which the surgeon pronounced him utterly unable to be removed on board the vessel. His party have left him and gone on. Commodore Goldsborough has ordered him to report himself at Washington unfit for duty, on his recovery, which I learn he intends to do.

He is having every attention which friends can give him. Dr. Harris of New York, Dr. Payne of Virginia, and Dr. Van Dyke of New York are attending upon him. I think he is rapidly recovering, and the physicians say that in a short time. he will be about.

Dr. Harris will write you before the closing of the mails. His physicians think he had better return to the States.

The mail closes on the 18th. I keep back this letter to the very latest moment, in order to give you his condition.

Yours truly,

E. B. STEPHENS.

March 16th. He is doing very well, and without doubt will soon recover. He is at the house of a Spanish gentleman in Panama, and has abundant means.

Hon. D. S. DICKINSON, U. S. S.

E. B. S.

MANCO C. DICKINSON TO MR. DICKINSON.

PANAMA, April 7, 1849.

MY DEAR FATHER-I suppose before this time you are pleasantly situated at home, our old sweet home, and most earnestly do I wish myself there also. I am much better to-day, and if I continue to improve shall soon be able to start on my homeward journey. E. B. S. still remains with me and has proved himself a good friend. Dr. Payne is one of the best men in the world; and if you knew how attentive he has been to me through my severe illness, and how much kindness he has shown me, you would not fail to express your appreciation of it in the strongest terms. He is a great friend to you. It is now uncertain how, or when, or which way I shall go home, and you need make no calculations on what I have before written. I feel the want of the care of mother and sisters now more than

I ever did before in my life. I feel much anxiety for Charlotte and the young D. S. D.—and hope they are well.

The Consul and many of your friends come to see me often. E. wrote you rather a discouraging letter the other day, but that was a mere temporary matter, and I think I shall soon be about. Colonel Weller of Ohio is here with his party, and they are very kind to me.

Give much love to all, and tell Mary I have some pearls for her. I hope to leave Chagres for New York or New Orleans on the 30th by the steamer Crescent City.

Your affectionate son,

MANCO C. DICKINSON.

MR. DICKINSON TO MRS. DICKINSON.

WASHINGTON, May 13, 1849.

MY DEAR L.-I have just seen a list of the Crescent City's passengers who arrived in New York yesterday, and among them the name of "Dickinson;" also a list of the names of those who had died at Panama since the last steamer, in which there is no such name; and I hope that Manco must have arrived in New York. If so he will probably reach you Monday evening.

I have been very busy, and have not been out to see any one yet. There is nothing new. I still hope to get away on Tuesday, but may not until next day. Love to all.

Affectionately,

D. S. DICKINSON.

MR. DICKINSON TO MRS. DICKINSON.

IRVING HOTEL, WASHINGTON, June 8, 1849.

MY DEAR LYDIA-I arrived here yesterday quite well. The Attorney-General will be out of town until Saturday, and I expect to be detained until the beginning of the week, when I hope to get away.

I had about as many calls upon me on my way here as the

"good-natured man" in "Charcoal Sketches," upon whom everybody called.

Before we left Binghamton, Mr. care, as far as Baltimore, Mrs. Twith a trunk and only one bandbox.

