ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE,

Los Angeles, Cal., May 14, 1861.

Major W. W. MACKALL,

Asst. Adjt. General, Hdqrs. Dept. of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.:

MAJOR: Major Haller's command may be expected to arrive here on the 13th of June. Major Carleton's company (K) will be here to-morrow morning. He is now at Cohnenga Pass (twelve miles distant). There need be no anxiety concerning matters at this place, at least until political affairs materially change.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WINF'D S. HANCOCK,

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster.

ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 6.
San Francisco, May 15, 1861.

I. Neither commanding officers of posts who avail themselves of leaves of absence of seven days, nor officers to whom such leaves are granted, will go to such distance from their posts that they cannot in the usual mode of travel rejoin their posts by the expiration of the leave. No leave will be extended at these headquarters, when this order is in the slightest degree violated.

II. All officers charged with the care of public property will hold themselves in readiness at all times to protect it at every hazard. No public property will ever be surrendered in this department.

By command of Brigadier-General Sumner:

RICHD. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 7.
San Francisco, May 18, 1861.

Any citizen in the employment of the Army in this department who is opposed to the Union will be instantly discharged.

E. V. SUMNER,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, May 18, 1861.

Captain JOHN ADAMS,

First Dragoons, Commanding Fort Crook, Cal.:

CAPTAIN: Send Company E, Sixth Infantry, to Benicia Barracks immediately.

By order of Brigadier-General Sumner:

W. W. MACKALL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, Cal., May 20, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army,

Headquarters of the Army, Washington, D. C.:

SIR: I have the honor to report that I have found it necessary to withdraw the greater part of the garrison from Fort Umpqua and one