We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

CAMP MILLINGTON. We were too tired last night to look about and see where we were. This morning we were ourselves again, and began to take s...

As bright and lovely a morning as ever dawned on Chesapeake bay. The expedition sails today. The harbor is full of life, tugboats are runni...

ARRIVAL AT BALTIMORE. We reached Havre de Grace about noon. A heavy storm has set in. It is raining hard and the wind blows a gale. We ...

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 3, 1856. DEAR SIR:— I sent you the recent law of Virginia, under which all vessels are to be searched for fug...

After a very cold day, it has become intensely frigid. I have two fires in our little Robin's Nest (frame) on the same floor, and yet i...

The heat to-day was so great, that I felt a return of my old Indian experiences, and was unable to go, as I intended, to hear a very eminen...

WASHINGTON, April 29. A dispatch received from Gen. Halleck says:   “It is the unanimous opinion that Gen. Sherman saved the fortune of...

There is talk about blocking up the entrance to Norfolk with a stone fleet, which can be easily done, as the channel is narrow, and so ren...