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

San Francisco, April 5, 1862.

Brigadier General GEORGE WRIGHT,

Commanding Pacific Department, San Francisco:

GENERAL: The following telegraphic dispatch has this day been received by His Excellency Governon Stanford:

WASHINGTON, April 3, 1862.

To GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA:

Volunteer recruiting service will cease from this date.

L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. C. KIBBE,

Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 54.
San Francisco, Cal., April 5, 1862.

Major Richard C. Drum, assistant adjutant-general at these headquarters, will proceed tomorrow on the steamer Senator to the District of Southern California and make a minute inspection of the troops at the diferent camps. The attention of Major Drum will be specially directed to an examination of the capacity of the officers conducting the administrative and staff departments, these fidelity and economy of their disbursement, the condition of the public property, and the amount to money on hand, and, finally, whether the supplies are sufficient and suitable for a campaign.

By order of Brigadier -General Wright:

R. C. DRUM,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Numbers 55.
San Francisco, Cal., April 5, 1862.

1. During the absence of Major Richard C. Drum on inspection duty in the southern district, the duties of assistant adjutant-general will be performed by Captain Ralph W. Kirkham, assistant quartemaster.

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By order of Brigadier-General Wright:

R. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEAQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:

New San Pedro, Cal., 5, 1862.

Second Lieutenant N. P. PIERCE,

Second Cavalry California Volunteers, Camp Drum:

SIR: You will proceed with a non commissioned officer and nine privates, Second Cavalry California Volunteers, by the way of Cajon Pass, Lane's Crossing of the Mojave, to Camp Cady, on the Mojave river, which is eleven miles below where the Salt Lake road leaves that river, and there shelter yourself and party in a field-work whicht was thrown up at that point by Colonel Carleton two years since. It is