January 28, 1861, The New York Herald We are glad to see by the message of Governor Pettus, of Mississippi, and the proceedings of the Louisiana Convention, that the people of those States have no idea of following the suicidal example of South Carolina, and ruining their own commerce in order to carry out their [...]

January 28, 1861, The Charleston Mercury On Saturday last both Houses of the General Assembly finally concurred in the design of the flag which is hereafter to represent the Sovereign State of South Carolina. The field is dark blue. Upon the upper inner corner of the flag is the crescent, in white, the horns pointing [...]

January 28, 1861, The Charleston Mercury ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., January 19, 1861. The Facts of the Seizure of the Florida Forts. In your paper of the 7th instant (which I have just seen) appears, in a letter to Messrs. W.M. LAWTON & Co., from their Fernandina correspondent, the following: “A order came from the Governor [...]

January 28, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Certain phlegmatic of the South, to call them by the tenderest name, have had a great deal to say about the rashness and hot haste of South Carolina in seceding from the Confederacy. But this is the language of cowardice borrowing the speech of impudence. South Carolina would not [...]

January 28, 1861, The Charleston Mercury No Federal troops shall ever enter Virginia to operate against the South! Such was the solemn declaration of FLOYD, of Virginia, long ago. Yet we see that, contemplating the use of Federal troops against the South, the fortresses of Virginia are reinforced. Very beautiful, this! The Government of the [...]

January 28, 1861, The Charleston Mercury (From the Washington Correspondent of the Baltimore Exchange.) I have been permitted to peruse a very interesting letter from Lieutenant DOUBLEDAY, of Fort Sumter, received last night, in which he says: “While the leaders are becoming more pacific the mob is becoming more outrageous and ungovernable. I hear they [...]

January 28, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Reception of the News. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BATON ROUGE, January 26. – The Committee reported the Ordinance of Immediate Secession this morning. At ten minutes past one othe vote upon its adoption was taken, and amid the greatest excitement, the result was announced as follows: Yeas, 113, nays, [...]

January 28, 1861, The Charleston Mercury This spirited and efficient company, having been relieved from the post at Fort Moultrie, which they have occupied since the 27th December, were received at the landing by the detachment of the company in the city. The entire company, numbering one hundred and twenty two strong, marched to their [...]

January 27, 1861, The New York Herald The State of Louisiana is now added to the list of seceding States. The ordinance of secession was passed in the State Convention yesterday by a vote of 113 to 17. A deathlike silence prevailed during the calling of the roll, and many members were in tears. When [...]

January 27, 1861, The New York Herald The period has manifestly arrived, for our brethren in the British provinces of North America, and especially in Eastern and Western Canada, to be up and stirring, in view of the contagion of revolution which is rapidly spreading over the continent. The mad efforts of fanatics at the [...]

January 27, 1861, The New York Herald The present generation have not experienced the horrors of war upon their own soil, or felt its intolerable burdens, and hence flippant journalists at the North and at the South, and demagogues who desire to fish in troubled waters, can with impunity urge the country to take a [...]

January 27, 1861, The New York Herald At no period in the commercial history of New York have the prospects of a profitable and flourishing trade in the approaching spring and summer been more bright than at the present time, apart from the obstructions which the political troubles of the day interpose to the fulfillment [...]

January 26, 1861, The New York Herald The poor of New York are divided into two great classes – those who have homes, such as they are, and those who when they awake in the morning know not where they will sleep the next night. Of this latter class there are at least a thousand [...]

January 26, 1861, The New York Herald Our Washington correspondent announces that the government has despatched reinforcements to Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, and Fort Pickens, at Pensacola, and this report is somewhat confirmed by the departure of the steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn from Norfolk on Thursday, bound South, with sealed orders, having on board two [...]

January 26, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The information that the Brooklyn sailed on Thursday evening from Hampton Roads, with troops on board, bound South, reached this city on the same night. It is to be presumed that her destination is Pensacola, although a bright lookout will be kept for her at the entrance of this [...]

January 26, 1861, The New York Herald The seizure by the local authorities of Georgia of the United States Arsenal at Augusta, with its store of arms, adds but another to the numerous proceedings of a similar character which have placed all the seceded States in the attitude of undeniable revolution against the general government [...]

January 26, 1861 The state of Louisiana secedes from the Union with a vote of 112 to 17 at the Secession Convention. The sovereign state of Mississippi establishes a state flag: It featured a white, five-pointed star on a dark blue canton (commonly called the Bonnie Blue), a field of white with a magnolia tree [...]

January 25, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Surgeon General GIBBES respectfully thanks a lady of Charleston for two dozen under shirts, and another lady of Charleston for twenty more. They have been sent as requested. He also acknowledges the patriotic present of bandages and lint for Mollie’s of Talladega, Alabama. He also thanks many ladies of [...]

January 25, 1861; The Charleston Mercury  (From the Mobile Advertiser.) Popular interest in warlike movements now centres nearer at home than when Charleston was the only point from which radiated the war excitements of the day. The immense interest of at least three States – Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida – is now becoming alive to [...]

January 25, 1861; The Charleston Mercury Let the patriots and planters of the South keep back their cotton. In March Europe will need supplies. If our ports are blockaded, Europe will find a way to open them. We can live – our Southern people – for we only send a surplus crop to market. The [...]

January 25, 1861, The New York Herald It appears that above Vicksburg, by direction of Gov. Pettus, a battery has been erected, and that every boat hailing from north of Mason and Dixon’s line is compelled to round to and give an account of itself. This, we think, whatever the specific object may be, is [...]

January 25, 1861, The New York Herald Governor Brown, of Georgia, backed by seven hundred State troops, yesterday morning demanded the surrender of the United States Arsenal at Augusta. At noon the demand was complied with. The federal troops saluted their flag and retired. The arsenal, at the time of the surrender, was occupied by [...]

January 25, 1861; The Charleston Mercury The Fairfield Volunteer Company desire, through the MERCURY, to thank ‘Several Ladies of Charleston’ for acceptable presents. The Palmetto Guard return their thanks to the ladies of Summerville for the bounteous donation of many delicacies. The thanks of the Union District Volunteers are hereby tendered to Hon. ROBERT BEATTY [...]

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 [...]