If we are in turmoil on the western side of the Atlantic, they are not much better off on this eastern side. The King of Prussia has just sa...

Seward sends me a half-scary letter from Sanford, who is in Paris, that Page intends coming out of Ferrol and fighting the Niagara. I do not...

At the Cabinet to-day Seward could not suppress his delight over intelligence, just received, that the Danish-French ironclad sold to the Re...

Why didn’t Denmark die in the last ditch? Plucky as she has been she happens to be made of flesh and blood, and this sort of dying is not a...

Washington , May 11, 1826. Dear Crittenden ,—I have received your acceptable favor of the 27th. The affair with Mr. R[andolph], to whic...

Vienna, March 17, 1864. Dear Lady William: A thousand thanks for your letter, which gave us inexpressible delight, not alone for its wi...

December 29, 1863. My Dearest Mother : We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We are very well satisfied with recent A...

November 17, 1863. My Dearest Mother : . . . I shall say nothing of our home affairs save that I am overjoyed at the results of the ele...

Wrote Secretary of State on the subject of the complaints of the Danish Government against Wilkes, who is charged with abusing hospitality ...

Only a sense of duty would have led me to relieve Du Pont and Wilkes. With D. my relations have been kind and pleasant, on my part confidin...

New York , April 10,1863. . . . I do not think that your remarks concerning foreign ministers having intercourse with the opposition ap...

Dubuque , March 15th, 1863. Dear Governor : — I congratulate you on your confirmation as Resident Minister to Denmark. I regret very mu...

Executive Office, Iowa, Iowa City , April 13, 1863. Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington City, D. C. Sir : — The ne...

Department Of State, Washington , April 18th, 1863. Samuel J. Kirkwood, Esq., Governor of Iowa, Iowa City. Sir :—Your letter of t...

Executive Office, Iowa, Iowa City , March 20th, 1863. Sir : — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 18th in...

Department Of State, Washington , March 18th, 1863. Samuel J. Kirkwood Esq., Iowa City, Iowa. Sir :—The President, by and with th...

The Princess Alexandra, of Denmark, betrothed to the Prince of Wales is considered the prettiest girl in Europe.   She is just out of her s...

WASHINGTON, April 25. Com. Foote, owing to the wound received in the battle of Fort Henry, has asked to be released from the command of the ...

NEW YORK, April 22. The steamer City of New York, with four days later European news, has arrived. LIVERPOOL, 9th. – Breadstuffs dull but st...