We are now on the “heaving sea and the bounding wave.” We were aroused yesterday morning at four o'clock, ordered to prepare breakfast a...

CHARLESTON, April 9 , 1863 . General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General: General W. S. Walker destroyed an armed steamer in the Co...

Hot and dry. The booming of cannon heard yesterday evening was from one of our batteries below Drewry's Bluff. The enemy answered from...

Warm, with alternate sunshine and showers. With the dawn recommenced the heavy boom of cannon down the river. It was rumored this morning ...

 At the Cabinet-meeting to-day, the President brought forward specially the riot in Coles County, Illinois, and the controversy between Gove...

Mr. Faxon, Chief Clerk, is ill and leaves for New York in the Tacoma. Shall greatly miss him. No one can fill his place. Thomas G. Welles i...

The caucus of the New Hampshire members of the legislature friendly to the Administration has resulted in the substitution of Cragin for Jo...

We have no news whatever, except some damage reported at Charleston, done to two monitors yesterday. The bombardment has assumed no new pha...

At this late day the Secretary of War is informed by Col. Gorgas that, in consequence of the enemy's possessing the coal mines in Tenne...

Navy Department, Washington , 18th April, 1863. Your two favors of the 27th ult. and 1st inst. were duly received. We have been and are...

Nothing from the armies; but from Charleston it is ascertained that the enemy's batteries on Morris Island have some of the guns pointi...

Nothing new from the Rappahannock, but a battle is looked for soon. Rosecrans, who had advanced into Georgia, has fallen back on Chattanoog...

We have nothing further from Charleston, except that Beauregard threatened retaliation (how ?) if Gilmore repeated the offense, against hum...

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 last arrivals indicate a better tone and temper in England, and I think in France also. From the articles in their papers, Cole's l...

Our advices from Charleston show progress, though slow. The monitors perform well their part. Few casualties have occurred. We hear of a sa...

Great apprehension prevails. The change of commanders is thus far well received. No regret is expressed that Hooker has been relieved. This...

I have three telegrams from Dr. Whelan to-day, all of the same tenor. The last, at 4 p.m., says Admiral Foote continues much the same, — i...

We have bad news from the West. The enemy (cavalry, I suppose) have penetrated Mississippi some 200 miles, down to the railroad between Vic...

We have nothing definite from Suffolk, or from Washington, N. C. But we have Northern accounts of their great disaster at Charleston. I...