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CHARLESTON, Friday, April 12. The ball has opened. War is inaugurated. The batteries of Sullivan's Island, Morris Island, and other points, were opened on Fort Sumpter at 4 o'clock this morning. OUR CHARLESTON DISPATCHES. Fort Sumpter has returned the fire, and a brisk cannonading has been kept up. No information has been received from the seaboard yet. The military are under arms, and the whole of our population are on the streets. Every available space facing the harbor is filled with anxious spectators. CHARLESTON, Friday, April 12. The firing has continued all day without intermission. Two of Fort Sumpter's guns...

CHARLESTON, Wednesday, April 10. The Floating Battery is now in position, commanding the barbette guns of Fort Sumpter. It carries two thirty-four-pounders, two fortytwo-pounders, and sixty-four men. The Federal steamers are expected to-night. The city is filled with troops. CHARLESTON, Thursday, April 11. An officer has just arrived from Sullivan's Island, and informs me that three steamers were seen hovering off the coast yesterday for a considerable time. Major ANDERSON fired a signal gun at 10 o'clock A.M. An opening on Fort Sumpter by the batteries is expected every moment. The Battery is crowded with people who wait in anxious...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, April 10. RUMORED PLOT TO SEIZE THE CAPITAL. The officers of the District Militia were yesterday ordered to have a meeting at 10 o'clock this morning, in consequence of information relative to a contemplated movement for the seizure of this city by the Secessionists under McCULLOUGH. Near midnight, however, orders were issued for the assembling of the militia at their armories this morning, and officers have been engaged summoning the men ever since 5 A.M. The armories are now all full of men. The understanding is that they are to be drafted for service at the different public...

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 9. I have information to-night, entirely satisfying me that the steamer Baltic has gone to Fort Sumpter, where she will land supplies in small boats. You are already aware that she is laden with a large quantity of stores, and is supplied with numerous launches, yawls, &c. The soldiers on board are designed to repel attacking parties coming from the rebel forts; for which purpose the Baltic is supplied with boat-howitzers. A number of naval officers have recently expressed their entire confidence in this method of reinforcing and supplying Fort Sumpter. Mr. R.S. CHEW, a Consular Clerk...

CHARLESTON, Monday, April 8. Everything is now prepared for action. All vessels have been ordered to keep out of the range of fire between Fort Sumpter and Sullivan's Island. The famous Floating Battery is expected to sail at 7 o'clock P.M., for a point somewhere near Fort Sumpter. A house has just been blown up near the five-gun battery. Business is entirely suspended, and the most intense excitement prevails. JASPER. CHARLESTON, Sunday, April 7. Gen. BEAUREGARD, this morning issued an order, and sent a special messenger to Major ANDERSON, giving him an official notification that all intercourse between Fort Sumpter...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, April 7. It is generally believed here to-night, that the greater portion of the armament of troops and supplies fitted out at New-York is destined for Texas. The howitzers, horses and Flying Artillery are of no available service except on land, and there is no point at the South except Texas, where they could be advantageously employed. The Flying Artillery would be sent to none of the Gulf Forts, where only simple artillerists, accustomed to manage heavy sea-coast guns, would be ordered. The mounted troops will go to Texas to replace the force now there, demoralized by TWIGGS'...

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WASHINGTON, Friday, April 5. MATTERS AT CHARLESTON. A dispatch received in this city, from a responsible person in Charleston, states that Gen. BEAUREGARD, before sunrise this morning, left for Morris Island -- for what specific purpose, however, was only known to himself and, perhaps, Gov. PICKENS. The General is reported to have stated that Maj. ANDERSON had now but two alternatives -- to evacuate Fort Sumpter within forty-eight hours, or suffer a bombardment. Lieut. TALBOT is expected here to-morrow night with dispatches from Major ANDERSON. In conversation last night, CRAWFORD, one of the Commissioners from the Southern Confederacy, said he...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 4. It is evident here that the policy of the Administration is rapidly crystalizing. The power of the Government is to be tested, or rather the will of the people to sustain the laws and enforce unity. The President has come slowly up to realize the necessity of decisive and vigorous action, and the Revenue laws are to be enforced in Louisiana, as in New-York, if the Army and Navy at the command of the Government can do it. I am confident that in less than a week every port of importance, south of Charleston, which has...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, April 3. Of the thirty-four millions of dollars offered to the Government in the bids opened at the Treasury Department yesterday, only three millions ninety-nine thousand were accepted, all bids lower than ninety-four being rejected. The number of bids for this loan is unprecedented in the history of the Department. They ranged from eighty-five to par. Notwithstanding the number of bids and the pressure of business on the Department, which keeps Secretary CHASE and his Assistant Secretary occupied until a late hour every evening, the entire correspondence with all parties relative to this loan, was completed and mailed...

