I transmit to Congress the copy of a correspondence which has recently taken place between Her Britannic Majesty's minister accredited to this Government and the Secretary of State, in order that the expediency of sanctioning the acceptance by the master of the American schooner _Highlander_ of a present of a watch which the lords of the committee of Her Majesty's privy council for trade propose to present to him in recognition of services rendered by him to the crew of the British vessel _Pearl_ may be taken into consideration. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February, 1864_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I communicate to the Senate herewith, for its constitutional action thereon, the articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the city of Washington on the 25th day of the present month by and between William P. Dole, as commissioner on the part of the United States, and the duly authorized delegates of the Swan Creek and Black River Chippewas and the Munsees or Christian Indians in Kansas. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _February 29, 1864_. _To the House of Representatives_: In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 26th instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, relative to the reenlistment of veteran volunteers. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, February 29, 1864_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I nominate Ulysses S. Grant, now a major-general in the military service, to be lieutenant-general in the Army of the United States. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March, 1864_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit herewith a report[11] of the Secretary of the Interior of the 11th instant, containing the information requested in Senate resolution of the 29th ultimo. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. [Footnote 11: Relating to the amount of money received for the sale of the Wea trust lands in Kansas, etc.] EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 9, 1864_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 1st instant, respecting the points of commencement of the Union Pacific Railroad, on the one hundredth degree of west longitude, and of the branch road, from the western boundary of Iowa to the said one hundredth degree of longitude, I transmit the accompanying report from the Secretary of the Interior, containing the information called for.