HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
Washington, September 9, 1861.

Brigadier General E. V. SUMNER, U. S. Army,

Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.:

SIR: Lieutenant-General Scott, with the assent of the Secretary of War, directs that you suspend preparations for the expedition against Western Texas, via Mazatlan. Instructions will be sent you by the next mail for other purposes. Prepare the regular troops, except four companies of artillery, to come by steam to New York. Two regiments of volunteers will replace the regulars.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, September 9, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General, U. S. Army,

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

COLONEL: The Governor of California has given the following appointments to officers of the Army, and as their services will be of the utmost importance in the volunteers, I would respectfully ask the sanction of the General-in-Chief: Major A. J. Smith, First U. S. Cavalry, to be colonel of the Second Regiment of Cavalry; H. M. Judah, Fourth Infantry, to be colonel Second Regiment of Infantry; First Lieutenant Benjamin F. Davis, First U. S. Cavalry, to be lieutenant-colonel (Battalion) First Regiment Cavalry; First Lieutenant John Kellogg, Third Artillery, to be lieutenant-colonel --- Regiment of Infantry; Second Lieutenant E. V. Sumner, Jr., First U. S. Cavalry, to be major Second Regiment of Cavalry.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. V. SUMNER,

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

P. S. -Bvt. Major J. H. Carleton, First Cavalry, was appointed colonel at the request of the Secretary of War.

[First indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS ARMY,
September 28, 1861.

Respectfully forwarded to the Adjutant-General, by direction of the General-in-Chief.

E. D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Second indorsement.]

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

September 30, 1861.

Respectfully forwarded to the Honorable Secretary of War.

HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, September 9, 1861.

His Excellency JOHN G. DOWNEY,

Governor of the State of California, Sacramento City, Cal.:

GOVERNOR: I have received your letter of the 6th instant in relation to the Indians in Trinity County. I doubt very much these Indian