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...

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 ...

 I wrote a letter to the Secretary of State, softly pointing out the proper course of proceeding in this French claim for captured cotton, ...

Seward called this morning and had quite a story to tell of foreign affairs and the successes that have attended his management. For a tim...

We have, yesterday and to-day, broken accounts of a great fight for three days — and not yet terminated — at Murfreesborough, Tennessee. Al...

The work on the ironclad turret steamer Passaic is nearly finished. Ericsson makes a proposition to fire the fifteen-inch gun through the o...

. . . is now at Warrenton, and is pushing the enemy gradually backward.   The rebel army is now beyond the Rappahannock at that point, havi...

LATER FROM ISLAND NO. 10. WASHINGTON, March 24. – Col. Segur, representative from the Accomac district arrived here this morning confir...

BOSTON, March 14. – An order was unanimously adopted in the House to-day authorizing the construction of one or two iron-clad steamers on ...

. . . in her attack upon the Merrimac, fifty wrought iron shot of one hundred and sixty-eight pounds each, which Capt. Ericsson believes wo...

. . . was published while the Ericsson steamer Monitor was being constructed, and is a full and accurate description of the engine of war t...

WASHINGTON, March 11. – HOUSE. – Mr. CRITTENDEN addressed the House in opposition to the resolution. Mr. FISHER, of Delaware, favored ...

In The vigor which will be given to the mail clothing business for the navy, by the Merrimacing among our vessels and fortified posts, and...

. . . called the “Monitor.”   She went to sea on Thursday, for some unknown destination.   Mr. Ericsson is on board, and desires to test th...

WASHINGTON, March 28. SENATE. – Mr. TenEyck presented a petition for citizens of New York against further traffic and monopoly in the publi...

Captain Ericsson has written the following letter to Mr. Epes Sargent, of Boston: NEW YORK, March 11. MY DEAR SARGENT. – I accept with gre...

Our merchants are getting up a subscription for a testimonial to Capt. Ericsson. – Published in  The Davenport Daily Gazette , Davenport, ...

WASHINGTON, March 12. SENATE. – Mr. Davis presented petitions from citizens of Kentucky, asking Congress to turn a deaf ear to all schemes...

Our telegraph dispatches give an account of a severe engagement between the rebel Iron steamer Merrimac and the Ericsson iron clad steamer ...

It is reported that the mammoth “Union” gun cast in Pittsburgh is to be transferred to the Monitor, and the dispatch with which the projecti...