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 [...]

WAR DEPARTMENT Washington, January 22, 1861. Hon. BENJAMIN FITZPATRICK, Hon. S. R. MALLORY, Hon. JOHN SLIDELL:GENTLEMEN: The President has received your communication of the 19th instant, with the copy of a correspondence between yourselves and others, “representing States which have already seceded from the United States, or will have done so before 1st of February [...]

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1861. The fact there exists an extensive conspiracy to break up the Government, one of long standing, is growing more apparent every day. The Secession of Virginia and Maryland is a part of the program and the securing of this City accomplishes the desired end. Nothing but concessions on the part of [...]

–Sherrard Clemens of Va. made a strong Union speech in the House of Representatives to-day.–(Doc. 24.)

January 22, 1861, The New York Herald The political revolution now going forward at the South is resulting in a commercial revolution different in its effects from any that has ever preceded it. By the action of the secession States the usual channels of trade have been choked up in the Southern seaboard, and the [...]

January 22, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Yesterday afternoon, the vicinity of Luff, in Harlem lane, presented an animated spectacle. Dozens of carriages were driven up, well dressed gentlemen sprang out and passed into the barroom, where some two or three hundred equally respectable in appearance were collected. Among the party there were several members of [...]

January 22, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Large secession meetings have been held in all the counties of Maryland and the people have taken the Convention question into their own hands. Committees of leading citizens have been appointed to make arrangements for an election to take place throughout the State on the fourth of February, for [...]

January 22, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Federal Troops, it appears, though not permitted to pass through Virginia, on their way South, are yet suffered to take possession of Virginia herself. If not designed for convenient transit to the South, why are they now sent to Virginia? If the Virginians persuade themselves that these troops [...]

January 22, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Acknowledgement. We learn that the Northeastern Railroad Company has generously offered to transport, free of charge, the troops which have arrived from Darlington, Marion and Williamsburg. They have also offered to transport negros intended for the service of the State. The following regulations of detail have been adopted: SUPERINTENDENT’S [...]

January 22, 1861, The New York Herald The excitement occasioned by the anticipated attack of the Florida troops upon Fort Pickens, at Pensacola, has subsided. It is now stated that Major Chase, the commander of the State forces, has telegraphed to Southern members of congress that he will not attack the fort, or obstruct the [...]

MONDAY 21 Mr Yulee was in my room today and asked me if I thought it best to “coerce” the seceding states. I told him that I thought it best to protect the public property. But says he that is coercion in the opinion of the seceding States. I told him that it mattered little [...]

–Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, withdrew from the Senate at Washington to-day. The ordinance of secession having passed the Convention of his State, he felt obliged to obey the summons, and retire from all official connection with the Federal Government.–(Doc. 23.) At the Brooklyn, N. Y., navy yard, the entire force was put under arms, and [...]

P. O. Dept., Jan’y 21, 1861. My Dear Sir,–Yours of the 19th inst. is received. I presume I shall continue to act as P. M. G., as I have been doing since the 1st inst. I do not anticipate that any appointment will be sent to the Senate at least for the present. I cannot [...]

HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, January 21, 1861. Bvt. Col. JUSTIN DIMICK, Lieut. Col., Second Artillery, Commanding Fort Monroe, Va.: SIR: The General-in-Chief directs that you embark, after arrangements with the commander of the sloop-of-war Brooklyn, one company of the First Artillery with at least three officers, with arms, a good supply of ammunition, and [...]

In connection with this subject, I deem it not improper respectfully to suggest that his excellency may do an act of humanity and great kindness if he will permit one of the New York steamers to stop with a lighter and take the women and children of this garrison to that city. The confinement within [...]

. FORT SUMTER, S.C., January 21, 1861. General Jos. G. TOTTEN, Chief Engineer U. S. A., Washington, D.C.: GENERAL: I have the honor to make the following report of the present condition of the batteries around us occupied or being erected by the troops of the State of South Carolina: Fort Moultrie.–Until within eight days [...]

The New York Times, January 21, 1861 GEORGIA DECLARED OUT OF THE UNION.; PASSAGE OF THE SECESSION ORDINANCE BY THE STATE CONVENTION MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., Saturday, Jan. 19. The State Convention adopted the secession ordinance at 2 o’clock this afternoon, by Yeas, 208; Nays, 89. It is as follows: An ordinance to dissolve the Union between [...]

January 21, 1861, The New York Herald WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 1861. A volunteer company of planters, residing in Prince Georges county, Md. one of the largest and richest slaveholding counties in that State, a few days since tendered their services to Gov. Pickens, agreeing to pay their own expenses, and to contribute one hundred thousand [...]

January 21, 1861, The Charleston Mercury In our telegraphic columns today our readers will find that which will please every Resistance man in the South. The promptitude and decision with which this great State has moved to the rescue and preservation of her imperiled institutions, brings gladness to the heart and joy to the face [...]

January 21, 1861, The New York Herald PETERSBURG, Va., Jan. 19, 1861. One thousand kegs of powder and twenty thousand pounds of shot and shell from the Tredegar Works, Richmond, left this morning, by special train by the Weldon and Wilmington Railroad, destined to Charleston, to the order of Governor Pickens.

January 21, 1861, The New York Herald According to our Washington advices, the war party in the South will not proceed further in their operations until the expiration of Mr. Buchanan’s term of office. This is a sign that the more sensible of the secessionists are getting the upper hand, and that the ardor of [...]

January 21, 1861, The Charleston Mercury On Saturday last a salute was fired on the reception of the news of the secession of Georgia from the Federal Union, by Mr. C.H. SCHWECKE, a member of the German Artillery, and Mr. WILLIAM ROGERS. Both gentlemen assisted in the firing of this gun under the flag of [...]

January 21, 1861, The New York Herald There was a rumor in Washington last night to the effect that fighting had commenced in Florida between the federal and State troops; but whether the rumor is well founded or not we are unable to learn. If any fighting has taken place it must have been at [...]