HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, June 13, 1861

San Francisco, June 13, 1861.

Capt. CHARLES S. LOVELL, Sixth Infantry, U. S: Army, Commanding Fort Humboldt, Cal. : SIR: A report has been made to this office by Lieut. Edward Dillon that parties of white men are engaged in stealing aud carrying or selling into bondage the children of the Indians in the district in which he is operating. He states as a reliable report that as many as forty or fifty Indian children have been taken through Long Valley within the last four months and sold, both in and out of the country. The department commander directs that you use all means in your power to prevent such infamous practice.

Very respectfull our obedient servant Ai ae ’ D. O, BUELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General, 33 R R—VOL L, PT I

WAR DEPARTMENT, June 13, 1861. Col. J. D. STEVENSON, San Francisco:

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th ultimo, with inclosure, offering to raise a regiment or brigade in California for service in that State. The Department has full confidence in your ability to command such a force, and in your loyalty to the Government, so well attested by your former well-known services, but it cannot at present give the leave asked for to raise the proposed regiment or brigade. Circumstances may hereafter occur to render such a step necessary, but existing circumstances do not seem to warrant it.

Respectfully, SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War.

SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HbDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, No. 102. San Francisco, June 14, 1861. I. In pursuance of Special Orders, No. 136, from the Adjutant-General’s Office, the engineer detachment at Alcatraz Island will sail on the steamer of the 21st for the East. The three men of the detachment recently ordered on reconnaissance with Lieutenant McPherson will accompany it. * * * * * * * By order of Brigadier-General Sumner: D. C. BUELL, Assistant Adjutant-General.