Bright and frosty. About one o'clock last night, there was an alarm, supposed to be the approach of the enemy from the West—Sheridan...

A dark, cold, sleety day, with rain. Troopers and scouts from the army have icicles hanging from their hats and caps, and their clothes cove...

Clear and frosty. Among the rumors, it would appear that the Senate in secret session has passed a resolution making Lee generalissimo. It...

Not a very long session of the Cabinet. Some conversation in regard to the Rebel leaders led me to inquire whether it might not be best to p...

I have been absent during most of the month of September in my native State and among the scenes of my childhood and youth. Change is there....

Clear and pleasant; later cloudy. Yesterday, Mr. Peck, our agent, started South to buy provisions for the civil officers of the department...

Clear and hot, but with a fine breeze-southwest. All is quiet around the city. Saturday night the enemy  again  penetrated Gen. Breckinrid...

Bright and pleasant-breezy. This has been a day of excitement. At midnight the Departmental Battalion were marched from the south side of ...

Fog; then sunshine all day, but cool. Troops have been marching through the city all day from the south side. I presume others take their ...

But little at the Cabinet of special importance. Governor Dennison, the new Postmaster-General, for the first time took his seat. Late in ...

The President came to see me pretty early this morning in relation to the exchange of prisoners. It had troubled him through the night. I wa...

FORT PICKENS, FLA., March 13, 1861.  General BRAXTON BRAGG, Comdg. the forces, &c., near Pensacola, Fla.: SIR: Your communication of th...

Gen. Longstreet writes that it will be well to winter in East Tennessee (Rogersville), unless there should be a pressing necessity for him ...

Usher relates to me to-day some damaging stories concerning the Treasury. I cannot but think them exaggerations. I know, from some reliable...

H. C. ———, a mad private, and Northern man, in a Georgia Regiment, writes to the President, proposing to take some 300 to 500 men of resolu...

The enemy is not idle. He knows the importance of following up his recent advantages, and making the utmost use of his veteran troops now i...

A letter from Hon. W. Porcher Miles to the Secretary of War, received the 15th July, urging the government to send some long-range Brooke g...

We have intelligence to-day, derived from a New York paper of the 18th inst., that the “insurrection” in New York had subsided, under the m...

Gen. Lee telegraphs from Culpepper Court House yesterday, that Gen. Rhodes captured Martinsburg, Sunday, 14th inst., taking several guns, o...

From Winchester we have many accounts, in the absence of official reports (Gen. Lee being too busy in the saddle to write), which have exal...