SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC, October 29, 1861

October 29, 1861.

No. 204. San: Francisco, October 29, 1861. 2. The troops in camp at San Pedro, Cal., will, upon the arrival of the steamer Golden Gate, embark for the East. * * * * * * * By order of Brigadier-General Wright: RICHD. C. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant-General.

SAN FRANCISCO, October 29, 1861. Colonel BLAKE, U.S. Army, oFort Churchill, Nev. Ter.: By order No. 23 your command, when relieved, with horses and horse equipments will repair to this city and take post at the Presidio. RICHD. ©. DRUM, Assistant Adjutant- General.

Los ANGELES, CAL., October 29, 1861. Capt. R. W. KIRKHAM, U. S. Army, Commissary of Subsistence, San Francisco, Cal. :

Colonel Buchanan wants 12,000 rations pork and hard bread put on steamer that takes his command from San Pedro. Send by Senator 40,000 rations subsistence stores for troops in this district.

NoTE.—Captain Ketchum, commanding at San Pedro, wrote to the undersigned a letter to which the foregoing is a reply, but afterward the undersigned concluded to send for the rations, fearing the troops might need them. The following is the basis of the calculation:

Colonel Buchanan’s command, October 13, 71; Captain Davidson’s command October 13, 113; Major Ketchum’s command, October 20, 350; total strength, 534; round numbers, to include laundresses, servants, &c., 600; for twenty days, 12,000,