WAR DEPARTMENT, August 14, 1861

Washington, August 14, 1861.

Hon. Joun G. DOWNEY, Governor of California, Sacramento City, Cal. :

Please organize, equip, and have mustered into service, at the earliest date possible, four regiments of infantry and one regiment of cavalry, to be placed at the disposal of General Sumner.

SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War.

(By telegraph to Fort Kearny, and thence by pony express and telegraph.)