it not be just as available from that point for anything you have in contemplation as to send it to Rolla? The trouble in Central District is we have no cavalry there; all gone or going out of service. Am going to Kansas City to-morrow to look after those matters.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., March 23, 1865. (Received 3. 45 p. m.)

Major-General POPE:

General Mitchell telegraphs most terrible storm on the plains and large fire at Fort Kearny; burnt stables and all the hay. The garrison was saved by superhuman efforts of troops. This in a hard blow for our stock. The cavalry is snowed in and water-bound all along the road. The elements are evidently partial to the Indians.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., March 23, 1865. (Received 3. 45 p. m.)

Major-General POPE:

Have you received anything about headquarters? Please make on exchange when you get to Little Rock for Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry. I would suggest that rest of Third Wisconsin be sent here and another small regiment to replace it. This will bring the Third Wisconsin together and put the Fifteenth Kansas out of the State.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

STATE OF MISSOURI, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Jefferson City, March 23, 1865.

General POPE:

GENERAL: Yours of the 20th is acknowledged with unfeigned satisfaction and pleasure. The frankness of spirit and the sincerity of tone characterizing your letter are gratifying to me beyond the assurance they convey of personal comity between you and myself. They bespeak and are an earnest of that future harmony of action between the national and State authorities which is so essential to the restoration of order in Missouri. And it is therefore for my State, more than myself, that I thank you for what you have said in your letter of the 20th, and the manner in which you have said it. Rest assured that nothing shall ever be wanting on my part to assist, second, and strengthen your efforts in any way possible. As a citizen and native of Missouri, all my interests are centered here, and I can appreciate fully the importance of the services you have rendered in this crisis in the history of our State by your suggestions to the President which you have made, and in your reply to my inquiry and your general order last issued. I have assurances from every part of the State that thousands of persons who have heretofore given no assistance whatever to the cause of the Union, of peace, and of quiet will actively