Home Guards. Morgan passed through Somerset, General Smith still pursuing. Ordered him to drive Morgan out of the State.

J. T. BOYLE,

Brigadier-General.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

HEADQUARTERS, Huntsville, July 24, 1862.

General BOYLE, Louisville:

I approve of punishing the guilty, but it will not answer to announce the rule of no quarter even to guerrillas. Neither will it be judicious to levy contributions upon secessionists for opinions alone. But with those who have given aid and comfort to Morgan's raid it will be proper to deal in the strictest manner. I approve of your preventing any avowed secessionist from being run for an office.

D. C. BUELL.

HEADQUARTERS,
Huntsville, July 24, 1862.

General BOYLE, Louisville:

Is it true that your troops surrendered to Morgan at Cynthiana?

What number were there?

D. C. BUELL.

LOUISVILLE, KY., July 24, 1862.

No official report of affair at Cynthiana received. About 100 men were engaged; nearly 30 taken prisoners, and few of them mustered into service. Enemy's loss greater than our own. Morgan left Monticello yesterday for Sparta, Tenn.

J. T. BOYLE,

Brigadier-General.

Major-General BUELL.

LOUISVILLE, KY., July 25, 1862.

Morgan has left the State. General Smith ought to have taken him. Will report fully as I have time. Morgan gone to Sparta. There is rebel cavalry at Huntsville, Salina, and near Sparta. I trust they may be taken. There are bands over the State; nearly all the pretended deserters from the rebels and paroled soldiers and those who have passed our lines from their bands or the nucleus. If they could be cut off at Sparta we could give protection to other parts. I have the Fifteenth Kentucky at Lexington and on the Covington Railroad; the Fifty-fourth Indiana at Frankfort. Pickets fired on at Frankfort last night by band of 25 secessionists. I have Sixteenth Kentucky from Big Sandy here. The Eleventh Michigan is here on way to Russellville to drive the rebel bands from Logan, Christian, Trigg, and Todd Counties. Parts of the Twenty-eighth Kentucky and Fiftieth Indiana are on Nashville Railroad. the Sixtieth Indiana and Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, who were after Morgan, I have ordered to Lebanon. I have some 500 convalescents here; sending them forward gradually. Shall I arm them from the arsenal here?

J. T. BOYLE,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Major-General BUELL.