JEFFERSON CITY, MO., January 11, 1865.

(Received 10. 20 p. m.)

President LINCOLN:

Free Missouri greets her elder sister.

T. C. FLETCHER,

Governor of Missouri.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS SAINT LOUIS DISTRICT,

Numbers 9.
Saint Louis, Mo., January 11, 1865.

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2. Colonel John L. Beveridge, Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, will relieve Lieutenant-Colonel Hiller, Second Missouri State Militia, in the command of the Third Sub-District. Lieutenant-Colonel Hiller, on being relieved, will report to Colonel Beveridge for orders.

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By order of Brigadier-General Ewing:

H. HANNAHS,

Major Fiftieth Missouri Vols. and Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

WARRENSBURG, January 11, 1865.

Captain A. WALTERS,

Commanding Fourth Cavalry Missouri State Militia, Sedalia:

Detail Lieutenant Kerr and his entire company, with five days' rations, for a thorough and complete scout of Cooper County. Let him make a clean sweep of it. Also instruct him to arrest and forward to these headquarters all returned conscripts from Price's army, together with facts and circumstances. Lieutenant Kerr will be instructed to be thorough and energetic.

By order, &c.:

A. R. CONKLIN,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

GLASGOW, MO., January 11, 1865.

Brigadier-General FISK:

Lieutenant Gannon killed John Robinson at 2 p. m. yesterday at Westley Hieronymus', then miles from Glasgow. We one-quarter of a mile behind Jim Jackson.

THOS. B. REED,

Captain, Commanding Post.

MACON, January 11, 1865.

Captain T. B. REED,

Glasgow:

Cannot you devise scheme for the capture of Bill [Jin?] Jackson? Rest not until you kill him. Put men in disguise after him. Employ some rebel to dig him out.

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.