HEADQUARTERS DISTRICTOF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA,
Los Angeles, Cal., November 26, 1861.

Major E. A. RIGG,

First Infantry California Volunteers, Commanding Camp Wright:

MAJOR: Proceed at once to Fort Yuma and relieve Lieutenant-Colonel West in the command of that post. The officer next in rank to yourself at Camp Wright will have command of that camp until the arrival of Major Ferugsson, First Cavalry California Volunteers, now en route from San Francisco, Cal., direct. Colonel West will repair to Los Angeles to replace the undersigned, now under orders from San Francisco.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES H. CARLETON,

Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, Numbers 61
Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., November 26, 1861.

I. Companies H and I and the band of the First Cavalry, under the command of Captain J. H. Whittlesey, will embark on the steamer Cortez to-day for San Francisco.

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A. CADY,
Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh Infantry, Commanding District.

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Sacramento, November 27, 1861.

General GEORGE WRIGHT, U. S. ARMY,

Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco:

GENERAL: In the month of July last GeneralSumner, then commanding Department of the Pacific, U. S. Army, ordered the seizure of some fifty-seven stand of improved rifles belonging to the State of California and then in Nevada Territory, being a portion of the State arms sent there inMay, 1860, at the time of the disastrous fight between the citizens of that Territory and the Indians. Since that time General Sumner made a verbal promise to turn over an equivalent number of same style of arms to the State. I desire to know if any steps have been taken at department headquarters in relation to the matter, and whether an order can be obtained for the number of arms thus taken upon the ordnance department of Benicia in favor of the State?

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

WM. C. KIBBE,

Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, November 29, 1861.

ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL,

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

SIR: Since my communication of the 26th instant, nothing of iterest has transpired within this department. At this moment (1 p. m.) it is not probable that the steamer which leaves here to-morrow morning