HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, HENRY D. BARROWS, San Francisco, Cal., April 19, 1862. U. S. Marshal, Southern Dist. of California, Los Angeles, Cal.: SIR: Your communication of the 10th instant has been received and carefully perused. I shall not hesitate a single moment in using the most stringent measures for the suppression of treason or disloyalty to our Government, and the officers in command of U. S. troops will arrest and hold in confinement all persons against whom such charges can well be established. I fully concur with you as to what should be done, and the only difficulty we have to encounter is as to the best manner of accomplishing the object in view. When I do arrest persons, to hold thein safely they must be removed beyond the reach of a civil process, or such writs disregarded. Soon I shall send additional forces to the southern district and place an experienced officer in command, who will be instructed to confer freely with yourself and other civil officers of the United States in that quarter. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, G. WRIGHT, Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Col. G. W. BOWIE, Near Temecula, Cal., April 19, 1862. Fifth Infty. California Vols., Comdg. at Camp Wright, Cal.: COLONEL: The colonel commanding directs that Captain Thayer's company, Fifth Infantry California Volunteers, be prepared to leave Camp Wright en route for Fort Yuma on the 20th instant. Captain Thayer will take with him ten days' subsistence and 100 rounds of ammunition per man; he will have for transportation two teams from the train of Wagon-master McDonald, who will reach Camp Wright with his train to-night. Captain Thayer's company will accompany McDonald's train from Camp Wright to Fort Yuma. I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant, BEN. C. CUTLER, First Lieut., First Infantry California Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen. NOTE.-The company, in order not to interfere with those behind, must march as far as Warner's ranch on the 20th. B. C. C. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, Col. FERRIS FORMAN, Fourth Regiment California Volunteers, Commanding Camp Union, Sacramento, Cal.: COLONEL: I am directed by the general commanding to inform you that he wishes you to hold yourself in readiness with your headquarters and three companies to come to San Francisco to embark on the next trip of the Senator for Southern California. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. W. KIRKHAM, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, C. A. MURDOCK, Esq., Arcata, Humboldt County, Cal.: SIR: I have received your communication of the 9th instant, with a copy of the resolutions passed at a meeting of the citizens of Arcata convened on the 2d. I assure you that the state of our Indian affairs in the District of Humboldt has received my most serious consideration. I have an officer in command there in whom I place the highest confidence. I have sent him instructions to prosecute the campaign against those Indians with the greatest vigor, and to hang on the spot all who have been engaged at any time in hostilities. To-day I have sent up by steamer Oregon Lieut. Col. James N. Olney, with 150 men of Colonel Lippitt's regiment. With this addition to his force I am in hopes that the colonel may be able to bring the campaign to a successful termination. Should we be able to collect those Indians the question then comes up-what shall we do with them? Just before receiving your letter I was writing to the War Department on this very subject, in which I observed that those Indians could not be kept on reservations near their old homes; that they would run back to their native wilds in spite of guards, and the only way which occurred to me was to place them on some of the islands near this coast. The sixth resolution of your meeting confirms me in what I had already stated to the War Department. With great respect, your most obedient servant, G. WRIGHT, Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding. SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. HUMBOLDT MILITARY DISTRICT, By order of Lieutenant-Colonel Lippitt: JOHN HANNA, JR., Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, No. 66. 