No political news of importance. The progress of events has startled and staggered some of our notables, who were laughing secession to scor...

A bright day, pleasantly cool — On going in to the office [I] found on my desk, the card of Wm. G Bates 48 of Massts. — He called to see me...

Foggy and misty day with water driping from roofs all the time. A Salute of 34 guns was fired today at noon at the Armory on account of the ...

Dined at New York Club with Charles E. Strong and Henry Fearing. Thereafter we inspected the grand procession of the “Wide-Awakes,” a new no...

Tomorrow we shall hear of today’s state election in Pennsylvania. Its result, if favorable to the Republicans, will be decisive, and one may...

Play-going with Ellie tonight at the Winter Garden; Guy Mannering. A dramatic distortion of the novel. Miss Charlotte Cushman was the Meg Me...

Am just from Der Freischiitz with Ellie and Mrs. Georgey Peters. The lovely phrases of the finale are not quite out of my ears yet. Formes w...

A memorable day. We do not know yet for what. Perhaps for the disintegration of the country, perhaps for another proof that the North is tim...

Lincoln elected. Hooray. Everybody seems glad of it. Even Democrats like Isaac Bell say there will be no disturbance, and that this will qui...

There are indications today that the Republicans are “coming down” from the Chicago Platform and that something like the Crittenden proposit...

Very warm summer day-Breakfasted at Dr Browns with Mrs Brown alone, he being in the Country     The letter of Hon Edw Bates to me declaring ...

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

Invited to be a vice-president of a great Republican ratification meeting tomorrow night. Declined on the plea of “engagements,” but the tru...

The President sent me a note this A.M. to call upon him this evening at eight. Although under the doctor's care and ordered to remain pe...

CHESTERTOWN, [MD.],  October  17, 1856. MY DEAR SIR: I fear that I shall not be successful in the money affair. There is a shyness about a...

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...

Among the most welcome of those who have come among us, drawn by the present political Convention, we are gratified to see and recognize the...

. . . though the House by republicans, is hailed with great enthusiasm in the iron districts of Pennsylvania. Meetings were held and salutes...

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

 . . . will do more for the restoration of confidence in a financial point of view and revival of business and trade than any thing else can...