that Brookhaven and Summit were the points as which Taylor's [men], in case they succeded in crossing, were to be supplied with stores. From Summit I went to Osyka and found that all the provisions had been moved to Summit. At Camp Moore I found Colonel Orgden with 210 men, who were to scout the country and stop cotton. At Bayou Barbary, in Livington Parish, I found two companies under Captain Doyal (about seventy-five or eighty men). They are there to stop cotton, but there is more smuggling done there than any other place. They (the Confederates) get powder, revolvers, carbines, caps, clothing, and provisions. Stopped two days there. I saw a man by name of Alcus get fifty carbines and 60,000 water-proof caps. At Osyka, in the printing office, I saw in a paper that all the militia of Alabama should be sent to Mobile, because an order was received from Richmond that no troops could be sent from there, and the State must protect itself. All negroes to be sent to Mobile to work on the fortifications. General Hodge is commanding, with headquarters at Liberty.

F. J. HERRON,

Major-General.

(Received to-day from scout.0

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Devall's Bluff, Ark., September 25, 1864.-10 a. m.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Little Rock:

The Celeste, with 100 men, reached Peach Orchard Bluff yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, having been sent there for bricks. Rebel pickets were discovered there and driven off. The boat returned this morning with about 16,000 ordinary bricks.

Very respectfully,

C. C. ANDREWS,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Devall's Bluff, Ark., September 25, 1864-4 p. m.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Little Rock:

The steamer Kenton was fired into yesterday just below Clarendon from that side on her passage out. Men described as belonging to the regular Confederate army have been with a few miles of here on the east side of the river within the past three days.

C. C. ANDREWS,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE,
Memphis, Tenn., September 25, 1864.

Major General E. R. S. CANBY,

Commanding Military Division of West Mississippi:

GENERAL: I beg leave to inclose a communication* addressed to me by Captain Bowman, inspector of cavalry, Department of Tennessee. It is now pretty well ascertained that Price and Shelby have

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* Not found.

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