Galena , April 19, 1S61. Mr. F. Dent— Dear Sir: I have but very little time to write, but, as in these exciting times we are very...

To-day I had, in our office, a specimen of Mr. Memminger's oratory. He was pleading for an installment of the claims of South Carolina ...

The Convention has appointed five members of Congress to go to Montgomery: Messrs. Hunter, Rives, Brockenborough, Staples, and I have not y...

Met Wm. H. B. Custis, Esq., to-day in the square, and had a long conversation with him. He has made up his mind to sign the ordinance. He t...

The news has been confirmed. It was a brickbat “Plug Ugly” fight — the result of animal, and not intellectual or patriotic instincts. Balti...

Dispatches from Montgomery indicate that President Davis is as firm a States right man as any other, perfectly content to bear the burdens ...

WASHINGTON, February 10. SENATE. – The report of the committee of conference on the bill to raise certain troops in Missouri and Maryland wa...