[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.] WASHINGTON, December 27, 7 P. M.—Secretary FLOYD says positively that he knows nothing offic...

Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, U. S. A., has achieved the unenviable distinction of opening civil war between American citizens by an act of gross br...

To-night the telegraph reports the evacuation of Fort Moultrie by the Federal troops by order of the Executive, and the burning of the fort....

[W]e took a morning ride, Mrs. Welles being able to go with us, and drove about the place. Returning to the wharf, we took a tug, visited th...

Admiral Farragut’s dispatch relative to the capture of Fort Morgan and the infamous conduct of General Page in spiking his guns after his su...

RALEigh , Dec. 17, ‘60. I can not find time to write you as often as I ought to. To-day the Senate voted 27 to 15 to suspend the ru...

In compliance with the request of the Convention, we beg leave to make the following statement: On Saturday, the 8th of December, several...

Washington, D. C, January 1st, 1861. Sir: We have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th December , in reply...

Washington City , 30th December, 1860. Gentlemen: I have the honor to receive your communication of 28th inst., together with a copy of...

FORT MOULTRIE, S.C., December 11 , 1860 . Memorandum of verbal instructions to Major Anderson, First Artillery, commanding at Fort Mou...

Our 5000 prisoners taken at the battle of Chickamauga have arrived in this city, and it is ascertained that more are on the way hither. Gen...

Washington , 28th December, 1860. Sir: We have the honor to transmit to you a copy of the full powers from the Convention of the People...

A Mr. J. C. Jones has addressed a letter to the President asking permission to run the blockade to confer with Mr. Bates, of President Linc...

ST. GERMAIN HOTEL, New York , February 6, 1861. Since the repulse of the steamer Star of the West at Charleston it may be assumed tha...