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Federal troops and Southern Defences.

The New York Journal of Commerce contradicts the report, circulated in that city by a Republican journal, that an order had been received countermanding the departure of troops for California on the 21st inst — the object of the supposed order, according to the gratuitous hypothesis of the Republican paper, being to hold those troops in readiness to meet certain contingencies in South Carolina. The recruits at Fort Columbus, in New York harbor, are mostly raw levies, and if it were necessary to add 200 men to the garrison of Fort Moultrie, they could be had from the superfluous force of eight veteran companies now concentrated at Old Point Comfort — With the single exception of the arsenal at Fayetteville, N. C., it is said that no military work in the Southern States has been recently strengthened. The Republicans seem impatient for the work of coercion to begin, and are gloating over the idea of Federal bayonets dripping in Southern blood. Let them try to curb their eager appetites. Let us hope that peace may yet be preserved. We have confidence that the Administration will act in this trying crisis with consummate wisdom and discretion.

The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1860. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 22, 1860. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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