It is scarcely necessary to add, that if any election shall be held and any votes shall be cast in the State of Tennessee for President and Vice-President of the United States, it will belong, not to the military agents, nor yet to the Executive Department, but exclusively to another department of the Government, to determine whether they are entitled to be counted in conformity with the Constitution and laws of the United States.

Except it be to give protection against violence, I decline to interfere in any way with any presidential election.

Abraham Lincoln.

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN.  EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, October 22, 1864

Major-general Sheridan: 

With great pleasure I tender to you and your brave army the thanks of the nation, and my own personal admiration and gratitude, for the month’s operations in the Shenandoah Valley; and especially for the splendid work of October 19, 1864.

Your obedient servant,

Abraham Lincoln.

Telegram to general G. H. Thomas. 
Washington, D. C., October 23, 1864 5 P.M.

Major-general Thomas, Nashville, Tennessee: 

I have received information to-day, having great appearance of authenticity, that there is to be a rebel raid into Western Kentucky; that it is to consist of four thousand infantry and three thousand cavalry, and is to start from Corinth, Mississippi, On the fourth day of November.

A. Lincoln, President.

Send copy to General Washburn at Memphis. 
A. L.

Telegram to T. T. Davis. 
Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., October 31, 1864.

Hon.  Thomas T. Davis, Syracuse, N.Y.: 

I have ordered that Milton D. Norton be discharged on taking the oath.  Please notify his mother.

A. Lincoln.

PROCLAMATION ADMITTING NEVADA INTO THE UNION

October 31, 1864.

By the president of the united states of America: 

A Proclamation

Whereas the Congress of the United States passed an act, which was approved on the 21st day of March last, entitled “An act to enable the people of Nevada to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States;” and,

Whereas the said constitution and State government have been formed, pursuant to the conditions prescribed by the fifth section of the act of Congress aforesaid, and the certificate required by the said act and also a copy of the constitution and ordinances have been submitted to the President of the United States: