The D “Dusky Sally story—the story that Mr Jefferson kept one of his slaves (Sally Hemmings) as his mistress & had children by her, was once extensively believed by respectable men, & I believe both John Quincy Adams & our own Bryant sounded their poetical lyres on this very poetical...

Jefferson’s Descendants.—Hon. Henry S. Randall, of Courtland Village, N.Y., and author of a “Life of Jefferson,” writing to a friend in Columbus, says: “Alas how his descendants are divided in this war! All his grandsons go with the South. George Wythe Randolph, the Confederate Secretary of War,...