Because he is a fresh man and an able one he was taken up. Let his freshness enter his policy also Your friend, BRONSON MURRAY. SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 22, 1861. HILL,--This is Dick Gilmer of Pike--he is to that neck of _Woods_ what you or Dick Oglesby are to this region of Country.... Do what you can consistently for him--and oblige Your friend, O. M. HATCH. BLOOMINGTON (ILL.), Feby. 25, 1861. DEAR HILL,--Nothing of moment has occurred since your departure. Do write me immediately explaining the cause of your mysterious transit through Maryland. Here let me say a word about Washington. It is the worst place in the world to judge correctly of anything. A ship might as well learn its bearings in the Norway Maelstrom, as for you people to undertake to judge anything correctly upon your arrival there. You are the subject of every artful and selfish appliance. You breathe an air pregnant with panic. You have to decide before you can discover the secret springs of the action presented to you. There is but one rule and that is to stand by and adopt the judgment you formed before you arrived there. The atmosphere of Washington and the country are as unlike as the atmosphere of Greenland and the tropics. The country is moved and moves by its judgment--Washington by its artificial life. The country really knows nothing of Washington and Washington knows nothing of the country. Washington is drunk, the Country is sober and the appeal from your judgment there to your home judgment is simply an appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober. Please give these ideas in better language than I have done to Mr. Lincoln. I know his sound home judgment, the only thing I fear is the bewilderment of that city of rumors. I do ache to have him do well. Yours truly, LEONARD SWETT. WASHINGTON, March 2, 1861. DEAR SIR,--I have received your request and shall take great pleasure to do what you wish in respect to Delaware. Very truly your friend, WINFIELD SCOTT. WARD H. LAMON, Esq. DANVILLE, ILL., March 5, 1861.