Congress sat yesterday with open doors, devoting their entire session to suitable tributes to the virtues and services of their late fellow-...

It was through a singular dream I had that I came to Richmond in time to be with Mr. Tyler during all his illness, which ended with his deat...

To the people of Charles City, and the other counties and cities composing the Third Congressional District: The resolutions adopted by th...

CHULA P. O., May 15, 1885. MY DEAR SIR: I regret that I am unable to give you the information you wish. Your honored father, my friend, an...

Bright and cool. A violent southeast gale prevailed last evening, with rain. Of course we have no news in the papers from any quarter. Sheri...

Sunny and pleasant, but hazy in the south. Cannon heard, quite briskly, south of the city. The papers report that Gen. Hardee repulsed She...

Rained last night; clear and cool this morning. The report of another battle, since Sunday, in North Carolina, is not confirmed. The ...

Raining; rained all night. My health improving, but prudence requires me to still keep within the house. The reports of terrific fighting ...

Cloudy, cold, and dismal. We have no news except from the North, whence we learn Lieut. Beall, one of our Canada raiders, has been hung; tha...

Raining. No well-authenticated news; but by many it is believed Staunton is in the hands of the enemy, and Lynchburg menaced. Nevertheless, ...

Bright and frosty. From a published correspondence between Gens. Hampton and Sherman, on the subject of retaliatory executions, it is mentio...

Warm and cloudy. My cabbages coming up in the garden. The papers contain no war news whatever, yet there is great activity in the army. ...

Moderated last night; this morning sleety and dangerous. Gen. Lee was in the city yesterday, walking about briskly, as if some great event...

Cloudy; rained yesterday and last night. We have no important news from South Carolina, except the falling back toward Columbia of our tro...

Rained last night; but this is as lovely a morning as ever dawned on earth. A gentle southern breeze, a cloudless sky, and a glorious mornin...

Another morning of blue skies and glorious sunshine. Sherman is reported to be marching northward, and to have progressed one-third of the w...

Another bright and glorious morning. Charleston fell on Thursday night last. A large number of heavy guns fell into the hands of the enemy...

Bright and frosty. A fine February for fruit. Yesterday the Senate postponed action on the Negro bill. What this means I cannot conjecture, ...

HEAD-QUARTERS CONFEDERATE STATES ARMIES,           February 18, 1865. HON. E. BARKSDALE,           House of Representatives, Richmond. Sir: ...

Clear and pleasant; subsequently thawing and foggy. Gen. R. E. Lee has been appointed General-in-Chief by the President, in response to the ...