VILLA MARGARET, 1 July 22, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: . . . We begin to have more numerous calls by visitors to this region, and I become dail...

VILLA MARGARET, August 14, 1860. DEAR ROBERT: The country is undoubtedly in an alarming condition. While I think you are too bitter on Dou...

SHERWOOD FOREST, August 26, 1860. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter of August 21st was forwarded to me from the summer residence of my family, near...

SHERWOOD FOREST, August 27, 1860. DEAR ROBERT: I think it best to enclose you these letters. There are parts of mine you may not be able t...

LANCASTER, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I came up from Cincinnati last evening, whither I had gone to prove the sheets of our reg...

September 27, 1860. I am much obliged to you for the copy of your brother's speech. It is an able production and marks him, as he had ...

ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 10, 1860. . . . We have had a week of cold rains but it has cleared off, and to-day is bright and warm. I am going into t...

LANCASTER, O. (Monday), Aug. 13, 1860. MY DEAR FRIEND: I arrived here yesterday morning, and found my family well. I left Miss Whittington i...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sunday, Aug. 19, 1860. DEAR MR. BOYD: I wrote you from Lancaster. I left there last Wednesday reached here Thursday even...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY OF LEARNING AND MILITARY ACADEMY, Alexandria, Aug. 30, 1860. SIR: . . . Altho' nothing new has transpired here,...

Mr. President, I did not expect to provoke a personal assault on my course in relation to the measure before the Senate by anything which I ...

JAMES EDWARD Rains , [Class of 1854,] son of John Rains, was born in Wilson Co., Tenn., April 10, 1833, and entered college Sophomore year, ...

Lincoln chosen president by immense majorities in almost all the free States. Breckinridge comes next in electoral votes; then Bell, and Do...

Mr. Mayor, Ladies, and Gentlemen: Twenty-four hours ago, at the capital of Indiana. I said to myself I have never seen so many people assem...