The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-30
The san Franrisro RuIlat;p Of tba 4

The san Francisco Bulletin of the 4th saws:
me ab'enCe OF demand Tor money. for speCula-
uon IN goods, Is causing all accumulation of CAPT
ta in the hands of lenders the effect of which ere
long, must he TO materially reduce the rates Of
rest. As We write. the influence Of restricted
rail for money is to be seen in offer. to loan upon
mpeTlshahe merchandise, at one-haf per cent n
month less Insurance than was asked and got thirty
days since. Capitalists are giving the preference
to merchandise securities in preference to paper-
natural distrust of the latter having been engen-
dered by the late failures.
The exports of treasure from San Francisco for
the last Elk months. amount to S2,0T2OI2 being
:b',3b6 less than for the same time last wear
The exports Of quicksilver from that port during
The first six months OF this year were 93S fiask-
IgNnst l0s1i TASKS during the game period in
1856.
In bullion there have been sales at San Francisro
TO a considerable extent Of Mexican dollars at a
shade over twelve per cent. premium. The imports
oi specie during the first six months of 1856 chief
~ allVer from Mexico, amounted to Sl.664770
The stamp act PASSED by the last Legislature
went INTO effect on the lst of July. By il all ex-
chahge drafts, etc, drawn upon parties out of the
state, are taxed by stamps as policies of insu-
rance, passage tickets abroad, professional licen.
,es and like documents. The bill is very obnox-
lous to the people of San Francisco.
David {. Broderick United States Senator, had a
personal difficulty on the lst inst. with j., ". Stcb-
bins, cX-member of the State Senate from Yuba-
Neither were seriously injured
The emigration to California from the .fowery
Kingdom IL greater than ever. The Wizard
brought over 50 almondeyed passengers. and some
eight or ten vessels are on their way from Hong
honS with thousands more OF these accessious to
the san Francisco population.
ON the 29th heavy rains fell throughout the in
terror, phenomena of rare occurrence in June in
California, although showers have been witnessed
occasionally as late August. The crops were
not seriously injured, and the prospect now is that
they will be garnercd in good condition, albeit
scarcely as abundant as last year.
Mining Is carried on as successfully as ever. and
new discoveries are constantly chronicled Atten
ton of capitalists is still being directed to quartz
enterprises, and veins long since abandoned for
want OF money to explore them, are being worked
10 advantage
Great interest still continues to be felt in noun
tain wagon roads. and men and money are at work
stage coaches now run regularly between Placer
vile and Carson Valley Contracts for grading the
more difficult sections Of the route have been let
and in few weeks good road will be ready to
connect with the national road that is to have its
terminus in Honey Lake Valley.
The pecuniary affairs of the State look rather
more cheering The treasurer announces that
within sixty days he will be enabled to pay all
audited claims against the State in cash There
is now prospect that the scrip system will be
abolished.
The semtannual apportonment of the State
school tund has been made. and amounts to *30
IFS ~ being dollar and four cents to each child
III the State attending school
lhe citizens Of Marposa having invited Hon s
W. lnge to give them his views OH the nyalidity of
the claim OF John C. Fremont to the mineral lands
OF that country, Mr.. lnge responds in a communic-
toA uenouhclng the claims of Fremont, and declar-
ing that they never can be sustained before the
SupreLIe Court.
Recent rich discoveries of gold have been made
near Mazatlan, and the rush thither was great
Inc gold is very similar to that found in Marposa
county, but the diggings are by no means exten-
sive. N"
The clipper schooner Caroline f. Fonte has ar
rived AT ean Francisco from Elide Island Iower
Californla,) with cargo of l20 tons of guano The
guano has been tested and found superior 10 the
feruVan Suano- This is the first cargo ever taken
from that island, which is claimed by Capt J. b. G.
isham an others. There large quantities oft
up0u the island.
The net gain of population during the past six
months has been only ,295, more than one-half of
which Is Llade up of Cinnamon. These statistics
certainly do not speak very atteringly for the ra
terlai prosperity OF California.
OREGON TERRITORY
The official returns of the election show that
the majority for Lane for delegate TO Congress
will reach nearly two thousand. The democrats
have also been successful in the election of ma
jorty OF their territorial representatives.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Noovert acts Of hostility have been committed by
the Indians i'll this territory although they swear
vengeance sgaigst the pale faces for waging war
against them last winter, whom the crew of the
Massachusetts" killed number of their race