From early morning (or at least from the earliest hour of which I am personally-cognizant) the town was all agog about the Japanese ambassad...

Attended the British Consul this morning, closing a commission to take testimony for the Court of Sessions. 12 Talked with him about the pr...

This evening with Mr. Ruggles to Dr. Gilman’s, Thirteenth Street, to meet sundry of the professors of our Medical College and consider wheth...

Mr. Ruggles came in this evening and reports that the rump of the Convention has nominated Douglas. Afterwards came Walter Cutting, very kin...

“The day was ushered in," as the newspapers say, with the usual racket, which has not yet abated. I lounged downtown after breakfast, a...

. . . Stopped at Law School on my way down, with Mr. Ruggles, and conferred a little with the graduating class. The young men have expressed...

. . . Universal sympathy for poor Fowler, except from a very few Buchananizing Democrats. Isaiah Rynders has not yet succeeded in arresting ...

Chicago Convention is in full boil and bubble. Strong opposition to Seward, but he will be nominated at last. That wily old Thurlow Weed, th...

Thy Nose, O W. H. Seward, is out of joint! The Chicago Convention nominates Lincoln and Hamlin. They will be beat, unless the South perpetra...

The park below the reservoir begins to look intelligible. Unfinished still, and in process of manufacture, but shewing the outline now of wh...

Invited to be a vice-president of a great Republican ratification meeting tomorrow night. Declined on the plea of “engagements,” but the tru...

Seward’s special friends grumble at Lincoln’s nomination, but seem disposed to support it in good faith. It looks to me as if Honest Abe wer...

Stopped at Barnum’s on my way downtown to see the much advertised nondescript, the "What-is-it.” 1 Some say it’s an advanced chimpanze...

George Anthon called in Wall Street, and before going uptown, we stopped at Barnum’s. The "What-is-it?” is palpably a little nigger and...

. . . Church this morning. Higby preached. Not up to his average. Mr. Derby and Hoffman sat with us. Talked to Professor Lieber who came hom...

. . . Looking further into Darwin’s Origin of Species this evening. Though people who don’t like its conclusions generally speak of it as pr...

To Trinity Church vestry meeting tonight. As I railroaded homeward at ten, there was much people in and around the Tribune office, waiting, ...

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...