Railroad. Direct the command officer to report his arrival at Westport and at La Grange, both by telegraph and letter, to Brigadier General N. C. McLean, at this place. Acknowledge receipt, and state when the battalion will leave.

By order of Brevet Major-General Burbridge:

J. BATES DICKSON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Louisville, December 12, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE:

I have ordered the Ninth and Seventeenth Kentucky Regiments, here awaiting muster-out, to Bowling Green, to re-enforce the garrison, and Twenty-seventh Kentucky to Murfreesborough-all small regiments.

HUGH EWING,

Brigadier-General.

BOWLING GREEN, KY., December 12, 1864.

Captain E. B. HARLAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Louisville, Ky.:

Brigadier General Ed. McCook is here from Nashville. Will have two brigades cavalry to-morrow night to watch movements of Lyon, &c.

S. P. LOWE,

Colonel, Commanding Brigade.

WASHINGTON, D. C., December 12, 1864-4 p. m.

Brevet Major-General HOVEY,

Indianapolis:

It is officially reported that you have twenty-eight enlisted men mounted on serviceable horses. The Secretary of War directs that these horses be immediately turned over to the quartermaster's department and sent forward to General Thomas, at Nashville. Condemned horses must be used for mounting orderlies not in the field.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

(Copy to Cavalry Bureau.)

HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DEPARTMENT,
Cincinnati, Ohio, December 12, 1864.

His Excellency AUSTIN BLAIR,

Governor of Michigan:

GOVERNOR: Late advices from Canada, relating to the activity and designs of the Confederates with their sympathizing friends, makes me solicitous for the property of your citizens along the border. I have no apprehensions from the acts of armed bodies, of course, as my means of information are such as I hope to learn of the movements of any considerable force in season to anticipate them in any injury they may