There was a pleasant party at our house last evening, with
an attendance of about three hundred. All passed off pleasantly, and all who
expressed themselves seemed much gratified, as we were. It is spoken of as one
of the most agreeable parties of the season.
Olcott and Wilson were here on Tuesday. The former is very
full of frauds in Boston and is rabid to be at the books of certain parties. The
man has an insatiate appetite to get on the track of suspected parties. He shows not only ken scent but much
sagacity.
Mr. Wilson has his charges and specifications against the
parties in New York prepared and in the hands of the copyists.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 2: April 1, 1864 —
December 31, 1866, p. 15-6
