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

J. D. Meese, of Osseo, Hillsdale County, Mich., has sent, in charge of W. W. Murphy, an unique rustic chair to the Republican Convention. It...

Editors Press & Tribune: A portion of the Nebraska delegation to the Chicago Convention arrived here this evening. They were much surp...

Opera tonight with Ellie and Mrs. Georgey Peters and her papa; Der Freischutz in an Italian version. The Germanism of that opera is so inten...

St. Louis, Feb. 24, 1859. To Messrs. J. PHILIPS PHOENIX, WILLIS BLACKSTONE, H. M. BININGER, DAVID J. LILET AND H. R. SMITH, Committee, New...

The subject of admitting Colorado was to-day before the Cabinet. The bill has passed both houses after having been once rejected. Congress i...

PLATTE CITY, [Mo.], March 4, 1855. DEAR HUNTER: The Elections in Kansas came off on the 30th ult, the pro slavery ticket prevailed every w...

BROWNSVILLE, [PA.], June 2, 1855. DEAR SIR: I have just received your favour of the 26th ult. Tomorrow morning I leave for Detroit to meet...

First at the Botanic Garden, second at Northumberland House, and third at the Prime Minister's. Got myself presented to Pélissier, who i...

New Haven, Connecticut, Nov. 28. Dear Sir: Permit a friend of liberty and equitable law to address you a few brief thoughts, which I hope ...

February 25, 1863. This afternoon our regiment was reviewed by Gen. Saxton in the presence of Gen. Hunter. The staff and body guards of th...

An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States o...