ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

WASHINGTON, February 13, 1863.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, in answer to their resolution of the 12th instant, the accompanying report[8] from the Secretary of State.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

[Footnote 8:  Relating to the use of negroes by the French army in Mexico.]

WASHINGTON, February 13, 1863.

Hon. GALUSHA A. GROW,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

SIR:  I herewith communicate to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 18th of December last, a report from the Secretary of the Interior, containing all the information in the possession of the Department respecting the causes of the recent outbreaks of the Indian tribes in the Northwest which has not heretofore been transmitted to Congress.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, February 17, 1863.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit herewith, for the constitutional action of the Senate thereon, a treaty made and concluded on the 3d day of February, 1863, between W.W.  Ross, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the Pottawatomie Nation of Indians of Kansas, which, it appears from the accompanying letter from the Secretary of the Interior of the 17th instant, is intended to be amendatory of the treaty concluded with said Indians on the 15th November, 1862.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

WASHINGTON, February 18, 1863.

To the Senate of the United States: 

I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to its ratification, an additional article to the treaty between the United States and Great Britain of the 7th of April, 1862, for the suppression of the African slave trade, which was concluded and signed at Washington on the 17th instant by the Secretary of State and Her Britannic Majesty’s minister accredited to this Government.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 19, 1863.

To the Senate of the United States: 

Congress on my recommendation passed a resolution, approved 7th February, 1863, tendering its thanks to Commodore Charles Henry Davis for “distinguished service in conflict with the enemy at Fort Pillow, at Memphis, and for successful operations at other points in the waters of the Mississippi River.”

I therefore, in conformity with the seventh section of the act approved 16th July, 1862, nominate Commodore Charles Henry Davis to be a rear-admiral in the Navy on the active list from the 7th February, 1863.

Captain John A. Dahlgren having in said resolution of the 7th February in like manner received the thanks of Congress “for distinguished service in the line of his profession, improvements in ordnance, and zealous and efficient labors in the ordnance branch of the service,” I therefore, in conformity with the seventh section of the act of 16th July, 1862, nominate Captain John A. Dahlgren to be a rear-admiral in the Navy on the active list from the 7th February, 1863.