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...

Little of interest transpired to-day in Cabinet. Wrote Lee repeating the order to Mare Island. But for a word from the President he would ha...

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...

Moore, the President's Private Secretary, came to me on Wednesday, the 9th, by request of the President, who desired him to consult with...

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,...

The speeches of Jeff Davis betoken the close of the War. The rebellion is becoming exhausted, and I hope ere many months will be entirely su...

Received mail from Admiral Farragut. Among his dispatches one confidential, inclosing a letter from General Canby, who had received a singul...

A call in force this A.M. from a large portion of the Massachusetts delegation in behalf of the Smith brothers, now in Fort Warren, wanting ...

Admiral Lee sends me a confidential dispatch and also a communication to him from General Butler. On the latter Fox has made a proper indor...

To-day have a letter from Admiral Lee respecting the exportation of French tobacco from Richmond. This is an arrangement of Mr. Seward to w...

Not long at Cabinet-meeting. Chase still feels that he did not make a good case in the matter of the Princeton. He inquired with assumed no...

Received a telegram from Admiral Lee this P.M., confirming a rumor that was whispered yesterday of the death of young Dahlgren. He was surr...

Seward sends me the copy of a communication which he proposes to send to Lord Lyons respecting the rights and duties of our naval officers,...

Very little of importance to-day at the Cabinet. Neither Chase nor Blair was present. Gen. F. Blair made, I am told, a severe speech agains...

No matters of much moment at the Cabinet. But three present. Submitted to the President a letter from Admiral Lee, inclosing a permit to st...

Head Quarters Department of Virginia Seventh Army Corps Fort Monroe, Va. Mch. 7th 1863 Sir: I am extremely unwilling to trouble y...

There was a special Cabinet-meeting at 9 A.M. on the subject of A. H. Stephens's mission. Seward came prepared with a brief telegram, w...

A Cabinet-meeting to-day at 11 A.M. The principal topic was the mission of Alexander H. Stephens. The President read a letter from Colonel ...

I was called up at midnight precisely by a messenger with telegram from Byington, dated at Hanover Station, stating that the most terrific ...

To-day the President started down the river with Fox to have a talk with Gen. Grant and Admiral Lee. . . . SOURCES: Abstracted from ...