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ursday evening, and determined to postpone action for a few days, until Mr. Seward's policy is developed. It seems to be generally understood that but a few days will elapse between the President's refusal to recognize them, (should that be the case,) and the storming of Fort Sumter. The formidable character of the undertaking may be well gathered from the following graphic grouping of the "obstacles" to success by the Charleston correspondent of the New Orleans Delta, who writes on the 26th ultimo: Very few, I apprehend, realize to their full extent the almost insurmountable difficulties which lie in the way of the reduction of its massive granite walls. In truth, with an adequate garrison, it can hardly be doubted that the Fort would be altogether impregnable to any force that the State of South Carolina would be able to bring against it. Even with the eighty-six men who now constitute the garrison to oppose them, I doubt whether there are many volunteer armies in the world