The Legislature adjourns today. Now for the result. Prepare accurate and full tables showing the expenditures authorized by this Legislature...

A bright, cool morning. Dispatches from Lieut.-Gen. R. Taylor indicate that Federal troops are passing up the Mississippi River, and that ...

Cool and cloudy; symptoms of the equinoctial gale. We have intelligence of another brilliant feat of Gen. Wade Hampton. Day before yesterd...

Clear, bright, and cool. The intelligence from the North indicates that Gen. McClellan will be nominated for the Presidency. Judge Campbel...

Bright, and cool, and dry. It is reported that a battle has occurred at Atlanta; but I have seen no official confirmation of it. It is r...

 Great is the professed enthusiasm of the Democrats over the doings at Chicago, as if it were not a matter of course. Guns are fired, public...

Most of the vessels sent out in pursuit of the Tallahassee have returned, and with scarcely an exception the commanders have proved themselv...

[From the Richmond Examiner (opp. Organ) Aug. 15.] Whatever may turn out to be the meaning of fact, the fact itself begins to shine out ...

ROOMS OF THE NATIONAL UNION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Astor House , New York , Aug 22 1864. My dear Sir:— I feel compelled to drop yo...

Washington, 28 August 1864 . . . I have been rather expecting to make another visit to the West in September, but it is rendered somewha...

The New York World , in commenting on the Niagra correspondence, closes an article as follows: We are convinced that there is no sinceri...

The Copperhead press out west bloviated in favor of peace, and, and endorsed the Peace Commissioners and the peace programme of the loafin...

August 29, 1864. I would much like to know what the Chicago Convention is doing to-day. We hear there is a possibility they may nominat...

At the meeting of the Cabinet to-day the President took out a paper from his desk, and said:— “Gentlemen, do you remember last summer I ask...

Warsaw, Illinois , August 25, 1864. . . . . We are waiting with the greatest interest for the hatching of the big peace-snake at Chicag...

I met the President and Seward at the War Department this morning. A dispatch from General Meade, dated 3 P.M. yesterday, is in very good t...

McClellan is nominated by the Chicago convention for president. I fear there is not much chance of his being elected. I don't like the ...

Atlanta, Ga. , September 18, 1864. Yours of the 9th was received to-day. Since my last letter, I have kept pretty busy with the affairs...

Home , 6 September, 1864. I have just read your paper on Hawthorne, and am greatly pleased with it. Your analysis of his mental and mor...

Washington , June 19, 1864. I hope to be at home by the 4th of July. It is possible I may not, however, because I am compelled to stop ...