Show BY TE lid iid PONY HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE STATES THE commencement OF hostilities FORT sumter teen taren BY tiie THE SOUTHERN TROOPS LINCOLN CALLS leor for MILITIA AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS CALLED eor FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY CHEAT excitement everywhere IN THE STATES the pony express from the east arrived I 1 on saturday evening between ten and eleven with very interesting di patches from charleston and washington and the principal cities of the northend Nor north and south the sauth carolinians commenced an at tack upon fort sumter at 4 on the morning of the dinst and on the he majon major anderson was forced to sur bur surrender I 1 the dispatches received by this arrival of the r pony particularly from charleston are from i different correspondents and are more or less repetitions we have concluded to give the news to our readers without chai chat charge ge or comi 1 ment further than it will be observed vet vei that the accounts of the attack are all telegraphed 1 from charleston and major andersons Ander sons sens report I 1 has not yet been given to the public interesting correspondence BETWEEN GENERAL beauregard beau deau REGARD AND SECRETARY WALKER WALK en immediately preceding the opening t of hos tili ties tiei the f following ol lowing C interesting correspondence passed between gen G T beauregard beau Leau regard i commander of the troops of the conred confederate erat 0 states at charleston and antl L P walker secretary of war at montgomery NO I 1 GEN TO SEC WALKER an authorized messenger er from president lincoln just in formea informed gov pickens and myself that pi provisions plo pio ovi visions will be sent to fort samter peaceably or otherwise by force NO 1 II 11 I bec SEC WALKER TO oer gea beauregard it if you have no doubt of the authorized character chara ctr of the agent who communicated to you the ia intention of cf the washington govern 1 ment to fort sumter by i force you lil lii will at once demand its evacuation and if this be such manner as you may determine ne to reduce it NO ill neau DEAU beauregard recard REGARD TO WALKER the damand will be made tomorrow to morrow the alth at 12 NO IV WALKER TO beauregard AED unless there are especial reasons connected wi with th your own condition it is considered pro i per ivr that you should make the demand at an early hour hou WO no V TO WA WALKER LICEn the reasons are special for 12 no HO VI neau DEAU beauregard REGARD TO WALKER the demar d was sent at 2 and until 6 allowed to answer j NO VIL vir WALKER TO beaure BEAUBE r gand aard f telegraph rele 0 raph the reply of major anderson andersen 1 NO VITI viii deaube beaune gand GABD TO WALKER ala ria major acci or ai alif erinn replies I 1 have bave the honor to 0 o ack acu vied iad P e ohp receil of your comma communication the evacuation of this fort and to say in reply thereto that hat t it is ia a demand demaud 41 e mand maud with which I 1 regret that iny my sense of liono and mv obligations to my government pr vent ent my may compliance 11 II alos aids alos ados probably pro baby I 1 will wili awa await awalt t ana tn nis fils i sho and if you do iu t bal bau lr us ug to pieces w wi be starved out ont in a I 1 k days NO IX IS WALKER TO we do da not net delle deile e needlessly to I 1 lombard 1 foi fol foit folt t sumer if major anderson andersun will otate the tune at winch ich as aa indicated ly liht inn hil fil will evi evl cual 0 a rl a arree aree rree that i n tle tie t ie rn rodn an i i he lre 1 wl not u hi jil gun gul ri C i ii na f tin im es as ours should be employed a against adlist fort fort sumter you yot 1 are thus to avoid th the tha a effusion efi eff slon sion glon or of bood if this or its e f e lefi lerl sa sen s a reduce the fort as your judg judgment ment went d deia eid eia i hiatt j be most practicable j 1 ti tle tic abie able NO X DrA nta egand bregand EGAnO TO WALKER he would not consent I 1 write today to day A dispatch diB patch from charleston states that in dispatches d the fact that I 1 mr fox who hau bau leen been allowed allott ed to visit hia bia jor ajor anderson on the pledge ledge that his purpose wag was pacific employed his bis opportunity to devise a plan for supplying the fort by force and that the plan had been adopted by the washington govern government governments menti ments and was in progress of execution cannonaded first day A later dispatch from charleston dated april says that the batteries of sullivans island morris morns island and other points were opened on fort sumter at 4 that mo morning ing fort sumter had returned themire the gire fire anda and a brisk cannonading canno had been kept up no in formation had haq then been received from the seaboard the military were under arms and the whole of the population were wire on the streets and every available space facing 0 the harbor was filled with anxious spectators another dispatch states that the firing had bad continued all day without intermission two of oe fort Sum guns had been silenced and was reported that a breach had been made in the southeast south east wall the answer to general beau Deau regards demand by major anderson was that he wouita surrender when his bis supplies bupp aupp iles ilea were exhausted that is if bebas be was not reinforced not