B. F. Lazear to Major SuEss, September 2, 1864

Major SuEss, Glasgow: I have no report of the capture of this boat or of the doings of the captors. Report by telegraph all you know. W. S. ROSECRANS, Major-General. GLAsGow, Mo., September 2, 1864. Major-General ROSECRANS: The steam ferry belonging to the State penitentiary left Jefferson Thursday morning, manned, piloted, &c., by convicts. She was fired into at Rocheport and taken, after her captain was killed and pilot mortally wounded. Captain Eads, of the Tutt, reports that the commanding officer at Jefferson told him that about 200 rebels crossed near Rocheport during Tuesday night, and that the boat was released the next morning. I forgot to state in former dispatch that on Wednesday noon about 200 guerrillas were concentrating between Waverly and Dover. HENRY SUESS, Major, &e. PLEASANT HILL, September 2, 1864, Captain STEGER, Assistant Adjutant-General : There are no guerrillas in the vicinity of Blackwater Crossing, nor any signs of any in the last week. Will I go on or return to La Fayette and Saline? I learned yesterday that guerrillas were quite numerous on the border of Saline and Cooper. Please answer to-night.

B. F. LAZEAR,