The Reconstruction Committee have reported a resolution for admitting Tennessee Members. It is, in its phraseology and conditions, in charac...

Senator Morgan tells me that Sumner grows more radical and violent in his views and conduct on the subject of reëstablishing the Union, decl...

I yesterday took a steamer with a small company, consisting among others of Postmaster-General Blair, Senators Doolittle and Grimes, Messrs...

To-day have a letter from Admiral Lee respecting the exportation of French tobacco from Richmond. This is an arrangement of Mr. Seward to w...

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

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....

Senator Grimes made a very good speech to-day in the Senate on naval affairs, in which he introduced a letter from Donald McKay, the eminen...

Grimes tells me that the reports in last evening's papers are meagre and perverted, doing no justice to the Navy Department as it stood...

There was a reception to-day from one to three at the President's. Went over for an hour. Several of the Cabinet, most of the foreign...

Seward and Chase were not present at the Cabinet-meeting. The President was well and in fine spirits. Mr. John P. Hale called this afte...

The house has been still and almost deserted to-day. Everybody in Washington, not at home voting, seems ashamed of it and stays away from t...

The week has been one of steady, incessant employment. I feel I have been overtasked and am much exhausted. Must have rest. Two rather ...

Congress has adjourned over until the 5th of January. It is as well, perhaps, though I should not have advised it. But the few real busines...

At the meeting last evening there were present of the committee Senators Collamer, Fessenden, Harris, Trumbull, Grimes, Howard, Sumner, and...

Washington , 28th June, 1862. My Dear Mr. Forbes , — Well, by Jove, if this isn't the luckiest escape I ever had! I have been swea...

State Kansas Aid Committee Rooms, Boston , Dec. 20, 1856. Dear Sir , — Your letter of the 16th has been received, and we are glad to ...

It is true that the Republican party have been in possession of the government of the State of Iowa during the last five years and upward. ...

Burlington , September 14, 1865. I am astonished to learn, as I do by your letter of the 12th inst., that any one has asserted or belie...

Burlington , July 19, 1865. Your letter leads me to think that you may possibly be inclined to come West, though I am quite skeptical o...

April 19th. — We have four days of universal and heartfelt sorrow and mourning; business has been nearly suspended. There was a meeting in ...