Nothing special at Cabinet. On Tuesday Seward submitted a correspondence between Schenck and Romero, the Mexican Minister. It was a very imp...

Ferry was elected Senator on the part of the House of Representatives of Connecticut by some thirty majority on Wednesday. In the Senate the...

Captain S. P. Lee called on me to-day respecting his orders to Mare Island. The President on Saturday showed me an application which Lee had...

Events have crowded thick, and I have been unable to find time to record them. Judge Blair called on me yesterday with a request that I woul...

The papers to-day contain a synopsis of what took place yesterday in the Cabinet on the subject of Reconstruction. I have no doubt that the ...

The subject of Reconstruction was not discussed to-day in Cabinet. Seward, while the President was engaged with some one, remarked on the pu...

The subject of admitting Colorado was to-day before the Cabinet. The bill has passed both houses after having been once rejected. Congress i...

Mr. Smythe, Collector in New York, called at my house yesterday with Senator Doolittle, and both were much interested in the election of Sen...

The President last evening addressed a large concourse who assembled under a call of soldiers and sailors who desired to serenade and thank ...

The proclamation announcing peace in all the Rebel States but Texas appeared in the National Republican this morning. I was at first a littl...

This being the anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln, the several Departments were closed by order of the President. Had a...

Collectors Babcock of New Haven and Smith of Bridgeport called on me this morning. They had just arrived, having come on in relation to the ...

Thad Stevens has to-day made a blackguard and disreputable speech in the House. Beginning with the false assertion that the speech was prepa...

I think the President, though calm and reticent, exhibits indications of not being fully satisfied in some respects with the conduct and cou...

I wrote Calvin Day a general letter on the condition of affairs. What are his views and opinions I know not. His usual good sense leads me t...

Washington's Birthday. Advantage is taken of it by those who sustain the late veto to assemble and give expression to their feelings, fo...

I had another long talk with Senator Sumner, who called on me on Saturday. It was of much the same purport as heretofore. He is pleased with...

The new shape of affairs shows itself in the social gatherings. At Mrs. Welles's reception to-day, a large number of the denizens of Was...

Neither Seward nor Stanton was at Cabinet council. Seward is on his way to the West Indies, Gulf, etc. He wishes to be absent until the issu...

The messages of the Governors and other indications favor the conciliatory policy of the Administration rather than the persecuting spirit o...