Mellen, the Treasury agent, called on me to-day with a crude mess in relation to Treasury agents and trade regulations. I told him they were...

I am apprehensive of trouble in making future contracts. Old contractors have been attacked and called to account, and will be shy. But th...

Washington Feb 22, 1864 My dear Sir It is probable that you have already seen a letter printed in the Constitutional Union, Saturday a...

For several days the delegates to the National Convention have been coming in. Had a call from several. Met a number at the President's...

No special matters in Cabinet. Mr. Seward sent me on Saturday a correspondence between himself and Lord Lyons and the Treasury Department r...

Late last night, Mr. Byington, a newspaper correspondent, called at my house. He left General Grant's headquarters at 8 A.M. yesterday....

Rumors thick and unpleasant in regard to the clerks and women employed at the Treasury. Much is doubtless exaggeration, but there are some ...

Usher relates to me to-day some damaging stories concerning the Treasury. I cannot but think them exaggerations. I know, from some reliable...

The Wilkes court martial found him guilty on all charges and sentenced him to three years’ suspension and a reprimand. It is a light punish...

Treasury Department,           Washington, D. C. , March 30, 1863. . . . This letter will be delivered to you by Mr. Walker, who will...

Had a long telegram at midnight from Cairo, respecting Rebel movements in western Kentucky, — at Paducah, Columbus, Fort Pillow, etc. Stra...

New Orleans , Oct. 10th, 1862. Dear Sir : I enclose in this private letter, my statement of private account with the Treasury Departmen...

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...

Only three of us were at the Cabinet council to-day. Some matters of interest were touched upon, but there was soon a discussion on recent ...

I called at the Treasury Department this morning relative to funds to pay the hands in the Navy Yard at Broooklyn. Chase appeared very well...

Mr. Sedgwick on Friday wished a pass to visit Stover, the convict in Fort Lafayette, and would get from him statements that would open frau...

Had a brief talk to-day with Chase on financial matters. He seems embarrassed how to proceed, but, being fertile in resources, listening to...

Had a call from General Frank Blair. He is bitter against Chase and the management of the Treasury Department, — its favorites and permits....

A batch of letters has been sent us from the provost marshal, disclosing a mass of fraud and intrigue on the part of a set of assuming men ...

Senator Doolittle came and had an hour's conversation with me. Wanted, I soon saw, to ascertain my views without my being aware of his ...