THE emancipation of slaves is virtually inaugurated. Gen. Butler, once a hard pro-slavery Democrat, takes the lead. Tempora mutantur et nos ...

COMMISSIONERS from the rebels; Seward parleying with them through some Judge Campbell. Curious way of treating and dealing with rebellion, w...

Just finished the Duke of Buckingham's two volumes on the “ Courts and Cabinets of William IV and Victoria .” There is a curious note by...

A flag of truce boat came up, but no one on board was authorized to negotiate for an exchange of prisoners but Gen. Butler, outlawed. It re...

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,              Washington, June 10 , 1862 . REVERDY JOHNSON, Esq.: SIR: You are aware that complaints have been m...

BRITISH CONSULATE,                   New Orleans, May 13 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, U.S. Army, Commanding Department of t...

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,           May 30 , 1862 . MEMORANDUM.] Lord Lyons called to-day upon Mr. Seward and said, as perhaps was not e...

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,              Washington, May 31 , 1862 . MEMORANDUM.] Mr. Mercier called upon Mr. Seward informally to speak of...

WAR DEPARTMENT,                      Washington City, D.C., June 10, 1862. Col. GEORGE F. SHEPLEY, New Orleans: DEAR SIR: I have ...

No special matters in Cabinet. Mr. Seward sent me on Saturday a correspondence between himself and Lord Lyons and the Treasury Department r...

Punctual to time, our carriage appeared at the door, with a spare horse, followed by the black quadruped on which the negro boy sat with di...