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Jan. 9.--Reports of the suffering at
Charleston continue.
A dispatch from
Washington confirms the previous accounts.
It says;
“A gentleman arrived this evening from
Charleston, in company with Corn.
Shubrick. Both say the panic which prevails there is unparalleled.
There is a great lack of food, business is prostrated; the people are idle, and patrols are wandering up and down to preserve order.
On the day
Com. Shubrick left there was unusual excitement, and upon inquiry he found that news had been received that the steamer
Macedonian was on her way with eight hundred troops to bombard the city and reinforce
Major Anderson.
He could not convince them to the contrary, and expresses the opinion that they cannot hold out in their present condition long, unless
Georgia comes to their relief.
No vessel entered or left the harbor while they were there.”
The
Tribune has the following editorial paragraph:
We learn, through a private letter, from a perfectly responsible.
source in Charleston, that the other day a body of twenty minute-men from the country entered a large private house in that city and demanded dinner.
A dinner was given them, and then they demanded ten dollars each, saying that they had not come to Charleston for nothing; and the money was furnished also.
Another fact of still greater significance has come to our knowledge.
Governor Pickens has written to an officer of high rank in the United States army, a native of South Carolina, who is loyal to the stars and stripes, requesting him to come to Charleston and protect them from the mob. The officer has declined, saying that he can serve his country elsewhere, and that he does not wish to have any part in the proceedings now going forward in that State.
The Baltimore
Clipper has information of a similar character.
It says:
We learn, by the fresh arrival of a stone-cutter from Columbia, South Carolina, at his home in Washington city, that a sad and sorrowful state of things prevails there.
Business and work of all kinds are in a paralyzed condition, owing to the excitement existing among the people about the approaching inauguration of what they term a hostile Government.
The talk of war has caused every thing else to be suspended.
He represents the people as excited almost to derangement, and relates a case where a fellow-mechanic of his had been completely crazed and made an inmate of a lunatic asylum, by the warlike demonstrations around him. Nearly every mechanic employed on the Capitol of the State has left, and those remaining behind will, follow in a few days.
Other mechanics employed elsewhere will soon take their departure, and unless times shall soon improve, many of the native mechanics and laboring force of the State will seek employment in other States.
