Bright and windy. The Virginia Assembly has passed resolutions instructing the Senators to vote for the negro troops bill—so Mr. Hunter must...

Hot and dry. The booming of cannon heard yesterday evening was from one of our batteries below Drewry's Bluff. The enemy answered from...

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, June 12 , 1863 . Hon. ERASTUS CORNING,   and others: GENTLEMEN: Your letter of May 19,* inclosing the...

To-day the excitement was quite as great as ever, for bodies of the enemy are still in the vicinity. They are like frightened quails when t...

We have dispatches from Charleston, to-day, which reconcile us to the loss of the cargo captured by the blockading squadron early in the we...

Major-Gen. Jones telegraphs from Knoxville, Tenn., that a wounded officer arrived from Kentucky, reports a victory for Bragg, and that he h...

I omitted to note in its place the gallant feat of Commodore Buchanan with the iron monster Merrimac in Hampton Roads. He destroyed two of ...

I have been writing letters the whole day, and now conclude. I suppose I can hardly add anything to what you have already heard of the cond...

(Tribune’s Dispatch.) NEW YORK, March 15. – The President nominated yesterday for Brigadier General, John Craig, also Robert C. Buchan...

From the New York Herald, 19 th . James Thompson a sailor by vocation, a citizen of Massachusetts, and formerly a resident of this city, ar...