Special Message

To the House of Representatives:

I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 8th instant, a report++ from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers.

ANDREW JOHNSON.

++Relating to the detention, at the request of the House of Representatives, of the ironclad monitors Oneoto and Catawba , purchased from the United States by Swift & Co., and supposed to be intended for the Government of Peru, then at war with a power friendly to the United States.