort 3umpter was tired upon. We oo not protend taat these were the precise words | of t riter; but we do aver, on our veracity, that we | have farthtully given the aubalance of what was written vy Capt. Doubleday, who is a wortoy and galiant son of the Faire Stats. Nor is this all. The captain tm the eame letter pro- ceeded to sy that Ancerson had a hard task to perform; aad be (Doubleday) believed he would discharge it ho- porably to the country, althongb he could not justify his net firing or perwittwg hin to fire and give protection to the Star of the West. He said ali Major Anderson’s aym- tbiee were with the rebels, and thot no less than four | cf his wife's brothers. sona of the late Gon. Clinch, were ip the rebel army; and that the Major did net conceal the fact that, ip no event, would he, onee relerse:d from his then awkward position, boar arms against the Souta, but would cither resign or ak tor a turlugh to visit Europe. Lass be borne in mind that woe speak not from hear. sey. We havo seep and read the letter which we de- scribe; and beyond all question, it is now in existence and will be forthcoming when necessary. Tho effect of the letter cpon the party to whom it was addressed, was favorable Ww Major Antersen, aud we confess that wo were favora>ly impressed with bis intempiona, although we remarked at the time, that if he could not bring bim- felt to permit hia batteries to be opened tor the protec- tun of a vessel under the American jlyg, which he knew to be in the government employ, ana’ bringing United States troops for his relief, hiv aut as to —, And we asked permission to publish tho letter with such a commentary ; which was declined as calevlated to bring Captain Doubleday in collision with bie commanding cer. Now then, let us look at the facts of this strange sur- render, a8 published in the city papers of Saturday. in the telegraphic correspondence between General Peauregara and the Secretary federacy, we fini! the following kaskD TO THN GENERAL AY AUL RETARY OF WAR, Cuuntesron, Apett 1, 16k | Ty L. P. Warxrn, Secretary of War Visjor Anderson rep: have the bouor munieation dem ar iw repi: owledge (be receipt of com. cialen of tata FOr, wind tO BAF win which T regret that gations to my goverpmeat pre Probably 1 will aw the fret sho!, and if you do pot batter me to pieces, we wil an be starved out ina few ya. Vu. T. Ba UREGARD. Now, we ventnre the assertion, that not an intel! reon in any part of the country read this remark of Acdersen’#, without being shocked at its purport. Here was the commandanig of a leieagared fortrees, | threatened with imu k, giving private intel ce to the enemy of » and showing how eueiiy could captured by starvation. Mo , the m anals of no uation ever o7n- tained such an exhibition of imbecility, and the mind of every reader waa slartled at the almost irresletible con- chuaton that it denoted treac! ty. Jt was not intended for the public eve Next jook at the tekgraph in tbo New Yous Flgratn of Sutarday, headed ‘our special de + (rom Charles (there, in Italics avd with giV6 tt, occurs the following paray: The brilliant « i s needy worde at the Wort uy any reasonable man doubt but the author of this Perazraph knew of or suspected Anderson's treason, and was forestaillng the public mind in nis behalf? And so with every speci despaten. The greatest pains are taken to laud ond praise Major Anderson. The Public sre toid tp advance, “Major Auderson is nobly dorny hw duty,” “the gallant Anderson is fighting brave ly: ano indeed the greatest procantions ar@ taken in ail the derpatches published before tne surrender to produce 4 favornble impression in favor of Anderson. Why Was ther Dio tue ® Know what was to come and the ne ceamily of ‘ting from Lom the coademnation © \rtain to follow) And look wt all the despatehes since he sur- reweer of the fort. Do they not invariably aud Andor- Fon Aud kek 0 throw censire upon onr feet? Hut what was tho plain obvious daty of Major An- derson or any bopcet men in his pexition? Ae kaew that | & Jarge fleet with troops 4 ua for his relief was | at band, aod that all toe g veroment agked of him was to bide bis Mime sed not BurieD He knew that no mat tor what hie lots, or how