Thayer I send my quartermaster to Kansas to see about purchasing them there. How will they be paid for? Will Lieutenant Robb superintend the purchases? Will you designate some one? Lieutenant Robb will telegraph from Fort Scott and received your answer. It is important to receive the stock as early as possible or before the season passes. I have sent quartermaster to Kansas to receive by telegraph your instructions and facilitate the purchase.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. A. PHILLIPS,

Colonel, Commanding.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., June 8, 1864.

(Received 5.20 p. m.)

His Excellency the PRESIDENT,

Washington, D. C.:

The nature of the information is too grave, involving the interests of the country and the safety of individuals, to admit of transmitting the business through the express. A sense of duty obliges me to refrain from so transmitting it.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8, 1864-6 p. m.

Major-General ROSECRANS, Saint Louis, Mo.:

Yours of to-day received. I am unable to conceive how a message can be less safe by the express than by staff officer. If you send a verbal message, the messenger is one additional person let into the secret.

A. LINCOLN,

President of the United States.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., June 8, 1864.

Major-General ROSECRANS,

Commanding Department of the Missouri:

Governor Morton will be here. I have requested Major-General Heintzelman to come also.

Very respectfully, yours,

H. B. CARRINGTON,

Brigadier-General.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO., June 8, 1864.

General EWING, Commanding:

The following from Charleston:

Colonel ROGERS:

The guerrillas cut the line between here and New Madrid last night and carried off a large quantity of wire. I do not think I can keep it up at present.

EWING.

I have sent out from here 100 men, 25 form Commerce, and 80 from Bloomfield, all around them, with orders to remain until they kill them off. If the force at New Madrid would join in the expe-