4. The two companies of the Second Infantry California Volunteers, now at Fort Vancouver, will be relieved from duty at that post and proceed to Fort Humboldt, and report to Colonel Lippitt, district commander. The means of transportation will be furnished by the quartermaster's department. By order of Brigadier-General Wright: R. W. KIRKHAM, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT Of Southern CALIFORNIA, Capt. R. W. KIRKHAM, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, San Francisco, Cal.: CAPTAIN: Owing to the ill health of Assistant Surgeon Meacham, U. S. Army, I shall be obliged to have Doctor Wooster in advance of Fort Yuma. Brigade Surgeon Christian will be at Fort Yuma, and very properly, as it is an important point. A citizen physician can be employed to attend the sick at Camp Latham, but as there is so large a quantity of medicines and hospital stores accumulated there from the various posts and camps broken up and to be broken up, I have thought it best for the service to have these supplies sent to the purveyor to be used in other districts. There are large amounts of flour, pork, and other subsistence stores at New San Diego. I have sent there and withdrawn a good supply of sugar, coffee, rice, and tea for the expedition. These small stores can be taken to the front to help make up the ration where meat and bread can be bought. The stores at San Diego, except a year's supply for one company which is to garrison that post, I would respectfully recommend to be sent to the depot at New San Pedro for the garrison at Camp Latham by the Senator; or, if necessary, shipped farther north, so that they may be consumed before they deteriorate. I have established, as you see by the inclosed order, a chain of vedettes to bring and to carry information. While they will exercise surveillance upon the route, and in some places guard sub-depots of supplies necessarily deposited here and there upon the road, they will keep me informed of all that transpires in my rear; all that relates to the approach of supplies, and keep me in open communication with the general. This will be done with no increased expense, at least none of importance. All of which is respectfully submitted for the general's consideration and approval. The troops and trains are crossing the desert by installments, and thus far successfully. Colonel West, with seven companies, will be at the Pimas on the 30th instant. Respectfully, I am, captain, your obedient servant, JAMES H. CARLETON, Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Camp Wright, Cal., April 21, 1862. Distances from Los Angeles, Cal., eastward: To the Monte, 12 miles, water, grass, wood; to San José, 13 miles, water, grass; to Chino Rancho, 14 miles, water, grass; to Temescal, 20 miles, water, grass, wood; to Laguna, 16 miles, water, grass, wood; to Temecula, 21 miles, water, grass, wood; to the Dutchman's, 16 miles, water, grass, wood; to Oak Grove, 9 miles, water, grass, wood; to Warner's ranch, 16 miles, water, grass, wood;* to San Felipe, 16 miles, water, grass;* to Vallecito, 16 miles, water, grass;* to Palm Springs, 9 miles, water; to Carriso Creek, 9 miles, water;* to Sackett's Wells, 18 miles, water bad; to Indian Wells, 18 miles, water scarce;* to New River, 15 miles, water scarce and bad; to Norton's Wells, 12 miles, water good;* to Gardiner's Wells, 8 miles, water bad; to Cooke's Wells, 17 miles, water good;* to Algodones, 13 miles, water good; to Fort Yuma, 11 miles, water, grass, wood;* to Gila City, 22 miles, water; to Mission * Camp, 13 miles, water; to Antelope Peak, 12 miles, water, grass; to Mohawk, 12 miles, water, grass; to Texas Hill, 11 miles, water, grass; to Stanwix's ranch, 15 miles, water, grass; to Burke's Station, 12 miles, water, grass (old); to Oatman's Flat, 12 miles, water, grass (some); to Kenyon's Station, 14 miles, water, grass (some); to Gila Bend, 16 miles, water, grass (little); to Maricopa Wells, 40 miles, water (salt grass), grass and water bad; to Casa Blanca, 11 miles, water; to Pima Villages, 11 miles, water, grass; to Oneida Station, 13 miles, water (in a well), grass scarce; to Blue Water Station, 11 miles, water (in a well), grass; to Picacho, 14 miles, water (sometimes in tanks); to Point of Mountain, 24 miles, water (in a well), grass (little); to Tucson, 16 miles, water, grass, (grain can be purchased); to Cienega, 30 miles, water, grass; to San Pedro, 24 miles, water, grass (good place to recruit); to Dragoon Springs, 18 miles, grass (plenty), water one mile up cañon; to Apache Pass, 40 miles, grass (no water for this distance); to San Simon, 16 miles, water, grass; to Steen's Peak, 14 miles, water (scarce), grass; to Soldier's Farewell, 35 miles; to Cow Springs, 14 miles, water, grass (plenty), Indians bad; to Miembres River, 16 miles, water, grass; to Cooke's Springs, 16 miles; to Picacho (on the river), 52 miles, water, grass; to Mesilla, 6 miles, water, grass. Total, 859 miles. All troops and trains in their marches across the desert will make the camps as marked by the asterisks. By order of Colonel Carleton: BEN. C. CUTLER, First Lieut., First Infty. California Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN California, Capt. MOSES A. MCLAUGHLIN, Second Cavalry California Volunteers: CAPTAIN: The colonel commanding directs that immediately upon your return to Temecula from San Diego, without waiting for the train which you are escorting, you will proceed without delay to Fort Yuma, Cal., and report to the commanding officer of that post for further orders. I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, BEN. C. CUTLER, First Lieut., First Infty. California Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen. NOTE.