JULY 6, 1864.

Major-General WALLACE,

Monocacy Junction, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:

Captain Leib with his cavalry are on the road. Nothing to report. No orders received.

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

JULy 6, 1864 - 5. 30 p. m.

Colonel A. R. Root,

Commanding Officer, Annapolis, Md.:

Send the six companies of militia to Monocacy Junction at once, with tree days' rations and 100 rounds ammunition per man, to report to General E. B. Tyler. Arm the 300 skulkers and make them do guard duty for the present. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have been notified to have a train ready for the six companies at once.

By command of Major-General Wallace:

SAML. B. LAWRENCE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

July 6, 1864 - 9 a. m.

Major-General COUCH,

Harrisburg:

Your arrangement with Governor Curtin for altering the mustering into the service of the United States "by subsisting the service of the State, if you and he deem it expedient," is not approved. There is no authority of law for paying troops not mustered into the United States service. This Department cannot consent that the national service may be disowned by mustering into the service of a State troops paid out of the national Treasury. You will inform His Excellency Governor Curtin that his proposed condition that "the Governor and General Couch may alter the clause for mustering in by substituting the service of the State" is not approved by this Department.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

HARRISBURG, July 6, 1864 - 11. 50 a. m.

(Received 1. 50 p. m.)

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Your dispatch of 10 a. m. received. Have notified Governor Curtin. All quiet at hagerstown. Imboden's men stealing a few horses in vicinity of that place and Sharpsburg.

D. N. COUCH,

Major-General.