TELEGRAM TO GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Your despatch about "river patrolling" received. I have called the Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of War, and General-in-Chief together, and submitted it to them, who promise to do their very best in the case. I cannot take it into my own hands without producing inextricable confusion. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO SIMON CAMERON. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, HON. SIMON CAMERON, Harrisburg, Pa.: General Clay is here and I suppose the matter we spoke of will have to be definitely settled now. Please answer. TO ALEXANDER REED. A. LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE Mansion, WASHINGTON, REV. ALEXANDER REED. MY DEAR SIR:-Your note, by which you, as General Superintendent of the United States Christian Commission, invite me to preside at a meeting to be held this day at the hall of the House of Representatives in this city, is received. While, for reasons which I deem sufficient, I must decline to preside, I cannot withhold my approval of the meeting and its worthy objects. Whatever shall be, sincerely and in God's name, devised for the good of the soldiers and seamen in their hard spheres of duty, can scarcely fail to be blessed; and whatever shall tend to turn our thoughts from the unreasoning and uncharitable passions, prejudices, and jealousies incident to a great national trouble such as ours, and to fix them on the vast and long-enduring consequences, for weal or for woe, which are to result from the struggle, and especially to strengthen our reliance on the Supreme Being for the final triumph of the right, cannot but be well for us all. The birthday of Washington and the Christian Sabbath coinciding this year, and suggesting together the highest interests of this life and of that to come, is most propitious for the meeting proposed. Your obedient servant, A. LINCOLN TELEGRAM TO J. K. DUBOIS. [Cipher] War Department, WashinGTON, D. C., HON. J. K. DUBOIS, Springfield, Ill.: General Rosecrans respectfully urges the appointment of William P. Caslin as a brigadier - general, What say you? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL HOOKER. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: February 27, 1863. If it will be no detriment to the service I will be obliged for Capt. Henry A. Marchant, of Company I, Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, to come here and remain four or five days. A. LINCOLN. PROCLAMATION CONVENING THE SENATE, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF A Proclamation. Whereas objects of interest to the United States require that the Senate should be convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th of March next to receive and act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive: Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of business at the Capitol, in the city of Washington, on the 4th day of March next, at 12 o'clock at noon on that day, of which all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice. Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, the twenty[SEAL.] eighth day of February A.D. 1863, and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TO SECRETARY SEWARD. WASHINGTON, March, 7, 1863. Mr. M. is now with me on the question of the Honolulu Commissioner. It pains me some that this tilt for the place of Colonel Baker's friend grows so fierce, now that the Colonel is no longer alive to defend him. I presume, however, we shall have no rest from it. In self-defense I am disposed to say, "Make a selection and send it to me." A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GOVERNOR TOD. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, GOVERNOR DAVID TOD, Columbus, Ohio: I think your advice with that of others would be valuable in the selection of provost-marshals for Ohio. A. LINCOLN. PROCLAMATION RECALLING SOLDIERS TO THEIR BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: In pursuance of the twenty-sixth section of the act of Congress entitled "An act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes, approved on the 3d day of March, 1863, I, Abraham Lincoln, President and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do hereby order and command that all soldiers enlisted or drafted in the service of the United States now absent from their regiments without leave shall forthwith return to their respective regiments. And I do hereby declare and proclaim that all soldiers now absent from their respective regiments without leave who shall, on or before the first day of April, 1863, report themselves at any rendezvous designated by the general orders of the War Department No. 58, hereto annexed, may be restored to their respective regiments without punishment, except the forfeiture of pay and allowances during their absence; and all who do not return within the time above specified shall be arrested as deserters and punished as the law provides; and Whereas evil-disposed and disloyal persons at sundry places have enticed and procured soldiers to desert and absent themselves from their regiments, thereby weakening the strength of the armies and prolonging the war, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and cruelly exposing the gallant and faithful |