After an apology for a dinner, I went to [Arnold] Guyot’s lecture at the Law School. Well attended and very hot; lecture original and intere...

No news of any action by the Democratic Charleston Convention. Douglas, the little giant, said to be losing ground. SOURCE: Allan Nevins a...

No Democratic nominee from Charleston, yet. Two to one on Douglas, I say. SOURCE: Allan Nevins and Milton Halset Thomas, Editors,  Diary o...

Little or nothing to record. Fine Day. Rumor this afternoon of schism in the Charleston Convention, certain Southern delegations of pyrophag...

Everybody talks of the great Heenan and Sayers prize fight in England—the “international” fight—and of the American champion’s unfair treatm...

Some eight Southern delegations have seceded from the Charleston Convention. It refused to make a slave code for the territories an article ...

. . . The Democratic Convention has dissolved and dispersed without nominating anybody. It is to assemble again at Baltimore in June. SOUR...

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...