Some slight indisposition and pressing duties have postponed my daily remarks. The President had expressed to me his intention to go to Rich...

The date admonishes me of passing time and accumulating years. Our country is still in the great struggle for national unity and national li...

Admiral Dahlgren writes me that Sherman is with him in his cabin (14th inst.). Mr. Chandler, 1 employed by the Department to attend to al...

Wrote Gilpin, District Attorney at Philadelphia, in answer to his private letter as to prosecution for frauds in Philadelphia Navy Yard. T...

Called on the President to commute the punishment of a person condemned to be hung. He at once assented. Is always disposed to mitigate puni...

This large Warship was launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on Saturday.   The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin speaks of her as follows: Th...