WASHINGTON, July 13, 1851. A Virginian told me yesterday that he saw I kept preaching; and, upon my evincing some curiosity to know what h...

WEST NEWTON, Aug. 4, 1851. REV. S. J. MAY, — . . . Webster has debauched the country, not only on the subject of slavery, but of all decen...

WEST NEWTON, Sept. 25, 1851. REV. T. PARKER. MY DEAR SIR, — . . . I wish to find a few of the best authorities, taken from as wide a range a...

WASHINGTON, December, 1851. MY DEAR MR. COMBE, — . . . In this political wrangle, I, who before was, in some respects, very popular, have ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 1851. MY DEAR FRIENDS MR. AND MRS. COMBE, — Politics in this country do not, as they should, mean a science, but a con...

Vicksburg is ours; Johnson defeated and his forces scattered; our work in Mississippi is performed, and we have taken up the line of march f...

Haines Bluff, Miss.   We arrived at our old camp yesterday—twenty days from the time we left it—the toughest twenty days of our experience. ...

Haines Bluff. We did not leave on the 23d, as was rumored, but are still in our old camp, enjoying a short season of repose preparatory to o...

Another letter from my poor, suffering wife. As I think of her sorrows, cares and perplexities, I cannot force back the thought that will un...

Our transports have arrived, and we expect to leave this afternoon for Cairo. Some of our boys are very sick, and urge me to go with them on...

Kossuth errs, all err, who ask any intervention by government. Individuals may do as they please,— stepping to the verge of the law of natio...

Kossuth produces a great impression by personal presence and speech, but confesses that his mission has failed. It has failed under bad coun...

I have one moment for you, and only this. My speech was an honest utterance of my convictions on two important points. I pleaded at the same...

Seward has just come to my desk, and his first words were, “What a magnificent speech Wilson made to Kossuth! I have read nothing for months...

J. D. Meese, of Osseo, Hillsdale County, Mich., has sent, in charge of W. W. Murphy, an unique rustic chair to the Republican Convention. It...

Under the excellent lead of H. E. Sargent, Esq., of the Michigan Central Railroad, a very pleasant excursion party visited Hyde Park from th...

The speeches of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Hon. Owen Lovejoy, Hon Galusha A. Grow, and Mr. Carl Schurz in the German language...

The returned Californians in this city are requested to meet at the office of J. T. Hoyt, No. 43 Clark street at a quarter before nine o’clo...

This Company commenced performances last night at Kingsbury Hall, and all who desire to have a good night’s fun and a hearty laugh had bette...

The returned Californians in this city give a banquet to the California delegation at the Adams house on Friday next. It is expected to be a...