The following letter has been addressed to all the Generals commanding Departments, in the expectation that they will cause the informatio...

The National Intelligencer , of this morning, says that a report prevailed yesterday to the effect that the column of Gen. Banks had suffere...

WASHINGTON, P. O. Dept., May 6. – All letters for New Orleans should be sent to New York for transmission by Government Steamer. (Signed.) J...

JOHN A. KASSON was born at Charlotte, Vermont, January 11, 1822. His father died when he was but six years old and his boyhood days were я s...