The King of Prussia 1 died yesterday at Sans-Souci. The American Secession question now occupies public attention more than any other sub...

In a letter I received a few days ago from Fanny Kemble from New York, she says: I suppose if I had been in Boston, I should have heard some...

The following sweet morsel of her fierce defiance and blustering braggadocio appears in the Philadelphia Transcript , under the head of “Cru...

Bright, windy, cold, and disagreeable. There was nothing new at the department this morning. Nothing from below; nothing from South Caroli...

SHERWOOD FOREST, Jan. 1, 1861. MY DEAR COLONEL: I am deeply concerned at the condition of public affairs. No ray of light yet appears to d...

BROWN'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 1861. MY DEAR SIR: Your letter was duly received, and I thank you for the enclosure. We will talk ...

VILLA MARGARET, 1 July 22, 1860. MY DEAR ROBERT: . . . We begin to have more numerous calls by visitors to this region, and I become dail...

Frederick William, whom I saw at the wedding of his son and the Princess Royal, after acting as Regent since November, 1858, has mounted the...

February 1, 1861. . . . It is war to surround Anderson with batteries, and it is shilly-shally for the South to cry “Hands off! No coercio...

[December 23, 1860.] Dear Friend: Yours of 20th is at hand. I will see the persons you have named and be ready to report as soon as ...

Already, as if quite certain that the great Northwest would speedily withdraw from the Eastern United States, our people are discussing the...

I have been a greatly distressed observer of this movement, though I have made little note of it. The cotton States have passed “ordinances...

A wintry morning — snow two or three inches deep, ground frozen; the ninth day since this equinoctial set in. P. M. The sun came out bright...

The affair has excited profound sensation, and, let me add, profound consternation at the South. The secrecy with which the plot was brough...

The enemy are making preparations to assail us everywhere. Roanoke Island, Norfolk, Beaufort, and Newbern; Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Pe...

Thursday. Damn Yankee : I lose with you all the cold blood in my veins and all patience. Why misuse, desecrate, the holiest words and c...

Naushon, August 21,1861. My Dear Doctor , — I have yours of the 19th . I confess to being one of that average class which constitutes t...

Mrs. Gidiere came in quietly from her marketing to-day, and in her neat, incisive manner exploded this bombshell: “Major Anderson 2 has mo...

Executive Chamber, Harrisburg. April 30, 1861. Gentlemen: — THE PRESENT UNPARALLELED EXIGENCY in the affairs of our country, has in...