Have been unable to write daily. The President has released A. H. Stephens, Regan, Trenholm, and others on parole, and less dissatisfaction ...

LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY of Learning and Military Academy,           Alexandria, May 11, 1860. DEAR TOM: I have received one or two Leavenwo...

The late news combines with the anniversary to make this an interesting day. While the heavy salutes at meridian were firing, young Cushing ...

I called on the President Satur: day, the 26th, as I had promised him I would the day before, with my abstract for the message, intending to...

The President was not at his house to-day. Mr. Bates had said to me that the President told him there was no special business. Nevertheless,...

Seward was quite exultant over the elections; feels strong and self-gratified. Says this Administration is wise, energetic, faithful, and ab...

Talked over the subject of Wilmington, examined its localities, and considered the position of things fully with Porter and Fox. I had inten...

Intelligence reaches us this morning that Sheridan has achieved a great victory over Early in the valley of the Shenandoah, after much hard ...

Montgomery Blair No business of importance brought before the Cabinet to-day. Some newspaper rumors of peace, and of letters from Jeff Davis...

I called to-day on Secretary Fessenden with Farragut’s dispatch and the order of the President permitting A. J. Hamilton of Texas to bring o...

Am harassed by the pressure on the enlistment question. A desire to enter the Navy to avoid the draft is extensive, and the local authoritie...

Have been compelled to advise the Treasury that their management and delay is destroying the public credit. Men will not contract with the g...

Fessenden has got out an advertisement for a new loan and an address to the people in its behalf. Am not certain that the latter is judiciou...

Judge Thomas and Mr. Train, counsel for Smith Brothers of Boston, had an interview of nearly two hours with me on Saturday, wishing the tria...

Edgar and John left this morning for Connecticut. Wrote a letter to Attorney-General Bates, transmitting copy of the report of Mr. Wilson in...

The Rebels captured a train of cars on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Road, and have burnt the bridges over Gunpowder and Bush Rivers. It ...

All were surprised to-day with the resignation of Secretary Chase and the nomination of Governor David Tod as his successor. I knew nothi...

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...

One day when Mr. Bates was remonstrating with Mr. Lincoln against the appointment of some indifferent lawyer to a place of judicial importan...