--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.