EDITOR APPEAL:   The petition for a special policeman to perform certain duties for   the Mothers’ Rooms, having given rise to much discus...

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S. A. , Charleston, S.C., April 17 , 1861 . SIR: I have the honor to transmit by Col. R. A. Pryor,...

HEADQUARTERS PROVISIONAL ARMY, C. S. A. , Charleston, S.C., April 16 , 1861 . SIR : I have the honor to submit the following summary...

MONTGOMERY, April 11 , 1861 . General BEAUREGARD, Charleston: Do not desire needlessly to bombard Fort Sumter. If Major Anderson wil...

MONTGOMERY, April 10 , 1861 . General BEAUREGARD, Charleston: If you have no doubt of the authorized character of the agent who com...

Captain Drake and Gilmore's Cavalry have returned. The infantry are bathing in Bluestone. The expedition was completely successful, and...

CHARLESTON, April 6 , 1861 . L. P. WALKER: The following telegraph I have just received from Washington: Positively determined n...

Charleston, S. C., April 1, 1861. The Hon. L. P. Walker , Montgomery, Ala. The following telegram, just received from Commissioner C...

“Now, by St. George, the work goes bravely on!” Another letter on my desk from the President to the Secretary. Well, being in an official e...

The heat to-day was so great, that I felt a return of my old Indian experiences, and was unable to go, as I intended, to hear a very eminen...

My faithful Wigfall was good enough to come in early, in order to show me some comments on my letters in the “New York Times.” It appears t...

I tried to write, as I have taken my place in the steamer to Mobile to-morrow, and I was obliged to do my best in a room full of people, co...

To-day the papers contain a proclamation by the President of the Confederate States of America, declaring a state of war between the Confed...

Gen. Bonham, of South Carolina, has also resigned, for being over-slaughed. His were the first troops that entered Virginia to meet the ene...

Gen. L P. Walker, the first Secretary of War, is assigned to duty in the Southwest under Gen. Bragg. How can he obey the orders of one who ...

Col. Bledsoe was in to-day. I had not seen him for a long time. He had not been sitting in the office two minutes before he uttered one of ...

Montgomery , Alabama, April 12th, 1861. My dear friend, Your despatch reached me after I had directed one to be sent, which an...

The Secretary, after writing and tendering his resignation, appointed my young friend Jaques a special clerk with $2000 salary. This was al...

Some of Mr. Walker's clerks must know that he intends giving up the seals of office soon, for they are engaged day and night, and all n...

The press and congressional critics are opening their batteries on the Secretary of War, for incompetency. He is not to blame. A month ago,...