GEN. AMPUDIA WITH 3,000 MEXICANS MARCHING ON BROWNSVILLE. NEW-ORLEANS, Tuesday, April 2. Texas advices state that Col. FORD is reliably informed from Matamoras that Gen. AMPUDIA with 3,000 Mexicans is 60 miles off, and marching on Brownsville. AMPUDIA had dispatched expresses with placards and handbills announcing that Texas rightly belonged to Mexico; that she had no longer the support of the Federal Government, and now is the time to retake her. Reinforcements in large numbers were rapidly coming to him. Col. FORD ordered all the heavy guns and ordnance stores at Brazos Islands immediately removed to the scene of the...

WASHINGTON, Monday, April 1. It is well understood here that there is a combination among those who propose to bid for the eight million loan to-morrow, to run the bids as low as possible. Washington capitalists are advised of the fact, and, if the New-Yorkers attempt to carry out their programme, it is quite probable that local bidders will secure the loan. Secretary CHASE understands this fact, and will probably check their speculation upon the Government. THE LAST REPORT ABOUT SUMPTER. It is reported that the Pawnee has been ordered to Charleston to take off Major ANDERSON and his forces....

WASHINGTON, Sunday, March 31, 1861. Quite a scene transpired at the President's house yesterday. On Friday Senator BAKER, of Oregon, presented to the President ten or eleven men as representative Californians, who, after he retired, recommended Senator BAKER to the Executive as a proper arbiter of the California appointments. The President then invited "all" Californians to call on him yesterday morning. OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. On Friday night some thirty Californians had an impromptu meeting, at which they appointed a Committee of Five of their number, as proper persons to give any information desired by the President as to the qualifications...

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OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES. WASHINGTON, Friday, March 29. THE FORT SUMPTER POLICY. The Southern Commissioners have received letters from home, which develop the fact that the leaders at the South desire the evacuation of Fort Sumpter as tending to recognize Southern independence, and that it will be so regarded abroad. Hon. JAMES G. PALFREY has been appointed Postmaster of Boston. Though not a resident of that city, he will comply with the law by removing thither. Mr. PALFREY's willingness to accept such an appointment excites very general surprise. A long Cabinet meeting was held to-day, but no additional appointments of importance...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, March 28. I am informed by one of the Commissioners of the Southern Confederacy that they have not received any dispatches indicating the policy of the present Administration. They are satisfied that Fort Sumpter will be, if it be not already, evacuated, and they await advices from the Provisional Government at Montgomery. They expect to know in a few days what course Mr. LINCOLN will pursue in relation to their new Confederacy, but they deny utterly the story current here to-night that they have received advices of Sumpter's evacuation. SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CONSTITUTION. Advices received here from...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March 27. EVACUATION OF FORT SUMPTER. Col. LAMON, who has been on a visit to Fort Sumpter, has returned to this city, and the exact condition of affairs at the Fort is now known to the Government. A dispatch from Charleston says that the impression prevails there that the immediate evacuation has been fully decided upon, and that Col. LAMON will return there with the order. DISPATCHES ABOUT FORT SUMPTER. The "Washington" dispatches relative to Fort Sumpter, published daily by the harlequin Herald, are entire fabrications, -- the product of random guesses, and unbridled romance. They are the...

OUR WASHINGTON DISPATCHES WASHINGTON, Tuesday, March 26. THE CRISIS AT FORT SUMPTER APPROACHING. Information has reached here this evening that the Convention of South Carolina will to-morrow cut off Major Anderson's supplies. Gen. BEAUREGARD has telegraphed to Montgomery that he is ready to precipitate matters. Two new dahlgrens were mounted at Morris Island yesterday, and everything is reported ready for action. The visit of Col. LAMON to Charleston does not partake fully of an official character. He went there on his private acconnt, and attended to some business for the Government at the same time. While no final order to...

Civil War Expected in Texas and Alabama. About the New-York Appointments. PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION. COL. LAMON AT CHARLESTON. CHARLESTON, Monday, March 25. Col. LAMON had an interview with Gov. PICKENS and Gen. BEAUREGARD, this morning, and left in company with Col. DURYEA for Fort Sumpter. The opinion is prevalent that Major ANDERSON will evacuate Fort Sumpter on Wednesday of this week. However, the time is to be determined. CHARLESTON, Monday, March 25 -- P.M. Col. LAMON visited Fort Sumpter to-day, but nothing definite is known as to the result. He returned to-night, and says he hopes to return...