Purchasers are notified that no transfer of products will be regarded as a transfer of title, except it be based upon the full satisfaction of the just claims of laborers for wages, paid in the currency of the United States.

Provost-marshals are hereby directed to notify owners, lessees, and managers that property will not be moved to market except it compliance with the above conditions.

The provost-marshal-general and the superintendent bureau of free labor are directed, in concurrence, to provide for the full execution of this and previous orders relating to this subject.

By command of Major-General Banks:

GEORGE B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

THIBODEAUX, September 22, 1864.

(Received 6 p.m.)

Major G. B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

A party of guerrillas of some thirty were reported by our patrol between Labadieville and Napoleonville. Two companies from Napoleonville have gone out to see.

R. A. CAMERON,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding District.

THIBODEAUX, September 22, 1864.

(Received 7.30 p.m.)

Major G. B. DRAKE,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

There were no guerrillas between Napoleonville and Labadieville to-day. Major Clybourn has arrested and lodged in jail the patrol who made the false report.

R. A. CAMERON,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding District.

HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES OF NEW ORLEANS, New Orleans, September 22, 1864.

Brigadier General R. A. CAMERON,
Thibodeaux:

The general directs that you prepare for a general and through reconnaissance of the country around Lake Natchez to be co-operated with by gun-boats. Inform these headquarters what troops you will send on this side and at what time you can certainly have them at the head to Lake Natchez. The general will arrange with the navy after your telegram is received.

FREDERIC SPEED,

Assistant Adjutant-General.