The proclamation announcing peace in all the Rebel States but Texas appeared in the National Republican this morning. I was at first a littl...

Attended, with the rest of the Cabinet, the President to the Capitol, — the funeral of Senator Foot. Great interest was felt. He was pater s...

EXETER, SEPT. 28, 1853. We deem it advisable to hold an informal meeting composed of some of the principal members of the parties at this ...

You will read the proceedings at Washington. The bluster of the South is, I think, subsiding, though as usual the North is frightened, and p...

I have just read your admirable letter on Clay's resolutions [of compromise]. 1 You have done a good work. . . . There is a great advan...

A rumor is prevalent and very generally believed that the French mission has been offered Bennett of the  New York Herald.  I discredit it. ...

Mr. Blair wishes a young friend paroled, and requests me to see the President. I am disinclined to press these individual cases on the Presi...

The Secretary of State has written me, requesting that J. P. Hale, recently appointed Minister to Spain, should be sent out in a public ship...

Had a houseful of visitors to witness the inauguration. Speaker Colfax is grouty because Mrs. Welles has not called on his mother, — a piece...

Mr. Eames tells me the Court has decided adversely in the matter of cotton captured by the Navy on the Red River. I perceive that the Court ...

The President was some indisposed and in bed, but not seriously ill. The members met in his bedroom. Seward had a paper for excluding blocka...

Very little before the Cabinet. The President, when I entered the room, was reading with much enjoyment certain portions of Petroleum V. Nas...

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 ...

The late news combines with the anniversary to make this an interesting day. While the heavy salutes at meridian were firing, young Cushing ...

Have been busy, with no time to write in this book, — Congress calling for information, bills preparing, and a mass of investigations at the...

I made a short stay at Cabinet to-day. The President was about to admit a delegation from New York to an interview which I did not care to a...

Have just finished and sent my report to the printer. It is long and has been a wearisome and laborious business. To weigh conflicting claim...

The Senate have since commencement of the session labored over the question of continuing or displacing Hale from the position of Chairman o...

Received dispatches to-day from Admiral Farragut confirming intelligence received several days since through Rebel sources. The official acc...

The caucus of the New Hampshire members of the legislature friendly to the Administration has resulted in the substitution of Cragin for Jo...