. . . News from the South comes only in brief, but is all one way. Wrath and fiery hatred and malice, privy conspiracy and rebellion, treaso...

Much gasconading from the sunny South, condensed in telegraphic reports fortunately. “Palmetto Flag’’ raised, great speeches, fuss and fury,...

Trinity Church Committee on St. George’s chapel this afternoon. Gouvemeur Ogden tells me Betts wants his salary raised to $1,000 as clerk of...

Miss Puss at tea tonight; afterwards Charley, D’Oremieulx, Dr. Carroll, Jem Dwight, Hoffman, Jem Ruggles, and George Anthon. Political crisi...

No material change in .the complexion of Southern news. Unless writers of telegraph items lie loudly, secession is inevitable. There is unea...

Stocks have fallen heavily today, and I think they will fall much lower before this game is played out. 20 One can buy in yet more profitab...

Tonight I heard Lieber’s lecture at the Law School. Matter good and well arranged; manner bad—dreamy, dozy, and maundering. . . . No mater...

Things in general look bluish-gray. Prophesyings of panic and crisis, and of still worse calamity, are heard in our streets. But people try ...

A most gloomy day in Wall Street. Everything at a deadlock. First-class paper not negotiable; demand for money greater than in October, 1857...

Wall Street was a shade less disconsolate this morning. Stocks rallied at the First Board but began to waver and fall again at the Second. T...

Wall Street has breathed more freely these two days. News this afternoon that all the banks from Charleston to Philadelphia have suspended. ...

Mrs. Carson of South Carolina (daughter of Petigru of Charleston) dined here; conversable, agreeable, and handsome in a mature style. Also M...

Stocks all up today and Wall Street very jolly. But they will go lower yet, and Wall Street will look more blue than it has looked these thi...

The Supreme Court in this district has at last reluctantly concluded that it won’t do to nullify the decision of the Court of Appeals, rever...

Today’s newspapers indicate no new symptom in our sore national sickness. The tide is still rising, I think, in all the Cotton States. React...

Nothing new in Wall Street, except that stocks are all down again. Secession certainly gains favor at the South, and grows more threatening ...

No political news of importance. The progress of events has startled and staggered some of our notables, who were laughing secession to scor...

Thanksgiving Day. No political news today. Congress meets Monday. Mr. Ruggles’s friend. Senator Dixon, 21 is in town on his way to Washingt...

. . . Visited the Great Eastern this afternoon. Visitors seem few. She is an enormity. But the bulk of the ship impresses me less than that ...

Evening at Dr. Gilman’s in Thirteenth Street for a second consultation with our new allies of the College of Physicians and Surgeons about t...