WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1861. Another wet misty day. Splashy sidewalks and mudy crossings. Letter from Frank today through Chas dated Fort Kearney, N.T., attached to the U.S. Army acting as comdt clerk, well & healthy. The “Secession fever” seems to me to be rather subsiding. The “Secession” Clerks in the Census Bureau were notified today [...]

1861. January 16. – I have been kept for a week, and am still, in a state of great anxiety about the dangerous political excitements at home. The President has taken an attitude less friendly to the secessionists. This has been owing, it would seem, to the occupation of Fort Moultrie and the seizure of [...]

January 16, 1861, The New York Herald Since the secession movement has gained head the telegraph has been charged with giving it impetus by the circulation of false and exciting rumors. Those who make such accusations neither take the trouble of weighing the facts nor of contrasting the advantages of the present rapid mode of [...]

January 16, 1861, The New York Herald The Cabinet had a meeting yesterday, and decided to send any reinforcements to major Anderson at present. The instructions to the Major have not yet been completed. Messrs. Hayne and Guardin, messengers from the Governor of South Carolina, and Lieut. Hall, bearer of despatches from Major Anderson, arrived [...]

January 16, 1861, The New York Herald It is certainly very gratifying to all of us dwellers in the commercial metropolis to know that the Empire City stands firm for Union, the constitution and the enforcement of the laws. The hard times have thrown at least fifteen thousand workingmen out of employment, but as yet [...]

January 16, 1861, The New York Herald Our Washington despatches reveal the object of the mission of Colonel Hayne, the envoy of South Carolina to Washington. It is to demand of the federal government the surrender of Fort Sumter. The South Carolina authorities notified Major Anderson of their determination to capture the fort if it [...]

January 16, 1861, The New York Herald Much disappointment was manifested yesterday morning by a number of persons when, on arriving at the Park, they found there was no skating, although the flags on the cars still stated that the ball was up. Such deception on the part of the avenue railroad managers may have [...]

January 16, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The news from Washington last evening will strike every one with astonishment and regret, if not with alarm. It was expected, after the return of the Star of the West, that the settlement of the question which is now breaking up this republic would assume a less belligerent character, [...]

January 16, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Northern papers, just at present, are filled with an amazing quantity of trash. Even those whose antecedents would lead one to suppose that they contained some fair amount of discrimination and common sense, seem now groping about like children in the dark, with gaping mouths, uttering unutterably silly [...]

January 16, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Feeling in the North and in the South. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Washington, January 15. – It is currently rumored in reliable circles today, that the Administration will withdraw the troops from Forts Sumter and Pickens before the close of the present week. A despatch [...]

January 16, 1861, The New York Herald The policy which Mr. Seward’s speech of Saturday insinuates, rather than avows, foreshadowing, as it does, some germs of good, correctly indicates to what extent republicans fanaticism has begun to recoil before the avalanche of destruction which is tottering over the country. Louis XI bows low, in his [...]

January 16, 1861, The Charleston Mercury New York, January 12, 1861. M.G. ROBERTS, Esq; SIR: After leaving the wharf on the 5th inst. at five o’clock, p.m., we proceeded down the bay, where we hove to and took on board four officers and two hundred soldiers, with their arms, ammunitions, &c. and then proceeded to [...]

January 16, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Gothamites were jubilant on Thursday evening, over the following refreshing intelligence, which was circulated in the streets in the form of an extra, and on which some of the enterprising newsboys made a fortune: EXTRA. Latest from Charleston. Lieut. Hall, who was despatched by Major Anderson with a [...]

–The names of William L. Yancey of Alabama, and James H. Hammond of South Carolina, appear in the Apalachicola Times of this day, as candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency of the Southern Confederacy.

WAR DEPARTMENT, January 16, 1861. Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, First Artillery, Commanding Fort Sumter: SIR: Your dispatch No. 17, covering your correspondence with the governor of South Carolina, has been received from the hand of Lieutenant Talbot. You rightly designate the firing into the Star of the West as “an act of war,” and one which [...]

January 16, 1861 The Georgia Secession Convention of 1861 convenes. The Crittenden Compromise dies on the floor of the Senate.