DEAR HILL,--Your anxious and harassing state at Washington during those perilous times has so occupied your time and attention that you have not had any leisure to write. I have not heard from you for three weeks. For the last three weeks I have been holding court in Lincoln. The excitement about enlisting nearly broke the court up for two weeks. I was at Springfield two days week before last and found everything astir. I need not say that you were missed at Lincoln by me and everybody else. Your absence was regretted by everyone and yet everyone thought you deserved your good fortune. I found Trumbull very unpopular with the members of the Legislature and other parties at Springfield. Douglas is in the topmost wave. Douglas would beat Trumbull before this legislature. My course last summer in using my best endeavors to elect Trumbull does not meet with my own approbation. This war and its dreadful consequences affects my spirits.... It is very lonely going round the circuit without you. DAVID DAVIS. DEAR HILL,--I have written you about every week since I left Urbana. Dan Voorhees has been here for two days. He is a devoted friend of yours. He feels badly about the state of the country but is for the maintenance of the Government.... Mr. [Joseph G.] Cannon the new Prosecutor is a pleasant, unassuming gentleman and will in time make a good Prosecutor.[O] [O] This prophecy was certainly fulfilled. I need not tell you that it is lonesome here--on account of your absence. This is my last court here and no lawyer is practising here who was practising here when I held my first court. This is emphatically a world of change. Your friend as ever, DAVID DAVIS. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4, 1861. COLONEL LAMON: MY DEAR SIR,--I would be obliged to you to procure for me that Presidential interview as soon as practicable. I do not wish to trouble you, but I am in a considerable hurry. I wish to say some things to the President about matters in North Carolina. There are some Union men there yet. Respectfully yours, CHAS. HENRY FOSTER. BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS, August 25, 1861. COL. WARD H. LAMON: