January 30, 1861, The New York Herald The announcement of the peaceful mission of the steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn to Florida is confirmed by late advices from Washington. The provisions on board the Brooklyn are to be delivered at Fort Pickens, but she is not to enter the harbor of Pensacola, nor to land troops at [...]

January 30, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Government of the United States insists on holding Fort Sumter as property. They pretend to think that this is by no means a hostile attitude against South Carolina. They do not hold it was a military instrumentality by which the waters of our bay and the commerce of [...]

January 29, 1861, The New York Herald It is now stated that the mission of the war steamer Brooklyn to Pensacola is one of peace. She has been sent out to intercept vessels of the Gulf squadron that have been ordered to Pensacola to prevent them from going there, and thus obviate difficulty and perhaps [...]

January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury In rainy weather we have frequent complaints that the MERCURY is received in a mutilated condition. This is owing to the fact that so few residences are provided with boxes to receive the paper and protect it from the weather. The carriers have to thrown it into piazzas, gardens, [...]

January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury Major William H. Chase, formerly of the United States Corps of Engineers, is the leader of the State troops at Pensacola, Florida. He was formerly a resident of Massachusetts, and received the appointment of cadet from that State to the Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated March [...]

January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury The Legislature last night again altered the design of the State flag. It now consists of a blue field, with a white palmetto tree in the middle, upright. The white crescent in the upper flag staff corner remains as before, the horns pointing upward. This may be regarded as [...]

January 29, 1861, The Charleston Mercury An officer in the army or navy of the United States is a citizen of a State, appointed by the general agent of all the States (the Government of the United States) to an office, to assist in carrying on this agency. He is not a citizen of the [...]

January 28, 1861, The New York Herald From Washington we learn that the city was very quiet yesterday. Despatches from Charleston received there state that much excitement existed in regard to the departure of the Brooklyn from Norfolk with troops. As soon as it became known that the Brooklyn and other vessels had been ordered [...]

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 [...]