SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE SUSQUEHANNA, No. 250.
Chambersburg, Pa., October 21, 1864.

1. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Steward, First Battalion, 100-days' Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanding U. S. forces at Johnstown, Pa., will proceed without delay with his command to Chambersburg, Pa., and report to the assistant adjutant-general of the department for orders. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

2. Captain J. P. Short, Sixteenth Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, commanding U. S. forces in Columbia County, Pa., will send without delay two companies of the Veteran Reserve Corps from his command to Chambersburg, Pa., to report to the assistant adjutant-general of the department for orders. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation by railroad from Bloomsburg, Pa.

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By command of Major-General Couch:

JNO. S. SCHULTZE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

MONTPELIER, VT., October 21, 1864.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Eight of the raiders taken in Canada are trying to force a hasty trial before a magistrate. They have plenty of money, and have employed the most eminent counsel, attempting to resort to the Halifax dodge. Please telegraph immediately to the Governor-General of Canada, at Quebec, asking him to prevent such trial. A special messenger has just arrived, bringing me information that the trail is set for Saturday (to-morrow) at noon. The parties thus far arrested admit what they have done; say they are duly commissioned officers of the Confederate Army, detailed to carry on war on our borders in this style. May