Granger's command is moving in two columns, one by the Lexington pike, and is to-night not far from Big Eagle; the other by the road near the railroad, and has one regiment of infantry, 300 cavalry, and a section of artillery at Paris; two regiments at Cynthiana, and the rest at Falmouth. Both columns are being pushed forward as fast as transportation will permit, and the division you suggest will be in Lexington as soon as it can be got there. Remember they are all raw troops. Bridge at Cynthiana and Paris safe. Falmouth Bridge completed by Tuesday night.

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, commanding.

General D. C. BUELL,

Louisville, Ky., care General J. T. Boyle.

Numbers 2.

Report of Major Charles B. Seidel, Third Ohio Cavalry, of skirmish near Lexington.

DANVILLE, October 19, 1862.

SIR: In compliance to orders I received from your headquarters to go to Camp Dick Robinson and take charge of the provisions left there by the rebel forces I left camp on the 16th of October at 2 p.m. and arrived at Camp Dick Robinson at 5 p.m., finding Colonel Hoskins in charge of those stores, consisting of 2,600 barrels of pork and 2,000 bushels of wheat. Went into camp at Dick Robinson with intention to return the following morning to Danville. At 11 o'clock of same night I received a message from Colonel Hoskins of the approach of General Morgan with 500 men strong toward Hickman Bridge with intention to burn said bridge, and recommending one battalion of my forces to be immediately dispatched to Hickman Bridge to prevent it from being burned by General Morgan's forces. This I complied with, by sending one battalion of the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry under command of Captain Robie.

The next morning (October 17) at 5 o'clock I started with the balance of my command, consisting of one battalion Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry to join Captain Robie at said bridge. On my arrival here I learned that Captain Gotwald, commanding four companies of Fourth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, had left Nicholasville for Lexington to drive a portion of Morgan's cavalry forces from that vicinity to prevent their pillage and burning of bridges. I then, knowing that Captain Gotwald could not accomplish his object with the force under his command, went with all the force under my command, numbering in all 260 men, to re-enforce him, which I accomplished by 3 o'clock of same day. Finding Captain Gotwald with his force stationed in town, I then went into camp 1 1/2 miles from Lexington on the Richmond pike.

At 1 o'clock the same night two citizens living about 7 miles from Lexington came in with the following statement, viz: Morgan's forces of about 500 or 600 men were advancing on the Richmond pike. I immediately sent out a scouting party of 22 men, under command of Lieutenant Hall, Company K, Third Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, to procure all possible information. At about 3 o'clock 1 corporal and 2 privates returned with 2 rebel prisoners in charge, captured about 5 miles from Lexington on the Richmond pike. The balance of the scouting party