Senator Doolittle came yesterday. I told him I had seen the President on Saturday and learned from him that he (D.) had been at the Mansion ...

For the first time in my life I assisted at the simplest and grandest spectacle—the inauguration of a President. Lincoln's message good,...

Clear and cold. It is understood now that Gen. Hood has crossed to the south side of the Tennessee River with the debris of his army. Ge...

Took the President the executive order for the trial of Semmes. Found that he hesitated. Told him I had no feeling whatever in regard to it....

Have been unable to write daily. The President has released A. H. Stephens, Regan, Trenholm, and others on parole, and less dissatisfaction ...

I received about nine o'clock Saturday night, your telegraphic dispatch, which I have this moment answered, “I cannot accept." I ...

WASHINGTON, April 8, 1866. MY DEAR DARLING:— The last week is the only one since you left that you would have enjoyed here particularly. T...

Blair called on me in some trouble respecting the Maryland appointments, which have been violently contested. From some intimation he appreh...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. Seward read a letter from Bigelow, Minister at Paris, representing that indications were that Maxim...

Rear-Admiral Dahlgren returned this morning from Charleston. Two years since he left. Simultaneous with his return come tidings of the death...

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

Much engaged. The two days have brought an amount of business which it is difficult to dispose of in a single day. But three of us at the Ca...

Congress reassembled to-day. Many Members absent. Some talk with Montgomery Blair relative to the visitation of himself and father with a vi...

I called on the President Satur: day, the 26th, as I had promised him I would the day before, with my abstract for the message, intending to...

Blair called on me in somewhat of a disturbed state of mind and wanted my advice. He had had one interview with the President since I last s...

The President was not at his house to-day. Mr. Bates had said to me that the President told him there was no special business. Nevertheless,...

Talked over the subject of Wilmington, examined its localities, and considered the position of things fully with Porter and Fox. I had inten...

Intelligence reaches us this morning that Sheridan has achieved a great victory over Early in the valley of the Shenandoah, after much hard ...

Senator Harris called on me. He is jubilant over Sheridan's success, but much disturbed by the miserable intrigues of Weed and Seward in...