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

ASHEBORO , Oct. 12th, 1861. The Sheriff of this County has just been informed by my friend I. H. Foust that under instructions from Richmo...

The following dispatch indicates the prestige of success for the year 1864, and it is probable it will be followed by a succession of succe...

  For some cause, we had no mail to-day. Fine, bright, and pleasant weather. Yesterday Mr. Lyons called up the bill for increased compensa...

RICHMOND, January 12 , 1863 . The SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES: At the date of your last adjournm...

We have nothing new yet from Averill’s raiders; but it is said Gen. Lee has set a trap for them. From East Tennessee there is a report that...

The President's message was sent to Congress to-day. I was not present, but my son Custis, who heard it read, says the President dwells...

Governor Brown, Georgia, writes the Secretary that he is opposed to impressments, and that the government should pay the market price — wha...

Gen. D. H. Hill writes from North Carolina that the business of conscription is miserably mismanaged in that State. The whole business, it ...

Another stride of the grim specter, and cornmeal is selling for $17 per bushel. Coal at $20.50 per ton, and wood at $30 per cord. And at th...

Went up to Covington to-day to pay the Confederate tax. Did not find the commissioners. Mid [a slave] drove me with Beck and the buggy. Got...

Mt. Savage, [maryland ,] Jan. 27, '61. Living in a border state, politics are personally too interesting for me to enjoy the papers...

The Richmond Congress is puzzled what to do about cotton.   Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, proposes to make it a criminal offence for a planter...

The Philadelphia Ledger is out in favor of a tax on slaves.   It is curious, as the Ledger says, “that while northern capital, invested chi...

DES MOINES, March 20, 1862 As the session draws towards a close, the bills before the legislature are hurried forward to a passage.  Most o...

. . . say that at a convention of cotton planters held at Selma, Alabama, it was unanimously resolved to restrict the production of cotton t...

We are authorized by Mr. Treasurer Courts to state, that this State’s portion of the Confederate war tax was paid by him to the Confederate ...