I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the documents to which it refers, in relation to the formal transfer of territory from Russia to the United States in accordance with the treaty of the 30th of March last.

I return herewith their resolution of the 21st instant, calling for information in reference to James A. Seddon, late Secretary of War of the so-called Confederate State.

On the 20th of same month, and before the expiration of the ten days after the presentation of the bill to the President, the two Houses, in accordance with a concurrent resolution adopted on the 3d (13th) of December, adjourned until the…

As stated in the preamble to the resolution, the bill to which it refers was presented for my approval on the 11th day of December, 1867.

The Constitution expressly declares that--If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as it he had signed it…

Inasmuch as the bill 'for the further security of equal rights in the District of Columbia' has not become a law in either of the modes designated in the section above quoted, it has not been delivered to the Secretary of State for record…

As the act which the resolution mentions has no relevancy to the subject under inquiry, it is presumed that it was the intention of the Senate to refer to the law of the 15th September, 1789, the second section of which prescribes--

To the Senate of the United States:With reference to the convention between the United States and Denmark for the cession of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John, in the West Indies, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State on the…

A treaty with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes, concluded October 28, 1867.

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of yesterday, calling for information relating to the appointment of the American minister at Pekin to a diplomatic or other mission on behalf of the Chinese Government by the Emperor of China, I…

A treaty with the Kiowa and Comanche tribes, concluded October 21, 1867.

I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon the following treaties, concluded at 'Medicine Lodge Creek,' Kansas, between the Indian tribes therein named and the United States, by their commissioners appointed by…

A treaty with the Arapahoe and Cheyenne tribes, dated October 28, 1867.

I transmit herewith the report made by the commissioners appointed under the act of Congress approved on the 20th day of July, 1867.

A letter of this date from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting said treaties, is herewith inclosed.

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of yesterday, making inquiry how many and what State legislatures have ratified the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the…

When the amount of the damages shall thus have been ascertained, application will be made to Congress for a further appropriation toward paying them.

It is proposed to appoint a commissioner on the part of this Government to adjust, informally in this case, with a similar commissioner on the part of Spain, the question of damages, the commissioners to name an arbiter for points upon…