WASHINGTON, D. C.,  August  7, 1857. DEAR SIR: I received your favor and have made inquiry as to the position of members of the Legislatur...

Congress sat yesterday with open doors, devoting their entire session to suitable tributes to the virtues and services of their late fellow-...

Today’s special rumor is of a scheme of disunion, fathered by the Hon. Howell Cobb of Georgia, Secretary of the Treasury, who is now favorin...

The talk today is that Fusionism may carry this state after all. Then the election goes into the House and would be long contested before a ...

WASHINGTON, D. C.,  July  25, 1857. DEAR SIR: Having a few moments leisure, I have concluded to address you on the subject of the Senatori...

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,...