ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE, March 20, 1865.

Major General GEORGE CROOK,

Cumberland, Md.:

Your exchange has been effected. The general-in-chief directs that you immediately return to command of your department. Report receipt of this order without delay.

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HARPER'S FERRY, W. VA., March 20, 1865.

General MORGAN,

Chief of Staff:

Colonel Reno's expedition is crossing the river all right.

Respectfully,

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, March 20, 1865.

General STEVENSON:

The One hundred and ninety-fourth Ohio, Colonel McCook, passed through Cumberland at 9 a. m. to-day. Please order to regiment to Charleston to report to Brevet Major-General Egan. General Hancock will be down on a special just after the mail, but will return at once.

C. H. MORGAN,
Brevet Brigadier-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF WEST VIRGINIA, Numbers 41.
Cumberland, Md., March 20, 1865.

In obedient to orders from the general-in-chief the undersigned assumes command of the Department of West Virginia.

GEROGE CROOK,

Major-General.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, March 20, 1865.

Major General JOHN A. DIX,

Commanding Dept. of the East, Headquarters New York:

GENERAL: I inclose for your information a copy of two letters of the 12th instant, addressed by Mr. D. Cambell McNab, of Richmond, Canada West, to the Secretary of War, giving warning of a proposed raid from Columbia into the United States.

I am, general, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

[Inclosure No. 1.]

RICHMOND, COUNTY CHARLESTON, WEST CANADA, March 13, 1865.

The Honorable SECRETARY OF WAR,

Washington:

SIR: I have the honor to inform you that a plot is about being entered into by a number of rebel refugees which has for its object pillage and destruction. It is contemplated by these unprincipled par-