I was interrupted so frequently yesterday that I know not how I continued to write so much. First, I was sent for, to go to Mrs. Brunot, wh...

Day before yesterday, just about this time of evening, as I came home from the graveyard, Jimmy unexpectedly came in. Ever since the 12th o...

We had a pleasant evening. While N. read the papers we were knitting for the soldiers. An account is given of some small successes. Our men...

CAIRO, May 2. The river is stationary, and eight inches higher than was ever before known. The news from Pittsburg is of the highes...

Gen. Pope’s Official Dispatch. ST. LOUIS, March 15. – Brigadier Gen. Pope, in a dispatch to Gen. Halleck, says: Our success at New ...

ST. LOUIS, March 13. A special to the Democrat, from Cairo 12 th , says that a gentleman who left Memphis Saturday, and arrived here this...

FURTHER NEWS via HAVANA. NEW YORK, May 7. – The steamer Columbia arrived from Havana, on the 3d. The gunboat Dan’l Smith arrived at Havana ...

Commodore Hollins is amazed at the surrender of New Orleans. It is enough to amaze a ‘Southron.’ All the preparations had been made for th...

Formidable Rebel Preparations for Resistance A correspondent of the Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, writing from New Orleans, says: The Mississippi...

Special to the Chicago Tribune. OFF FORT PILLOW, CAIRO, April 19, 1862. The Enemy’s gunboats have laid behind Criaghead Point for two or thr...

We have deferred to the latest moment making up our summary of news. The reader will find but few additional particulars from the battlefie...