Chandler, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, sent me a note this evening, stating that a pardon had been proposed for Pasco, recently conv...

McCulloch, Stanton, and Dennison are absent from Washington. Seward read a letter from Bigelow at Paris, which indicates peace, though all t...

Gave the President the case of Stiners, court-martialed and condemned for fraud as a contractor, — similar in principle to the case of the S...

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...

Called on the President this morning concerning the Smith case. Asked if the same course should be pursued with Ben as with Frank. He said y...

Very little before the Cabinet. The President, when I entered the room, was reading with much enjoyment certain portions of Petroleum V. Nas...

Have been busy, with no time to write in this book, — Congress calling for information, bills preparing, and a mass of investigations at the...

Headquarters, District of Cairo,          December 30, 1861. DEAR WASHBURNE: Yours of the 21st is at hand. I was no less astounded...

There was a pleasant party at our house last evening, with an attendance of about three hundred. All passed off pleasantly, and all who exp...

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

Saw Mr. Wilson yesterday relative to the arrests of, and proceedings against, fraudulent contractors. Told him he must take charge of the m...

The developments of fraud and swindling by contractors, and I fear by Navy agents and probably other officials, are represented to be astou...

Olcott has arrived and been most of the day with Fox, Grimes, and Odell. 1 They all came to me about 2 P.M. and represent the papers in O....

Received a telegram from Admiral Lee this P.M., confirming a rumor that was whispered yesterday of the death of young Dahlgren. He was surr...

Called yesterday to see Admiral Dahlgren. While there the President and Secretary of War came in with a telegram from General Butler, annou...

Hiram Barney, Collector at New York, called on me. Is feeling depressed. The late frauds, or lately discovered frauds, annoy him. . . . ...

The correspondent of the N. Y. World from [Pittsburg], May 7, writes as follows: CONDITION OF THE TROOPS. We prefer to offer no complaints...