White placed under my and her grand-daughter A little east of Deposit,

a lady and her daughter, a little larger than Mary, came on board. The little girl cried, fearing they should lose their baggage; and thinking, probably, that I took some interest in it, the lady said to a gentleman, she wished she knew who I was, as she desired to speak to me. I did not know the gentleman, but it seems he knew me, and told her my name, and she came and introduced herself to me, and asked me to take care of her and her daughter, which I did as far as New York. She was the widow of a clergyman, from near Delhi, and apparently much of a lady;—had lost her husband a few months since, and was returning to Norwich, Connecticut, to her friends. Mr. B. and wife of our village were on the train going to Connecticut, near Norwich, and finding they were to stop in New York at a private boarding-house, I arranged for her to join and travel with them, which she did. The next morning Mr. Howard wished to place under my charge Mrs. K. of Chicago and her daughter for Washington, and I accordingly took them with an assortment of baggage. Having disposed of the widow and her daughter satisfactorily, I had only four then in my care; but on reaching Jersey City ferry, I met Mr. Childs, formerly member of Assembly, who placed under my charge another Mrs. T. and her daughter, of Cumberland, en route for Baltimore. She had only three trunks, a band-box, and a double bird-cage, with two canaries ;-but I of course took charge of her and her daughter, making six; and at Philadelphia, a Mississippi lady ranged herself under my wing, because the porters, &c., tried to swindle her, as she said, and proved. This made seven. About twenty miles out of Baltimore, the steamboat broke her shaft, with an awful crash ;-the women screamed, the men were alarmed, and all was confusion for a long time. It was finally ascertained that one wheel would work, and we went into Baltimore, reaching there at eleven. The Mississippi lady went to her friends, and the other six went with me to Barnum's. I got up at half past five, and at seven sent Mrs. and Miss T. No. 1, and Mrs. and Miss T. No. 2, off in the Cumber

land cars. Breakfasted at eight, and left for Washington, with the other two, Mrs. K. and her daughter, at nine ;-reached here at half past eleven ;-deposited Mrs. K. and daughter at Miss Latimer's, and came "alone, all alone," to the Irving Hotel. Thus end the adventures of a "good-natured man." Love to all.

Affectionately yours,

D. S. DICKINSON.

MR. DICKINSON TO MR. CROSWELL.

NORWICH CIRCUIT, August 22, 1819.

MY DEAR SIR-I was highly gratified this morning to receive your favor of the 20th inst. I intended to see you, Governor Marcy, and other Albany friends, at Utica, but amid bustle and fatigue missed you all.

When my friends shall unfortunately be given the same nervous sensibility which I have, and shall have been as long and as bitterly abused before the nation by apostasy as I have, they will be as reluctant as I was to think of associating with it. This you may show to Gov. M. and others.

The result is certainly more fortunate than any one could have hoped for at times. If my speech did good, I am glad of it. I felt sure I should not do harm; and did not wonder that some, under the circumstances, feared a few stray shots. I thought I could steer between Scylla and Charybdis; and if I did, I am gratified. I could have done much better, if I had had more time.

I would prefer the reverse order of expression on the slavery question to the one adopted, but thank my stars that it is as well as it is. I have no right and no desire blindly to have my own way.

In great haste,

Sincerely yours,

D. S. DICKINSON.

MR. ROGERS TO MR. DICKINSON.

BUFFALO, Thursday, October 12, 1849.

MY DEAR SIR-In the most confidential manner, has communicated to me your secret intention to resign. That you should feel that you have not been properly backed by your friends, is quite natural; and I cannot censure you for manifesting a desire to be relieved from disagreeable responsi bilities which you may think (though in my judgment erroneously) are not duly appreciated by your friends. Notwithstanding this, I solemnly protest against your resigning. It can do no good, and, so far as your own fame is concerned, will do you harm. Of this I have no doubt. Your friends, and you have many warm and true ones, will be grieved, and your enemies gratified, and will ascribe it to anything but the true cause. I do not propose to elaborate this matter; you can readily see the reasons when once suggested. Nor will I say, that I think the Hunker portion of the Democracy will ever have again their former amount of power in this State; for I agree with you that we are emphatically used up by this amalgamation.

I have written this in terrible haste, and you must excuse its appearance; and if you read nothing else in it, do not forget that it contains these three important words, "Don't you resign!" Never give up the ship, my friend.

Yours faithfully,

H. W. ROGERS.

MR. DICKINSON TO MR. ROGERS.

BINGHAMTON, October 19, 1849.

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MY DEAR SIR-Your favor, in answer to mine, came last evening; that in relation to what I had written or three days later. I will certainly do nothing rashly nor hastily, and will be, as I should, governed by my friends, "as is friends," as Captain Cuttle would say. But I trust that they