Colonel Bolles and Eames have prepared an order for the President to sign for a mixed commission to try Semmes. I took it to the President t...

The papers of this morning contain the reported speech of President Johnson yesterday. It is longer than the President should have delivered...

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.,...

The President this day returned the abstract made by Eames in the case of F. Smith of Boston with an indorsement in his own handwriting, dis...

Mr. Eames brings me the opinion of the Court in the cotton case of prize — Alexander Red River cotton. I think Chief Justice Chase has got h...

Mr. Eames has returned and brings me word that O'Conor decides he will not break over his rule of trying no more jury cases. He therefor...

The glorious news of the capture of Fort Fisher came this morning. We had two or three telegrams from Porter and officers of the Navy and Ge...

Telegraphed to Wilson directly on reaching Department (and finding no letter from Wilson), directing him to bail the Smiths in sums of $20,0...

I sent Mr. Eames to New York last evening to consult with Mr. Wilson in the New York and Boston cases, giving my views in each. Henderson wi...

Matters press on the Department. Have been very busy. Some talk with Rice about Annapolis and the Naval School, League Island and the navy ...

Chase and Blair were neither of them at the Cabinet-meeting to-day, nor was Stanton. Seward takes upon himself the French tobacco question....

It has been some weeks since I have opened this book. Such time as I could spare from exacting and oppressing current duties at the Departm...

To night, I was taken by surprise in hearing that Mr. Cameron sec. of War, has resigned, and goes to Russia, in lieu of Cash: M. Clay 26 —...

Executive Mansion, Aug. 21, 1861. DEAR MRS. Eames : If the events of the last few days were to be taken as an earnest of the future...