HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, Cal., April 28, 1862.

Brigadier General LORENZO THOMAS,

Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.:

GENERAL: By the last steamer from the Gulf of California I received a communication from each of the U. S. consuls at Guaymas and Mazatlan, which I have the honor to transmit ehrewith for the consideration of the War Department. * I also inclose copies of communications from the rebel General Sibley,+ and his agent, Reily,++ addressed to the Governor of the State of Sonora. A copy of the communication from William L. Baker, our consul at Guaymas, I have transmitted to Flag Officer Bell, commanding U. S. naval forces on this coast, for such action as he may deem proper. Up to the time of the steamer's departure from Guaymas and Mazatlan it was not positively ascertained what reply had been made to Sibley's communication by the Governor of Sonora, although it was generally understood that he had declined to enter into the arrangements proposed by the rebel general. By the next steamer I shall address a communication to Governor Pesqueira, referring to the advances made to him by the rebel chief, and assuming, as a matter of course, that the Governor has promptly rejected the propositions, and intimating at the same time that the Government of the United States expects that the authorities in the State of Sonora will not permit any rebel forces to enter their country under any pretext whatever, and that the very amicable relations now existing between the Government and people of Sonora and the United States would be jeopardized should the insidious proposal of the rebel general be for a moment entertained. #

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. WRIGHT,

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

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, Cal., April 28, 1862.

Flag Officer BELL, U. S. Navy,

Commanding Pacific Squadron, Mare Island, Cal.:

SIR: Inclosed herewith is a copy of a communication addressed to me by the U. S. consul at Guaymas, under date of the 8th instant,|| which I deem it proper to submit to you for such action as you may consider proper. I also inclose correspondence of the rebel General Sibley with the Governor of Sonora,++ and a letter addressed to me by F. H. Waterman, esq. These two documents I will thank you to return to me as I have not had time to have copies taken.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. WRIGHT,

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

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*See Baker to Wright, April 8, and Robertson to Wright, April 18, pp. 992, 1012.

+See Sibley to Pesqueira, December 16, 1861, p. 766.

++See inclosures, Alden to Wright, April 26, p. 1030.

#See also Alden to Wright, April 26, 1862, and Moody to Alden, April 7, pp. 1030, 990.

||See p. 992.

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