The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-20
Late from California Arrival OF the Hi
nOis.

Late from CaIifornIa-ArrivaI OF the iii
nOis.
The steamer Illinois arrived at New York on
Saturday morning from Chagres, with two weeks
later intelligence from California. She made the
passage in seven days and sixteen hours running
time said TO be much the quickest passage on re-
cord, and has brought three hundred and seventy
four passengers, aud s ,s57 1858 in dust mani
fest and in the hands of passengers also the Cali
forDia mails of the 18th ultmo.
Senator G win and lady are among the passen-
gers.
We annex extracts from the California papers;
From the San Francisco Herald, September l5
SUMMARY OF EVENTS DURINa THE LAST FoRT-
NIGHT.--The leading event OF interest, and one
which has been the cheftopic of discussion in pot-
ical circles during the past fortnight 10 the election
for State and county officers which was held on the
Sd instant. In this county the Whigs obtained an
average majority ofsx hundred and ninety five for
State officers For county officers the honors are
about equally divided. The returns from severalo Of
the frontier counties have not yet been received,
and there is still doubt 10 the result for Governor
The vote is very close; both parties claim the VIC
tory and the official returns can alone decide the
question. The remainder of the Democratic State
ticket, including Messrs. +. C.. Marshall and Nc
Corke, for Congress, elected The Legislature
will be Democratic in both branches, and will no
doubt elect Democrat to the United States Senate
Immediately after organizing. The vote through
out the State is small.
A most destructive fire visited Marysville on the
night of the 30th of August, by which three entire
squares, including upwards of eighty houses and
property valued at five hundred thousand dollars,
were consumed. On the 10th OF September the
same place again visited by disastrous fire,
which destroyed twenty five buildings and large
amount of valuable merchandise. Both fires are
supposed to have been the work of incendiares.
The Nicaragua route has been opened by the ar
rival of the steamer Pacific from San Juan in a lit
tie over fifteen days. She left again for San Juan
on the 9th instant.
A most important atep has been taken by The in
habitants of the southern counties, DESTROYS OF
dividing the State, and forming Territorial gov
erument for that portion. Two addresses have
been issued to secure concert of action, and con-
vention of delegates has been called to assemble
in Santa Barbara on the third Monday in October.
Delegates have already been appointed to attend
from Santa Clara, San Diego, and other counties.
All the members of the legislature recently elected
from that section of the State pledged to urge
a division at the ensuing session.
Crime has most scnsibly diminished throughout
the State and execution has taken place, either
here or in the Interior since the sailing of the last
steamer. The Indians in the southern part of the
State are quiet; those in the north, in Trinidad
and Klamath counties, are becoming somewhat
troublesome
The gold diggings continue to yield rich returns
TO the abors OF the miners. The auriferous quartz
veins are being extensively worked, and generally
with great success. The amount shipped by the
steamer Panama, which leaves o-day, 8 | 7000 900,
exhibits falling off in the production of gold in
our State. In the dry diggings, miners are only
waiting for the rainy season to take out large
amounts of gold.
San Francisco has recovered from the two great
con1agratons of May and June, and has been
built in far better style than before. Numerous
fre-proof brick and stone buildings have been
erected, and many others have been commenced
Altogether the condition of affairs in State is
highly satisfactory.
CALIFORNIA ELEcTIsNs.-The San Francisco
Post, Wing paper, of the 18th of September,
says
Upon the whole, we think the Wings are get
ting out of the woods--the Red woods we mean
and we should not be surprised if Reading, and a
respectable portion of our State ticket, were elected
by equally respectable majority. The figures,
they stand leave Gov. Reading, formerly
Major Reading, 422 ahead of his opponent. How
the Locos with Trinity, the South, and klamath,
staring them in tho face, can in their turn, get out
Of the woods, is for them to make out"
In regard to the Legislature, the San Francisco
Herald, Democratic journal, of the 18th of Sep
TENDER, giyes the following
From reliable returns thus far received the
Wings have elected two State Senators and the
Democrats eleven. One Wing and five Demo-
cratic Senators hold over. The Senate consists of
twenty three members. To the Assembly four
teen Wings, twenty eight Democrats and two In
dependents have been elected. The House con-
sists Of sixty three members-of which thirty two
is n majority. The counties to be heard from will
undoubtedly give the Democrats clear majority.
That party will then have both branches of the Le-
gisature, and the election Of United States Sena
tor will rest with them"
From the Alta California, September Is.
The PRosrEcTs OF CALIFoRNIA.--No little ankle
ty has been felt throughout this State to ascertain
what effect the large losses by the recent fires and
the unsettled condition of public affairs, which
brought about extra judicial punishments, was
likely to produce upon other portions of the world.
IL has been surnised by some that the
CallfOr-
mia, by preventing emigration and keeping out
foreign capital; whilst others have ina gined that,
ON the whole, the effect would be beneficial, mas
much as 1t would have a tendency to take from
the California trade and emigration every particle
of that spirit of adventure which has heretofore cha
racterized it., and necessarily bring it down to a
we'll understood, settled, and established order of
things.
There is no doubt that the emigration to and
from California is very nearly balanced at the
present time. And this could scarcely be other
wise, when il is recollected in what torrent the
gold seekers poured upon for the first two years
of the excitement That state of things could not
be cxpested to continue. No one, with particle
of forcthought, believed il WOULD though many
men of sense could not resist the infatunton, and
were carried away in the popular tide of specula-
ton. But there is nothing in the present depressed
state OF affairs which ought to diahearen our cih-
The facts that the emigration OF the last year
is small that the returns for capital invested are
comparatively light, that some uncertainty and
alarm has pervaded the public mind, and that the
general profits TO all classes have been lessened,
though unpleasant and unfortunate, arc not of Sc
rous import, when il is recolccted that the yield
of gold during the present year has been from
twenty five to fifty per cent. more than in the pre-
vious one, and that the agricultural and other
of the country have been developed least
a thousand fold.
1t happens, also, that at least one half of those
who return TO the Atlantic on each steamer go for
the purpose of establishing permanent business ar
rangements, and then returning here with their
families and friends; whilst many return to dis
pose of what property they possess in that part of
the Union, having satisfied themselves by personal
experience that California docs present advantages
TO the intelligent, Industrious, and enterprising,
such as no other country ever did hold out
The excitement relative to California gold is now
over. But California is still where she was, and
just as rich in precious metals to-day she
prior to the extraction Of the three hundred mil
lions which have been aiken from her soil The gold
which has been carried away is nothing. literal
ly nothing, to that which remaine and the sue
cess of her miners, as general thing, was never
so great on this very day.
From The Sonora Herald, September 10.
SUCCESSFUL MINIso.--W are just from the scene
of one ratinna of the Fort Washin 9ton Companv on