SAINT LOUIS, September 2, 1864.

Major SUESS, Glasgow:

I have no report of the capture of this boat or of the doings of the captors. Report by telegraph all you know.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

GLASGOW, MO., September 2, 1864.

Major-General ROSECRANS:

The steam ferry belonging to the State penitentiary left Jefferson Thursday morning, manned, piloted, &c., by convicts. She was fired into at Rocheport and taken, after her captain was killed and pilot mortally wounded. Captain Eads, of the Tutt, reports that the commanding officer at Jefferson told him that about 200 rebels crossed near Rocheport during Tuesday night, and that the boat was released the next morning. I forgot to state in former dispatch that on Wednesday noon about 200 guerrillas were concentrating between Waverly and Dover.

HENRY SUESS,

Major, &c.

PLEASANT HILL, September 2, 1864.

Captain STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

There are no guerrillas in the vicinity of Blackwater Crossing, nor any signs of any in the last week. Will I go on or return to La Fayette and Saline? I learned yesterday that guerrillas were quite numerous on the border of Saline and Cooper. Please answer to-night.

B. F. LAZEAR,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CENTRAL MISSOURI,
Warrensburg, September 2, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel B. F. LAZEAR, Pleasant Hill:

Major Kelly, with three companies of Fourth Missouri Militia, at Tabo and Higgins' farm, and the two companies at Chapel Hill, has been ordered to move into Cooper and Pettis Counties. You will have to take care of La Fayette and Saline.

By orders of Brigadier-General Brown:

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SAINT JOSEPH, September 2, 1864.

Colonel O. D. GREENE, Saint Louis:

I have the honor to call attention to my telegram of the 30th ultimo* asking for instructions as to mounting a portion of the new regiments for service against the bushwhackers. It is important that there be as little delay as possible in mounting the troops.

CLINTON B. FISK,

Brigadier-General.

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* See Part II, p. 942.

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