WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., October 21, 1862.

Governor TOD,

Columbus, Ohio:

Brook will get orders. It seems as if it was the special business of recruiting officers to baffle and thwart the Government. Please report to me if he acts in the same way again and he shall be dismissed.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, October 21, 1862.

Honorable P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War:

We need at least 10,000 serviceable guns. See my weekly report to Ordnance Department. Wrote you fully yesterday.

GEO. B. WRIGHT,

Quartermaster-General, Ohio.

HARRISBURG, PA., October 21, 1862-2 p. m.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

General-in-Chief:

The following dispatch has just been handed me by an officer of the Anderson Cavalry:

HARRISBURG, October 20, 1862.

Captain W. J. PALMER:

You are directed by the War Department to proceed with the Anderson Cavalry to join Buell in Kentucky without delay.

RICHD. I. DODGE,

Captain, Eighth Infantry.

Captain Palmer is not in Carlisle and the regiment is not fully equipped. Not having heard of the order I send you copy.

A. G. CURTIN,

Governor of Pennsylvania.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., October 22, 1862.

Major General B. F. BUTLER,

Commanding, &c., New Orleans La.:

GENERAL: The Secretary of War directs me to transmit to you for your information the inclosed copy of a communication the Secretary received from the Secretary of State, conveying a copy of a dispatch of the 26th ultimo from the minister resident at Brussels, in relation to contracts entered into by insurgent agents with manufacturers in Verviers for supplies of military cloths, and suggesting the probabilities that the funds to meet said contracts may have formed a part of the money sequestered by you.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.