Weather fine & pleasant,—with indications of rain Duties of the morning as usual—much rejoicing through out the camp—though no open demo...

Three years ago to-day the Old North State left the Union, and we went to the front full of hopes to speedily show the Yankee Government tha...

Mr. Reuter sends me a telegram from Queenstown of the American news. 1. The conference invited by Virginia met on the 4th, and re-assembled ...

The Santiago arrived at the Navy Yard, Washington, this day, shortly after meridian. My two sons, Edgar and Tom, were awaiting our arrival a...

Great questions not taken up at the Cabinet. Several minor matters considered. Mr. Harlan, successor of Mr. Usher in the Department of the I...

The President and Cabinet met by agreement at 10 A.M. at the Treasury. The President was half an hour behind time. Stanton was more than an ...

GOOD SENSIBLE TALK. I was out in the country yesterday, doing picket duty, and fell in with an old gentleman with whom I had a good sensib...

Dark and raining. As the morning progressed, the city was a little startled by the sound of artillery in a northern direction, and not ver...

ASHEBORO, May 30th, 1861.   *           *           *           *           *           *           * We are in the midst of war and rev...

ASHEBORO, May 13th, 1861 . I have just returned from Raleigh. The State regards the impending war as a sectional one and all seemed determin...

ASHEBORO, May 15, 1861 . I have been forced by surrounding facts to take sides, or rather front, with my section. I regard a prudent peace, ...

ASHEBORO, May 22nd, 1861 . This State is now a perfect unit as the North seems to be. No man desired or worked harder than myself to prese...

The proposition of the Senator from Guilford, as I understand it, is to submit it to the vote of the people whether they will have a Conven...

To My Constituents of the Counties of Randolph and Alamance: On the 28th of February next you are called upon, by the question of a a...

Major-Gen. Breckinridge, it is said, is to command in Southwestern Virginia near the Kentucky line, relieving Major-Gen. Sam Jones. Yes...

Troops, a few regiments, have been passing down from Lee's army, and going toward North Carolina. A dispatch, in cipher, from Petersburg...

THE EXPEDITION MOVES. The clink of the windlass is heard on all the boats, hoisting up their anchors, so here we go for a trip up the so...

General good spirits prevail since Northern arrivals show that the House of Representatives at Washington has passed a resolution that 1,000...

Cold and clear. Gen. Longstreet telegraphs to-day from Rutledge, Tenn., some fifty miles northeast of Knoxville, and says he will soon need...

We have met with some disaster in North Carolina. Am apprehensive the army has been a little delinquent. General Butler has telegraphed...