KANSAS CITY, MO., May 27, 1864-10.35 [a.m.]

Colonel J. F. PHILIPS,

Sedalia, Mo.:

All right. Keep heavy scouts in Saline and border of La Fayette.

By order of Brigadier-General Brown:

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WARRENSBURG, MO., May 27, 1864. (Received 3.10 p.m.)

General BROWN,

Kansas City, Mo.:

My scouts returned last night. Saw the bushwhackers' pickets, but did not find their camp. No news to-day. The stage left here this morning under escort.

J. McFERRAN,

Colonel, Commanding.

KANSAS CITY, MO., May 27, 1864-8.15 p.m.

Colonel McFERRAN,

Warrensburg, Mo.:

Why did the scout return to Warrensburg? Send it out immediately again. Find which way the bushwhackers are moving. What troops have you on the move? Telegraph fully.

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

KANSAS CITY, MO., May 27, 1864-8.30 p.m.

Colonel McFERRAN,

Warrensburg, Mo.:

By order of Major-General Rosecrans you will arrest and hold for trial Captain Moore for running from Wellington without sufficient cause.

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

JOHNSTON, May 27, 1864.

Colonel FORD:

SIR: Am in receipt of your flattering, communication, and I have to report all quiet on the front; no excitement except now and then a scattering bushwacker skulking around. The gangs appear to have made their way north of me-that is, the old ones that have infested this country for the last two years-and are now rusticating in the vicinity of the lower Grand River, Honey Creek, Big Creek, and the country north and east of me. Unless there be some big raids from below I shall turn my attention to the hunting