TELEGRAM TO GENERAL H. W. HALLECK.

War department, July 14, 1862.

Major-general Halleck, Corinth, Mississippi: 

I am very anxious—­almost impatient—­to have you here.  Have due regard to what you leave behind.  When can you reach here?

A. Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. McCLELLAN.

War department, Washington city, July 14, 1862.

Major-general McCLELLAN: 

General Burnside’s force is at Newport News, ready to move, on short notice, one way or the other, when ordered.

A. Lincoln.

TO SOLOMON FOOT.

Executive Mansion, Washington, July 15, 1862.

Hon.  Solomon foot, President pro tempore of the Senate.

Sir:—­Please inform the Senate that I shall be obliged if they will postpone the adjournment at least one day beyond the time which I understand to be now fixed for it.

Your obedient servant,

Abraham Lincoln.

[The same message was addressed to Hon. Galusha A. Grow Speaker of the House of Representatives.]

MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

July 17, 1862.

Fellow-citizens of the Senate and house of
representatives: 

I have inadvertently omitted so long to inform you that in March last Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, gratuitously presented to the United States the ocean steamer Vanderbilt, by many esteemed the finest merchant ship in the world.  She has ever since been and still is doing valuable service to the government.  For the patriotic act of making this magnificent and valuable present to the country I recommend that some suitable acknowledgment be made.

Abraham Lincoln.

MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

July 17, 1862.

Fellow-citizens of the Senate and house of
representatives: 

Considering the bill for “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes,” and the joint resolution explanatory of said act as being substantially one, I have approved and signed both.

Before I was informed of the passage of the resolution I had prepared the draft of a message stating objections to the bill becoming a law, a copy of which draft is herewith transmitted.

Abraham Lincoln.

FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: