WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1852. MY DEAR SIR,—I see the Whigs are to meet in Frankfort on the 24th of this month to select delegates to the natio...

Bright and beautiful, and pleasantly frosty. Gen. Sherman is advancing as usual in such dubiety as to distract Gen. Hardee, who knows not wh...

SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AUGUST 8, 1850, ON PRESIDENT FILLMORE'S MESSAGE CONCERNING THE TEXAN BOUNDARY. MR. BROWN said:...

SEPT. 10. This is Tuesday, my black-chalk day; for, on this day, I get no letter from home. The House is now discussing the question, whet...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 1850. S. DOWNER, Esq. MY DEAR SIR,—Is it true that you say, or that you have been informed, that I have written any ...

Boston, November 5, 1850, MY DEAR SIR—I left New Hampshire yesterday, having be come free of disease, and well, except so far as this prot...

(PRIVATE.) Boston, November 13, 1850. DEAR SIR,—I took leave of Marshfield yesterday, not with out regret. The trees were leafless, but th...

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, October 22, 1851. The undersigned, acting Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to remin...

I stay at home this morning to write to you. I long to be at home; but the time of our departure cannot be seen by any political astronomer....

Tuesday morning, seven o'clock, September 27, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—There is no chance of doing any thing for the tariff, this session, f...

Marshfield, October 14, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—Leaving Washington Friday, the 4th, I came that day to Philadelphia, and the next to New York, ...

BUENA VISTA, DELAWARE, October 8, 1851. MY DEAR CRITTENDEN,—Square yourself, for I have a favor to ask of you for one of my friends. Don&#...

BUENA VISTA, DELAWARE, October 27, 1851. MY DEAR CRITTENDEN,—I see our friend Conrad has ordered my nephew, James C. Douglass, to the Port...

JULY 29, 1850. We have just heard that Mr. Winthrop has been appointed senator to fill the place made vacant by Mr. Webster. Under the cir...

AUG. 7, 1850. The President's message, yesterday, on the subject of the Texan boundary, gives general satisfaction. The extreme Southe...

Aug. 15. The House is engaged in an earnest debate on the subject of the President's message about Texas; the North generally defending ...

Washington, August 10, 1850. MY DEAR SIR,—So many things have occupied my attention of late, that I have neglected those I love most, and ...

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, May 3, 1851. Hon. J. J. CRITTENDEN. DEAR SIR,—I regret very much to perceive by your letter of the 21st ultimo that ...

July 12. To-day the city is dressed in mourning. No one as yet seems to know what will be the policy of the new President, whether it will b...

July 21. Four of the seven members who compose the cabinet are from the slaveholding States: so, if we consider Mr. Webster a proslavery man...