I wrote on Saturday night replies to Randall in regard to the convention, to the Tammany Society, which had invited me to Fourth of July ann...

No very striking matters in Cabinet. Seward read a long dispatch to Mr. Adams. Stanton excepted to the mention of our domestic affairs in su...

Senator Doolittle took tea with me. He wished me to go with him to the President, where some friends were to assemble to consider and decide...

The President sent me a note this A.M. to call upon him this evening at eight. Although under the doctor's care and ordered to remain pe...

Senator Doolittle brought me last evening the rough draft of a proposed call for a national Union convention which he had prepared. Some of ...

After current business at the Cabinet was closed, I inquired of Seward if it was true that he had sent out a special official certificate of...

Went with G. W. Blunt to see the President this morning. Blunt wants to be Naval Officer and has been a true and earnest friend of the Navy ...

There was no Cabinet-meeting yesterday, and labor in the Department was suspended on account of the funeral of Lieutenant-General Scott. S...

At the Cabinet-meeting an hour or more was wasted in discussing a claim of Madame Bertinatti, a piece of favoritism in which the President h...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. I had some conversation with the President after adjournment, and in the evening McCulloch and myse...

Not much of importance before the Cabinet. Some little attempt to converse on general subjects. Seward, McCulloch, and myself were first the...

Nothing special at Cabinet. On Tuesday Seward submitted a correspondence between Schenck and Romero, the Mexican Minister. It was a very imp...

Fox called on me last evening and unexpectedly bade me farewell. Said he would not trust himself to call at the Department to-day. He was ve...

We have intelligence that Valparaiso has been bombarded by the Spaniards. A brutal and semi-barbarous proceeding on the part of Spain. In ...

The subject of Reconstruction was not discussed to-day in Cabinet. Seward, while the President was engaged with some one, remarked on the pu...

The subject of admitting Colorado was to-day before the Cabinet. The bill has passed both houses after having been once rejected. Congress i...

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...

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler is exercising a great and dangerous influence at the Treasury Department. He has been employed in some case...

This being St. Patrick's Day, considerable apprehensions were entertained by the Englishmen here that there would be more active demonst...

I had an interview with the President concerning Semmes, as understood yesterday. Showed him the papers, and, after some conversation, he pr...