DELIVERED AT ELLWOOD SPRINGS, NEAR PORT GIBSON, MISS., NOVEMBER 2, 1850. FELLOW-CITIZENS: I shall speak to you to-day, not as Whigs, not a...

Wirz, Gen. John H. Winder, commissary general of prisoners, Howell Cobb and several minor personages came inside on horseback and rode partl...

Clear, with high wind. Nothing further from North Carolina. A dispatch from Gen. Lee states that he has directed Gen. Cobb to organize an ex...

The incident at the creek, where I nearly drew the fire of two sentries, led me to inquire as to methods prison authorities have for informi...

WASHINGTON, December 29, 1849. MY DEAR JAMES, —I received your letter, communicating an account of Susan's confinement, and I was deli...

LLOYDS, ESSEX Co. [VA.], December 2nd, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: I received your letter after it had performed its circumnavigation through vario...

Clear and cold. No news—that is bad news. Nothing has transpired officially of the events and details near Wilmington, but there is a rumor,...

MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, October 23rd, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: I have just had the pleasure of reading, your speech, delivered some time ago in ...

SHADWELL, ALBEMARLE Co., [VA.], November 2nd, 1852. MY DEAR SIR: I know not if a man retired as I am from politics and never very active o...

(Private.) ELIZABETH CITY Co., NEAR HAMPTON, [VA.], November 5th, 1852. MY DEAR HUNTER: I wrote you in June a short note from Baltimore im...

The last day of the year. Snowing and wet. Gen. H. Cobb writes that the existing Conscription Bureau is a failure so far as Georgia, Alabama...

Washington 2 Dec r 1849 MY DEAR AND W , I had a very pleasant and safe journey on. The weather was fine throughout; but is now very bad. ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1850. Mr. A. has infinitely slender cause to praise Mr. Cobb for putting Mr. Giddings on the Committee on Territories,...

You will see by the papers the doings at Washington. The contest on the Speakership is showing its good influence already. 1 The slave-powe...