Important Military Order

v asuiogton, April lb. General Order No. 41 from the headquarters of tho army assigua Major G?n, Öchofiöld to tho comrnand üf tlio División of tbe Pacific Tho Department oí Alsaka will be discontinuad on July 1 and attaektd to tho Departmentt of Coluuibia, including tho State of Ürcgon, and the territoma of Washington and idaho, Gen. Cnnby cominamling, with beadquarters at Portland, Orogon. A new department is createtl, called the Department of Ai zona, cmbracing Arizon nnd Southern California, General Stonoman commanding. Brigadier Gen. Jaiin Pope, now in commaud of the Department oí the Lakes, is transferred to the Department of the Missouri, with headqunrtors at Leaveuwortli. The Department c! 'lic ]akes is enlarpcd to embraco the whole Borthera froutitr s far as Lako Champlain, and Brig. Gen. 8t. George Coob assigncd to the command. Aftor July J, the Di;pnrtmcnt of Viriiüin is abolislied and added to to the Department of tho E:ist, whieli also includes the Now Enjlanc! States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delawnro, Marylacd and thn District nf Columbia, hcuJquartcrs at New York. Oen McDowell is assigned to comm.ind this depar! inent. Tho Department of the Cumberlai.d. oelsding Eentuoky, Teonesseo aod West Virginia, is brokeD up and added to the Derartuient of the South, vhioh iaclndea North nd South Sarol.ina, Georgia, Alabamá and Floridu, with hcadquai-ters at Atlanta, Brig. Ben. 1Y-rry commanding. Major Gen. Meade remaisa at PhiTadelphia, Major ften. ïialleck at Loaisvitle and Jjiaut. Gen Sheri'diui in oommand of the DivisioD iA tlio Miatoari.