THURSDAY 24 There was a little snow last night and this morning it rained and the streets were in an awful condition. I did not go to the office until 10 o’clock. No news stirring. Was down at the “National” this evening. It seems to be filling up, as do all the Hotels. People seem [...]
Honorable John D. Ashmore, Member of Congress from South Carolina, asks if he has the Right to the Franking Privilege, now that South Carolina has passed an Ordinance of Secession. Anderson, S. C., Jan. 24, 1861. My Dear Sir,–I have in my possession some one thousand to twelve hundred volumes of ” public documents,” being [...]
–The Charleston Mercury continues the publication of anonymous incendiary appeals, intended to stir up the people to an attack on Fort Sumter. One, headed “Fort Sumter, the Bastion of the Federal Union,” concludes with these words: “No longer hoping for concessions, let us be ready for war, and when we have driven every foreign soldier [...]
AUGUSTA ARSENAL, GA., January 24, 1861. SIR : I have the honor to report that the arsenal was surrendered this morning to the governor of Georgia upon honorable terms, herewith inclosed. ……….I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ARNOLD ELZEY, Captain, Second Artillery. Col. S. COOPER, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. (Inolosure.) [...]
FORT SUMTER S.C., January 24, 1861. Col. S. COOPER; Adjutant-General: COLONEL: The storm continued until about daylight this morning. It is still cloudy, but the wind has abated sufficiently to enable our boat to take our mail over to Fort Johnson. I have written to our beef contractor in reference to furnishing us with beef, [...]
January 24, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Our Vicksburg Correspondence. VICKSBURG, Miss., Jan. 14, 1861. Guarding the ‘Father of Waters.’- Suspended Steamboats brought to. – A Six Gun Battery upon the Mississippi Firing into a Cincinnati Steamboat. – The Resistance Feeling in the State, etc., etc. A despatch was received here on Friday, from Memphis, to [...]
January 24, 1861, The Charleston Mercury It is indeed a goodly sight to see the spirit with which the people of the South are hastening to offer substantial aid towards the defence of Charleston. Almost daily our columns contain acknowledgments of liberal and unsolicited contributions in money from citizens of our sister States. Not content [...]
January 24, 1861, The New York Herald An opinion prevails among the republicans that in the event of the Southern States seceding and forming a separate confederacy, they would be unable to command influence or credit abroad. This is a mistake. A Southern confederacy would enjoy as much credit as might be required either in [...]
January 24, 1861, The New York Herald A sentry on Sullivan’s Island, in the harbor of Charleston, fired into a boat from Fort Sumter on Monday night. The boat was manned by three men, and as they neared the beach they were ordered off; but failing to obey, the sentry fired upon them, whereupon they [...]
January 24, 1861, The New York Herald The circulation of the HERALD is now greater than that of all the other New York daily two cent journals put together, and enjoys the largest circulation of any daily paper in the world. Within the past year it has increased over twenty thousand, and the demand is [...]
January 24, 1861 Lucy, a female slave from Wheeling who fled to Cleveland, Ohio, is returned to her owner. She is the last slave to be returned under the Fugitive Slave Law.