NEW YORK, January 17, 1858. MY DEAR MR. DICKINSON—Upon taking up this morning's  Herald  I was deeply pained to learn that by being th...

DYKELAND, AMELIA CO., [VA.],  March 11 , 1857. DEAR HUNTER: Supposing that you will be at Washington during this week I address to you the...

The N. York Commercial advertiser of May 23d. contains a very complimentary notice of my letter to the Whig Committee, 62 and extracts the ...

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

BINGHAMTON, December 25, 1856. MY DEAR ROGERS—Myself and family send to you and to Mrs. Rogers the kindly salutations and wishes of the se...

BINGHAMTON, January 24, 1857. MY DEAR SIR—My best acknowledgments are tendered you for numerous favors conveyed with a generous partiality...

NEW YORK, [N. Y.], October 18, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: The glorious results of the elections of the 14th Inst in Pennsylvania, Indiana and even...

LAFAYETTE, INDIANA,  November  10, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: The smoke of the battle has cleared away and we are victorious. I congratulate you a...

NEAR HAMPTON, [VA.],  16th  November, 1856. MY DEAR HUNTER: I have been thinking about this Southern Convention which is to meet at Savann...

( Confidential .) [AMELIA CO., VA.],  November  23 ,  1856. DEAR HUNTER: I was in Richmond yesterday and saw Pryor who has heard from Wash...

I have just recd, a late number of the "Constitution" (the Washington Union, with a new name 35 and a new Editor 36 — the old ha...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 1851. MY DEAR FRIENDS MR. AND MRS. COMBE, — Politics in this country do not, as they should, mean a science, but a con...

BALTIMORE, September 27, 1856. MY DEAR GOVERNOR—You and I are, I am glad to know, this time together politically, as we ever have been soc...

. . . one of our most staunch and reliable republicans, speaking of the tenacity with which a portion of the northern democracy adheres to S...

[WHEELING, VA.?],  May  24th, 1856. DEAR SIR: I have had a somewhat desultory correspondence with my old friend Linn Boyd. 1 He thinks it...

WASHINGTON, [D. C.], June 9th, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I presume you have heard ere this of the action of the Cincinnati Convention and its utt...

[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.] PHILADELPHIA, December 27.—The news of the abandonment of Fort Moultrie and the destruction ...

[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.] WASHINGTON, December 27, 7 P. M.—Secretary FLOYD says positively that he knows nothing offic...

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....

NORFOLK, [VA.], May 11, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I have just returned from a visit to my old (Hampton) county and hope things will end there as ...