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The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
d, and taken into the service of those who are seeking to break up the Union and overthrow the authority of the Federal Government. Reply of the Collector. Secretary Dix, in reply to his telegraphic dispatch, has received the following reply from Collector Hatch: New Orleans, Jan. 28.--The Marine Hospital affair has been satisfactorily arranged.--The barracks are retained. See my letter of the 21st. Military preparations in Florida The steamer Joseph Whitney, from Fort Winthrop, Boston, arrived at Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, Florida, on the 18th, and landed Major Arnold's company of artillery there.--This fortification extends over the whole surface of Garden Key, and has an area of over thirteen acres. It is completely closed against surprise by escalade, though its armament is incomplete. The first and second tiers, however, are finished, and the twelve outworks of bastions and curtains can mount three hundred and fifty guns. The fort is further fortified by
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
er, of Wednesday, thus notices the announcment we had by telegraph of the steamer Joseph Whitney having been chartered to carry troops from Boston to the South: It is announced that the detachment of United States troops now stationed at Fort Winthrop, in this harbor, have received orders to be in readiness to go South. They number seventy men. An agent of the General Government was in town yesterday, and chartered the steamer Joseph Whitney, of the Baltimore line, as a transport for the d that the Joseph Whitney will take on board seven hundred and fifty barrels of provisions and three hundred and fifty tons of coal. Her agents state that they are not at liberty to reveal her destination. It is said that the company at Fort Winthrop are light artillery men. The Boston Transcript says that the Whitney cleared for Norfolk, though her destination is understood to be the Coast of Florida. From Charleston. The following weather item is from the Charleston Courier
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
current fiscal year, and all of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1863. They are additional estimates to those heretofore transmitted to Congress: For fortifications on the Northern frontier, including fortifications at Oswego, Niagara, Buffalo, and Detroit$750,000 Fort Montgomery, at outlet of Lake Champlain, New York150,000 Fort Knox, at Narrows of Penobscot river, Maine159,000 Fort on Hog Island Ledge, Portland harbor, Maine150,000 Fort Warren, Boston harbor, Mass75,000 Fort Winthrop and exterior batteries, Boston harbor100,000 Fort at New Bedford Harbor, Mass150,000 Fort Adams, Newport harbor, R. I.50,000 Fort Schuyler, East river, New York25,000 Fort at Willet's Point, opposite Fort Schuyler, New York250,000 Commencement of casemate at battery on Staten Island, New York100,000 New battery at Fort Hamilton, at the Narrows, New York100,000 Fort at Sandy Hook, entrance to New York harbor, New Jersey300,000 Fort Millin, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania25,000 Fo
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