CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO., January 14, 1865.

Major H. HANNAHS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Saint Louis District:

I have just heard from expedition sent to Cherokee Bay, Ark. They killed 17 rebels, captured a few prisoners and 50 horses. We had 1 man killed and 1 wounded. Expedition will reach Bloomfield this evening, having to swim the Saint Francis River.

J. B. ROGERS,

Colonel, Commanding.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, January 14, 1865.

Major H. HANNAHS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

I have a later report from Lieutenant Rinne, who commanded the expedition from Cherokee Bay. He reports the killing of 19 instead of 17 guerrillas.

J. B. ROGERS,

Colonel, Commanding.

SALT LAKE CITY, January 14, 1865.

(Received 12. 20 a. m. 16th.)

Honorable Edwin M. STANTON,

Secretary of War;

It is the universal wish of loyal men in Utah that a department of the plains, including Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, and Montana, be created, under General Connor. Without it we feel it to be hopeless to maintain our communication with the East.

H. S. RUMFIELD,

General Agent Overland Mail.

J. D. DOTY,

Governor of Utah Territory.

AMOS REED,

Secretary of Utah Territory.

WILLIAM REYNOLDS,

General Superintendent of Overland Stage Line.

G. W. CARLETON,

Manager Western Union Telegraph.

JOHN TITUS,

Chief Justice of Utah.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF NEW MEXICO,
Santa Fe, N. Mex., January 14, 1865.

Brigadier General LORENZO THOMAS,

Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.:

GENERAL: Please find inclosed herewith a census of captive Navajo Indians now on the reservation at the Bosque Redondo. Also a paper setting forth some of the characteristics of those Indians, and a copy of a letter from Brigadier-General Crocker, who commands the troops at that place. The two former papers are originals, and no copies have been kept at these headquarters for want of time to make them. They were prepared by Captain Francis McCabe, First Cavalry New Mexico