HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,
New Orleans, La., September 15, 1864.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff, &c., Washington, D. C.:

The latest reports from General Steele are to the 9th instant. A part of Price's force had crossed at Dardanelle. General Steele's re-enforcement were arriving and he was sufficiently in force to take the field against Price and Shelby. No other important news.

E. R. S. CANBY,

Major-General, Commanding.

NEW ORLEANS, September 15, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel C. T. CHRISTENSEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: I have the honor to report that the submarine telegraph cable was successfully laid between Forts Morgan and Gaines, Mobile Bay, on the evening of the 12th instant. The laying was delayed twenty-four hours awaiting favorable wind and tide. We used 23,530 feet of cable, and it was working perfectly when I left there yesterday morning.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. G. FULLER,

Captain and A. Q. M., Asst. Supt. U. S. Military Telegraph,

Military Division of West Mississippi.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF WEST MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 129.
New Orleans, La., September 15, 1864.

1. Colonel Clark, Thirty-fourth Iowa Volunteers, having reported at these headquarters, in compliance with Special Orders, Numbers 115, paragraph 8, current series, from these headquarters, will proceed with his regiment to Morganza, La., and report upon his arrival there to the commanding officer. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation to Morganza by the steamer Elias, which took the regiment from Mobile Bay.

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By order of Major General E. R. S. Canby:

B. F. MOREY,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF WEST MISSISSIPPI,

New Orleans, La., September 15, 1864.

Major General N. P. BANKS,

Commanding Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La.:

GENERAL: The correspondence of Colonel Day, in relation to the Mexican force under Cortina, has been received. Colonel Day's action, so far as is known here, accords with our neutral obligations and is approved. The Mexican refugees are entitled to an asylum in our territory, when they deliver up their arms and munitions and restore any