We continue our brief synopsis of the evidence in this trial. On Wednesday, April 20 th , Mr. Wooldridge was examined by the prosecution...

A slight solace to one's anxieties about home is found in the circumstances brought by successive steamers during the week. 1. The propo...

A very protracted session of the Cabinet. The chief subject was the Treasury regulations. There was unanimity, except McCulloch, who clings ...

Intelligence of the evacuation of Petersburg and the capture of Richmond was received this A.M., and the city has been in an uproar through ...

SAINT CATHERINES, CANADA WEST,              August 11 , 1864 . Hon. J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of State Confed. States of America, Ric...

Niagara Falls, Clifton House , July 21, 1864.   To the Honorable Horace Greeley :—   Sir : — The paper handed to Mr....

By the President of the United States of America: A PROCLAMATION.             Whereas, it appears from evidence in the Bureau of Mi...

On Monday, 17 December, 1860, both Mr. Thompson & Judge Black informed me that they had held conversations with General Cass on the sub...

John C. Breckinridge : Vice President of the United States, Confederate Major-General and Secretary of War of the Confederate States ...

Washington City , Jany. 10th, 1861. To His Excellency James Buchanan, President Of U. S. Dear Sir : In your reply to my note of 8th...

Washington , 9th January, 1861. Sir : I have received and accepted your resignation on yesterday of the office of Secretary of the Inte...

Washington , D. C, Jany. 8th, 1861. To H1s Excellency James Buchanan, President U. S. Sir : It is with extreme regret I have just l...

Judge Black 6 dined with me today. Talked very freely about the latter weeks of Buchanan's adm[inistratio]n. Cobb, 7 Floyd, 8 Thomps...

“Occasional,” in writing to the Philadelphia Press , discusses the complaint of certain democratic presses and politicians, regarding the co...