The following extract from a letter which I have just written to a friend, is the sum and substance of my thoughts, journalized for to-day. ...

Clear, but rained last night. From the South we learn that Sherman is marching on Branchville, and that Beauregard is at Augusta. The gr...

Bright and frosty. As I supposed, the peace commissioners have returned from their fruitless errand. President Lincoln and Mr. Seward, it ap...

Cloudy and cold; froze hard last night. Yesterday a bill was introduced into both houses of Congress authorizing the enlistment of 200,000...

Bright and cold. Very cold, and fuel unattainable. The papers speak of heavy raids in process of organization: one from Newbern, N. C., ag...

I am still at Barnum's, and having transferred my sick to the charge of Mr. S., I have a little more time to think, and to journalize my...

The dawning of a doubt is a troublesome thing, for if a doubt does not out and out destroy faith, it assuredly chastens it to an uncomfortab...

TUPELO, January 17, 1865.           (Received 18th.) General S. COOPER,           Adjutant and Inspector General: Roddey's brigade is...

Clear and frosty. Among the rumors, it would appear that the Senate in secret session has passed a resolution making Lee generalissimo. It...

Clear and cold. It is understood now that Gen. Hood has crossed to the south side of the Tennessee River with the debris of his army. Ge...

Rained yesterday and last night. Clear and windy to-day. It is said the Blairs (who have been looked for on some sort of mission) turned b...

Bright and cold. Snowed yesterday, and windy. Gen. Whiting writes that he had only 400 men in Fort Fisher, and it was a miracle that it wa...

AUGUSTA, December 13, 1864. Col. JOHN B. SALE: I go to Charleston to-morrow to see General Beauregard, at his request. He has assigned me...

CHARLESTON, December 22 , 1864 .           (Received 23d.) On the 16th instant enemy, 800 strong, occupied Pollard. After burning Governm...

Cloudy, and thawing rapidly. All quiet below. The bill to employ 40,000 negroes, as recommended by the President, for army purposes, thoug...

Cloudy and cool. A dispatch from the West states that the enemy have made a heavy raid from Bean's Station, Ky., cutting the railroad ...

The darkest and most dismal day that ever dawned upon the earth, except one. There was no light when the usual hour came round, and later th...

CHRISTMAS!-Clear and pleasantwhite frost. All quiet below. But it is believed on the street that Savannah has been evacuated, some days ag...

A night of rain—morning of fog and gloom. At last we have an account of the evacuation of Savannah. Also of the beginning of the assault on ...

Rained all night; spitting snow this morning. Although Gen. Bragg announces that the enemy's fleet has disappeared off Wilmington, still...