I transmit, for the consideration of the Senate with a view to its ratification, an additional article to the treaty of navigation and commerce with Russia of the 18th of December, 1832, which additional article was concluded and signed between the plenipotentiaries of the two Governments at Washington on the 27th instant.

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.

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--

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.

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.

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, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

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 and promulgation.

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 6th of January, 1868.

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 subject of the vote of St. Thomas on the question of accepting the cession.

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 the act of Congress approved July 20. 1867, entitled 'An act to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes.'