a had yet happened to any of the forces of the nineteen batteries in position only seven had opened fire 0 on i fort for sumter th the e remainder mainier were held in reserve for the ex fleet two thousand men reached the city that morning hig and embarked for morris Islan Is kan ian dand neighborhood the bombardment con linued from the floating stevens and other thel batteries sumter continued returning the fire it was reported that three war vessels I 1 1 were oil off the bar A fourth dispatch sates wates that the firing had i ceased for the night and would be re renewed early in the morning ample amie arrangements had been made to 0 o prevent a reinforcement lell lein that night the latest dispatch states that the bombardment had commenced with mortars and would be kept up all bight night it was supposed ed that maior major anderson was res reb resting ti ng ii his is in men en f for fon or t the lie lle ninh nigh night C t vessels could not get in the storm was raging and the sea rough making lt it impossible tore eaf enforce orce orca that night 0 the floating battery worked well weil two men inen were reported to have been wounded on sullivans island and a number struck with spent projectiles it was also reported that hat the harriet arriet 11 lane line rec received elved Lived a shot t through h roar roat h her wheelhouse wheel house fifteen to ei eighteen eteen shots struck the floating battery without it hout elb effect ct montgomery the president and secretary af pf of the confederate states were serenaded on the night of 0 the lelh at alquit montgomery omery the secretary ot war wasl wall called out and said bald that the confederate flag would soon be walvin waiyin waiving a over fort sumter and arid from the federal capitol at washington if the I 1 ence of the southern states was not lecog 1 nihed and hostilities were continued second day A st louis dispatch on the evening a of tho irth states that the regular washington 0 of that in orning roaming dated 1030 states that at intervals interval 3 of oe twenty minu minutes iring firing had been kept up all night on fort sumer major anderson had ceased firing from sumer at 6 the F preceding even cven ingAll night lie had been engaged 11 in repairing damages t and anbi protecting the barbette guns guna he commenced i to return vie lle the fire at seven next morn 1 ing fort dimter dermed deemed to be greatly disa disabled blod bled the battery on cummings point had done fort sumter great damage I 1 at 90 9 ic 1 0 c k that mornin morning 0 a dense smoke 1 poured out from fort sumter the federal flag was at half mist m s t palling distress I 1 the shells from fort for L alhaj trie trio and the bat 1 teries on morris island were fallin falling 0 luto into major andersons Ander sons sens strongest hold hoid holds thick and fas fast I 1 the cannonading canno was going on fiercely from all points from the tho vessels outside and all along the coast A washington washington C dispatch to the NY N tribune says tha thai commander coa Com nander fox commanded the I 1 vessel with provision provisions which wu was to lead the loo lon aioo into charleston charleston of april reports that two of major andersons Ander bons bens magazines had exploded explode il only occasional shots were fired hired from fort moultrie the morris island battery was doing beavy heavy beav hear work it was thought that only the smaller magazines had bad exploded the greatest ex cit ement the wharves steeples and every available place was packed with people the united states ships were in the offing but bad not aided major anderson it was then the too ft late to come over the bar as the tide was ebbing the ships appeared to be quietly at anchor and had not fired a gun the entire roof of the barracks was one sheet of flame shells from cummings cumnings point and fort sumter moultrie were bursting in and over F fort ort sanster sunter terin in quick succession the federal flar flat still waved major anderson was ony only occupied in putting out fires every abot shot on fort sumter seemed to tell severely the th e people were anxiously looking 0 for major anderson anderaon to strike his flag la it was wag stel from reliable sources that u up to 10 no one at moultrie was killed eleven shots from sumter had penetrated the floating battery below the waterline water line ilde the few shots fired by major anderson andersoh ander sory sort early in the morning knocked the chimneys from the officers quarters at moultrie like the whirlwind major andersons Ander song seng only hope was to hold out for aid from the ships T two va shins ships were making in towards morns morna island with a view to land troops and ana sw su nee the batteries fort sumter was undoubtedly on fire the flames flaccus were raging allaround it major ao an derson had ahr thrown 0 wn out a raft loaded with withmel men mee who vrho were pasting passing up buckets of water to extinguish the fire the fort was scarcely dis dla bernable nabie the men on the raft were objects of fire from bl morris orris island with glasses balls could be seen skipping over the water wates striking the unprotected raft it wa was as surmised that major anderson was gradually blowing up the tile fort he fired fixed a gun at half past eleven clamps bursting from all the port holes the ahe des dese truc tion of fort