[Indorsement.]

HDQRS. STATE OF MISSOURI, ADJT. GEN'S OFFICE,
April 30, 1864.

Respectfully returned.

There are no arms at Jefferson City, but the desired number can be shipped from here at any moment, should the general so direct.

JOHN B. GRAY,

Adjutant-General of Missouri.

BOONVILLE, MO., April 29, 1864.

Major-General ROSECRANS,

Saint Louis, Mo.:

A massage from General Brown to the mayor of this city, received this afternoon, notifies him of the presence of guerrillas, and calls upon him to arm the loyal citizens. I can raise enough men to defend the city, but we have no arms nor ammunition. Can some be sent us? It is the west of the loyal citizens that a body of troops sufficient to keep everything quiet in this vicinity be stationed here.

A. H. THOMPSON,

Captain, &c.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., April 29, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER SEVENTH KANSAS CAV. VOLS.:

SIR: I am directed by the major-general commanding to instruct you to select from your regiment 100 of the most reliable and trusty men for immediately and important service.

These men will be chosen for their sobriety, trustworthiness, and promptness in obeying orders. They will be fully equipped, well mounted, and ready to take the field at half an hour's notice. They will be executed from all duty that would in the least interfere with their readiness for immediate departure, and will await the orders of the provost-marshal-general.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. F. BENNETT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Saint Louis, Mo., April 29, 1864.

Rev. J. P. FIINDLEY,

Stated Clerk, westminster College, Fulton, Mo.:

DEAR SIR: Assured by your letter of the 25th that the members of the Presbytery of Missouri, which was to have met at Boonville, are loyal, I am quite satisfied that nothing but a proper understanding of the origin and purposes of the is necessary to cause it to meet their hearty approval. My respect for your body and for the principles of religious freedom requires that I should give an explanation to your and to the religious public. Loyal church members,