Named Entity Results, Abe Lincoln

From Charleston. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Charleston, March 8, 1861 The cannonading of which I spoke this morning was the firing off of loaded guns on Commins Pofat as I stated, and, accidentally one of the balls fell near the gate of Fort Sumter, upon which Major Stevens promptly explained to Major Anderson. A dispatch was received here this evening from Washington, to the effect that our Commissioners would be received by Mr. Lincoln, and that the Forts would be surrendered, and that it was brought about by Mr. Seward.--This needs confirmation, and is, I think, exceedingly improbable. I am glad to see that your people are waking up all over your State, and I cannot see what your Convention can be waiting for, unless it is to kill time. A gentleman said to me a few days ago, "those Virginians love to speak very much; pity what they loved to act as well. " Are you a ware that Gov. Brown, of Georgia. Hon Wm. L Yancey, Hon. Mr. Benjamin, Hon M

His private Secretary. --John George Nicolai, the Private Secretary of President Lincoln is a German, and was born in 1832, in the village of Essingen, in the Palatinate.--In 1837 he came to this country with his parents, who settled in Cincinnati.

Abe Lincoln capsized. --A fishing schooner called Abe Lincoln capsized six miles out of Cleveland on Friday. Her crew clung to the ship till rescued, and the next day the craft was towed into Cleveland. Abe Lincoln capsized. --A fishing schooner called Abe Lincoln capsized six miles out of Cleveland on Friday. Her crew clung to the ship till rescued, and the next day the craft was towed into Cleveland.

Last year the post-office at Richmond, Va., paid $2,671, and that at Norfolk $220, over expenses. Mr. Lincoln received last week from an office-seeker a petition said to be over two miles in length! Miss Prescott, the popular magazine writer is about to be married to Mr. Richard Spofford, a Boston lawyer. It is said that the copy-right of "Dixie's Land" has given to the author four thousand dollars. There were fifteen deaths in New York city of small-pox last week. Thursday, April 4, is the day appointed for prayer and fasting in Massachusetts. Mrs. President Davis held her first levee in Montgomery, on Wednesday night last. Dr. Guernsey is now the editor of Harper's Magazine.

supplies to the Southern States. If the Convention will do nothing, will not the Legislature at least put the State in an attitude of defence by passing the bills for that purpose which received the unanimous sanction of the lower House before Lincoln's Coercion Inaugural had appeared? If they will not, then we trust the People at the assailable points of Virginia will at once organize, and, under competent military aivisers, construct such temporary defences and establish such a look-out ass given out already that the Federal troops here, reaching nearly a thousand, are to be largely reinforced. Everything is to be got ready to overcome Virginia and Maryland, and to protect the Capital in event of their attempt to secede. "Mr. Lincoln has decided upon the policy he intends to pursue, and it will be fully carried out by Gen. Scott, through the War and Navy Departments. "Gen. Scott, Secretary Holt, Gen. Cameron and the Secretary of the Navy, were in conference for severa

Sick of Unionism. The Petersburg Express. which up to the inauguration of Lincoln labored for the Union, says it has become heartily sick of Unionism. It remarks: "Lincoln's Inaugural and Cabinet following immediately on the heels of this miserable abortion of the Peace Conference, effectively crushed out all our Union sympathies, and put an end to all our previously cherished feelings against secession. The Inaugural we have said enough about, and as it is subject more odious thaLincoln's Inaugural and Cabinet following immediately on the heels of this miserable abortion of the Peace Conference, effectively crushed out all our Union sympathies, and put an end to all our previously cherished feelings against secession. The Inaugural we have said enough about, and as it is subject more odious than odorous, we will let it pass. The Cabinet was a very fit sequel to the Inaugural — a mixed up, higgledy-piggledy sort of concern — a jumble of contrarieties — an assortment of incongruities — in which we could not discern through a solar microscope a particle of nationality, such as should be possessed by the official advisers of the Chief Magistrte of a great Republic. "We have, under the influence of the scenes we have witnessed in the last two weeks, in the political amphitheater at Wash