I transmit herewith a report from the Attorney-General

In reply to the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on the 19th of December last, calling for correspondence and information in relation to Russian America, I transmit reports and accompanying documents from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury, respectively.

Until further orders from the President, you will assign no officer to the permanent command of the Military Division of the Missouri.

The excuse you make in a subsequent paragraph of that letter of the 28th ultimo, that afterwards you changed your views as to what would be a proper course, has nothing to do with the point now under consideration.

You say that a performance of the promises alleged to have been made by you to the President 'would have involved a resistance to law and an inconsistency with the whole history of my connection with the suspension of Mr. Stanton.'

My order to you had only reference to orders 'assumed to be issued by the direction of the President.'

The extraordinary character of your letter of the 3d instant would seem to preclude any reply on my part.

Copies of the letters which they have addressed to me upon the subject are accordingly herewith inclosed.

I will only notice one more statement in your letter of the 3d instant—that the performance of the promises which it is alleged were made by you would have involved you in the resistance of law.

In reply to your communication, I have deemed it proper, in order to prevent further misunderstanding, to make this simple recital of facts.

It was to prevent such an appointment that I accepted the office of Secretary of War ad interim.