FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _July 26, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 23d of May last, relative to the slave trade in the island of Cuba. The information contained in the papers accompanying the report will, it is believed, be considered important, and perhaps necessary to enable the Senate to form an opinion upon the subjects to which they relate; but doubts may be entertained in regard to the expediency of publishing some of the documents at this juncture. This communication is accordingly addressed to the Senate in executive session, in order that a discretion may be exercised in regard to its publication. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _July 27, 1854_. The PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 24th instant, requesting me to cause to be transmitted to the Senate the Fourth Meteorological Report of Professor Espy, the accompanying papers and charts are respectfully submitted. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _July 29, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In compliance with the Senate resolution of the 10th July instant, requesting that I would "cause to be communicated to the Senate copies of all the correspondence and other official documents on file in the Department of the Interior respecting the claims of persons for services performed and supplies and subsistence furnished to Indians in California under contracts with Indian agents in the year 1851, and embracing the names of claimants, the amount, respectively, of their claims, on what account created and by what authority, if any," I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by copies of all the papers called for which have not heretofore been furnished. As it appears that most of the papers called for were communicated to the Senate at its first and special sessions of the Thirty-second Congress, I have not supposed that it was the intention of the Senate to have them again sent, and I have therefore not directed them to be copied. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _July 31, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 28th instant, requesting information in respect to the bombardment of San Juan de Nicaragua, I transmit reports from the Secretaries of State and of the Navy, with the documents which accompanied them. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _July 31, 1854_. _To the House of Representatives_: In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 28th instant, requesting information in regard to the destruction of San Juan de Nicaragua, I transmit reports from the Secretaries of State and of the Navy, with the documents accompanying them. FRANKLIN PIERCE. WASHINGTON, _August 1, 1854_. _To the Senate of the United States_: