To the House of Representatives:

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d instant, calling for the number of copies of the tributes of the nations to Abraham Lincoln now in possession of the Department of State, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State and the paper which accompanied it.

U.S. GRANT.

WASHINGTON, February 11, 1870.

To the House of Representatives:

In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives requesting me to furnish any information which may have been received by the Government in relation to the recent assault upon and reported murder of one or more American citizens in Cuba, I communicate a report from the Secretary of State, with the papers accompanying it.

U.S. GRANT.

WASHINGTON CITY, February 11, 1870.

To the Senate of the United States:

The papers in the case of Commander Jonathan Young, of the United States Navy, show—