Columbia, Boone County. The commanding officer of Company

D upon being relieved will proceed with his company to Rocheport Mo.

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By order of Brigadier General Clinton B. Fisk:

W. T. CLARKE,

First Lieutenant, Aide-de-Camp, and Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Fort Leavenworth, February 17, 1865.

Major-General BLUNT, Olathe, Kans.:

I leave to-day for Saint Louis. Any important dispatches send there. Keep a sharp watch to the south and southwest, that we may have due notice of any movement.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Fort Leavenworth, February 17, 1865.

Brigadier-General MITCHELL, Omaha:

I leave to-day for Saint Louis. Send dispatches there. Keep scouts out in Northern Nebraska to watch movement of Indians. I would also send some of those Pawnees up Loup Fork to find their camp.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Fort Leavenworth, February 17, 1865.

Colonel MOONLIGHT, Denver:

Commission having been ordered by department commander makes it all right. I leave to-day for Saint Louis. Send dispatches there. How much corn have you at Fremont's Orchard and Valley Station? Can you spare the stage company 1,000 or 2,000 bushels?

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

DENVER, February 17, 1865.

Major-General DODGE, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.:

Ten thousand bushels of corn at Valley Station, the only corn en route from Junction to Julesburg. Quartermaster is sending all over the country for corn.

T. MOONLIGHT,

Colonel.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, February 18, 1865.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War:

SIR: Telegrams and dispatches from U. S. diplomatic agents and consuls in Europe indicate that one or more iron-clad rams are about to be dispatched from France and Sapin, and may already have started, to attack a port or ports of this country. The information is not definitive