FORT LEAVENWORTH, October 6, 1864.

Governor T. CARNEY:

Dispatch from Jefferson at 5 p. m. of no consequence. Broken dispatch from General Rosecrans says reported yesterday that Price was crossing Gasconade on old road to Jefferson City.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major- General.

JEFFERSON CITY, MO., October 6, 1864.

Major- General CURTIS,

Fort Leavenworth, Kans.:

The enemy are steadily advancing and closing in upon us. They crossed the Osage in force at Prince's Ferry at noon to- day. We hold them at the Moreau to- night on the road to Castle Rock. Shall contest their advance inch by inch. A few killed and wounded on both sides to- day. We have no force pressing the enemy's rear. We shall fight them to- morrow and hope to give you a good report.

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

INDEPENDENCE, October 6, 1864.

Major-General CURTIS:

I have arrived here and leave in the morning to join Colonel Ford's command at Pleasant Hill, thirty- four miles southeast of Kansas City. I learn form reliable source that General Price has detached a portion of his army (5,000) under Marmaduke to make a raid in this neighborhood and Southern Kansas, where he will be joined by Price, after the capture of General Brown's forces, which he seems confident of taking. Yesterday there was a band of guerrillas on Fire Prairie, seven miles east of this place, on a reconnaissance, and returned going east. No news of them to-day. I will learn more in the morning about Price's movements.

HERMAN,

Scout.

PAOLA, KANS., October 6, 1864.

Major- General SYKES,

Lawrence:

Five hundred men of Colonel Pennock's militia regiment have reported at Olathe on my first order. All want to go home, but I say n.

T. MOONLIGHT,

Colonel.

LAWRENCE, October 6, 1864.

Colonel MOONLIGHT,

Paola:

Pennock's militia regiment has not been called out by the Governor.

Let them go home.

GEO. SYKES,

Major-General, Commanding.