We have intelligence that Valparaiso has been bombarded by the Spaniards. A brutal and semi-barbarous proceeding on the part of Spain. In ...

The subject of admitting Colorado was to-day before the Cabinet. The bill has passed both houses after having been once rejected. Congress i...

The President last evening addressed a large concourse who assembled under a call of soldiers and sailors who desired to serenade and thank ...

PORTSMOUTH, August 25, 1867, Sunday. MY DARLING:—I could not get to Chillicothe today. Had a great crowd yesterday. In the middle of my sp...

COLUMBUS, OHIO, January 11, 1868. DEAR UNCLE:—I suppose you are entitled to an advance copy of my inaugural. Here it is. It contains but t...

Took the President the executive order for the trial of Semmes. Found that he hesitated. Told him I had no feeling whatever in regard to it....

I had another long talk with Senator Sumner, who called on me on Saturday. It was of much the same purport as heretofore. He is pleased with...

The new shape of affairs shows itself in the social gatherings. At Mrs. Welles's reception to-day, a large number of the denizens of Was...

MEMPHIS, December 26, 1866. DEAR UNCLE:— We are thus far on our way to New Orleans, with everything thus far the very pleasantest possible...

I have always talked kindly to the President, and advised Grant to do so. I do think that it is best for all hands that his administration b...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, Aug. 9, 1867. Dear Brother : . . . It is now becoming extremely important to know precisely what Grant wants in connectio...

Called on Secretary of the Treasury in behalf of Pease of Janesville for collector. He, McCulloch, defers too much to the dictates of Member...

Ohio caucus seven to two for Concurrent Resolutions and for admitting States as they ratify; eight to one against negro suffrage as a condit...

Some slight indisposition and pressing duties have postponed my daily remarks. The President had expressed to me his intention to go to Rich...

The [Republican] policy is to leave to the States the question of suffrage. But in the District and the Territories it is for Congress to la...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION                     OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           ST. LOUIS, Jan. 19, 1866. Dear Brother: The papers this mor...

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION                     OF THE MISSISSIPPI,           ST. LOUIS, Feb. 23, 1866. Dear Brother: The political aspec...

I have a letter from Eames, who is at Long Branch, ill, and has been there for three weeks. He informs me that Senator Sumner wrote Mrs. E.,...

I have been absent during most of the month of September in my native State and among the scenes of my childhood and youth. Change is there....

McCulloch remarked that he had lost all confidence in Treasury agents, that the system was one of demoralization. Of this there can be no do...