Senator Doolittle came yesterday. I told him I had seen the President on Saturday and learned from him that he (D.) had been at the Mansion ...

Seward read the dispatches which he proposed to send to Mr. Motley,—the first, protesting against the sending of troops to Mexico by the Aus...

WASHINGTON, March 16, 1861. Every day affords proof of the absence of any settled policy or harmonious concert of action in the administra...

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES, ST. LOUIS, MO., May 25, 1875. Dear Brother: . . . No matter how unwise were my conditions with Jo...

Though not well to-day nor for several days past, I went to Department and to Cabinet meeting. Quite a discussion on the Mexican question. S...

I do not get well. But little of interest. British fund agents and brokers show great impudence in regard to Rebel debts and cotton loans. M...

This being the anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln, the several Departments were closed by order of the President. Had a...

Mr. Seward brought up in the Cabinet to-day the subject of the purchase of the Danish islands in the West Indies, particularly St. Thomas. F...

The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin writes concerning the trial of Mr. Sickles, as follows: “The plan of the prosec...

We noticed the fact last week, that the trial of Daniel E. Sickles, for the Murder of Philip Barton Key, was commenced in the Criminal Court...

It is impossible to give a weekly newspaper the whole of the proceedings in the trial of Mr. Sickles, and, indeed, we have no disposition to...

We brought our brief synopsis of this important trial down to Wednesday last. On that day the court ruled that the confession of Mrs. Sickle...

The Secretary of the Treasury is embarrassed by the test oath. He finds it difficult to procure good officers for collectors and assessors i...

Had a call this evening from Mr. English, the Democratic candidate for Governor in Connecticut. He is very decidedly, and I think sincerely,...

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...