Clear and cold. No further news from the iron-clad fleet that went down the river. Beef is selling at $8 per pound this morning; wood at...

Clear and pleasant; subsequently cloudy and chilly. All quiet below, save the occasional booming of our guns from the iron-clads. The ca...

Bright and cold; ice on the porch. All quiet below, save the booming of bombs every night from our iron-clads, thrown at the workmen in the ...

Rained all night, and still rains. All quiet below, save the occasional bomb thrown by our iron-clads. Gen. and Hon. R. K. Wright, of Geor...

Cold rain; rained all night. Gen. Lee, urging that his regiments from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, etc. etc. be recruited from ...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA,           October 24, 1864. Capt. J. K. MITCHELL,           Flag Officer, Commanding James River Squ...

 The Stonewall has gone to Havana. Seward promises to have Tassara posted. Is confident the Spaniards will exclude her from their ports; but...

Clear and warmer. Gen. Beauregard has not been removed from his command,—it would be too great a shock to popular sentiment. The iron-cl...

Sunshine and showers. Custis is back again, the battalion of clerks being relieved, after three weeks' service in the field. Yesterd...

Sunshine and showers. Senator Henry's letter was referred to Gen. Bragg, who returned it to-day with the indorsement that the suggeste...

Clouds and sunshine; cooler. Nothing additional from the West. Several thousand Georgia mounted troops have arrived during the last 24 hou...

Thunder, lightning, and rain all day. The report of Gen. Lee's victory was premature, and Butler has not gone, nor the raiders vanishe...

Bright and hot. The tocsin sounded again this morning. I learned upon inquiry that it was merely for the militia again (they were dismisse...

The tidings this evening from Mobile, derived from the Rebels, are satisfactory. It is stated that the Tecumseh was sunk by Fort Morgan'...

Cool, bright, but windy and dusty. Dispatches announce heavy skirmishing in the vicinity of Dalton —and Gen. Johnston's army was in li...

The Senate bill to give increased compensation to the civil officers of the government in Richmond was tabled in the House yesterday, on the...

CITY POINT, VA , September 12 , 1864 .   Maj. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, Commanding Military Division of the Mississippi: I send Lieutena...

Gen. Longstreet writes that it will be well to winter in East Tennessee (Rogersville), unless there should be a pressing necessity for him ...

Bright, pleasant day. I saw a letter from Gen. Elzey to-day, stating that his command will probably soon be called out from the city on imp...

CAIRO, January 28 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. HENRY W. HALLECK, Saint Louis, Mo.: Commanding General Grant and myself are of opinion that ...