The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-02-25
LATEST MAIL NEWS.
ARRIVAL OF THE NORTHERN LIuHT.

wEFkS LATER FROM CAL1FUHNfA.s
NEw Yans February . The steamship Nor.
,hern Itch. arrived at half past o'clock this aiser
nson. having left San Juan on the 18th inst, and
bringing dates from San Francisco to the evening
81 The III Hlt making the time through In 81 DAYS
aud 10 hours the quickest trip on record
The Northern Light brings <oopassengers and
$500 900 in gold, on freight
Among Tire passengers are the Hon. Winslow
Pierce. Col Nelly Johnson and family. Judge Lacy
and Lieut. Maynard, Us n.
The steamer Golden Gate was stranded a, the
entrance OF the harbor OF San DIEGO on the morn
inc of the 18th She hsd previously broken her
shaft, when ten days out from Panama The pas
.enzere and mails were all saved Four hundred
Of them took passage on board the Southerner and
tioliah, the latter arriving on the 22d uls The
steamer Columbia was at San Diego and Il was
though; would get the Golden Gate of.
Adyices had been received at San Francisco from
the Walker expedition 20 the effect that the bark
Caroline was captured 10 the Gulf by the Mexican
cutter Guenesos.
SECOND DISPATCH
The Golden Gate got off on the morning of the
ol;h. less injured than expected. She was IL
iug san Diego, awaiting the arrival OF the steam
pumps, The remainder OF her passengers had
proceeded TO San FRANCISCO.
The winter was unusually severe in California
In Grass Valley and other places the snow was two
feet deep.
In the mountains near Stockton, the rains had
been violent The gulehes were illed and the hi.
ncrs were busy.
Later intelligence from Capt Walkers expedi
ton states that matters were apparently going on
prosperousiy President Walker had issued q de-
cree dividing the Republic into two States named
respectively the State of Lower California and the
State of Sonora Another decree changes the name
Of the Republic from Lower California to that OF
Sonora. H--H
The rain storm in Grass Valley and FL Dorado
had done considerable damage.
The sloop OF war Portsmouth, and the Govern.
nent mail steamer were to sail from San Fran.
cisco FOR Lower California, to look after Captain
Walker and his party
Il falsely reported at San Francisco that
sessrs. Adams 4 Co. had failed. They paid out
tn deposltors nearly half million of dollars ON the
22d alt, and satisfied every demand
The breach OF promise OF Gates w. Buck
ingham has been decided-damages $1,000
The Shasta Indians had commenced hostiies in
klamath. and had attacked party OF wines and
defeated them. The whites had four killed and
number wounded,
Mining had been suspended in Coloma and at the
Piacers on account of the weather
Dates from Honolulu TO the 7thof January bring
nothing OF special interest.
The clipper ship George T.. Webster arrived at
San Francisco in - days from Hong Kong bring
ing dates TO the 18Th OF December but nothing of
special importance
The steamer Helen Hensley exploded one of her
boilers while lying at the wharf at San Francisco
killing Thomas Norris the ID engineer, and Hugh
Fitzsimmons, and badly scalding several passen-
gers.
MARKETS
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3l--The market during the
past fortnight had been stagnant and prices lower
than for months previously, while the large number
OF arrivals had materially increased the stock
Fiour-Haxall was selling at SI2 per barrel: out.
side brands 50 with more animation in the market
at the close. Sales Of the latter during the fort.
night, 5000 barrels, RANGING from 2 to 50