HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, DISTRICT OF Kentucky,
Louisville, September 2, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel FAIRLEIGH,

Post Commandant, Louisville:

COLONEL: Inclosed please find copy of telegram received from General Burbridge. You will select four guerrillas from Deposter's men, if you have them, and send them to Brandenburg to be publicly shot in relation for the murder of Mr. Henry, of Meade County.

By command of Brigadier General Hugh Ewing:

J. S. GRIER,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure.]

LEXINGTON, September 2, 1864.

Brigadier General HUGH EWING,

Louisville, Ky. ;

Mr. Henry was murdered by guerrillas in Meade County. Have your guerrillas shot at once in Brandenburg from Deposter's men if you have them.

S. G. BURBRIDGE,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.

[SEPTEMBER 2, 1864. - For Washburn to Canby, in reference to the movement of Mower's DIVISION, SIXTEENTH Army Corps, to Devall's Bluff, Ark., see Vol. XLI.]

COLUMBUS, KY., September 2, 1864.

Captain PHELPS PAINE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Paducah, Ky.:

I am informed by a man whom Colonel Hawkins vouches for that on Wednesday Faulkner and Dawson's advance entered Trenton. They are subsisting off the country and ordering rations for 1,500 men.

JAMES N. McARTHUR,

Colonel Fourth U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, Commanding Post.

GENERAL ORDERS,
CAMP OF 20TH IOWA, 2nd Brigadier, U. S. FORCES, Numbers 1.
Mobile Point, Ala., September 2, 1864.

I. Agreeably to instructions from General Bailey, commanding the forces at Mobile Point, Ala., the undersigned hereby assumes command of this the Second Brigade.

II. First Lieutenant C. S. Lake, adjutant Twentieth Iowa Infantry, will perform the duties of assistant adjutant-general of the brigade.

WM. McE. DYE,

Colonel Twentieth Iowa.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington, September 3, 1864.

The signal success that Divine Providence has recently vouchsafed to the operations of the United States fleet and army in the harbor of Mobile and the reduction of Fort Powell, Fort Gaines, and Fort Morgan,