Four days I have been ill. Among new men bloody flux and dysentery prevail; this is my trouble. I am better today; a fine breeze lifts me. F...

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8, 1885. Dear Brother: . . . I have been importuned from every quarter to write or say something about the "Depew...

There was no Cabinet-meeting yesterday, and labor in the Department was suspended on account of the funeral of Lieutenant-General Scott. S...

Bryson telegraphed yesterday that he had captured seven hundred Fenians crossing the river at Black Rock. I sent the telegram to the Preside...

At the Cabinet-meeting an hour or more was wasted in discussing a claim of Madame Bertinatti, a piece of favoritism in which the President h...

Montgomery Blair still persists that Seward is false to the President and that he and Stanton have an understanding. There are many strange ...

The President has finally issued a proclamation in regard to the Fenians. It should have appeared earlier, but Seward has counseled delay. S...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. I had some conversation with the President after adjournment, and in the evening McCulloch and myse...

Dined this evening at Tassara's, the Spanish Minister. The banquet was given in honor of Dulce, late Governor-General of Cuba. Seward an...

The House yesterday passed the Senate proposition to change the Constitution. It was before that body about two hours and was passed under t...

Nothing special at Cabinet. On Tuesday Seward submitted a correspondence between Schenck and Romero, the Mexican Minister. It was a very imp...

Fox called on me last evening and unexpectedly bade me farewell. Said he would not trust himself to call at the Department to-day. He was ve...

At the Cabinet-meeting word was received of the death of Lieutenant-General Scott at West Point at the advanced age of eighty. He was great ...

The subject of Reconstruction was not discussed to-day in Cabinet. Seward, while the President was engaged with some one, remarked on the pu...

The subject of admitting Colorado was to-day before the Cabinet. The bill has passed both houses after having been once rejected. Congress i...

The subject of advertising came up. Dennison had made inquiry and ascertained that the Intelligencer had the largest circulation. Stanton sa...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 17, 1875. Dear Brother: . . . Belknap has acted badly by me ever since he re...

To the Governor of the State of Virginia: DEAR SIR, SHERWOOD FOREST, January 31, 1861. I received your communication notifying me of...

Not a very long session of the Cabinet. Some conversation in regard to the Rebel leaders led me to inquire whether it might not be best to p...

Called on Secretary of the Treasury in behalf of Pease of Janesville for collector. He, McCulloch, defers too much to the dictates of Member...