untenable Sumter became, hs duty woe to hold it vntil the opemy captared it, With he position and his duty, he com this knowledge of | memord his resistonce to the attack of the rebels, and | attr thirty hours of tombarcment, imstead of having his | Walle breached ard threefourtha of his command Siar ghtered oF rencered hors du combat, ag it Was Tenson- | able & suppose woule be the caso, behotd bo finds him- | self juat a8 oscable of continuing his resistance as ho was when be commenced it—having only five of his mea wounded, rot one dend, and hie walls uninjured oxcopt that their #ur'ace had Leen cefaced. And yet in this sion be volunteruy runs np the white flag, trade in cust the stars and stripes, aud ignominiously surrenders bie poet, and virtually proclaime himeelf a traitor to bis country, and falre to his honor and bis God. And this too, with a fleet of United 2 a'es verses of war and transports with troope within sgbt of him. ‘True, his barracks were on tire’ The woodwe Ite privies and hem om and offeers’ quarters were in fames!!! And what if they were® t bad to do with his defence? Nay, (Waned neither more nor lewe mm a miliary aad giratogic | road to # separate cxisteuge trough seovagion, aad torte | why did be act pull Wem down oe burn them before the | wg it. of War of the rebel con- | lesy 8 aT if s a at white flag and strikes to Why did be go into the defence of tention was Wo surrender it while bis uit paired? Had be been true—bad be been honest—l been a traitor; even if a breach bad been walls, bie ammun tion expended, and every command either killed or wounded, bis duty would been t have told those who survived to get under cover and patiently wait until relieved by his frieais or taken poseees.cn of by his enemies, And yet he surrendered. igbobiy, disgrecefully and treacherously surroudered—io order to provent the gallapt soldieya of the Union getting possersion of and defending this important public Jortrese. As to the burning of his woodwork—hia and quartere—moking It necessary to surreuder, the piea {3 4b ipsuls to the intelligence of the country; and what is more, it appeals by Our despatch that this terrible fire was extinguished by his own command immediately alter the surrender sud before ald could reach him. Why was Lot the surrender delayed wotil after the fire was ex- tinguieb out wrent wo may not do him injustice, but es the frets now staod we hol) him to be the vilest traitor the world ever saw, and such we doubt not will ve the judg. ment of the cvurt martial that tries him. We cannot but mourn over this great national disgrace; but tne “bicod of the martyrs was the seed of the church; aud so will it be now. The country will now put on [ts armor in carnest; and traitors and rebels will #con meet with the justice they so riobly merit. By-the- by. where is the “blood of the martyre’’ io this case? ‘thirty hours of terrible and tromendous firing from Sum- ter by “the gallant andersun,” aod not a revel killed— Ney, Dot ope wounded even, to evable him hereafter to boust that he was one of Faistail’s vatiant troop! What a bloodless victory! How precious in the sight of Andor- ton wes the blood of tbore chivairic rebeis, who ficed upen bis men when exposed cn a raft in getting water to put out the fire. Well may he say that the wonderful tscape of the rebels from injury of any kind was Provi- dertis!. We donot agree with him, however, Provi- dence does uot countenance rebellion and perjury; but man may Fo direct bis guns as not todo injury to those at whom thoy a/o apparently pointed. It is not wonder. ful that Anderson's command were uniajured. They would not have been harmed tor a weok to come; buat the cecape of toe rebeis is wt least curious. ‘ [From the Evening Post.) It is evideus \nat General Scoxt has once mora beaten the ovemies of his country by more fore of his admirable sirategical genius To do #o he baa, as was necessary, suflered not omy traitors, but loyal men, to rest under ‘8 miaapprebe ‘Those who remember the impatience with which the American public watched his apparent inaction at one period of the Mexican war, wili pot have forgotten the shout of acuwiration which went up from th» people when it was at isst