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.

January 23, 1861, The New York Herald All danger of an immediate collision of the federal and State forces at Forts Sumter and Pickens is at an end. It is understood that peace shall be preserved until the 4th of March. Whether the armistice will continue after that date no one can predict. The House [...]

January 23, 1861, The New York Herald The official reports of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction show that they have now under their charge, 8,777 persons as inmates of the city institutions, an increase of 465 over 1860, and of 850 over 1859 — corresponding periods. Statistics as to the condition of the outdoor [...]

January 23, 1861, The Charleston Mercury We are very happy, says the Washington Star, to have it in our power to say that the Government here has become satisfied that all danger of hostile collision between its forces and those engaged in the secession movement is rapidly disappearing. The revolutionary authorities of South Carolina have [...]

January 23, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Our Richmond Correspondence. RICHMOND, January 19, 1861. The True State of Affairs in Virginia – What will Save the State for the South – Northern Efforts to Sow Discord in the Old Dominion, etc., etc. As affairs are fast approaching a crisis, I give you the true state of [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 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 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 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 [...]

January 21, 1861 Five senators from Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi bid farewell to their colleagues in the upper house. Among them is Senator Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy. All but 6 of the delegates to Georgia’s Secessionist Convention sign the Ordinances of Secession Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina, 1861 (from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated [...]

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 [...]