The New York Courier has the following dispatch: “WASHINGTON, THURSDAY NIGHT. Mr. Brooks, by Mr. Lane of Oregon, sent today a note to Ge...

“Wilson has fizzled out, contrary to the expectations of his friends.” So writes the Herald correspondent at Washington, in respect to the n...

WASHINGTON, May 26.—It is reported that Hon. Preston S. Brooks of S. C., has challenged Gen. Webb of the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, in cons...

. . . is a theme of fruitful and indignant comment in the abolition papers of the North. The Bostonians are quite as furious as their forefa...

Clarksville [ga.,] 21st Feb. 1846. Dear Sir : I have just returned from a trip to Texas and if my voice could reach Washington and my ...

I was compelled to send my excuses to Governor Pettus, and remained quietly within the house of my host, entreating him to protect me from ...

New York , Monday, April 16. Dear Yankee : Congratulate Mr. Potter for me from the bottom of my heart. What is the talk about code ...

Another date in Hal's short history! I see myself walking home with Mr. McGimsey just after sundown, meeting Miriam and Dr. Woods at th...

Dined with the Southern Commissioners and a small party at Gautier's, a French restaurateur in Pennsylvania Avenue. The gentlemen prese...

Wednesday – I have been mobbed by my own house servants. Some of them are at the plantation, some hired out at the Camden hotel, some are a...

CHARLESTON, S. C. — I have just come from Mulberry, where the snow was a foot deep — winter at last after months of apparently May or June...

Dined to-day with Mr. Hill 1 from Georgia, and his wife. After he left us she told me he was the celebrated individual who, for Christian ...