discovered that the kupposed ioaction had been in reaiity the wisest aad shrewdest action; aad that by the most masterly dispay of military strategy be had outwitied the enemy, and obtained a splenaid victory when nought but defeat aud disaster stared our army ip the face, He who reads and compares carefully the despatch&s from Charleston, Montgomery aud Washing mn in this morpizg’s journale, cannot avoid the gratifying conclu sion that thas wich looks at first blush ke a disaster 10 the government, is in ong bat the succesafulcarry- ing out of an admirable plun of mititary operations. Be. fore this the traitors eee thermeeives caught In the toils. In fact it seems to have sickened the chief traitor, Davie, already, or Montgomery Geepatches relate thay whin the news from Charleston came, and the mob ge. Yenaved Devis avd Walker, the former was not well and did pot appeor;’ apd even his secretary was cos. lave cf words, apd ‘‘deciived to make a #pecch.’? ‘The facts which tond to the coaciusion we have point- ed ovt may be summed up as follows:— General Scott has been averse to the attempt to rein- force kert Sumter. He saw that it would cost men and ‘vessels which the government could uot spare just now. As «n able general, he Saw that 3urmter and Charieston pointe of bo military importance, and would only valuable men to hold, if we wok them—with no jvate advantage gained Heyow that the two keys of the position were Fort Pickene in the Gait, and Washington, the capital. He knew what Davis had not generalstip to perceive, ‘tbat on the 4th of Merch, and for somo weeks a terwards it would have been aimest impossible for the federal govertinent to defead Washingtoa sgainet such a force traitors had alresdy coliected vefore Sumter, and could he morcbed st any time on a capital not yot + prepared for éefence— not yet even purged of traitors, Fis plans, based on ‘these facts, were at 1. By every means in hia power ha concea- trated the attention of traitors aud loyal men oa Sumter. He must Lave seen with iniinite ratisfaction the daily in- crene ing force gathered at Charleston, while the govern- mcni jest uo time in strengthening the capital. Every Pour the traitors spent before Sumter gave them only more surely into the bands of their master. Yo make assurance doubly sure, he pretended to leave Fort lickers in the larch. It was eaid to be in no dan grr, when Scott knew that a formidable force was invest- ‘Men feared that ail would be lost by the inaction government, when it was never more shrewdly EEE GSE pans EE ZEES E ESEe Lice Ac last Washington was reasonably safe. Forces were gaibered. Once more cur brave old general saw himscif with means in his hands, Tuon came the arinameat po- pularly believed to be deetized for Samter. The govera- ien! said pot a word—only asked of the traitors the op- | portunity to tend its own garrison a needed supply of cod. ‘hey refused, and fearing the arrival of the fede- ral Scet, cftnk and besotted with treason, and ‘mpationt to shed the blood of loyal soldiers, they made the attack. reeree they begun when they saw, with evident terror. ships hovering about the barbor’s mouth; they p'ieo ibeir cannon in desperaio haste, but no ship came tn to Anderson's help. What was the matter? Made bold by the furious thirst for blood, they dared the ships Ww come im. But no ship offered its assistance to Anderson, More, the gms of Sumter were only direct. €44 at the works of the traitors, aud Major Anderson evi- dently tried t» fire in such @ manuer a not to kill mon. He cid pot even try « few bombs on the city, though it is certain, from a letter of one of his own officers, that hia guns would reach beyond the centre of Charleston. What was the matter’ Beauregard must baye thought the government officers both fools and cowards. When bis can boats were calling unharmed about the har. bor, bevween Sumter and Moulcrie, bearing his orders, Was it possible that the forces outside could stand apa- thetic whi'e a brave garrison was being done to deathy When the battle was to the death, would a shrewd offi lect to divert his enemy’s attention by firing his city F Tf isecemed mysterious to ua, waiting on Saturday with breathler enepense, it