THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1861. Mercury this morning 20 above zero, cold and pleasant all day. Interesting debates in Congress now. Chas Francis Adams took high conservative ground today in the “House.” There now seems to be a disposition in Congress to do Something. Attended the meeting of the “Raven Club” this evening at Prof Whitakers [...]
–The State of South Carolina, by her attorney-general, I. W. Hayne, offered to buy Fort Sumter, and declared that, “if not permitted to purchase, she would seize the fort by force of arms.” The United States, in reply, asserted political rights superior to the proprietary right, and not subject to the right of “eminent domain.”–Times, [...]
FORT TAYLOR, FLA., January 31, 1861. Col. L. THOMAS, Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army: SIR: My company left Fortress Monroe, Va., on the 24th of the present month, and arrived at this place this morning. The Brooklyn will coal at this place, and then proceed to Fort Jefferson. As there was but a very small [...]
FORT SUMTER S. C., January 31, 1861. (Received A. G. O., February 4.) Col. S. COOPER, Adjutant-General: COLONEL: The South Carolinians are still busily engaged at work at two places on Cummings Point, They are using heavy timbers, which they square and frame. Last night they worked at least half the night. The agent of [...]
FORT TAYLOR, KEY WEST, FLA.,………. January 31, 1861. SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt on the 26th instant of a communication [following] from the headquarters of the Army dated the 4th instant, ordering my whole company to this fort. I had anticipated the order some time ago. This is the only dispatch [...]
January 31, 1861; The New York Herald Our late cheering advices from Washington, indicating the seasonable cooperation of the President elect in some compromise arrangement in behalf of the Union, and the peace of the country, were too good, it appears, to be true. With the receipt of these advices at Springfield, the republican newspaper [...]
January 31, 1861, The Charleston Mercury There is something base, on the part of the President, in keeping Major ANDERSON at Fort Sumter under the present circumstances. Knowing him to be a Southron and a slaveholder, he should be offered a furlough or leave of absence, and a substitute sent who is not a Southron. [...]
January 31, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Our Richmond Correspondence. RICHMOND, January 29. Richmond Waking Up – Speech of Judge Robertson – What Virginians think of South Carolina – Future Course of the Old Dominion – The Inevitable Botts – A Slow Legislature, etc., etc. At last the darkness seems about to break here. The day [...]
January 31, 1861, The Charleston Mercury FROM WASHINGTON. Treachery of the Administration. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) WASHINGTON, January 30 – 10:45 a.m. – The President has replied to the despatch of Senator MALLORY, of Florida. He says the Brooklyn has gone to Pensacola; that she will land provisions at Fort Pickens, and then lay off [...]
January 31, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 1861. Private advices from the South, received tonight, indicate that there will be a fight in less than thirty hours. The President declared to a member of Congress yesterday that he had no doubt that Fort Sumter would be attacked in less than a week, [...]