COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 8, 1869. DEAR GENERAL:—I congratulate you back again [—on your election to the state Senate]. Some enemy of yours...

OFFICE OF THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE,           NEW YORK, [N. Y.], March 25th, 1856 . DEAR SIR: I believe I had the pleasure of meeting you o...

Months ago, when we and others urged that Lincoln’s inaugural meant war, we were told by those who have since been “awakened,” that the Pre...

PARIS, FRANCE, July 16, 1872. Dear Brother: . . . Of course I have watched the progress of political events as they appear from this stand...

MANSFIELD, OHIO, Aug. 4, 1872. Dear Brother: . . . Just now all interest is centred upon the Presidential election. As you say, the Republ...

Rear-Admiral Dahlgren returned this morning from Charleston. Two years since he left. Simultaneous with his return come tidings of the death...

Hon. Silas A. Hudson , deceased, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Des Moines county, and became a man of decisive character, serving a...

The President yet remains with the army, and the indications are that a great and perhaps final battle is near. Tom writes me, dating his le...

New York City is shouting for McClellan, and there is a forced effort elsewhere to get a favorable response to the almost traitorous proceed...

 Had an interesting half-hour talk with J. M. Forbes, a sensible man and true patriot. He wishes the President to make the issue before the ...

The complaints in regard to recruiting are severe and prolonged. They come in numbers. It seems to be taken for granted that we can open a r...

At the Cabinet to-day there was no special business. Seward and Stanton were not present. Mr. Fessenden is absent in Maine. Governor Hahn of...

Had some talk with Senator Lot Morrill, who is a good deal excited, not to say alarmed. The slow progress of our armies, the mismanagement o...

Much pressed with duties. A pleasant hour at the Cabinet, but no special subject. Fessenden still absent. Stanton did not attend. Blair inqu...

Fessenden has got out an advertisement for a new loan and an address to the people in its behalf. Am not certain that the latter is judiciou...

I had a telegram from Tom this morning, stating that Colonel Stedman was mortally wounded and would probably not survive the night, that Gen...

John B. Gough lectured in Bemis Hall last night and was entertained by Governor Clark. I told Grandfather that I had an invitation to the le...

At the Cabinet-meeting the President read his correspondence with Horace Greeley on the subject of peace propositions from George Saunders a...

Peace, on the basis of a restored Union, is a consummation so devoutly to be wished that the people will watch with intense interest the fai...

The New York World , in commenting on the Niagra correspondence, closes an article as follows: We are convinced that there is no sinceri...