sumter was inevitable four vessels two tuo of them large steamers were in sight over the bar the largest appeared to be ell eli engaging waging C 0 morris island the tle fla flames in es had bad nearly ne arly ariy subsided in ia sumter but major anderson was not bring firing his guns general beaureguard left the wharf in a boat for nanis nania island the excitement was increasing A letter from S B boyston Bo yston yaton dated Mout neG am a m of the b states that not one man had been ailed ki rd or wounded the aroa battery had been damaged ag ed the tile rifled cannon ot of the battery did great execution on sumter Siim tee ter and were all aimed into andersons port holes three of Sumter Sum 3 bar barbeite belte guns were dismounted one of which winch was a ten i rh h A corner of fort sumter opposite moultrie x was wab as knocked off the steamers water witch mohawk and pawnee it wis w s thought were the three fi st vesse vessels Is seen in the offing three vessel cne me of them a large sized steamer were over the bar and ami seemed to be b preparing paring to p artic pate in in the conflict preparing tre the fire of morns morrial island I 1 siani and moultrie was reported to b bt divided between sumter saunter and the ships of war the saps sh pi had bad not nob yet opened A later dispatch states that the tha batteries of sullivans island cumnings cummings point and aad stevens sevens battery were ere pouring shot sho I 1 and shell into fort sumter MAJOR ANDERSON surrenders another correspondent says saya that the bombardment bar dment had closed maj ir And anderson erson ergon had bad hauled llau led down tae cle stars and stripes and dla dis played a white flag which had bad been beer answered from the city and a boat was on tha the way to sumter the breaches made in surater Sumter were on the side opposite to cummings point two of 0 the port holes were knocked into one and ani the tile wall from the top was crumbling an evening evening t dispatch states that the federal flig had been bee n again hoisted over sumter when porcher miles with a flag of cf truce went to the fort in a f few evv minutes after the fed federal eral flag was again aga indrawn drawn down by maior major ander son and the white flag again unfurled A charleston dispatch of same bame day via augusta C reported that sumter had surrendered the confederate flag was floating from its walls none oil othe the garrison or oon gon federate troops were hurt general beauregard had gone gona to sumter also three fire companies to quench the fire before lore it reached the magazine another dispatch states state that sumter samter had been teen unconditionally rendered surrendered ur the people were wild with joy two thousand shots were fired all together major anderson and men were conveyed to morris island under guard thence to the city and the major became the guest of gen beauregard the people sympathised sympathized with the major but abhorred those in the steamers in sight bight who did not even attempt to reinforce him the woodwork and officers quarters of sumter were burned no officers wre were wounded the fort was wag taken possession of that night A dispatch from montgomery A on the tates batea that gen Beau beauregard telegraphed to the secretary of war the before that there re had been heavy firing all day friday the that four guns of fort sumter had bad been dismounted that the confederate batteries were all safe that nobody was hurt that four steamers the bar and that the sea was quite rough later confirm the report of the surrender the carolinians were surprised that the fi fight ht was over soon after the flan flag flat 0 staff was shot over wigfall was sentry sent bent by beauregard to sumter with a white flag to offer assistance to subdue the flames ile he was met by maor anderson who said he had just displayed a white flag but the batteries had not sopped copped alrin firing wigfall wi fall fali replied that anderson must haul down the american flag flap surrender or fight was the word major anderson then hauled down the flag several ot of gen beaure Beauregard ards 3 staff went over and stipulated that the surrender be unconditional for the present subject to the terms of gen beall beail beauregard regard major anderson was allowed for the time being to remain in actual possession dispatches of the state that negotiations were completed the preceding night major andersons command was to j ate on sunday morning the and to em emi bark on the war vessels in the harbor five fivel of andersons Ander sons sens men were wounded one of them thought to be mortally I 1 after the surrender a boat was sent frem from a ship of war outside to morris island requesting permission for the vessel to enter and take oil major andersons command it was reported that anderson surrendered because his quarters and barracks were de troye stroye dand he had bad no hope of reinforcement re the fleet lay jay by for thirty hours bours and could not or would not help heip him his men were pros j I 1 grated by over exertion the explosions I 1 heard at sumter were caused by a lot of shells igniting the barracks caught fire three times from hot shot from fort moultrie everything was in ruins but the casimates case mates many guns were dismantled the walls looked like honey comb 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