under my observation calculated to endanger the public peace. Having been relieved by Colonel Darling, and another officer assigned to the duty I have been on, you are respectfully informed that I am about to leave this city to carry out the provisions of Special Orders, No. 333 (extract), War Department, Adjutant-General's Office, Washington, October 5, 1864, which directs me to proceed at once from New Orleans, La., to Boston, Mass.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. W. NORCROSS,

U. S. Army, Military Storekeeper.

QUARANTINE, STATEN ISLAND, N. Y.,

November 11, 1864.

Captain A. F. PUFFER,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Hoffman House:

All quiet here.

J. N. RAYMOND.

HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK CITY,
Hoffman House, November 11, 1864.

Major-General PECK,

Commanding U. S. Forces, Buffalo, N. Y.:

GENERAL: I am instructed by Major-General Butler, commanding the forces recently arrived from the Armies of the Potomac and James, to order the following-named regiments and parts of regiments to report, without delay, to the commanding officer at Fort Richmond, New York Harbor: Eighth U. S. Infantry, at Buffalo; Fourteenth U. S. Infantry, at Buffalo; Twelfth U. S. Infantry, at Buffalo; Eighty-first New York Infantry, at Watervliet Arsenal; Ninety-eighth New York Infantry, at Watervliet Arsenal; 100 men of the Sixth and Second Regular Infantry, at Watervliet Arsenal. Will you please communicate the order by telegraph.

I am, general, very truly, your obedient servant,

GEO. H. GORDON,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

BUFFALO, N. Y., November 11, 1864.

Brigadier General H. GORDON:

The Twelfth Infantry, Eighty-first and Ninety-eighth New York Infantry, and detachments of the Second and Sixth Infantry, did not report, and the order should come from headquarters Department of the East. The others will be sent forward at once.

J. J. PECK,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS CITY OF NEW YORK,
November 11, 1864.

Major General J. J. PECK,

Commanding, Buffalo, N. Y.:

The Twelth Infantry is at Buffalo. If you will please to order them to report at Fort Hamilton, I will communicate the fact of this order