New Orleans , January 29th, 1863. Dear Sir: I have to-day transmitted my bond as Special Agt. and Acting Collector. The sureties are me...

I am more desponding than I care to acknowledge. The army management distresses all of us, but we must not say so. It is no time for fault-...

But little additional intelligence from Rosecrans and the South. We have information of a failure on our part at Sabine Pass, where an att...

We have a dispatch from Texas, of another success of Gen. Magruder at Sabine Pass, wherein he destroyed a large amount of the enemy's s...