AUGUSTA, December 12, 1864. Col. JOHN B. SALE: The telegraph having been cut we get nothing from Savannah. A dispatch from Wheeler gives ...

Cloudy and cold, but wind southeast. The sullen sound of cannon heard this morning as usual down the river. I hear of no active operations...

Baltimore, November 29, 1859. To Hon. Henry A. Wise. To ensure satisfactory and reliable arrangements, I visited Harper's Ferry to-d...

MOBILE, August 11, 1864. Hon. J. A. SEDDON,     Secretary of War: Raid preparing at Pensacola Navy-Yard; quiet elsewhere. Nothing late from...

Hot and clear; but it rained yesterday three-quarters of an hour in the afternoon. Our loss in the affair at Petersburg is about 800, the ...

Clear and pleasant weather, but dusty. The Departmental Battalion marched away, last night, from the Chickahominy (guarding a ford when no...

A dispatch from Gen. Lee says the enemy is moving down toward Fredericksburg, and yesterday the advance of our army encountered his right wi...

From Martinsburg via Wheeling. October 17th, 1859. W. P. Smith , Baltimore: A body of armed men have taken possession of the Armory at Harp...

Frederick, Oct. 17. To the Baltimore Newspaper Press: Information has been received here this morning of a formidable negro insurrection at ...

Monocacy, 7.05 A. M., October 17, 1859.           (Rec'd Balto. 7.55 A. M.) W. P. Smith,           Baltimore. Express train bound east, ...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, January 30 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Cairo, Ill.: SIR: You ...

HARPER’S FERRY, Oct. 18, 1859. HENRY A. WISE, Governor of Virginia: SIR — Your order, per telegraph, dated Richmond, Va., the 17th in...

7:30 A. M. — Colonel Comly started from Coal's Mouth down [the] river at daylight. 8:30 A. M. — Dispatch from Colonel Comly at R...

Lagrange, Tenn., June 19, 1863. The general and Sam went to Memphis yesterday to visit General Hurlbut, and the major and I have charge...

NEW YORK, July 13 , 1863 .   (Received 12 . 10 p.m.) SIR: What is represented as a serious riot is now taking place on Third avenu...

The newspapers have a dispatch, to-day, from Jackson, Miss., which says the enemy have fallen back from the position lately occupied by the...

We have no further news from the army, except the usual skirmishing. A number of our wounded arrived last evening. An officer reports that...

We have had gratifying intelligence from the Southwest for several days past, particularly in the vicinity of Vicksburg. It is pretty certa...

Relieved Eighteenth Indiana, went home on the Iberville. Lieutenant Kerney and myself crossed the river early in the morning. Found Captain...

A dispatch from Gen. G. W. Smith, last night, says we have repulsed the enemy from Kinston, N. C., but a dispatch this morning says a caval...