SMITHLAND, December 16, 1864.

Captain JAMES GRAHAM,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

SIR: A reliable scout reports that a small party of rebels entered Dycusburg about noon to-day. Several shots were fired at him, but he escaped. He thinks their object is plunder and conscription.

Very respectfully,

HENRY P. REED,

Captain, Commanding Post.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MILITARY DIST. OF KENTUCKY,

Numbers 92.
Lexington, Ky., December 16, 1864.

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II. Colonel P. W. Stanhope is assigned to the command of the camp of rendezvous, at Covington, Ky., established by Special Orders, Numbers 26, paragraph V, of date October 5, 1864, from these headquarters, vice G. Clay Smith relieved.

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By command of Brevet Major-General Burbridge:

J. BATES DICKSON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

LEXINGTON, December 16, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel T. B. FAIRLEIGH,

Louisville, Ky.:

General Meredith telegraphs that Lyon has captured Princeton and Eddyville, and commands the Cumberland at Kelly's crossing with eight pieces of artillery. What reliable information have you about Lyon?

J. BATES DICKSON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

MOUNT STERLING, December 16, 1864.

Captain J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

A party of thirty rebels has passed down the country between here and Sharpsburg, crossing six miles from this place. They are said to be well mounted. Would it not be well to bring one gun down from fort and post it in the northern end of town, and protect it with a company of infantry?

BARBER,

Captain.

Per JOHN J. SEWELL,

Lieutenant and Post Adjutant.