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

A warm bright day. Dined at the hospital with our excellent assistant surgeon, Dr. McCurdy. Sent Company E to Raleigh. The last of the Twen...

Washington, April 8,1861. Dear Sir , — I am as much in the dark as yourself in regard to the actions and designs of the present adminis...

Richmond., March 29, 1861. We got here Tuesday . . . and are staying at the Spotswood House. Mr. McCulloch is here to buy arms for Texas...

My mother says: “Your father has gone over to-day to Alexandria to meet McCulloch. McCulloch arrived here last night and went right to Mr. ...

To-day I devoted to packing up such things as I did not require, and sending them to New York. I received a characteristic note from Genera...

I believe the Secretary will resign; but “ immediate ” still lies on his table. News of a battle near Springfield, Mo. McCulloch an...

Drove out with Mrs. “Constitution” Browne, who told us the story of Ben McCulloch's devotion to Lucy Gwynn. Poor Ben McCulloch — anothe...

The following day I started early, and performed my pilgrimage to “the shrine of St. Washington,” at Mount Vernon, as a foreigner on board ...

To-day the President took the cars for Pensacola, where it had been said everything was in readiness for an assault on Fort Pickens. Milita...

Virginia Commissioners here. Mr. Staples and Mr. Edmonston came to see me. They say Virginia “has no grievance; she comes out on a point of...

A gentleman just from St. Louis informs us that General Sigel, who has been ill for some time, in that town, has so far recovered that he w...

(From the Nashville Banner, Dec. 30) The Nashville Banner has an interesting letter from Bowling Green, dated the 30th ult., from which...

ROLLA, MO., March 29. Reliable persons just from our army in the southwest, say that the rebels numbering some 35,000 under Van Dorn and Pr...

Lieutenant Colonel Herron, of the Ninth Iowa volunteers, one of the regiments which bore so gallant a part in the actions at Leetown and El...

We make the following extract from the speech of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, in defense of Gen. Fremont, delivered on Friday last.   It is but a...

Although we have already given very full accounts of this bloody and desperate battle from several Western papers, we find so many interesti...