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...

Haines Bluff, Miss. Once more on land, and glad are we of the change. We arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo at ten o'clock yesterday morn...

Once more we are on the wing. Yesterday morning we were ordered to be ready to march when called on. Of course, the men do not expect to sta...

Arrive at Columbia, S. C., at dawn. The night passed disagreeably. Although our destiny is prison, men are impatient at delays, growl at ...

General ORDERS No. 4.} HDQRS, DISTRICT OF VICKSBURG,           Vicksburg, Miss., May 5, 1864. I. No persons except those in the employ of ...

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

Raining. There are more rumors of the evacuation of Wilmington and even Petersburg. No doubt that stores, etc. are leaving Petersburg; but...

Cloudy and cool; rained all night. No news from the South, this morning. But there is an ugly rumor that Beauregard's men have deserted ...

It is truly appalling to see the swarms of men who come on here from the North—and a full proportion of them are from Massachusetts—to re-en...

BINGHAMTON, N. Y., September 13, 1853. MY DEAR SIR—I have this moment received your favor of the 10th, calling my attention to a communica...

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler is exercising a great and dangerous influence at the Treasury Department. He has been employed in some case...

The report that the United States Government had appointed commissioners to meet ours is contradicted. On the contrary, it is believed that ...

Bright, windy, cold, and disagreeable. There was nothing new at the department this morning. Nothing from below; nothing from South Caroli...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Of course I do not expect—speaking from this platform, and to you— to say any thing on the vital question of the hour,...