HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, September 27, 1861.

His Excellency JOHN G. DOWNEY,

Governor State of California, Sacramento City, Cal.:

GOVERNOR: I have received yours of the 25th. It is impossible to receive any more companies into the Second Cavalry. I have now twelve companies, after consolidating the two smallest. The law authorizes this number, but I would have preferred having but ten. I think with you that the Los Angeles company should be mustered into Carleton's regiment of infantry, and I have given the order.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. V. SUMNER,

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

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, No. 181. San Francisco, September 27, 1861.

The companies of the Second Regiment of California Volunteer Infantry in camp at Hunter's Point will proceed to-morrow morning to Camp Sumner, near the Presidio, where the organization of the regiment will be completed.

By order of Brigadier General Sumner:

RICHD. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,

San Francisco, September 27, 1861.

Colonel BENJAMIN L. BEALL,

First Cav., Commanding Dist. of Oregon, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter.:

COLONEL: From recent information received from Washington by the general commanding the department, it is probable you will be cited to appear before the board for retiring disabled officers. The general desires me to inform you that upon the receipt of this order you will in consequence be relieved from the command of the district to enable you to comply therewith.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

RICHD. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

FORT FAUNTLEROY, N. MEX., September 27, 1861.

Honorable SIMON CAMERON:

SIR: As an old printer and soldier of the line in the grand Union Army, I exercise the privilege of addressing you this communication. Having resided sufficiently long in New Mexico and Arizona to become measurable acquainted with the wants and wishes of the people, of acquiring a practical knowledge of the georgraphical, physical, and moral condition of the country, and learning to a considerable extent the peculiarities of the inhabitants who are spread over this vast Territory, a region nearly four times as large as the State of Missouri, I feel that I can with some degree of safety and accuracy describe to you the present political condition and standing of the community. After