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 ...

Senator Wilson to-day and Mr. Rice yesterday called in relation to the investigations which Olcott is prosecuting in Boston. They both were...

John M. Forbes called. After talking on one or two subjects he spoke of the National Convention and his regret that the call was so early, ...

I went early this A.M. to the President on the subject of procuring a transfer of seamen from the Army to the Navy. After reading the paper...

At the Cabinet the principal subject was the issue of a new proclamation, calling for a new draft of 200,000 men in consequence of the Navy...

I spent yesterday with Fox, Faxon, Olcott, and a writer on the papers seized. They are bad enough, showing depravity and wickedness, but in...

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

A pleasant meeting of the Cabinet, and about the time we had concluded General Grant was announced. He had just returned from a visit to th...

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....