Mr. Blair returned this morning from Concord. He had, I have little doubt, been sent for, partly to see and influence me. I am not sufficien...

I had a formal call to-day from a committee consisting of Mr. Cook of Illinois, a member of the National Committee, Mr. Humphrey, an ex-Memb...

Much party machinery is just at this time in motion. No small portion of it is a prostitution and abuse. The Whig element is venal and corru...

Going into the War Department yesterday morning to inquire if any tidings had been received concerning Colonel Stedman of the 11th Connectic...

I called at the Treasury Department this morning relative to funds to pay the hands in the Navy Yard at Broooklyn. Chase appeared very well...

[Telegram—Copy] Washington April 1st 1861 Rec'd. Brooklyn, 6.30 p.m.      Commandant, Navy Yard. Fit out the Powhatan to go ...

[Telegram—Copy] Washington D. C. April 1st, 1861 Rec'd. Brooklyn, 6.50 p.m. Commandant of the Navy Yard. Fit out the “Powha...

A telegram last night informed me of the death of Admiral Foote. The information of the last few days made it a not unexpected event, yet t...

General Wadsworth, 1 Mr. Fenton, and others urgently insist on some changes in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, of masters who, they claim, are act...

The new steam sloop-of-war Adirondack has just been completed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the Navy Department have been informed that sh...

The plating of the steam frigate Roanoke – mate of the defunct Merrimac – was commenced in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Tuesday.   The plates a...