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...

Bright and beautiful, and pleasantly frosty. Gen. Sherman is advancing as usual in such dubiety as to distract Gen. Hardee, who knows not wh...

Warm and cloudy. Quiet below. The President was reported better, yesterday, to my wife, who called. It is said Gen. Cooper, R. Ould, e...

Bright; subsequently cloudy and warm rain. Staunton was entered by the enemy's cavalry on Monday afternoon. We have no news whatever...

The snow has disappeared; but it is cloudy, with a cold northwest wind. The James River is very high, and all the streams are so much swolle...

Cold rain all might and all day; wind northwest. The Quartermaster-General now recommends that no furloughs be given, so as to devote the ...

Raining moderately. Yesterday Mr. Miles, member of Congress from South Carolina, received a dispatch from Charleston, signed by many of th...

Bright morning, but a cold, cloudy, windy day. A great crowd of people have been at the Treasury building all day, funding Treasury notes....

A furious gale, eastern, and rain. No news, except the appearance of a few gun-boats down the river; which no one regards as an important ...

Cold and clear. Congress adjourned yesterday, having passed the bill suspending the writ of habeas corpus for six months at least. Now the ...

Cold and clear. Gen. Longstreet has preferred charges against Major-Gen. McLaws and another general of his command, and also asks to be rel...

Rained last night—and this morning we have warm April weather and bright sunshine. It is getting to be the general belief among men ...

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...

Northern papers received yesterday evening contain a letter from Mr. Lincoln to the Illinois Convention of Republicans, in which I am told ...

A scout, from Washington, has reported to Major Norris, signal corps, that 10,000 New York troops have recently left Meade's army, thei...

A letter from Hon. W. Porcher Miles to the Secretary of War, received the 15th July, urging the government to send some long-range Brooke g...

AN ACT for the sequestration of the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate S...

Gen. Smith writes that he deems Wilmington in a condition to resist any attacks. The exposition of Mr. Benjamin's dispatches has cr...

The Confederate issue of ten millions sterling, in bonds payable in twenty years is not sufficient to meet the demands of Government; and t...

An order has gone forth to-day from the Secretary of War, that no more flour or wheat shall leave the States. This order was given some tim...