ROME, December 24, 1839. What a stormy time you are having in America! Your cradle was rocked in the Revolution, and now in your old age y...

To-night the telegraph reports the evacuation of Fort Moultrie by the Federal troops by order of the Executive, and the burning of the fort....

Walked uptown with George Anthon, who entertained me with the biography of his runaway cousin. Miss "Unadilla” Elmendorf, and incidents...

The martyrdom of John Brown was most worthily celebrated at Concord, Massachusetts. The town which inaugurated the first American "Insu...

Eaglewood, Perth Amboy, New York, Nov. 13. My Dear and Beloved Husband: I am here with Mrs. Spring, the kind lady who came to see you, and...

NEAR PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29. My dear Husband: I have just received your letter to Mr. M., saying that you would like to have me stay here u...

North Elba, November 9. Father, you said that you were cheerful. I am glad of that. But why should you be otherwise? All you were guilty o...

Dear Father: I deeply sympathize with you; and were it in my power to help or comfort you, how gladly would I do it! But that cannot be; and...

JEFFERSON, ASHTABULA Co., OHIO,} Thursday, Nov. 28, 1859.} My dear, dear Father: I have just learned that there is probably a way through ...

Rawsonville, Nov. 23. My dear Brother John: If I have not been first to come forward to express my sympathy for you, in this your hour of ...

HUDSON, Ohio, Nov. 28. Dear Uncle John: Through the politeness of Mr. Lewis, from Akron, we take this opportunity to send you our love and...