Legation Of The United States,     London, September 5, 1863. My Lord : At this moment, when one of the iron-clad vessels is on the p...

London , 7 September, 1863. I have been taking a little vacation in Scotland, which must account to you for my failure earlier to notic...

I am warned and admonished in various quarters that Laird's vessel is about to make a trial trip, and that it will extend across the A...

The President was not with us to-day at the Cabinet-meeting, being at the War Department with Stanton. All were present but them. Little kn...

The proclamation suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus has been generally well received. I have never feared the popular pu...