He is distressed about Admiral Farragut's using a whole fleet for a pleasure excursion, as he terms it.

His proposition about some insane pleasure excursion on a raft is too absurd to repeat." I said: "Gentlemen, I perceive here a disposition to throw discredit upon every act of my official career; I perceive, also, a disposition to debar me from all voice in the counsels of the nation.

No notice whatever was sent to me to-day.

It was only by the merest chance that I learned that there was going to be a Cabinet meeting.

But let these things pass.