HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
Lost Angeless, Cal., November 25, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel JOSEPH R. WEST,

First Infantry California Vols., Commanding Fort Yuma, Cal.:

COLONEL: The following dispatch I have just received. It did not come sooner, as the wires were down. *

I am entirely at a loss to know what the cause is of this sudden change unless it be that General Wright is ordered East. Pray lose no time in getting here.

I am, colonel, very respectfully,

JAMES H. CARLETON,

Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding.

MARSHAL'S OFFICE, SOUTHERN DIST. OF CALIFORNIA,

Los Angeles, November 25, 1861.

Colonel J. H. CARLETON, U. S. Army:

SIR: I learn that probably Showalter's party will go by way of the Mojave River and Mojave Crossings. Peoples, one of the party, intimated as much sub rosa to a friend here. I think they left the Monte yesterday. At least they have left here.

Very respectfully and truly, your obedient servant,

H. D. BARROWS,

U. S. Marshal.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, Cal., November 25, 1861.

Lieutenant Colonel A. CADY,

Seventh Infantry, Commanding District of Oregon, Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter.:

SIR: The general commanding the department desires you to halt Major Lugenbeel's command at Fort Vancouver. For the present they will take post at that station.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

RICHD. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON,
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., November 25, 1861.

Major R. C. DRUM,

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

MAJOR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt by this morning's mail of your letter of the 15th instant, and to state, in reply thereto, that the telegraphic dispatch referred to appears to have been received at this place on the 7th ofOctober, and that orders were issued the same day by the commander of the district (Colonel Beall) for the recall of the detachment with Lieutenant Mullan in terms as follows:

III. The detachments from companies of the Ninth Infantry on duty as escort to Lieutenant Mullan's wagon-road expedition will be relieved and forthwith join their respective companies.

I have no means to show in what manner the orders were sent to Lieutenant Mullan, nor when they were received by him, as no official

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*See Drum to Carleton, November 18, p. 729.

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