BENICIA, June 2, 1861 - 5. 45 p. m.

Major D. C. BUELL, U. S. Army,

Tehama House:

SIR: The General Jesup left at 9 a. m. with the guns, carriages, and ammunition for San Diego.

J. McALLISTER,

Lieutenant of Ordnance.

HEADQUARTERS, June 3, 1861.

Colonel H. L. SCOTT, U. S. Army,
New York:

Concert with Colonel William B. Franklin, Brevoort House, and Colonel Tompkins, quartermaster, to arrest General A. S. Johnston, on his arrival in New York, perhaps by sending by means of the pilot-boat.

WINFIELD SCOTT.

HEADQUARTERS, June 3, 1861.

COMMANDING OFFICER DEPARTMENT OF THE WEST:

(Care Major S. Williams, Asst. Adjt. General, Saint Louis, Mo.)

The Secretary of War directs that you arrest General A. S. Johnston, if he returns from California by overland route.

WINFIELD SCOTT.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco., June 3, 1861.

First Lieutenant J. McALLISTER,

Ordnance Department, Commanding Benicia Arsenal, Cal.:

SIR: The guns for San Diego referred to in your letter of the 18th instant [ultimo] are to be mounted on siege carriages, not as for a permanent battery.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

D. C. BUELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SAN BERNARDINO, June 3, 1861.

General E. V. SUMNER, U. S. Army,

Commander of the Pacific Division:

DEAR SIR: I beg to be excused for my presumption in addressing a letter to you when I am an utter stranger, yet feeling it to be my duty which I owe to my country, and believing that a fair, candid statement concerning the true position of all parties in this lower portion of the State may be useful to you, I thus lay them before you. There exists amongst us through all these southern counties a secret organization of secessionists, and in a settlement near Los Angeles there is an organized cavalry company which is ready at almost any moment to break out, holding and inveterate hatred toward the citizens of this place, and it is at this point they would make their first attack, and there are some in our midst who would receive them cheerfully and help them in their treacherous designs. I speak what I do know. I have only been here about seven weeks, and commenced the publication of a paper called the Weekly Patriot. I have received notice to