March 4, 1861; The New York Herald At noon today, at the national Capitol in Washington city, Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, will be inaugurated President and Vice President of the United States. The inaugural address of Mr. Lincoln, which is looked for with great anxiety throughout the entire country, will, [...]

March 4, 1861; The New York Herald Since the sixth day of last November a series of unparalleled and eventful circumstances has become a part of the history of this country–circumstances which, in their present aspect, and in the gloomy hue they assume as concerns the future, vitally affect the prosperity and being of the [...]

March 4, 1861; The New York Herald WASHINGTON, March 3, 1861. Mr. Buchanan will leave Washington on Tuesday afternoon, remaining one night in Baltimore, as the guest of Zenas Barnum. He will be conveyed by special train to Wheatland by the Northern Central Railroad Company. He will be escorted home from Baltimore by the Baltimore [...]

March 3, 1861; The New York Herald THE INAUGURATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Washington, Feb. 28, 1861. The following is the programme of proceedings on Monday, the 4th March next, for the inauguration of President Lincoln, as arranged under the supervision of the Chief Marshal, Colonel B. B. French: [...]

March 3, 1861; The New York Herald President Buchanan has signed the new tariff bill, and it is now the law of the land. The act complete has already been published in the columns of the HERALD. The last section of the new tariff provides that all goods, wares and merchandise actually on shipboard and [...]

March 3, 1861; The New York Herald Washington, March 2, 186l. The Cabinet vexation has at last come to an end, to the great relief of all concerned. This morning Mr. Cameron got over his squeamishness, and signified his readiness to serve, when it at once became settled that Seward, Bates, Smith, Chase, Cameron, Blair [...]

March 2, 1861; The Charleston Mercury WASHINGTON, February 27, 1861. LINCOLN’s designs are still shrouded in thick darkness. The ass is between the bundle of hay – anxious to go to CHASE and afraid to leave SEWARD. It is some consolation to know that only five days remain ere the fountain of the great deep [...]

March 2, 1861; The New York Herald —The latest shuffle of the cards of Mr. Lincoln’s initiative Cabinet, it appears, has resulted in the following distribution of his Executive departments, to wit:- Secretary of State ……….. Wm. H. Seward, of N.Y. Secretary of Treasury……… Simon P. Chase, of Ohio. Secretary of War………….. Simon Cameron, of [...]

March 2, 1861; The New York Herald Our despatches from Washington state that the list of Cabinet officers of the incoming administration which was published in yesterday’s HERALD, and which is again published today, is the true one. The selection of Governor Chase to a place in the Cabinet is regarded as a triumph of [...]

March 1, 1861; The Charleston Mercury In pursuance of regimental orders, the Seventeenth Regiment paraded yesterday afternoon for review. At three othe regiment formed in Broad street, the right resting upon Meeting street and the left upon Church street. We noticed the following mounted staff officers in command: Colonel JOHN CUNNINGHAM, Adjutant F. A. MITCHELL, [...]

March 1, 1861; The New York Herald In this transition interval between the outgoing and the incoming administrations, when old things are to be done away with, old parties, old principles, old platforms, old politicians, old office holders, old lobby and kitchen favorites, old tricksters and hucksters, old fashions and old clothes, old kettles, pots [...]

March 1, 1861; The Charleston Mercury The impotent spite and reasonless abuse now heaped upon Gen. TWIGGS by Abolition prints at the North, for his recent sensible and manly course as a Southern officer of the late United States Army, is so ludicrous in its desponding virulence, that we really cannot get up a feeling [...]

February 28, 1861; The Charleston Mercury BALTIMORE, February 24, 1861. As if the cup of our country’s deep, and, I fear lasting degradation were not already filled to overflowing by the ill timed harangues of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, made during his recent trip from Springfield to Washington, his stealthy midnight transit through Maryland on Friday night [...]

February 28, 1861; The New York Herald We have at last got a clue to the way the terrible conspiracy to assassinate Mr. Lincoln was discovered, and it certainly reflects great credit upon our police system, which we shall not be slow to accord to it. It appears that there were two sets of most [...]

February 28, 1861; The Charleston Mercury For many days past rumors have been rife to the effect that JEFFERSON DAVIS, president of the Confederate States, was on his way to Charleston. Yesterday morning some color was given to these reports by the publication of a despatch, dated Montgomery, announcing the departure of the President for [...]

February 27, 1861; The New York Herald The Conference Committee of the two houses of Congress on the Senate’s amendments to the Tariff bill, levying a duty on tea and coffee, have agreed to recommend that the Senate recede from their position. The committee will make their report today, and as the tea and coffee [...]

February 27, 1861; The Charleston Mercury We call attention to the movement now on foot here, to establish a line of steamships with Liverpool for purpose of direct trade. It is a step forward, and one that is needed. A Revenue Tariff and Free Trade will rid the Southern peoples of Northern monopolists in manufacture, [...]

February 27, 1861; The Charleston Mercury THE BANK OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA is the Agent of the State to effect the Loan. The Bonds to be issued are for sums of $50, and $100, and $500 each – bearing an interest of SEVEN PER CENT, payable annually, at the State Treasury, and the [...]

February 27, 1861; The New York Herald Everybody likes to make presents to a new President, especially everybody who wants an office or who likes to effect a little notoriety, and Mr. Lincoln has in consequence been a recipient of several favors of this kind, some of them of a very curious nature. Before he [...]

February 26, 1861; The Charleston Mercury These two officers were placed in similar situations; their conduct has been the reverse, one of the other. Major ANDERSON has become the pet of a party; of Capt. ELSEY we hear nothing. Yet ELSEY has behaved, in a difficult situation, with consummate judgment. ANDERSON has complicated and embarrassed [...]

February 26, 1861; Richmond Enquirer Private advices from different parts of the State inform us that a large number of our largest slaveholders are already making preparations for an exodus, which they consider may be rendered necessary as well by the dilatory action of the Convention now assembled, as by final submission on the part [...]

February 26, 1861; The New York Herald Mr. Lincoln yesterday visited both houses of Congress and the Justices of the Supreme Court. His appearance at the Capitol created quite a sensation. In the evening he had an informal reception at his hotel. Mr. Lincoln was occupied during a portion of the day in perfecting his [...]

February 26, 1861; The Charleston Mercury WASHINGTON, February 23, 1861. Surprises are not always pleasant. Jaded by the excitement of yesterday’s military performance, to say nothing of the numerous balls at night, we were not prepared this morning to receive the news of LINCOLN’S arrival with that joyful enthusiasm which the suddenness of the occasion, [...]

February 25, 1861; The New York Herald Much excitement was caused in this city and throughout the country on Saturday by the announcement that the President elect had quietly left Harrisburg on Friday night by a special train and made his appearance in Washington early the next morning. All sorts of rumors and opinions were [...]