-You will take three of your detachment as an escort on your departure from Temecula for Fort Yuma; the remainder you will leave with your party at Camp Wright. It may be well for you to know that upon your arrival at Fort Yuma you will probably be tried before a general court-martial now in session at that post on charges which have been preferred against you for cruelly beating and maltreating Private Michael Burk, formerly of your company. B. C. C. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Maj. DAVID FERGUSSON, First Cavalry California Volunteers, Supposed to be Commanding at Camp Drum, Cal.: MAJOR: In case you have not left Camp Drum, and in case Allen's train has not left, this is to inform you that it will not be necessary for you to load on at New San Pedro any more subsistence stores than you will require for the use of your command on its march, say to Carriso Creek. I find a good supply at this camp, and have sent to San Diego for twenty wagon loads, so you can load with barley, say 2,500 pounds per team, including the other stores which you are to bring, and including your baggage, &c.; thus your teams will be fresh. If you find any barley or corn at Clancy's, or at Temescal, Temecula, Camp Wright, San Felipe, or Carriso Creek, you can keep your supply up to the original mark at Camp Drum. There are some paulins at Greenwade's which you must bring. Inclosed is an order for Surgeon Christian and Lieutenant Frink to come forward. They are to come with you in case you have left. Be sure they come with you, and be sure that they have but the regulation allowance of baggage determined by the scales. The howitzer ammunition, percussion caps, cartridges for revolvers, army size, &c., which may have come down, you are to bring. Have the troops walk at least half the time, and have at least two hours' halt to graze midway each day's march. The soldiers must be drilled at the saber exercise on horseback while marching at least an hour each day. The horses must be kept fresh and in good condition, even though the men walk most of the way. Please get from Mr. Banning two of Captain Moore's umbrellas and bring them on. No news yet from Tucson. I am, major, respectfully, &c., JAMES H. CARLETON, Colonel First California Volunteers, Commanding. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Maj. E. A. RIGG, Camp Wright, Cal., April 21, 1862. First Infantry California Vols., Comdg. at Fort Yuma, Cal.: MAJOR: Captain Shirland with his company of cavalry en route to Fort Yuma encamped to-night at Vallecito. He is followed by McDonald's train, divided in two parts, the first part one day behind him, the second part two days. Have Shirland's horses shod and ferried across the river the day after his arrival; have McDonald's mules shod, and his teams ferried over the day after his arrival. McDonald's train is to be loaded, each team as fast as its mules are shod. You will forward to Lieutenant-Colonel West 20,000 rounds of ammunition for the rifle muskets, 10,000 rounds of ammunition for the Sharps carbines; 5,000 rounds for the navy revolvers. You will forward the wagon load of manta which goes with McDonald's train, the pemmican, the hospital stores about which Surgeon McNulty writes to Assistant Surgeon Meacham by this express, and forward the wagon load of tents in McDonald's train. The remainder of the loading of McDonald's train must be made up of subsistence stores in due proportion, one article with another. The day following that on which McDonald's last wagons reach Fort Yuma, Captain Cremony's company will reach Fort Yuma, followed by Winston's train of thirty-one wagons in two divisions a day apart. These will be filled in like manner, except that Winston's train will be loaded with subsistence stores in due proportion. Shirland will escort McDonald's train, starting as soon as the last of that train has crossed the river, and Cremony will escort Winston's, starting as soon as Winston's last wagon has crossed the river. This operation will consume six days' time, when other |