LEXINGTON, VA.,  August 1st , 1857. MY DEAR SIR: I received your letter of the 27th ulto this morning. I have been spending the past week ...

[PETERSBURG, VA.?],  August  15th, 1857. DEAR SIR: Doctor Harvie sent me two letters from you to Mr. L. E. Harvie, who is absent on a trip...

The weather is a little colder tonight, just freezing. Exciting news from Charleston. The Steamer “Star of the West” with troops to reinforc...

PETERSBURG, [VA.,] July 24th, 1857. MY DEAR SIR: I had a letter from Letcher this morning. He, as other of your friends, sees the insidiou...

NEW YORK, April 3, 1854. Dear CRITTENDEN,—Herewith I inclose you a copy of General Smith's letter that you supposed would soon reach m...

I have just recd, a late number of the "Constitution" (the Washington Union, with a new name 35 and a new Editor 36 — the old ha...

Clear and cool. It is now said Mr. Seddon's resignation has not yet been accepted, and that his friends are urging the President to pers...

FALL OF FORT SUMTER. The ball has opened; crowds of eager citizens may be seen gathered together at the corners of the streets excitedly d...

To the Governor of the State of Virginia: DEAR SIR, SHERWOOD FOREST, January 31, 1861. I received your communication notifying me of...

SENATE CHAMBER, December 16, 1859. DEAR TYLER: The excitement seems to abate slightly in Congress, but it is on the rise in nearly every S...

Fessenden has got out an advertisement for a new loan and an address to the people in its behalf. Am not certain that the latter is judiciou...

It is no doubt true that the Rebels have left. I called on General Halleck on a matter of business, and while there, about 11, he had a tel...

Charleston, Camp Elk , July 2, 1864. Dearest : — Back again to this point last night. Camped opposite the lower end of Camp White on t...

A bright windy day, and not cold. The President has a reception to-day, and the City Councils have voted the hospitalities of the city to B...

On Saturday, resolutions were unanimously adopted by the Senate complimenting Gen. Lee. This is his opportunity, if he be ambitious,—and wh...

Bright and cold. A resolution passed Congress, calling on the President to report the number of men of conscript age removed from the Quart...

Still nothing additional from Lee's or Bragg's army; but from abroad we learn that the British Government has prevented the rams bu...

Nothing new from Lee's army — only that his troops are eager for another battle, when they are resolved to gain the day. There will pro...

The Department Guard (my son with them) were marched last night back to the city, and out to Meadow Bridge, on the Chickahominy, some sixte...

Sunday Afternoon . — There are two reports of important events current in the streets: first, that Lee's army has taken and destroyed H...