We have enjoyed the holidays better than ever before. All the boys at home, happy, well-behaved, and promising; little Fan a sunbeam; Lucy i...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, January 5, 1870. DEAR SIR:—My attention has been called to the claim of the State of Ohio against the United States for tw...

COLUMBUS, January 6, 1870. MY DEAR SIR:—In reply to your favor of the 4th: I do not regard the organization of the [Ohio] House as an indi...

Confidential. COLUMBUS, OHIO, January 13, 1870. MY DEAR SIR:—I think we can now give the result of the struggle on the Fifteenth Amendment. ...

COLUMBUS, January 15, 1870. MY DEAR SIR: - I congratulate you very heartily on the result of the election in your State. Having some knowl...

COLUMBUS, December 19, 1869. DEAR SIR:—I am exceedingly obliged by your prompt reply to my letter as to prison reform and for the volumes ...

COLUMBUS, December 20, 1869. DEAR GENERAL:—A scoundrel in Wisconsin is trying to blackmail me. He claims that on the morning of Sheridan...

COLUMBUS, December 21, 1869. DEAR GENERAL:—I have your letter of the 20th and am glad to know, what I believed before, that you would stan...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 23, 1869. MY DEAR SIR:—I received your dispatch about the Chase portrait. I think it altogether probable that Mr....

COLUMBUS, December 29, 1869. DEAR SIR:—I am asked to write you in behalf of young Hosea, now in the State Prison of your State. I have no ...

COLUMBUS, December 29, 1869. DEAR SIR:—I thank you for your kind favor of the 17th inst. I will now give you a few of the facts which I ha...

COLUMBUS, December 31, 1869. DEAR LAWRENCE:—You are perfectly right in your view. We must have a genuine retrenchment and economy. The mon...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 2, 1869. DEAR HASTINGS: — I am in receipt of— your note of the 30th ult. It is of course flattering and pleasant ...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 4, 1869. MY DEAR SIR: — Yours of yesterday received. I think there will be small opposition in the committee to k...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, December 6, 1869. DEAR GENERAL: — I am just in receipt of your note of the third with an article from the  Statesman  anne...

COLUMBUS, December 11, 1869. DEAR SIR: — I am today in receipt of your letter of the 8th inst., expressing the opinion that Mr. James Lero...

COLUMBUS, December 11, 1869. DEAR SIR: — I am today in receipt of your letter of the 8th inst., inclosing letters from gentlemen of your a...

The Twenty-third Ohio, Colonel Scammon, will be here to-morrow. Stanley Matthews is the lieutenant-colonel of this regiment, and my old frie...

COLUMBUS, November 23, 1869. MY DEAR SIR:—I am in receipt of your favor of the 20th as to a recommendation for an office in the revenue se...

COLUMBUS, November 23, 1869. DEAR H——:—I have been absent or busy moving these last days or I would have said a word in reply to yours of ...