An ugly year ended in backing before England, having, at least, relative right on our side. Further, the ending year has revealed a certain ...

The Presidential votes were counted in Congress today without any disturbance which had been heretofore anticipated, but Gen l  Scott had al...

Another Spring day rather too warm in the sun. I took the shady side in coming from the office. One Hundred Guns were fired at noon on accou...

NEW YORK, March 28, 1856. MY DEAR CRITTENDEN,—More than a month ago I gave Major Crittenden a six months' leave of absence. Observing ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 1852. REV. THEO. PARKER. MY DEAR SIR, — I hope you did not think the two queries which I put to Mrs. Mann imposed any...

JULY 16. Miss Beecher prays, if I want any more comfort in this life, that I will not try to build up a college at the West, and says Mr. ...

JULY 27. . . . I should like to see Rev. Theodore Parker move a table without touching it, directly or indirectly. Suppose what we call el...

WASHINGTON, July 27, 1852. MY DEAR DOWNER, — What is said about the Pittsburg Convention? From what I see and hear, I apprehend the curren...

Fort Hill 17th April 1847 MY DEAR SIR, The mistake, which I think you and the most of my friends make in reference to myself is, that you ...

Find myself on a committee headed by General Scott and William B. Astor to get up a “banquet” for Lord Renfrew, alias the Prince of Wales, w...

Diligent day. Having been put on the reception committee for the Prince of Wales’s ball, I attended a meeting thereof. There were Hamilton F...

Mr. Ruggles had a long private talk yesterday with General Scott, some portion whereof he imparted to me, including matters I don’t care to ...

MCCLELLAN is now all-powerful, and refuses to divide the army into corps. Thus much for his brains and for his consistency. The message — ...

The weather has been moderate today M[ercury]. 44 — Streets muddy, and the crossings bad. Statements that troops have been sent to reinforce...

WASHINGTON, June 24, 1852. When the Whig Convention nominated Scott, they killed off those who had been most clamorous for slavery, and th...

WASHINGTON, July 1, 1852. MY DEAR MR. COMBE, — . . . My friend Henry Barnard, Esq., who for many years was Secretary of the Board of Educa...

Fort Hill 15th June 1847 MY DEAR SIR, Your views in reference to our political condition and affairs is so good, that I have little to add...

Fort Hill 13th Augt. 1847 MY DEAR ANNA.   I am not at all surprised, that the victories our arms have achieved in Mexico should make so de...

Reports of the Battles of Monterey and Buena Vista. (From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.) Brierfield 3d Oct. 1847 G...

WASHINGTON, May 8, 1852. MY DEAR MR. COMBE,— We are on the verge of a Presidential election. Our political caldron is beginning to seethe ve...