FALL OF FORT SUMTER. The ball has opened; crowds of eager citizens may be seen gathered together at the corners of the streets excitedly d...

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...

Letters and newspapers, both in abundance, from home are gloomier than ever. We may yet pass through a convulsion only less frightful than t...

Sunday, 1853. My Dear Parker : — I have been in to hear you, but did not like what you were saying well enough to stay more than a quar...

Washington , May 16, 1854. My Dear Pierce : I enclose to you a brief which has no merit except simplicity and directness. Many than...

Some persons in this beleaguered city seem crazed on the subject of gayety. In the midst of the wounded and dying, the low state of the com...

Is the sea drying up? Is it going up into mist and coming down on us in a water-spout? The rain, it raineth every day. The weather typifie...

The streets of Charleston present some such aspect as those of Paris in the last revolution. Crowds of armed men singing and promenading th...