VILLA MARGARET, Sept. 14, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: I see the election is gone in Maine, although Douglas confidently calculated on carrying t...

Rear-Admiral Porter spent the evening at my house. Among other things he detailed what he saw and knew of Jeff Davis and others in the early...

Concord , September 13, 1860. My Dear Amos , — Considering, as you say, the state of the weather, the news from Maine, and the prospec...

Hab[ersham] Co[unty, Ga.] , Feb. 25,1845. Dear Sir : I wrote you a few days ago that the Texas question, as decided now, would stand de...

WAR DEPARTMENT,           Washington City, August 11 , 1864 . His Excellency SAMUEL CONY, Governor of Maine, Augusta, Me.: SIR: Y...

The President said this morning, with a countenance indicating sadness and despondency, that Meade still lingered at Gettysburg, when he sh...

July 31, 1862. Our recruiting goes on very well, except in Boston where it has been badly botched, and drags terribly. I suppose we non...

Burlington, Iowa , December 16, 1860. James Pike : I am fructified in spirit to see “J. S. P.” again at the foot of a Washington letter...

New York , May 25, 1860. Pike, My Friend : Do you see how the heathen rage? How the whole weight of their wrath is poured out on my hea...

New York , May 21, 1861. Pike : Your Maine delegation was a poor affair; I thought you had been at work preparing it for the great stru...

State Kansas Aid Committee Rooms, Boston , Dec. 20, 1856. Dear Sir , — Your letter of the 16th has been received, and we are glad to ...

Burlington, Iowa , February 2, 1860. Particular Pike : The ills of a congested liver, brought on by attempting to decipher a letter of ...

Washington , January 31, 1860. My Dear Pike : I am rejoiced to hear you talk so sensibly. I am for Pitt, and hope our State will be for...

Tabor, Fremont County, Iowa , Aug. 27, 1856. Dear Mother , — The last news we had from Kansas, father was at Lawrence, and had charge o...

BANGOR, Me., May 3. A powder mill explosion occurred at Gatam yesterday.   Eight buildings exploded successively.   Two hundred barrels ...

. . . for many previous winters, thousands of axes have almost incessantly sounded, are almost silent this season.   The sturdy lumbermen a...

A correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing from Bethel, Main, on the 28th of February, says: “The snow in many places is higher th...

None of the English journals that we have seen, and our files are pretty extensive, say anything of the kindness shown to the British troops...

. . . to an alarming extent in the State of Maine.   In the town of Patten, one in eleven of the entire population have died from it, while...