March 26, 1861; The New York Herald
Col. Lamon, the President’s envoy to Charleston, and bearer of the order to Major Anderson to evacuate Fort Sumter, reached Charleston on Sunday, and, after an interview yesterday morning with Gov. Pickens and Gen. Beauregard, visited the fort. It is supposed that the fort will be evacuated tomorrow; but the day of the departure of the troops has not transpired.
Reports from Montgomery state that by the 1st of April there will be five thousand troops of the Southern confederacy concentrated around Pensacola.
In the United States Senate yesterday Mr. Hale’s resolution for an election of subordinate officers was again laid over. Mr. Powell offered a resolution calling for copies of Major Anderson’s despatches to the War Department during his command at Fort Sumter. The reminder of the session was occupied in discussing Mr. Douglas’s resolution calling for information relative to the policy of the administration with reference to the seceded States. The discussion was interesting, as will be seen by our report.
The English press discuss American affairs at considerable length, and generally regard the establishment of the Southern confederacy as a fact accomplished. We this morning reproduce several articles upon this subject from the London press.
In the State Senate yesterday the long deferred response to the resolutions of inquiry by that body was received from the Metropolitan Police Commissioners, in regard to their sending members of the force South on the occasion of President Lincoln’s journeying to Washington. The Commissioners say they had reason to believe that a conspiracy existed to disturb the public peace, and that the field of its operations lay outside of the city of New York. Detectives were accordingly sent to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington; but from the confidential character of the information on which they acted, and from the nature of the detective system, it would be inexpedient for them to divulge the sources or the nature of this information. The minority report of the State Commission in the late Peace Congress was also received by the Senate signed by Messrs. Granger, Corning, Bronson and Dodge.