General good spirits prevail since Northern arrivals show that the House of Representatives at Washington has passed a resolution that 1,000...

Nothing especial at the Cabinet. The condition and position of the armies canvassed. Chase was not present. He seldom attends of late. ...

Richmond, [va. ], March 11th, 1840. Dear Hunter : I have frequently during the winter desired to write to you and to receive a letter f...

July 5, 1853. My Dear Sumner : — You well know what a babe I am in politics, and how little versed in the tactics of party; my views th...

Chase and Blair were neither of them at the Cabinet-meeting to-day, nor was Stanton. Seward takes upon himself the French tobacco question....

John C. Rives, it is stated, died yesterday. He was a marked character, guileless, shrewd, simple-hearted, and sagacious, without pretensio...

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...

Boston , August 10, 1855. My Dear Sir , — From Mr. Abbott who has just arrived here from your neighborhood, I infer that the spirit of ...

Washington City , 14th June, 1846. My Dear Wife , . . . Most unexpectedly to me I received a note on Sunday morning from Genl. Harden 1...

Monticello [ga.,] 31st Jany., 1845. Dear Sir : Many of our citizens had assembled at the Post office this morning to hear the Texas ne...

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D.C., June 14 , 1862 . Hon. GALUSHA A. GROW, Speaker of the House of Representatives: SIR: A res...

I shall redeem my implied pledge to the House not to take up much of their time upon this matter.   I merely wish to put myself right in re...

It is perhaps too much to expect of our enlightened Congressmen that they shall inform themselves of what their predecessors in the Nationa...

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, In the House of Representatives, July 22 , 1861 . On motion of Mr. Wickliffe: Resolved, That the Sec...

My position is, that Congress has no power to interfere with the subject of slavery; that it is an institution local in its character and p...

Washington , Jan. 28, '50. My Dear Sumner : You ask for a word of cheer. The response must come from a sad heart. I have just heard...

Washington , Dec r . 17, 1849. My Dear Hamlin , I have just comedown from the Capitol. In the Senate we had a brief Executive Session —...

BURNS, Anthony , fugitive slave, b. in Virginia about 1830; d. in St. Catharines, Canada, 27 July, 1862. He effected his escape from slaver...

From intelligence received yesterday evening, it is probable the Alabama, Harriet Lane, and Florida have met off the West Indies, and turne...

Went on the evening of the 3d inst. to the Capitol. Spent most of the time until eleven o'clock in the President's room. It is my f...