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monstration. I can do nothing more. See my letter of yesterday. H. W. Halleck, Major-General. The letter thus referred to was as follows: headquarters Department of the Missouri, St. Louis, January 6, 1862. Brigadier-General D. C. Buell, Louisville, Ky. General: I have delayed writing to you for several days in hopes of getting some favorable news from the South-west. The news received to-day, however, is unfavorable, it being stated that Price is making a stand near Springfield, and that all our available forces will be required to dislodge and drive him out. My last advices from Columbus represent that the enemy has about twenty-two thousand men there. I have only about fifteen thousand at Cairo, Fort Holt, and Paducah, and after leaving guards at these places I could not send into the field over ten or eleven thousand. Moreover, many of these are very imperfectly armed. Under these circumstances, it would be madness for me to attempt any serious operat