KANSAS CITY, MO., May 26, 1864-3.45 p.m.

Captain BALLINGER,

Commanding, Lexington, Mo.:

Report by telegraph anything of interest occurring in your vicinity. What news, if any, from Colonel McFerran?

By order:

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LEXINGTON, MO., May 26, 1864. (Received 10.15 p.m.)

Captain JAMES H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Kansas, City, Mo.:

I have no news from Colonel McFerran. Major Mullins left here yesterday morning for the Snibar Hills, with all of Company H. Bushwhackers, said to be 16, attacked a small squad of Company F last evening this side of Wellington and killed 1 man.

JNO. BALLINGER,

Captain, Commanding.

LEXINGTON, MO., May 26, 1864. (Received 3.45 p.m.)

Colonel JAMES McFERRAN,

Warrensburg, Mo.:

I have reliable information that a squad of bushwhackers, numbering from 50 to 100, is now in camp 1 1/4 miles a little north of west from Charles Ewing's, in La Fayette County. I have no men to send out.

JNO. BALLINGER,

Captain, Commanding Post.

KANSAS CITY, MO., May 26, 1864-10.15 p.m.

Captain J. BALLINGER,

Lexington, Mo.:

Colonel Philips has orders to send strong scouting parties into La Fayette. Communicate with him by messengers.

By order of Brigadier-General Brown:

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WARRENSBURG, MO., May 26, 1864. (Received 4.25 p.m.)

General BROWN,

Kansas City, Mo.:

The guerrillas on yesterday evening were in the Post Oak country engaged in robbing the citizens. Can rations be issued to citizens and citizen guards who will take the field against the bushwhackers?

JAMES McFERRAN,

Colonel, Commanding.