་ TELEGRAM TO GENERAL U. S. GRANT. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 28, 1864. 5.30 P.M. LIEUTENANT-General GranT, City Point, Va.: If there be no objection, please tell me what you now understand of the Wilmington expedition, present and prospective. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL BUTLER. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, December 29, 1864. MAJOR-GENERAL BUTLER: There is a man in Company I, Eleventh Connecticut Volunteers, First Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, at Chapin's Farm, Va., under the assumed name of William Stanley, but whose real name is Frank R. Judd, and who is under arrest, and probably about to be tried for desertion. He is the son of our present minister to Prussia, who is a close personal friend of Senator Trumbull and myself. We are not willing for the boy to be shot, but we think it as well that his trial go regularly on, suspending execution until further order from me and reporting to me. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO COLONEL WARNER. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, December 30, 1864. COLONEL WARNER, Indianapolis, Ind.: It is said that you were on the court-martial that tried John Lennon, and that you are disposed to advise his being pardoned and sent to his regiment. If this be true, telegraph me to that effect at once. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO J. WILLIAMS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 4, 1865. JOHN WILLIAMS, Springfield, Ill.: Let Trumbo's substitute be regularly mustered in, send me the evidence that it is done and I will then discharge Trumbo. A. LINCOLN. MESSAGE TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. HOUSE OF WASHINGTON, January 5, 1865. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TO THE I herewith return to your honorable body, in which it originated, a "joint resolution to correct certain clerical errors in the internal revenue act," without my approval. My reason for so doing is that I am informed that this joint resolution was prepared during the last moments of the last session of Congress for the purpose of correcting certain errors of reference in the internal revenue act, which were discovered on an examination of an official copy procured from the State Department a few hours only before the adjournment. It passed the House and went to the Senate, where a vote was taken upon it, but by some accident it was not presented to the President of the Senate for his signature. Since the adjournment of the last session of Congress, other errors of a kind similar to those which this resolution was designed to correct, have been discovered in the law, and it is now thought most expedient to include all the necessary corrections in one act or resolution. The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TO GENERAL U. S. GRANT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 5, 1865. Lieutenant-GENERAL GRANT, City Point, Va. : Richard T. Jacob, Lieutenant-Governor of Kentucky, is at the Spotswood House, in Richmond, under an order of General Burbridge not to return to Kentucky. Please communicate leave to him to pass our lines, and come to me here at Washington. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL GRANT. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 6, 1865, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT, City Point: If there is a man at City Point by the name of Waterman Thornton who is in trouble about desertion, please have his case briefly stated to me and do not let him be executed meantime. A. LINCOLN. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, January 7, 1865. TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: I transmit to Congress a copy of two treaties between the United States and Belgium, for the extinguishment of the Scheldt dues, etc., concluded on the twentieth of May, 1863, and twentieth of July, 1863, respectively, the ratifications of which were exchanged at Brussels on the twenty-fourth of June last; and I recommend an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions thereof relative to the payment of the proportion of the United States toward the capitalization of the said dues. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TO SCHUYLER COLFAX. HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX, EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, January 9, 1865. Speaker of the House of Representatives. SIR: I transmit herewith the letter of the Secretary of War, with accompanying report of the Adjutant-General, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives, dated December 7, 1864, requesting me "to communicate to the House the report made by Col. Thomas M. Key of an interview between himself and General Howell Cobb on the fourteenth [15th] day of June, 1862, on the banks of the Chickahominy, on the subject of the exchange of prisoners of war.' I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. PROCLAMATION CONCERNING COMMERCE, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A Proclamation. Whereas the act of Congress of the twenty-eighth of September, 1850, entitled "An act to create additional collection districts in the State of California, and to change the existing districts therein, and to modify the existing collection districts in the United States," extends to merchandise warehoused under bond the privilege of being exported to the British North American provinces adjoining the United States, in the manner prescribed in the act of Congress of the third of March, 1845, which designates certain frontier ports through which merchandise may be exported, and further provides "that such other ports situated on the frontiers of the |