There is a dispatch, unofficial, from the West, contradicting the news of the defeat of Van Dorn. On the Cumberland River, another dispatch...

U. S. Sanitary Commission, Washington, D. C. , December 16, 1861. My Dear Sir , — I have just received your favor of the 12th, and am...

WASHINGTON, April 18. Tribune’s Special. It is said on the authority of intercepted letters from Richmond, that several editors of rebel new...