California                           118,840      110,000 [A]
Connecticut                           77,246       86,616
Delaware                              16,039       16,924
Illinois                             339,693      348,235
Indiana                              272,143      280,645
Iowa                                 128,331      143,331
Kentucky                             146,216       91,300 [A]
Maine                                 97,918      115,141
Maryland                              92,502       72,703
Massachusetts                        169,533      175,487
Michigan                             154,747      162,413
Minnesota                             34,799       42,534
Missouri                             165,538       90,000 [A]
New Hampshire                         65,953       69,111
New Jersey                           121,125      128,680
New York                             675,156      730,664
Ohio                                 442,441      470,745
Oregon                                14,410       14,410 [B]
Pennsylvania                         476,442      572,697
Rhode Island                          19,931       22,187
Vermont                               42,844       55,811
West Virginia                         46,195       33,874
Wisconsin                            152,180      148,513
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3,870,222    3,982,011

Kansas 17,234
Nevada 16,528
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33,762
3,982,011
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Total 4,015,773
3,870,222
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Net Increase 145,551
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[A:  Nearly.] [B:  Estimated.]

SPECIAL MESSAGES.

WASHINGTON CITY, December 5, 1864.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: 

In conformity to the law of July 16, 1862, I most cordially recommend that Captain John A. Winslow, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks from Congress for the skill and gallantry exhibited by him in the brilliant action, while in command of the United States steamer Kearsarge, which led to the total destruction of the piratical craft Alabama on the 19th of June, 1864—­a vessel superior in tonnage, superior in number of guns, and superior in number of crew.

This recommendation is specially made in order to comply with the requirements of the ninth section of the aforesaid act, which is in the following words, namely: 

That any line officer of the Navy or Marine Corps may be advanced one grade if upon recommendation of the President by name he receives the thanks of Congress for highly distinguished conduct in conflict with the enemy or for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.