Clear and warm. Apricots in blossom. At last we have reliable information that Johnston has checked one of Sherman's columns, at Bentonv...

THE emancipation of slaves is virtually inaugurated. Gen. Butler, once a hard pro-slavery Democrat, takes the lead. Tempora mutantur et nos ...

Intelligence has reached London this morning from New York dated 14th, by which it appears that Fort Sumter had been attacked by the Secessi...

Bright and pleasant, but indications of change. The papers contain no news from the armies, near or remote. But there was some alarm in the ...

Mr. Bancroft has to-day delivered his oration on the death of Lincoln . It is the anniversary of his birth, and hence the occasion. The orat...

Dr. Hitchcock, of California, the surgeon of General Taylor at the battle of Buena Vista, who saved the life of Jeff. Davis by extracting fr...

Parliament was opened yesterday by the Queen in person. The military parade, turnout of royal equipages, and assemblage of Peers, Peeresses,...

Just finished the Duke of Buckingham's two volumes on the “ Courts and Cabinets of William IV and Victoria .” There is a curious note by...

South Carolina, it appears, adopted her Ordinance of Secession on the 19th of December, unanimously. It has been hailed with exultation in ...

Gentlemen, it is with feelings of the deepest gratitude that I rise to acknowledge the toast which has now been drunk. It has been my fate t...

Mrs. Seward, wife of Secretary Seward, died this A.M. Mr. Seward sends me a letter inclosing dispatch of Lord John Russell in relation to be...

Among my London acquaintances was Mr. Edward Ellis, a member of Parliament himself, and, I think, with one or two sons also in that body. H...

Navy Department , April 1,1863. I have your letter from near Halifax. Every steamer we capture that will carry one gun is invariably ta...

The reports from Western North Carolina indicate that much bad feeling prevails there still; and it is really something more than a militar...

On looking out of my cabin window this morning I found the steamer fast along-side a small wharf, above which rose, to the height of 150 fe...