FORT SUMTER, S.C., January 23, 1861. (Received A. G. O., January 27.) Col. S. COOPER Adjutant-General: COLONEL: I have the honor to send herewith a copy of the reply of the Hon. D. F. Jamison to my letter to him about supplies for this garrison and the removal of our women and children, and also [...]

WEDNESDAY 23 United States troops are quietly being brought here and are now quartered in different parts of the City. The President is undoubtedly informed of all the movements of the Traitors, and preparations are being made for the reception of any such visitors. The conspiracy has its ramifications through all the departments without a [...]

HEADQUARTERS FORT JEFFERSON, TORTUGAS, January 23, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to report for the information of the General-in-Chief that I found on my arrival here, notwithstanding the energetic, well-directed, and highly-commendable efforts of Captain Meigs, the Engineer in charge, that Fort Jefferson could not be successfully defended from a judiciously-planned and concerted attack [...]

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 23, 1861. Hon. J. HOLT,   Secretary of War: SIR: I proceeded to Pensacola, Fla., pursuant to orders received from the General-in-Chief, with dispatches to Commodore Armstrong, U. S. Navy, commanding the navy-yard at that place, and agreeably to your request submit the following statement respectfully to your notice: On my [...]

HEADQUARTERS AUGUSTA, GA., ARSENAL, January 23, 1861–1 o’clock p. m. SIR: I am just officially informed by the governor of Georgia, now in Augusta, supported by a superior military force, that Georgia having resumed exclusive sovereignty over her soil, it has become his duty to require me to withdraw. the troops under my command at [...]

January 23, 1861, The New York Herald All danger of an immediate collision of the federal and State forces at Forts Sumter and Pickens is at an end. It is understood that peace shall be preserved until the 4th of March. Whether the armistice will continue after that date no one can predict. The House [...]

January 23, 1861, The New York Herald The official reports of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction show that they have now under their charge, 8,777 persons as inmates of the city institutions, an increase of 465 over 1860, and of 850 over 1859 — corresponding periods. Statistics as to the condition of the outdoor [...]

January 23, 1861, The Charleston Mercury We are very happy, says the Washington Star, to have it in our power to say that the Government here has become satisfied that all danger of hostile collision between its forces and those engaged in the secession movement is rapidly disappearing. The revolutionary authorities of South Carolina have [...]

January 23, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Our Richmond Correspondence. RICHMOND, January 19, 1861. The True State of Affairs in Virginia – What will Save the State for the South – Northern Efforts to Sow Discord in the Old Dominion, etc., etc. As affairs are fast approaching a crisis, I give you the true state of [...]

January 23, 1861, The New York Herald Skating in the Central Park has become an extensive institution. There is hardly a day passes that there are not some fifty thousand people on the ponds there. On Monday fifty five thousand skaters were counted on the ice, and seventeen hundred vehicles drove through the Park. Sixty [...]

January 23, 1861, The New York Herald Eighty five years ago, the population of the United States, numbered little over three millions. According to the recent census, it appears that the States and Territories, in 1860, contained thirty one millions of inhabitants. Our national wealth, at the time of the declaration of the independence from [...]