WASHINGTON, January 20, 1861. Gov. M. S. PERRY, Tallahassee, Fla.: The Southern Senators all agree that no assault on Fort Pickens should be made; that the fort is not worth one drop of blood at this time, and desire us to invoke you to prevent bloodshed. First get the Southern Government in operation. The same [...]

1861. January 20.–….The news from home during this week has been deplorable. On the l0th inst. the President sent a message to Congress which depicts the state of things in the gloomiest colours. South Carolina, at Charleston, has fired repeated volleys at a United States transport carrying troops for Major Anderson at Fort Sumter, and [...]

SUNDAY 20 Cooler today, and quite windy, but did not freeze till night. Did not go to church today. Took care of the house while the rest of the family went. Read the “Times” “Herald” and Partons last Vol of Jackson. There are so many villinous looking fellows roaming about the City, that that [sic] [...]

January 20, 1861, The New York Herald It is not to be disguised that the warlike preparations are now being made in the North have produced a very bad feeling in the border Slave States. In Maryland there is a sharp contest going on between the Union party and the secessionists – the latter desiring [...]

January 19.–This evening a party scouting for Colonel Williams, in command of the military post at Rossville, Ark., returned to camp, having captured in the Magazine Mountains, some fifteen miles east of the post, the county records of Vernon and Cedar Counties, Mo. The books and papers so captured and retained were worth one million [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 The Brooklyn is at present hourly expected at Charleston, and may take an active part in any future contest at that point. She was launched at New York on the 27th of July, 1858, and took her place in the navy on the 1st of January, 1859. She is by [...]

ORDNANCE OFFICE, Washington D. C., January 19, 1861. SIR : The inclosed letter from Captain Rimy to the Adjutant-General of the Army is submitted for the perusal of the Lientenant-General commanding, and for such action as he may deem proper in the case, with the remarks that the captain had no means of knowing whether [...]

SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1861. This has been a warm and pleasant day, but the streets and crossings very muddy. No particular news is afloat but all classes are looking towards Charleston with much anxiety, as an attack is expected on Ft Sumpter. I went with the boys after office hours to the Navy Yard to [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 The Steamship ‘Star of the West’ WE publish herewith pictures of the United States steam-sloop Brooklyn, and of the steamship Star of the West, and of the steamship Marion, which three vessels figured so prominently in the movements of last week; and on page 37 we give a large plan [...]

January 19, 1861, The New York Herald The steamship Asia, from Liverpool 5th and Queenstown 6th inst., arrived at Quarantine last evening, but owing to the quantity of ice in the bay she did not come up. Our accounts from South Carolina are rather more pacific than usual, owing, as it is said, to the [...]

January 19, 1861, The New York Herald Our Tucson Correspondence. TUCSON, Dec. 30, 1861. On the 20th instant the Apaches murdered an American named Hoyt, who was cutting wood about a mile and a half from Fort Breckinridge. Hoyt’s partner escaped, but very narrowly. The Indians took a rifle, pistol and ammunition from the murdered [...]

January 19, 1861, The New York Herald Among some of the curious features of the secession movement is the agreement on the part of South Carolina to continue to use the postal service of the federal government for its own special accommodation, while that State is seizing the Post Office, forts, arsenals and Custom House, [...]

January 19, 1861, Harper’s Weekly The Baltimore American has the following story: One of the Baltimoreans who recently returned from Fort Sumter details an impressive incident that took place there on Major Anderson taking possession. It is known that the American flag brought away from Fort Moultrie was raised at Sumter precisely at noon on [...]

January 19, 1861, Harper’s Weekly According to a dispatch in the Herald, terrible suffering already exists at Charleston. The  “troops who have volunteered and presented themselves for service are camped in unhealthy locations, and, in consequence of rain, swamps, and miasma, are suffering from disease. No vessels loading, no business doing, women weeping, and men [...]

January 19, 1861, Harper’s Weekly The Baton Rouge arsenal (Louisiana) was taken possession of by the State troops on 11th. All the fortifications are now in possession of the Louisiana troops. The United States arsenal at Baton Rouge, in command of Major Haskins and two companies, refused to surrender. The arsenal was surrounded by six [...]

January 19, 1861, Harper’s Weekly The Charleston Mercury, at the close of an appeal to the Floridians to seize the defenses at Pensacola and Key West, threatens the seizure of the California treasure-ships by Southern privateers. We copy : “To our friends in Florida we would respectfully pass a word. There are two powerful strong-holds [...]

January 19, 1861, Elwood Free Press Elwood, Kansas In 1843, the people of the State of Rhode Island assembled by delegates in State Convention, framed a State Constitution, and by a majority of votes, but without the sanction of their existing state government, adopted it and attempted to put it in operation. The old state [...]

January 19, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Suggestions have been made at Washington looking to the introduction of a proposition into Congress to buy out all the slaves in Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, and Louisiana, in order to settle the slavery and secession question in the country north of the Potomac and west of the [...]

January 19, 1861, The Charleston Mercury (From the Auburn Union.) General Segoine has kindly permitted us to publish the following letter received by him on Saturday last, from Captain Abner Doubleday, who is with Major Anderson at Fort Sumter. It speaks for itself: FORT SUMTER, S.C., Jan. 6, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: It is a [...]

January 19, 1861, The Charleston Mercury This gentleman arrived in the city last night, by the six o’clock train on the Northeastern Railroad, and is stopping at the Charleston Hotel. He will leave for Fort Sumter at an early hour this morning. The tenor of his instructions for Major ANDERSON has not transpired, but we [...]

January 19, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Commissioner who has been appointed by the State of Georgia to proceed to Europe, for the purpose of making commercial arrangements with European Governments for direct commerce with the Southern States, and with Savannah, especially, is now in correspondence with diplomatic individuals here, and gathering all necessary information [...]

The Steamship ‘Marion,’ seized by the State of South Carolina to be Converted into a Man-Of-War The steamship Marion, 800 tons burden, of the New York and Charleston line, was seized by the State authorities of South Carolina on 10th, to be converted into a vessel of war. She was built here (New York) by [...]

Harper’s Weekly, January 19, 1861 We publish on page 33 the portrait of the Rev. Dr. Bachman, of South Carolina, the minister who was selected by the Secession Convention to ask a prayer on the ratification of the Ordinance of Secession. Dr. Bachman is distinguished as a naturalist, but has made himself more conspicuous, latterly, [...]

Washington Jany 19. 1861. My dear wife I have not anything very late from you, but before going to bed I feel desirous of writing you a few lines. I know the rumours of threatened attack on this city, and the continual advance of revolution, must create much anxiety; and my letters will therefore be [...]