It is supposed our loss in the surprise on Saturday did not exceed 1500, killed, wounded, and taken. It is thought that a battle will occur...

No accounts of any fighting, but plenty of battles looked for. A. A. Little writes to the Secretary of War from Fredericksburg, that the...

Gov. Vance writes that he has reliable information that the 30,000 troops in New York, ostensibly to enforce the draft, are intended for a ...

Arrived at Wilmington at 5 A.M., and crossed the river there in a steamer. This river was quite full of blockade-runners. I counted eight l...

Augusta is a city of 20,000 inhabitants; but its streets being extremely wide, and its houses low, it covers a vast space. No place that I ...

BEFORE CORINTH, May 18. The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph condemns in severe language the conduct of the rebel troops at Bridgeport, “by which...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 4th. Hon. E. M. Stanton;– Your dispatch is received.   A soldier’s highest reward for service is to merit and re...

. . . salt mad by solar evaporation, samples scraped from the surface, and a quantity of salt water, from the Great Salt Springs of Nebraska...

NEW YORK, Feb. 15. The Asia from Liverpool, on the first, via Queenstown on the second inst.; has arrived.   Her dates are one day later. ...

HUNTSVILLE, ALA., May 4. Hon E. M. Stanton – Your dispatch is received.   A soldiers highest reward for his service is to merit and receiv...

NEW YORK, April 24. The schooner Evelina, from Nassau, N.P., arrived to-night, bringing passengers from the steamship Karnack, lost in the N...

WASHINGTON, April 23. – The King Phillip has arrived at the Navy Yard this morning, and reports the Vicksburg as having cautiously passed th...

At the request of the authorities here, we very cheerfully give place to the article in today’s issue , in relation to the production of sal...

The process of making Saltpetre from the earth of the lime-stone caves in the Southern Confederacy is so simple that any one residing in the...