WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., January 15, 1863.

Governor SALOMON,

Madison, Wis:

I leave to-night for Madison to inspect the record in the habeas corpus cases. Let all proceedings be suspended until I arrive.

T. O. HOWE.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., January 15, 1863.

Chief Justice DIXON,

Madison, Wis.:

By order of the President I leave for Madison to-night to inspect the record in the habeas corpus cases. I beg that all proceedings may be suspended until my arrival.

TIMOTHY O. HOWE.

NEW YORK, January 16, 1863.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

SIR: If not objectionable, will you direct the following to be sen to the Associated Press?

DANIEL ULLMANN,

Brigadier-General.

Brigadier General D. Ullman has been assigned to special duty; large and responsible powers have been submitted to him; his headquarters will be for the present in the city of New York.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., January 16, 1863.

Brigadier-General ULLMANM,

New York;

The Secretary of War directs me to say that the notice submitted is not approved.

CHAUNCELY McKKEVER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

NEW YORK, January 17, 1863.

Major THOMAS W. WINCENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Washington:

SIR: I telegraphed yesterday to the Honorable Secretary of War, requesting a notice to be sent to the Associated Press. I have to-day received his disapproval of the same.

I have found that in the preliminary arrangements which I have been making to execute his orders it is very desirable that I should be accredited before the public. I wish to prepare the public mind for the final development. It was therefor I wished some such publication. I can only to-day report progress.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

DANIEL ULLMANN,

Brigadier-General.

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