The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-08
ForR DAYS LArER PROM oA1IroRHIl

a.
The seventh Overland Mail from San Francisco
via the Butterfeld route, arrived in St Louis on
Wednesday night, only twenty-five days out. The
dates are four days later than those received by
steamship st. Louis at New York.
PROGRESS or THE MAIL OUT.-The most important
Intelligence gained by this arrival, is that the first
mail out from st. Louis, making unexpectedly
| rapid progress towards its western destination. 1t
was met fifteen hours out from San Francisco and
! only fceRty-t'co days after its departure from ST.
| Louis, so that the arrival of the coach at the
Pacific shore inside of twenty-three days was as
/ sured.
The rainy seasonwas setting in, in portions of the
State.
ALARGE REsERvoIR.-The Union Ditch Company,
OF Murphy's, near San Andreas, have completed
the largest reservoir in the State. 1t is located
about fOrtythree miles east of Murphy's- near the
region of perpetual snow-on tributary of the
Stanislaus, and when filled, will an area OF
fifteen hundred acres. The dam, we learn, will be
completed this fall, before the rains set in. The
object OF its construction is to economist the water
| That hows Oil during the months Of June and July,
when the melting SHOWS fill the river to over
flowing. The water thus caught will be saved
until the months of September and October, when
the river supply fails to furnish enough for the
binary wants of the miner. The reservoir will
then be drawn upon, and by this means the Union
Ditch will have perpetual supply for the demands
OF the mining interest. 1t is situated in a dense
forest of pine and fir, where but little will be lost by
evaporation.
New DIGGNGs.-The Stockton Republican says
1t has heard rumors of some great dggings that
have been discovered in the vicinity of Salt Spring
valley, Calayeras county, distant some thirty miles
from Stockton, and said to be very extensive
| The ADMINISTRATION PAPER-The San Francisco
Times, in an article abiding to the National, late
Globe, gives the following list of persons connected
with its publication
Publisher, G. w. Guthrie, Deputy Surveyor of
the Port; Editor George Pen Johnston, Clerk of
! the United States Circuit Court; Associate Editor
Geo IL. Smonton, Custom House Inspector: Com
/ m arpin ND
United States Bonded Warehouses; Business Mama
ger, Seymour Pixley, Deputy United States Guager
Travelling Agent, r. w. Fishbourne, Draughtsman,
United States Surveyor Generals office; Foreman,
James Porter, Custom House Inspector.
| DEBAsED COTN.-In San Francisco large amount
| OF debased coin was in circulation
! number OF old $50 California pieces. of Kellogg
d Co. coinage, have been found to be badly sweat
| ed. Some of the banking houses have paid many
of them out but have refused to take them again on
deposit. An instance of this kind occurred yester-
day. A business man having large dealings with
several banks went round collecting the cash on a
number of checks in his possession and received in
return number of $50 gold pieces, which he threw
promiscuously into bag he carrying, and
which contained large amount of United States
coin.
making deposit late in the day, they refused to
take them at one of the banks, giving as a reason
that Kellogg CO. coin were not of current value
stamped upon their face 1t was impossible to
! =
checks he empted the pieces in the bag containing
the good con where it became all mixed up togeth-
er. The coin had evidently been tempered with
since it was issued by Kellogg & Co. Beside this
kind of money, there is large amount of counter
felt So pieces in circulation
ELECTION OF A STATE SENAToR.-The Governor
has issued proclamation for the special election
of Senator from the Ninth District (Sacramen-
to, to ill the vacancy Occasioned by the decease
OF the late VIM. !. Ferguson Among the names
mentioned are a. Redington, Robert G. Clark, b.
G. Whiting, John Heard, Josiah johnson, d. w.
Welty, Frank Denver, and G. E. Montgomery
FROM TEXAS.
BY the arrival of the steamship Texas, we have
Galveston papers to the 2Sth ult
There has been very rapid decrease in the fever
at Galveston. There only two deaths on the
9th.
In Houston during the week ending the goth,
there were twenty-five deaths. On the 18th there
were four, and on the 26th two.
The Nelcs says:
The first arrival of freight by the Galveston
Houston and Henderson railroad, consisting of
thirty bales of cotton, took place on Monday. The
steamer that is to ply between Galveston and Vir-
ginia Point, in connection with this road. is now
receiving repairs to fit her for that service, and
will be ready in week or two, when the Bayou
and Island cities will be within about three hours
of each other
The contractor to build the Galveston Bay bridge
expects to complete it by the LIST of June next
though his contract gives him to the 25th of Sep
TENDER neXt-a year from this date.
