Col. Forney is particularly down on the New England delegations at Charleston. The following is from his “Occasional” correspondence: “Of ...

The New York Herald wickedly insinuates that the reason why the Charleston convention adjourned so soon was because the delegates had not mo...

The Jackson (Ill.) Journal says the severe frost of Thursday night has destroyed the prospect of the fruit in the vicinity. The farmers say ...

. . . held at New Orleans last week, to endorse the action of those who stayed in the Douglasite convention, and denounce the seceders, is d...

This gentleman has returned from Charleston in a very bad odor. The Boston Herald, a democratic organ, asks, “who had the baseness to vote f...

The Philadelphia Press, with other Douglas papers, objects to any movement for calling back the seceders [ sic ] from the Charleston Convent...

MOBILE, Ala., May 14.—Thirty-five leading and prominent gentlemen of Mobile sign a call for a state Convention, to meet at Selina on the 4th...

The Cincinnati Commercial calls attention to the fact that in all the balloting at Charleston, Mr. Douglas received but 11 1-2 votes from t...

The stupid absurdity of the professed Union savers, who met at Baltimore the other day to nominate a candidate for President, and another fo...

SHERWOOD FOREST, January 19, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: To-day the General Assembly give a complimentary dinner to Gov. Wise, and I have been i...

SHERWOOD FOREST, May 30, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: I owe you many thanks for your kind recollection of me at all times, and more especially of la...

WASHINGTON, 13th June, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: Do you wish me to place the letter of Captain Maddox to yourself on file? Also that of Mr. Ivers...

VILLA MARGARET, 1 July 22, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: . . . We begin to have more numerous calls by visitors to this region, and I become dail...

VILLA MARGARET, August 14, 1860. DEAR ROBERT: The country is undoubtedly in an alarming condition. While I think you are too bitter on Dou...

Slight rain in the morning. There is an ugly rumor on the streets to-day—disaster to Gen. Hood, and the fall of Atlanta. I cannot trace it...

WASHINGTON, April 19, 1860 . . . I don't remember what I said in my postscript, which seems to have affected you so much, but in all y...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY OF LEARNING AND MILITARY ACADEMY, Alexandria, Aug. 30, 1860. SIR: . . . Altho' nothing new has transpired here,...

. . . Though Lincoln's opinions on slavery are as radical as those of Seward, yet southern men, if they see a chance of his success, wil...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY of Learning and Military Academy,           Alexandria, May 11, 1860. DEAR TOM: I have received one or two Leavenwo...

The New York World , in commenting on the Niagra correspondence, closes an article as follows: We are convinced that there is no sinceri...