Fort Hill 4th Augt 1849 MY DEAR SIR, You are right, as to the source, whence Benton draws his support. He has bribed the papers at the sea...

The extremists are angry and violent because the President follows his own convictions, and their operations through the press are prolific ...

Bright and frosty. From the United States papers we learn that a great victory is claimed over Gen. Early, with the capture of forty-three...

Newburg, November 30th, 1859—7.35 P. M. O. Hoblitzell. If press at Baltimore does not fully understand that we are not responsible for eve...

Wrote a letter to Paul S. Forbes in relation to his engine and the trial of the Algonquin. The letter is an answer to one from him, written ...

Baltimore, Nov. 21st, 1859. Hon. Henry A. Wise,           Governor of Virginia,                     Charlestown, Va. The telegraphic agents ...

The date admonishes me of passing time and accumulating years. Our country is still in the great struggle for national unity and national li...

The Senate have since commencement of the session labored over the question of continuing or displacing Hale from the position of Chairman o...

Bright sunshine all day, but cool. Gen. Bragg received a dispatch to day from Gen. Hoke, of Plymouth, N. C., stating that he had (yesterda...

A cold rain all day; wind from northwest. Mr. Ould and Capt. Hatch, agents of exchange (of prisoners), have returned from a conference wit...

The complaints in regard to recruiting are severe and prolonged. They come in numbers. It seems to be taken for granted that we can open a r...

 Bright and pleasant—dusty. But one rain during the winter. The “associated press” publishes an unofficial dispatch, giving almost incredi...

We have no news. But there is a feverish anxiety in the city on the question of subsistence, and there is fear of an outbreak. Congress is i...

The Copperhead press out west bloviated in favor of peace, and, and endorsed the Peace Commissioners and the peace programme of the loafin...

Off St. Augustine 14 March 62 My Dear Sir All these reports are interesting. Do have them published, they encourage the officers mo...

Richmond, [va. ], March 11th, 1840. Dear Hunter : I have frequently during the winter desired to write to you and to receive a letter f...

The calmness and silence of the streets of Washington this lovely morning suggested thoughts of the very different scenes which, in all pro...

In Commemoration of the Abolition of Slavery in the British West India Islands, on the First Anniversary of that event, by the Massachusett...

COLOR-PHOBIA. Our people have got it. They have got it in the blue, collapse stage. Many of them have got it so bad, they can't get...

Alas! that this news should find us still embarrassed, and still diddling with the negro question!   Alas! That we should still have one wa...