Suspend execution of James R. Mallory, for six weeks from Friday the thirtieth of this month, which time I have given his friends to make proof, if they can, upon certain points.

A. Lincoln,

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.

Washington, January 5, 1865.

To the house of representatives of the united states: 

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.