Called with General Bolles on the President in relation to the case of Raphael Semmes. The call was pursuant to appointment. Secretary Harla...

Sumner called on me with young Bright. We had quite a talk on the policy of the Government, and his own views. Sumner's vanity and egoti...

Called on Secretary of the Treasury in behalf of Pease of Janesville for collector. He, McCulloch, defers too much to the dictates of Member...

Dark and raining. Cannon heard down the river. To-day our Congress assembles. Senator Johnson, of Missouri (who relinquished six years in ...

Have been unable to write daily. The President has released A. H. Stephens, Regan, Trenholm, and others on parole, and less dissatisfaction ...

At my special request the President made an order restoring General Hawley to duty, who had been mustered out of service. Had some conversat...

I have been absent during most of the month of September in my native State and among the scenes of my childhood and youth. Change is there....

The subject of a change to relieve the President was discussed in Cabinet and Seward produced the order which he had prepared. There was no ...

Seward read a letter in relation to St. Domingo matters, to which I for some cause did not give that attention which its importance demanded...

General Banks introduced me to Mrs. Ames, of Massachusetts (artist). She has made a bust of Lincoln (miniature) which seems to be exceedingl...

 The President sends notice that there will be no Cabinet-meeting to-day. He went to Fortress Monroe on Sunday in a light river boat, and re...

There was no Cabinet-session. The President is not yet well. Seward and Speed are absent. Stanton, I hear, is sick. Captain Drayton is very ...

SEMINARY, Jan. 13, 1861.  . . . I see no change to note here in public sentiment, the fact that Seward has been named as secretary of stat...

The Cabinet-meeting was full. Stanton submitted an application from Judge Campbell, asking to be released from imprisonment in Pulaski. Sewa...

But little of importance at the Cabinet. Seward read a letter from Bigelow, Minister at Paris, representing that indications were that Maxim...

Last Tuesday, when on board the Pawnee with the President and Cabinet, Stanton took me aside and desired to know if the Navy could not spare...

The President to-day in Cabinet, after current business was disposed of, brought forward the subject of Jefferson Davis' trial, on which...

A very warm day. Thermometer 90 and upward. Chief subject at the Cabinet was the offense and the disposition of J. Davis. The President, it ...

A bright, cool morning. Dispatches from Lieut.-Gen. R. Taylor indicate that Federal troops are passing up the Mississippi River, and that ...

I called early on the President in relation to Seward's letter concerning the blockade and courtesy to British vessels. He concurred in ...