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...

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

The week has been one of intense heat, and I have been both busy and indolent. Incidents have passed without daily record. The President has...

Preston King tells me he has a letter from Senator Dixon, speaking of me in very complimentary terms and expressing a wish that I may contin...

Senator Sumner called on me. We had a long conversation on matters pertaining to the affairs of Fort Sumter. He has been selected to deliver...

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 opinion in regard to General Banks is very unanimous. None speak favorably of him as a military man, and his civil administration is mu...

This morning I asked the President if the report of the resignation of Blair were true. He said it was. “Has Dennison been appointed...

. . . . In the evening Judd and Usher, and Nicolay and I were talking politics and blackguarding our friends in the Council Chamber. A grea...

I find it difficult to hurry Wilkes off with his command. The public, especially the commercial community, are impatient; but Wilkes, like ...

The President tells me he has a list of the number of new recruits which have reached Washington under the late call. Over 18,000 have arri...