must bave seomed incompro- to any cool head in the traitor camp. no ships come in, and in fact the reports state that cbly three or four small yeesela remained in the ctiitg. ‘After torty hours canonace, in which not one mu ‘8 killed, Major Andergon, an oilicer of undoubied couage and honor, runs up a white flag, surrenders tho fort and becomes the guest of General Beauregard. Let bo mun hastiy ery traitor! Fle only oveyed hia orders. He nuude an honorable Getence, He took care to shed no blood. Po “gave orders not to sight men, but to silence Datreries.”” Meantume, while the robela are igaorantly glorifying the vietory of five thoussnd men over aighty, waat sews comes from Monigomery? The telegraph, 1a the haods of the rebels, says— Fort Pickens was reinforced last night | Ie is underswod that Charleston barbor Is blockaded. ches from Lieutenant Slemmer, captured by the robels, gaye Davie the first intimation of his defeat! No woder the rebel chief was “sick,’’ and went to bed? No wonder that his Secretary, Walker, declined to make a speoch. And what from Washington? These significant para- gre ‘Tho report that Anderson bas surrendered, and te the guest of General Beauregard, hoe been communicated to the £ resi dent, ‘The latter was not surprised, but, on tie contrary, re marked, * The supply vessels could not feack bim, and he did right” When he was told thax the report was that nobody | was ipjurea m Fort Sumter he wemea very much grasited, ano remarked that he regrett-d that @ajor anderson eould not be supplied, a9 that waa all be needed ‘The next actin the play will represent a secne at Fort Pick. eng, ip Pensacola harbor. The position of affairs ia this: Charleston ts blockaded. Fort Pickepa is reinforced by troope, whic the traitors foolishly believed were destined for Sumiwr. Washiag. ton 4 secure beyoud peradyeuturo. The traitors have, witout the slightest cauge, opened the war they have go Jong threate The country ts roused to de(ond ite as- sated Mberties, and gathers eutiusiastivaliy about the goverDment; abd treason has deen chockmated at the first blow it struck. [9t them keep Sumter a few weeks. Jet no man cry traitor to Major Anderson. Lat be man | foar for the energy of the adqunistration, Let as thank God that brave old General Scott romains to give bis | loys! heart and wise head to his country’s eorvies, (#rom tho Commercial Advertiser. } It i with mexpressiblo pain that we notice Mm a con ton, porary the charge of treachory taade against Major Ancor#on, and that, too, on the strength of telegrapuic sleepatcbes notoriously Goctored by the rebels theuaselves, fac evidently untrue in many particulars. [tis not our province to defend that gallant oflicer’s conduct, but we ve not a doubt that when his official report to the com- maoder-tn-chief is made public, it will be seon that ho has faithfolly carried out mm the letter and ia the spirit also bis orders from Washington, At any rave, an oilicer ducted himeeit ko worthily bitherto in the ea, and has won the contidence t@ oses have been keenly Axed Ought not to be condemned without 4 cruel and unjust and i+ enlenlated to Acy arises trom ts Doliet that bis ir} men appreciate his fidelity and services, and will not rovbly asta! him with suspicions, sides, in the care of Major Atderson there are somo things quite mooveletent with the theory of treachory on hie port, while everything of which we have authentic knowlege ts reconcileagie with his fdelity, The surren- dor ize wes & necessity, It had before beon proposed rders of his government, and was only not made ¢ Major Andersoo deemed the terms otfered hum it and derogatory, He bad then the powor of eurren der, and bad he been dispoeed to tronchery wold have surrencered, #0 that the rebels might have hut onsy poesession of an undemaged fortress. And if hia flaal surrencer was traitorous, i9 It probable that he would have york Would bot rather come to New ¥ ’ have allowed himeeif to be detained at Charles- ton’ But he Js reported to have suit that ho did not sight his gans at men, but sought to “demolish tho bat- tories or dismount the guns of the robele”” Was it neoorsary that be should adopt the moet, slaughterous mede of wariare’ For