KANSAS CITY, MO., June 4, 1864. [Received 4 p.m.]

Brigadier-General BROWN,

Warrensburg, Mo.:

Had I not better leave for Pleasant Hill to-day? I can safely take from Kansas City, Independence, Westport, and Hickman Mills from 100 to 150 mounted men.

JAMES H. FORD,

Colonel.

WARRENSBURG, MO., June 4, 1864-4 p.m.

Colonel JAMES H. FORD,

Kansas City, Mo.:

You had best keep the troops at Independence, Kansas City, and Westport to operate against the enemy from that line, while you have a force in the vicinity of Pleasant Hill for the same purpose in case they move towards Kansas. Make arrangements to obtain information by the means of citizens, women, and boys, and save your troops, and keep them concentrated for more important movements. In case you learn of a concentration in Jackson County and the telegraph is cut, manage to get the information to our troops in the vicinity of Chapel Hill and Holden. The commanders are instructed to act with you and follow up vigorously any move of the enemy.

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

KANSAS CITY, MO., June 4, 1864. [Received 5.30 p.m.]

General BROWN,

Warrensburg, Mo.:

I am off in a few moments for Pleasant Hill with 100 men.

J. H. FORD,

Colonel, Commanding.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., June 4, 1864.

Colonel GEORGE H. HALL, Sedalia, Mo.:

The major-general commanding directs me to inform you that Colonel Wear, commanding at Boonville, telegraphs that a man was robbed and shot in the hand, and that Cooper County is infested with bushwhackers, and that the stage was turned back this morning from Georgetown. The general also directs me to say that you should take steps to remedy these evils, if possible, at once.

JAS. TOTTEN,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

KANSAS CITY, MO., June 4, 1864.

Major General WILLIAM S. ROSECRANS:

DEAR SIR: On my arrival at home, I regret to say, I found matters in this section of country in a very disturbed condition. The