LITTLE ROCK, May 27, 1864.

Colonel TRUMBULL,

Commanding, Devall's Bluff:

The general directs that you send a scouting party in the direction of where Marmaduke is reported to be; strong enough not to be afraid of bushwhackers, and to skirmish the enemy should he be advancing. Scouting parties have been ordered out from Brownsville and Pine Bluff. If a gun-boat has not gone up to meet the boats from Jacksonport one should to. Please telegraph again.

C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK,
Little Rock, Ark., May 27, 1864.

Colonel POWELL CLAYTON,

Commanding, Pine Bluff:

The following dispatch just received:

DEVALL'S BLUFF, May 27, 1864.

Captain C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Captain Hickey, of Gun-boat 26, is just in from below. He reports Marmaduke in Bayou Meto bottom with 3,000 men, and says he believed the report.

M. M. TRUBMULL,

Colonel, Commanding.

The general wishes you to ascertain the truth of this report positively.

C. H. DYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Ark., May 27, 1864.

Colonel W. F. GEIGER,

Cadron Ferry (and by messenger to Springfield):

The supplies will be at Cadron Ferry, the boat going up the creek during to-night. Send your transportation over for them immediately. Use no hard bread as long as you have corn meal. Commence shoeing, but do not touch the Arkansas cavalry horses until all the rest are finished. Send any news you may hear from Major Childress, to be telegraphed from the Cadron to this point. Have all the command, except Ryan's regiment, ready to move from Springfield on Sunday morning.

J. R. WEST,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, No. 203. Washington, May 27, 1864.

By direction of the President of the United States, the Department of Missouri is assigned to the Military Division of West Mississippi, and all officers in that department will obey the orders of Major-General Canby, U. S. Volunteers.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.