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Forts Sumter and Pickens.

--A telegram in the New York Herald from Washington, Saturday, states that the official order for the evacuation of Fort Sumter was issued on Friday, and a special messenger was immediately dispatched with it to Major Anderson. The fort is to be evacuated on the arrival in Charleston harbor of a United States vessel to receive them.

Dispatches received by the Government from Fort Pickens represent that the garrison is short of provisions, and can hold out but a short time longer. The squadron off, Pensacola are unable to reinforce the fort or land supplies. The Administration will doubtless, before the lapse of many days, be obliged also to abandon that stronghold to the secessionists.

The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 1, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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