blockaded, but as the blockade of said port may now be safely relaxed with advantage to the interests of commerce: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority in me vested by the fifth section of the act of Congress, approved on the 13th of July, 1861, entitled "An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," do hereby declare that the blockade of the said port of Alexandria shall so far cease and determine, from and after this date, that commercial intercourse with said port, except as to persons, things, and information contraband of war, may from this date be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, and to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in his order which is appended to my proclamation of the 12th of May, 1862. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-fourth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. [SEAL.] By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS. WAR DEPARTMENT, September 24, 1863. 10 A.M. MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Chattanooga, Tenn.: Last night we received the rebel accounts, through Richmond papers, of your late battle. They give Major-General Hood as mortally wounded, and Brigadiers Preston Smith, Wofford, Walthall, Helm of Kentucky, and Deshler killed, and Major-Generals Preston, Cleburne, and Gregg, and BrigadierGenerals Benning, Adams, Bunn, Brown, and John [B. H.] Helm wounded. By confusion the two Helms may be the same man, and Bunn and Brown may be the same man. With Burnside, Sherman, and from elsewhere we shall get to you from forty to sixty thousand additional men. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO MRS. LINCOLN. War DepartmENT, September 24, 1863. MRS. A. LINCOLN, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York: We now have a tolerably accurate summing up of the late battle between Rosecrans and Bragg. The result is that we are worsted, if at all, only in the fact that we, after the main fighting was over, yielded the ground, thus leaving considerable of our artillery and wounded to fall into the enemy's hands. for which we got nothing in turn. We lost in general officers one killed and three or four wounded, all brigadiers, while, according to the rebel accounts which we have, they lost six killed and eight wounded: of the killed one major-general and five brigadiers including your brother-in-law, Helm; and of the wounded three major-generals and five brigadiers. This list may be reduced two in number by corrections of confusion in names. At II.40 A.M. yesterday General Rosecrans telegraphed from Chattanooga: "We hold this point, and I cannot be dislodged except by very superior numbers and after a great battle." A despatch leaving there after night yesterday says, "No fight today." A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MCCALLUM. WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., GENERAL MCCALLUM, Alexandria, Va.: I have sent to General Meade, by telegraph, to suspend the execution of Daniel Sullivan of Company E, Thirteenth Massachusetts, which was to be to-day, but understanding there is an interruption on the line, may I beg you to send this to him by the quickest mode in your power? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL MEADE. War Department, WashinGTON, D. C., September 25, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Owing to the press in behalf of Daniel Sullivan, Company E, Thirteenth Massachusetts, and the doubt, though small, which you express of his guilty intention, I have concluded to say let his execution be suspended till further order, and copy of record sent me. A. LINCOLN. TO GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, MY DEAR GENERAL ROSECRANS: We are sending you two small corps, one under General Howard and one under General Slocum, and the whole under General Hooker. Unfortunately the relations between Generals Hooker and Slocum are not such as to promise good, if their present relative positions remain. Therefore, let me beg-almost enjoin upon you-that on their reaching you, you will make a transposition by which General Slocum, with his corps, may pass from under the command of General Hooker, and General Hooker, in turn receive some other equal force. It is important for this to be done, though we could not well arrange it here. Please do it. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL W. S. ROSECRANS. WAR DEPARTMENT, September 28, 1863. 8 A.M. MAJOR-GENERAL ROSECRANS, Chattanooga, Tenn.: You can perhaps communicate with General Burnside more rapidly by sending telegrams directly to him at Knoxville. Think of it. I send a like despatch to him. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GENERAL SCHOFIELD. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., GENERAL SCHOFIELD, Saint Louis, Mo.: Following despatch just received: "Union Men Driven out of Missouri." "Leavenworth, September 29, (1863). "Governor Gamble having authorized Colonel Moss, of Liberty, Missouri, to arm the men in Platte and Clinton Counties, he has armed mostly the returned rebel soldiers and men under bonds. Moss's men are now driving the Union men out of Missouri. Over one hundred families crossed the river to-day. Many of the wives of our Union soldiers have been compelled to leave. Four or five Union men have been murdered by Colonel Moss's men." Please look to this and, if true, in main or part, put a stop to it. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO F. S. CORKRAN. Executive Mansion, WashINGTON, HON. FRANCIS S. CORKRAN, Baltimore, Md.: Mrs. L. is now at home and would be pleased to see you any time. If the grape time has not passed |