ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _December 9, 1861_. _To the House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in reply to the resolution of the House of the 4th instant, relative to the intervention of certain European powers in the affairs of Mexico. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 14, 1861_. _To the Senate of the United States_: In compliance with the resolution of your honorable body "that the President be requested to furnish to the Senate copies of the charges, testimony, and finding of the recent court of inquiry in the case of Colonel Dixon S. Miles, of the United States Army," I have the honor to transmit herewith the copies desired, which have been procured from the War Department. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _December 16, 1861_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I submit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, the amendments introduced by the Constituent National Assembly of Bolivia in its decree of ratification into the treaty of peace, friendship, commerce, and navigation concluded with that Republic on the 13th of May, 1858, an official translation of which decree accompanies this message, with the original treaty. As the time within which the exchange of ratifications should be effected is limited, I recommend, in view of the delay which must necessarily occur and the difficulty of reaching the seat of Government of that Republic, that the time within which such exchange shall take place be extended in the following terms: "Within such period as may be mutually convenient to both Governments." ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _December 17, 1861_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit to the Senate and House of Representatives copies of the correspondence between the Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and the governor of the State of Maine on the subject of the fortification of the seacoast and Lakes. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _December 17, 1861_. _To the Senate of the United States_: I transmit to the Senate, for its advice, a copy of a draft for a convention with the Republic of Mexico, proposed to the Government of that Republic by Mr. Corwin, the minister of the United States accredited to that Government, together with the correspondence relating to it. As the subject is of momentous interest to the two Governments at this juncture, the early consideration of it by the Senate is very desirable. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. WASHINGTON, _December 20, 1861_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: