Reached the "City of the Falls" in the night. Left the boat about six this morning, took a hasty breakfast at the “National,” then...

Our Captain, Robert C. Stanard, died to-day at Camp Deep Creek, of disease contracted in the army. He was a man of warm impulses and generou...

Washington, February 14, 1851. DEAR SIR,—I wish it were in my power to find time to write or speak of your father, and gather up the recol...

MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together. Gentlemen who have preceded me have well s...

WHEN arrested in the progress of my remarks yesterday, I was about to say that I approved of the main object of the bill reported by the Com...

Offered in a large mass meeting of the people of Botetourt county, December 10th, 1860, by the Hon. John J. Allen, President of the Supreme ...

The Arabia brings the news that Secretary Cobb has resigned. He goes then to join the Disunionists, who, in Georgia, object to joint, but ar...

General Thomas Benton Smith, who was the youngest general in the Confederate army and enjoys the further distinction of being the only on...

Alas! that this news should find us still embarrassed, and still diddling with the negro question!   Alas! That we should still have one wa...