Still excessively warm. Not much at the Cabinet to note. Stanton read a strange dispatch from Gen. George H. Thomas at Nashville, stating th...

The President tells me that Dennison did not intend to leave, — that his purpose was to maintain his party relations but conform to the Admi...

I learn that the President to-day sent in the nomination of Mr. Stanbery for Attorney-General. He made no mention of it in Cabinet. There is...

Had a discussion last evening with McCulloch and Doolittle in the council-room, the President being by, respecting the preamble and resoluti...

 I, early this morning, took to the President the carefully prepared list of promotions. He did not fully understand the subject and was dis...

Went to the Capitol a little before ten this A.M. Apprehended I should be late, for we had agreed yesterday in Cabinet to meet in the Presid...

Senator Doolittle called and wished me to accompany him to the President to meet General Dix, and we sent to McCulloch to go there also. The...

"Despise not these  Squatters ." The bill to encourage agriculture, commerce, manufactures, and all other branches of industry, ...

Senator Morgan spent last evening at my house. Our conversation was chiefly on public affairs, but there was not that unreserved and cordial...

This morning received telegram that my nephew, Samuel Welles, constructing engineer at Mare Island, died last evening at 7.15 from injuries ...

The morning papers contain my letter to Senator Doolittle in response to his inquiry conveying my views of the Republican Convention. It is ...

Senator Doolittle took breakfast with me this morning. He is pleased that a cane on which there had been great competition at the fair betwe...

Have visited Hospital, No. 8, as well as No. 1, several times since I have been here, and am priviledged to carry some delicacies, and write...