Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, U. S. A., has achieved the unenviable distinction of opening civil war between American citizens by an act of gross br...

To-night the telegraph reports the evacuation of Fort Moultrie by the Federal troops by order of the Executive, and the burning of the fort....

London.—I came here yesterday for the levee to-day. I found a letter from Naples from Lady Holland written before the fall of Gaeta, giving ...

PROCLAMATION, BY ANDREW JACKSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1832. Whereas a convention, assembled in the St...

WASHINGTON, April 1, 1850. Mr. Calhoun died this morning. . . . The opinion is that the South will be relieved. He has carried his doctrin...

ASHLAND, June 30, 1851. MY DEAR SIR,—I received your friendly letter of the 23d instant. I have been so much from home during the last eig...

VILLA MARGARET, 1 July 22, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: . . . We begin to have more numerous calls by visitors to this region, and I become dail...

SHERWOOD FOREST, November 10, 1860. So all is over, and Lincoln elected. South Carolina will secede. What other States will do remains to ...

If we are in turmoil on the western side of the Atlantic, they are not much better off on this eastern side. The King of Prussia has just sa...

PROCLAMATION. To the People of South Carolina: In obedience to the orders of the President of these United States of America I have landed ...

BATON ROUGE, LA., Dec. 26, 1860. MY DEAR SHERMAN: The decision you have formed does not surprise me; indeed, I do not see how it could be ...

SEMINARY, Jan. 13, 1861.  . . . I see no change to note here in public sentiment, the fact that Seward has been named as secretary of stat...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 23, 1860. We are having a cold raw day and I avail myself of it to do a good deal of indoor work. I was out for some hour...