every man ho slew there wero a hundred t repince bim, for the force assailing, un- obivalrous 2a \t may sound, was @ hundred to ono against him; while every gun that he dienblod rendered uscloss all the men who served it, as effectually as if they had been siain. Besides, there can be no doubt that Major Anderagn was woll aware that howevor it his de- feace, fe must ultimately surrender to the overwhelm. ing force Drought pgeiuat bis Uvie baad aad solitary ih E i known and they gmp | frem Washington, apd that the traitors mete ny ‘and effectually out mancuvred, tended that the fleet ehould enter tho it would bave fatiea E iE 1 lie i believe that such was its destination, ote their utmost Severe. nee Beis accom ta ire. Ant y were this belief in one that might be induced to postp pe an attack upon the city of Washington, waich wos io immediate coptemplation, and for whicn Goueral ‘Scout wag not yet prepared. While the comaader of the rebel army wea coucentrating his forces for tuo cap- of Fort Sumter, and the fleet supposed to be sent for {te relief, the constitutional government was energetically ating Warbington in 4 state of defeace, aud reintors ug Fort Pickens, while at the same time it gos ita handful of me unbarmed from Fort Sumter and made Charleston @ blockaded harbor. Seeing how comp'etel, Py, have been outmanwuvyred we do not wonder t Jefferson Davia was too sick to appear on Saturday night, taat only seven guns were fired ot Montgomery ‘in honor of ‘the victory,’’ and that the despatches from Moatgomery, where the ruse bad been comprehended, aro so much quieter and tamer than those from Charleston, where tho ted peopl> bad not looked farther than Fort Sumter, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Monpay, April 15—6 P. M. The bank statement of to-day compares as fol- lows with that of last week:— Weel: ending. Looms. . Osrerlalion. ; April 6,.$122.113 496 668 8,980,141 94 859 510 April 12.. 123 '108,$85 41.704,748 8,801,429 96,626,078 Increase, $995.38 69,190 “T760,208 Decrease af ad - 4 E 5 128,712 The changes are not very heavy. The increase of loans is due to the negotiation of government bonds and Treasury notes; but for these negotia- tions the loans column would probably have shown a decrease. A decrease in the specie average was confidently expected, as the government has received something like $6,000,000 in gold from the banks within the past fortnight; but it seems that the receipts from Europe, California and the Mint keep the reserve full, notwithstanding the depletion, The deposits increase rapidly, owing to the general stagnation in busivess, and the diffi- culty which is found in using money safely and profiiably. We may now expect a further mo- derate increase in the specie reserve for some weeks to come. The money and exchange markets are extremely dull. There is absolutely nothing doing at the exchange brokers, and the banks are very ill sup- plied with paper. Oncall, the supply of money at 4 per cent continues quite large. Bankers are asking 10140 % tor their sterling bills, aod 5.2744 @ 30 for francs, but are selling little or nothiog. Commercial bills are offered at 108 a %j. The stock market opened this morning at a considerable decline, and with considerable ac- tivity. The actual commencement of war seems to have frightened a good many holders into sell- ing, and the bears offer their options with con- siderable freedom, At the close of the morning session, however, a rally took place, and stocks allrose. They remained steady throughout the afternoon, closing rather unsettled, afier a very large business. Governments declined about 1 per cent this morning, on the prospect of new loans being required. The board hisses any mem- ber who tries to take any advantage of the prospect to sell thgm short. Stace stocks coutinne to decline. Missouris fell off per cent, Virginias 2%, and Tennessces 2. At the morning board the heaviest decline was in IMinois Central, which dropped 4 per cent with- out cause; Reading also fell 4 per cent. Perhaps this stampede among holders was after all to be expected. New York Central declined 1; Erie, 194: Hudson, 1; Harlem, 144; guaranteed, 2; Gale- na, 2; Toledo, 3;-Panama, 2; Pacific