Blair, senior, on Pennsylvania Avenue, opposite the War Department.

We made a wedding tour to Baltimore, New York, Niagara, and Ohio, and returned to Washington by the 1st of July.

General Taylor participated in the celebration of the Fourth of July, a very hot day, by hearing a long speech from the Hon.

Henry S.Foote, at the base of the Washington Monument.

Returning from the celebration much heated and fatigued, he partook too freely of his favorite iced milk with cherries, and during that night was seized with a severe colic, which by morning had quite prostrated him.