1860. June 2.–Dined at Miss Gamble’s, Chevalier Wykoff’s grossly calumniated friend. She has fortune, is living nearly opposite to us in an exceedingly well-arranged and handsome house, and her dinner was irreproachable. Over the mantel-piece of the dining-room she had an interesting cast, given to her by the poet Rogers, of Mercury bearing Pandora in his arms to the earth.
An armistice between Garibaldi and the Neapolitans: the latter to quit Sicily with their twenty-five thousand men in a week.
Definite and full accounts to-day from the Republican Convention at Chicago. They have nominated Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, for President, and Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, for Vice-President: both of one geographical section, the free North. Lincoln is as absolutely self-made as our democracy could desire. He began life as a day-labourer, and took to making fence-rails.