To the Governor of the State of Virginia: DEAR SIR, SHERWOOD FOREST, January 31, 1861. I received your communication notifying me of...

BROWN'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter was duly received, and I thank you for the enclosure. We will talk ...

BROWN'S HOTEL, January 28, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: I leave the city to-morrow morning for the brief interval that elapses between this and ...

 WEST POINT, January 12, 1861. MY DEAR SISTER: This is examination-week. My reports have not been quite so good as you may have desired, b...

(Private) New Orleans , January 15th, 1863. Dear Sir : A fight is progressing on Bayou Teche. Gen. Weitzel commands. He crossed Berwi...

Wabash Port Royal St r Nov. 25th 61.   My Dear Mr. Fox I don't think there is much use in writing private above, after your sen...

WASHINGTON, January 29 , 1861 . To JAMES GLYNN, commanding the Macedonian; Capt. W. S. WALKER, commanding the Brooklyn, and other nav...

From intelligence received yesterday evening, it is probable the Alabama, Harriet Lane, and Florida have met off the West Indies, and turne...

NEW YORK, February 23 , 1861 . MY DEAR BLAIR: Mr. Blunt received a telegraph from General Scott a few days since which he thought indi...

I have the honor to state that I could not concur with Captain Rodgers, with whom I was directed to confer, in his plan for the entrance of...

On dropping in at the Consulate to-day, I found the skippers of several English vessels who are anxious to clear out, lest they be detained...

Franklin Row , January 22, 1861. my Dear Mr. President : A slight attack of rheumatism will prevent me from leaving my room to-day, and...

department Of State , January 16, 1861. lieutenant-general Winfield Scott: Dear General: The habitual frankness of your character, ...

Last night about one o'clock I was wakened and told that mother and Miriam had come. Oh, how glad I was! I tumbled out of bed half asle...

War Department, January 10, 1861. Major Robert Anderson, First Artillery, Commanding at Fort Sumter, S. C.: sir : Your dispatches...

Washington , 9th January, 1861. Sir : I have received and accepted your resignation on yesterday of the office of Secretary of the Inte...

BEFORE CORINTH, May 18. The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph condemns in severe language the conduct of the rebel troops at Bridgeport, “by which...

The following graphic account, and the only one we have seen of the taking of the city of New Orleans, was transmitted by telegraph on Mond...

NEW YORK, March 24. – A Key West letter of the 11th says that while the captured steamer Magnolia was being chased by the Brooklyn the steam...

ARRIVAL OF THE KANGAROO NEW YORK, Feb. 19. – The Kangaroo has arrived with dates to the 6 th . The Nashville was last seen on the 3d, aste...