It is said that Philip Margraf, in your army, is under sentence to be shot on Friday the 5th instant as a deserter.  If so please send me up the record of his case at once.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL U.S.  GRANT.

War department, June 2, 1863.

Major-general grant, Vicksburg, via Memphis: 

Are you in communication with General Banks?  Is he coming toward you or going farther off?  Is there or has there been anything to hinder his coming directly to you by water from Alexandria?

A. Lincoln.

Telegram to major-general Hooker.
[Cipher.]
Executive Mansion, Washington, June 4,1863.

Major-general Hooker: 

Let execution of sentences in the cases of Daily, Margraf, and Harrington be respited till further orders from me, they remaining in close custody meanwhile.

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL BUTTERFIELD.

War department, Washington, D.C., June 4, 1863.

Major-general Butterfield: 

The news you send me from the Richmond Sentinel of the 3d must be greatly if not wholly incorrect.  The Thursday mentioned was the 28th, and we have despatches here directly from Vicksburg of the 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st; and, while they speak of the siege progressing, they speak of no assault or general fighting whatever, and in fact they so speak as to almost exclude the idea that there can have been any since Monday the 25th, which was not very heavy.  Neither do they mention any demand made by Grant upon Pemberton for a surrender.  They speak of our troops as being in good health, condition, and spirits.  Some of them do say that Banks has Port Hudson invested.

A. Lincoln.

TO SECRETARY STANTON.

Executive Mansion, Washington,
June 4, 1863.

Hon.  Secretary of war.

My dear sir:—­I have received additional despatches, which, with former ones, induce me to believe we should revoke or suspend the order suspending the Chicago Times; and if you concur in opinion, please have it done.

Yours truly,

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL HOOKER.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  JUNE 5, 1863

Major-general Hooker: