I have addressed a letter concerning League Island, communicating the report of Mr. Fox, the Assistant Secretary, who visited Philadelphia w...

Mr. Fox, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, informed me some days since of an offer which he had for the presidency of the new steamboat l...

R. J. Meigs called on me by request of the President in relation to Captain Meade, who is under suspension, having been convicted and senten...

Mr. Fox informed me a day or two since that he had an offer of the charge of a coal company in Pennsylvania. Thinks they will give him very ...

I took a ride yesterday with Governor Dennison to Silver Spring and had a pleasant interview of a couple of hours with the elder Blair. He h...

I have been absent during most of the month of September in my native State and among the scenes of my childhood and youth. Change is there....

On Saturday evening I went with the President (whose health is suffering from excessive labor and care) and Preston King down the Potomac an...

 General Butler called on me to-day. Came direct from the Executive Mansion. Says the President is no better. He could not see him. Is confi...

Captain Drayton died last night. The nation is not aware of the loss it has sustained. There will be difficulty in finding an equally good m...

The piratical ram Stonewall has reached Nassau and is anchored in the outer harbor, from which our vessels are excluded. The State Departmen...

Edgar, Fox, and others left to-day for a trip on the Santiago de Cuba, to Havana, Charleston, etc., etc. They were to return by the 15th  ...

The President still remains with the army. Seward yesterday left to join him. It was after I saw him, for he was then expecting the Presiden...

Judge J. T. Hale called on me to say he had had a conversation with the President and had learned from him that I had his confidence and tha...

Had a houseful of visitors to witness the inauguration. Speaker Colfax is grouty because Mrs. Welles has not called on his mother, — a piece...

The President was some indisposed and in bed, but not seriously ill. The members met in his bedroom. Seward had a paper for excluding blocka...

The board of which Admiral Farragut is President is in session. Their duties to advise on the subject of promotion for meritorious conduct i...

Have had no time the last ten eventful days to open this book; and am now in haste. In the Senate as well as in the House, there has been ...

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

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

Great talk and many rumors from all quarters of peace. The journeys of the elder Blair to Richmond have contributed to these rumors, both he...