Mail, 1°,; Rock Island, 3; Burlington, 2%. The afteraoun prices showed an average rally of 14 a °4 from the depression of the morning. The closing quota- tions of the day were as follows:—United States 5's, 1874, 64 @ 86; Tennessee 6's, 68 a 6814; Virginia 6's, 6434 ao 65; Missouri 6's, 5434 a %{; Canton, 11% 212; Cumberland Coal preferrod, 5 a 7; Delaware and Hudson Canal, 88 a 89; Pennsylva- nia Coal, 77 a 79; Pacific Mail, 75 a 7534; New 3 York Central, 7244 a72%¢; Erie, 2194 a 22.4; Hud- son River, 374 a 37}4; Harlem, 1254a12%; do. preferred, 33)4 a 35}, ; Reading, 32 a 3244 ; Michi- gan Central, 45% a 464; Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, 15% a 1 do. guaranteed, 30%, « 30%; Panama, 10644 a 108; Illinois Cen- tral, 642; a 6434; Galeua and Chicago, 6644 a 66%; Cleveland and Toledo, 264 @ 27; Chicago and Rock Island, 45 4534; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, 66% @ 67; Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad, 829; La Crosse and Milwaukee land grant bonds, 5 a 10; Lilinois Central bonds, 9354 a 9434. The war feeling was cyer more »pparent to-day in fieancial and commercial cireles than on Satur- day. A hearty unanimity pervades the public mind, which bas been so slow to kindle to the fighting point. Every one~-democrat and repub- liewn, conservative and radical—agrees that the government must be supported with money and men, and the old Union of thirty-four States must be preserved at all havards, and at any ex- pense of life or means. And, the closer the sub- ject is examined, the clearer people see that the evils of the war which is now forced upon the North will fall, not upon this section, but upon the rebel States, It is not New York and Boston— but Charleston, Savannah, Apalachicola, Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston--which will lose their trade in consequence of the war. It is not in our streets, but in theirs, that grass will grow this sum- mer. It is not here, bat there, that crowds of idle, hungry men are likely to besiege the govern- ment with menaces and riots. For while here at the North abundant supplies of food will pour regularly every day from the great productive re- gion of the Northwest, and the military and naval preparations of the government will afford employ- ment to all the idle mechanics and laborers of this section of the country, in the South the closing of the ports will necessarily throw out of employment hundreds of thousands of men; and the interruption of commercial intercourse with the West will deprive the Guif States of the sup- plies of food which are necessary for their subsis- tence. itis fast becoming apparent to the more foresighted among our financiers that, so far as Now York city is concerned, the business pro- duced by the war will be greater in amount than the business destroyed by it; that the progross of hostilities must drive capital to this city in search of safe employment; and that, notwithstanding the loss of the Southern market, New York wiil do a better business this summer and next fall than one has anticipated. It hoped that the President will lose no time in closing the Southera ports. Ifwe must have war, les it be vigorously provecnted, and let its evila be made so palpably felt that the value of loyalty and peace shall here- after be appreciated, We understand thot the Galway Steamship Com- pany are considering the propriety of purchasing the steamship Vanderbilt. On behalf of the mari- time interest of the nation, we protest against the tranefer of this fine ship to foreigners, It is enough that the Adriatic nows carries the British flag. Barely, when the government needs a navy so badly, it would not be a bad operation for Mr. Welles to secure the fastest steamer in the world as a transport veseel. The business of the Sub-Treavary was as follows to-day. Receipte. ... —For customs. “ — . The flurry in Southern bank notes is inoreased by the developemente of the past twenty-four howrp, and oll money of the Confederate States ia Times of that date thus notices the money mas- keg of the previous day :— 4 contin Bank to day, and it seems Quy farther reductivp of the rate uati: after the f the dividende, which wil commence on the stuck lowee. i i by the Bank: ys ateam-r of the and £50,167 Straits; of this amount £77, gold. 3 ‘ wl for Chinn and the lo7 is silver, and £14,440 The following were the quotations of American stocks in London on Aprit 2:— United States 5'8, red 1874 Virginia nyt oe ‘Do. Luinois Central 6's, Do. 7 Do Do, paid ichigan Centrel$’s, con., 1860... Do. inking fund, 8 per ot Ist mtge, Jo $.