BALTIMORE, MD., September 7, 1864.

General JOHN D. STEVENSON:

Your dispatch received. We are ready and anxious to resume repairs of road, and can reopen it to Martinsburg, we think, in four days and nights of uninterrupted work. We have had more than there years' experience, however, of every character, in this business,

and do not feel satisfied that the proportion is adequate, unless you can assure us that our troops thoroughly hold the line in front of our road from Berryville or Charlestown to Bunker Hill and west of it covering North Mountain and Back Creek. If this is the case, and you can generally assure us of the reasonable safety of our men, and trains, we will venture the work at once. Please advice us.

W. P. SMITH.

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DISTRICT OF HARPERS'S FERRY,
Harper's Ferry, September 7, 1864.

W. P. SMITH,

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad:

I will be responsible for the safety of construction train and working party. I think the safety of the road in present position of affairs beyond question.

JOHN D. STEVENSON,

Brigadier-General.

CUMBERLAND, September 7, 1864.

Captain P. G. BIER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Harper's Ferry:

The stragglers, convalescents, &c., about 1,400 in number, started via railroad, t Hancock on the 2nd instant, Captain R. Cowan, second Regiment Potomac Home Brigade, in charge.

B. F. KELLY,

Brevet Major-General.

MARTINSBURG, September 7, 1864.

General KELLEY:

Everything is quiet along the lines. Avarell still at Bunker Hill.

BRENAMAN.

CUMBERLAND, MD., September 7, 1864.

(Received 8th.)

Brevet Major-General CROOK,

Commanding Department of West Virginia:

General Kelley telegraphs from Parkersburg that the country below Parkersburg and Charleston is infested by small banks of guerrillas.

Shall I send any troops to Parkersburg?

A. N. DUFFIE,

Brigadier-General.