Nicolay and I visited to-night the Secretaries of the Interior and of the Treasury. Usher talked about the vacancy occasioned by the death...

When I was a member of Congress a dozen years ago, I boarded with the lady who writes the within letter. 1 She is a most worthy and deserv...

Executive Mansion, Washington, August 11, 1862. MY DEAR GEORGE: You will have seen by the papers that Pope has been running his hea...

We had yesterday a telegram that the British pirate craft Alabama captured the Ariel, one of the Aspinwall steamers, on her passage from Ne...

At the meeting last evening there were present of the committee Senators Collamer, Fessenden, Harris, Trumbull, Grimes, Howard, Sumner, and...

No news from Fredericksburg; and no news at this time, I fear, is not good news. Secretary Smith called on me to unburden his mind. He disl...

At the request of the Tycoon, who imagined he had seen something significant steaming up the river, I went down to the Navy Yard. Saw Dahlg...

Department of the Interior March 16, 1861, President United States Sir. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your not...

Some vague and indefinite tidings of a victory by Buell in Kentucky in a two days' fight at Perryville. We hear also of the capture of ...

At several meetings of late the subject of deporting the colored race has been discussed. Indeed for months, almost from the commencement o...

Secretary Smith called this morning. Said he had just had an interview with Judge-Advocate Turner, who related a conversation which had ta...

Chase called on me this morning. Wishes a secret concerted attack on Richmond. Says Stanton will furnish 10,000 men. Told him we would do a...

Colonel Marston of New Hampshire, who has been with the Army of the Potomac for a year, called on me to-day. Says he has no confidence in M...