€0 shares... tease ccsescense Mich So. & N. Indiana 7's (sink’g fand), Do. $100 ehares....... + 18 New York Central 6's (ajpking fund), '$3 | ; % ved. 1875 agusaeivegeesesascanseceseacs Do 7 Do. 8 mort.’ do.” 1888) as Do. - » 1883, assented, Do. bonds, do., 1862, "71, "7 asrenie. Panams Railtoad lat mort. 173, 1868, Do, 2d mort. 7's, 1872.. Peurey {vapia Central bonds, a ‘2d wort., 6's. $50 shares. Vhilade\pbta and Reading bo: ‘Do, $50 shares ‘The Fulton has $41,616 50 in specie on board, consigned as follows: Robt. 1, Mattlend.$1,200 50 Wm. Tyson..... .$11,781 00 W. W. De Forest & —- Wheelwright. 2/014 co Co.. + 5,200 00 J. ¥. Freeman & Herry M. Weed... 1,000 00 y 2,500 00 L. Von Hollman & CO. ceeseesees 17,920 00 Total. The interest due May 1, 1861, on the sinking fund bonds of the Michigan Southern and North- ern Indiana Railroad Company will be paid on presentation of the coupons at the Bank of North America, 44 Wall street. The interest due May 1, 1861, on such of the Michigan Southern first mort- gage bonds as are not converted into sinking fund bonds will be paid on presentation of the bonds at, the office of the company, and the payment thereo! will be endorsed upon the bond. The interest due May 1, 1861, on such of the second mortgage bonds, of this company as are issued for the funded cou. pons of this class of bonds will be paid on presen. tation of the coupons at the company’s office. The New Orleans bank statement for the week shows the following changes as with the previous return:— change tant balances. 2.100 694 Dis 1,704,632 Dee. 360, Leng loans. 6,039,022 6.672431 In 633. baok ment shows a further increase of half mi Lon in loans, which brings the hort up 19 within @ fraction of twenty-ene millions, an jon bas run up to nearly nise millions. The ons for the week are @ reduction of about half miilion each tn specie and exchange, and a falling off ibree fourths of # million im the tvem of deposits, The New Orleans Delia of Thursday thus tices the money market of that city:— Strictly fet clace papor was in moderate request at bank, but offoriogs coutinued very light, and most outsid spitalists appeared to be indiaposed to {noresse their ia vestwénta in tbe present uosettled stato of political affa: ho exchange market was depressed from the opening he clove of business, and transactions were bat little bi ‘er than nominal tn any dcscription excep: New Yor! ight, which wea in demand, both in and out benk. Offerings of all classes are still ample te meet dinary requirements, but :he movement ia almost sively conilued to smal) sales of Al names for direct mittance. Subjoined are the rulipg quotations:—Cl sterling bills, 614 Tper cent premium: bill of Ind drafts, 6 4 624 por cen’ preminm, francs, @.273 a 6.87 per dollar; sixty day bills on New York, &¢; 1a1 cent Cuscount; sight 44 @ 3% and 1¢ per cout premium. The earnings of the Erie Railroad for the mon‘ ++ $469,237 S61, were... ch, 1300. $32,767 of the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad line in the first week of Ap were:— 1861. $28,205 00 21,894 00 Dee..$6,311 11,878 44 10,619 63 Dee.. 783 Total... ... $830,678 44 82,613 53 7,064 The Toledo and Wabash earned the first wee! of April, 186 Pirst wock, 1861 lo. 18€0. Steck Exchange. Monpay, April 16, 1861. $6000 Tr 1} penoter.. 102 100 shsHart"MRK DIO 13: 86... 105 6836 100 Hariem RR pid... ‘300 do... s 6635 6835 65°, 66% 6 2000 Gal & Chic etm 5 sbe Nic Trang Oo, 250 Paciie Mail 8800, 606 22NewJ Con RR... 10 New Jersey RR. ae bs ich So & NT RR, Bur & 2000 1600 6 10000 Chi & NW 1m. 390 700 shs Pac MI 8300. 75 400 100 do......810 14% 160 150 WN Y Cent RR. 60 100 60... 5 100 do. eo 160 do... 60 200 do, 4 WO 100 Brio RR... 'b30 22 | 0 100 Hudeon Riy RR.. 38 0 200 Besse. see ue 399 460 100 MMERCIAL REPORT. register Mopar, April 166 P.