Before leaving the subject of Jewish servitude, there are three considerations of chief importance on which we wish you may fix your candid...

London , April 18,1863. SIR, — We beg leave to inform you that we have obtained a loan of £500,000, for the period of six months, from ...

Navy Department, Washington , 18th April, 1863. Your two favors of the 27th ult. and 1st inst. were duly received. We have been and are...

The department companies and militia returned yesterday, through a heavy shower, from the wild-goose chase they were rushed into by Gen. El...

London , April 1, 1863. My Dear Sir , — . . . Our consul tells me that among the developments reached in searching evidence against pri...

Great interest is felt in the result of the Connecticut election, one of the most animated and exciting elections ever known. Issues broad ...

Had a message from the President, who wished to see me and also Assistant Secretary Fox. Found the matter in hand to be the Prussian advent...

Had some side talk with Seward at the Cabinet-meeting, on letters of marque. He persists in the policy, but I think begins to have some mis...

Had a call last evening and again to-day from Senator Sumner. Our conversation was chiefly on our foreign relations, the unfortunate condi...

Navy Department. 31 Mar., 1863. Sir, When discussing the regulations concerning “Letters of Marque,” &c a few days since, I mad...

For a fortnight I have been ill and really unfit for duty, yet have been absent from the Department but a single day, the only day I have ...

Returned last evening from strictly confidential visit to New York. Some discussion in Cabinet-meeting to-day on letters of marque. ...

I saw last evening a communication from the State Department inclosing several pages of regulations for letters of marque. The subject was...

To-day the papers contain a proclamation by the President of the Confederate States of America, declaring a state of war between the Confed...

I forgot to say that yesterday before dinner I drove out with some gentlemen and the ladies of the family of Mr. George N. Sanders, once Un...

Seward brought me to-day a long dispatch from Dudley, consul at Liverpool. Although his fears were somewhat simulated, I saw he was really ...