Had a long telegram at midnight from Cairo, respecting Rebel movements in western Kentucky, — at Paducah, Columbus, Fort Pillow, etc. Stra...

Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has made a dash into Fairfax (near Washington) a day or two ago, and captured the Federal Gen. Slaughter and other office...

I arrived in Washington to-day after an absence of a little more than two weeks. On presenting myself to the President this morning . ....

roslyn , August 18th. I wish I could write you a letter as bright and beautiful as this morning, and as full of freshness and life. A l...

Raleigh, Virginia. — The rain last night was merely an April shower. It has cleared off bright and warm. The grass looks fresh and green. I...

Camp James River , July 12, 1862. My dear sister: Everything remains very much as when I last wrote. No reinforcements have arrived s...

Near Gauley Bridge , October 15, 1861. Dear Uncle : — I am practicing law on the circuit, going from camp to camp. Great fun I find it....

Burlington , September 19, 1861. Of course, you are so terribly oppressed with the great affairs of the finance department of this Gove...

OTTAWA, May 19. The Court reversed the judgment in the Wright case, deciding the law requiring the revenue to be collected and paid out...

Breakfasted alone. After breakfast went to Department, putting carelessly in my pocket a roll of papers, consisting, in part, of some sheet...

FOR cheap and good boots, gaiters, and slippers, go to Dow & Co.’s. STEEL spring hoop skirts, the latest patent, are now selling at ...

Secretary Chase has recommended to Congress the issuing of treasury notes under the denomination of five dollars, to the extent of $25,000,...

. . . that mutilated U. S. Treasury Notes are not redeemable at their full value.   A ten dollar note with a corner torn off is only worth ...

TREASURY DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, May 18, 1862 To guard against frauds upon the Government and to secure the just rights of holders, th...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. SENATE. – Mr. Wade presented a joint resolution from the Legislature of Ohio, instructing members of Congress to ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. – The Secretary of War orders that no further contracts be made by his department for any article of foreign manufactu...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. – SENATE. – Mr. TRUMBULL modified the amendment so as to confine the bill to any State or District in which the laws o...

(Special to Burlington Hawk-Eye) DES MOINES, Man, 29, 1862 SENATE. – Mr. McCRARY, of Van Buren, introduced a resolution instructing...

Thomas H. Benton at the commencement of the Mexican war, condensed the method of sound national financiering into a single phrase: “Taxes f...

ST. LOUIS, April 10. – The Republican’s correspondent with Gen. Curtis says: From facts learned in camp, another battle between the Federal...