Capt. Bourland has returned from his pursuit of
the Indians, who lately committed outrages in
Montague county, and reports seeing no wild In
dams on his trip. He crossed Major Van Dorn's
trail and went as far as his Plumbers justified.
The San Antonio Ledger states that Major Will
liam r. Scurry, the Texas Boundary Commissioner,
has arrived in that city, and says that the party
will start on their trip during the first week in No
vember.
The Ledgcr learns from private letters that the
n he of heno
ing quite troublesome. Some thirty persons, it is
stated, have been killed in the vicinity of Laredo
within few months, together with numbers of cat
tie, horses, &c.
The San Antonio Terian learns that large num-
Der OF horses We're driven off by Indians on the Ell
PasO road, near the crossing of the Nueces, about
two weeks since, and large drove of cattle
stampeded. The Indians trailed some dis
lance.
The San Antonio Herald saws:
The Apaches, under Mangas Colorado and his two
brothers, were mastering in considerable force
around STEMS Peak and Burra Canon. They pro-
badly contemplated foray into the northern part
of chihuahua, to revenge themselves of the people
of Janis where some twenty-five of their comrades
had been intoxicated and then killed a short time
since. The mail passed through one camp of three
| hundred, including seventy warriors. They pro-
fessed great friendship for the whites, but it is to be
feared that the emigrants, who stretched over
the whole road will suffer from their presence.
There is an abundance of water on the Desert
now. wells having been dug at the Indian and
and Cooks, which will never fail hereafter.
The news from Arizona is ofnterest. The Sono-
ra Mining Company at Tubac shipping 1000
ounces per week to San Francisco.
Lieut.. Mowry was reelected Delegate to Con-
gress by largely increased vote. The American
population of Western Arizona is much larger than
last year. Crops are good, though the season is
dry.
During the month of September, the gold coin
age at the mint amounted to 81 ,030, eco, and the
silver coinage to $50, GOO.
The mercantile house of G. H. & W. S. Shook
have filed applications for the benefit of the nso-
vent law. Debts S55, 900; assets, SIS goo.
FROM THE ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC.
From the Ne,o Orleans PicGy'tne, oct. S0th
BY the arrival this morning of the schooner Vic
toria, Captain Wilson, from Minatitan, we have
news from that port to the 18th instant, and from
the mouth of Coatzacoalcos to the 18th. She went
there from Pensacola with cargo OF bridge lumber
for the Tehuantepec Company.
Captain Wilson informs that everything con-
nected with the Tehuantepec Company's affairs on
the lSthmus was progressing favorably. Every
preparation was made to take the mails by the Qua
ker City over without loss of time. The few passen-
gers she took would cross on horse back. Enough
lumber had been received from Pensacola to build
about two-thirds of the number of bridges required
to cross the numerous small mountain streams that
lntersect the route. The company had about five
hundred men actively engaged on the road and
bridges under the supervision of the company's SUI
perintendent, Mr.. John Mcleod Murphy and who,
count would seem to have effected complete
change for the better in the companys affairs, he
having introduced a strict system of accountability
and discipline and discharged the superduous en-
ployees.
The balance ofthe lumber to complete the bridges
was daily expected from Pensacola The compile
ton of these bridges will make the route transita-
bic at all times and under all circumstances
Captain Wilson reports that the company's iron
steamer Suchil had not yet arrived from New
York, but was daily expected. The company s
steamer Jasper was running regularly, and had
made already many trips conveying passengers, la
borers and materials.
The bark Flash, from New York, entered the
river at the moment of the Victoria's departure,
having on board full cargo of materials for the
company, comprising some twenty stages, with har-
ness, COAL hay, &c, and about thirty stage drivers
and teamsters.
The schooners Conquest and Louisa chartered by
the company, had arrived with bridge lumber from
| Pensacola.
LATER FROM THE RIO GRANDE AND NORTH
EliN MEXICO.
The New Orleans Delta learns from the report of the
Purser of the Gen. Rusk. that the yellow fever had
abated at Brownsville. Forty-three had died out of
! the garrison at Fort Brown, being so per cent
The fever was still raging at Mstamoras-there had
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