The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-14


Sl696,G3 in treasure, and arrived at New York
on Saturday, midnight.
Sept I, at 10 ~ NJ parted company with steam
ship Granada bound to Key West. Sept. g at \.
NJ, lat. % 49, Ion 70 49, spoke steamship St. Louis,
bound to Key West. Sept at 40 \. NJ, ex-
changed signals with brig Essex, steering north,
lat 30 As, lon. 70 50.
Brig Fanny Whittier, s. f. Lewis, master, struck
on the Rnckadore reefo the 18th July, total loss.
Crew and passengers saved
The steamship Golden Gate, R. L. Whiting, COM
handing, LETT San Francisco, August 20. At II \. |
NJ. on the 18th, exchanged signals with steamship |
Golden age, bound up Sept. =, at A. NJ, passed |
the company's steamer Sonora, off Point Mala.
Died at sea, on the 9th August George H. Steele,
aged 40 years. late resident of Rough and Ready, !
Cal.
SUMMARY OF THE FORTNIGHTS NEWS.
From tie alta CoIiforHia august pol
On the 5th August the anti LecomptOn Conven-
ton, at Sacramento, nominated tOrSuprcmc Judge,
John Currey, Of Solano county; for Comptroller, |.
n. Dawley, of Nevada for Supreme Court Clerk,
ii. U. Jennings, of Butte county. Hon. Jos. G.
Mckibben also nominated for Congress.
The accompanies on the same day nominated j.
G. Baldwin as their candidate for Judge of the Su-
preine Court \. r.. Meoney, of Contra Costa, as
Comptroller. They made no nomination tor Su-
preme Court Clerk.
The Republican State Convention endorsed the
nomination of Currey for Judge, but nominated p
+. =. Tracy vice Dudley. They also nominated Dr.
). G. Gum, of Tuoumne, Comptroller.
The grading on the San Francisco and Marysville
Railway is rapidly progressing.
San Francisco is now in communication, by the
magnetic telegraph, with Yreka.
Advices to the 18th from the Frazer river
try, were received here by the Panama, which
rived on the 18TH The river had fallen, and the
miners generally doing better
\ lire at Sonora, on the Sth inst, consumed
$4,000 worth of property. The Presbyterian
church was destroyed.
a large amount of wire has been purchased in
this city for the Pacerville and Salt Lake telegraph
| line.
! The Marysville Necs is defunct, and the National
! Democrat has arisen on its ruins. The new paper is
strongly ds BEt@9an D. c. Fremont and the
| MERGED Mining Company still continue. The latter
refuse to yield possession of their vein and the
who occupy IT insist that they will resist.
The last overland mail from Salt Lake reached
Placervle on the 10th. The carrier brings the
painful intelligence of the murder of Joseph Cond
Charles Connover, Elias Etherege and Theo. Bar
ban, guards OF the mail which left Placervillc July
| 81. They were killed by Shoshones about 20 miles
from Gravellv Ford.
The Indians about Humboldt Bay are exceedingly
troublesome. man named Orrin Stevens was killed
by them on the 10th ult, and another named John
| NandOll on the Goth.
The champions of the three political parties are
already stamping the State.
The Panama, which left for Victoria on the 4th
carried up but 40 passengers.
Large numbers of Adventures from Frazer river
are continually arriving in this city.
The Democrats OF this city held their primary
election on Saur lay Nth inst. The anti -Lecomp-
:.
The Republican County Convention have nomi-
mated for the Senate Cen c. ). II. Williams and s.
II. Parker, Esq, and for the Assembly, w. W..
| Shepherd, b. W. Hathaway, }. NJ. Taylor, J. w.
| Cherry, and A. A. Hill. The Convention has vet
three further nominations for Assembly to make
before the list is completed.
Henry Lowry, who attempted to rob passenger
on the steamer Senator of $40 600 has been sent
the Court of Sessions.
Il. b. Hampton, prominent citizen, was knock
ed down and brutay beaten, the custom
house, on the evening Of the It'll. j. Il. Mulloy,
Patrick Dugan, and John S. Dugan were convicted
OF the offence. The first was fined $50 the second
$50, and the third $3.50. They all paid the penal
| ty imposed.
The City Prosecuting Attorney, II. NJ. Willis, has
resigned his office in consequence of certain charges
OF dsreputable conduct made against him in his
| cial relations
The amount of gold bullion deposited for coinage
during the week ending the 18th, amounted to SlS,-
09S.70 ounces. The gold coinage for the week was
| S3S5, 900, all in double eagles.
The steamer Pacific arrived on the 18th from Vic
! toria bring $50 passengers. The ship +. +. Will
lets reached here the same day, with l47 passen-
gers, from the same locality.
During the last ten day VS. 900 Cinnamon have
! landed on our shores.
FROM THE ISTHNIUS.
| Col. CAVITY had made an attempt to seize Punta
Arenas in the name of Costa Rica He was oppo-
! sed by the British Consul at GreytOwn, and the
British naval officers, who propose annexing it to
the Mosquito possessions This if carried ont will
| 10 England
the United States.
! Col. Canty had left Punta Arenas for Aspinwall
| SOUTH AMERICA.
| The regular files of Panama papers for the Asso-
cated Press, failed to come to hand, but the follow
ing items of South American news are cleaned from
| the files received at the Tribune office:
Adyices from Chill to July 3Ist, report the coun-
try more prosperous than for some time previous
| New and rich copper mines have been discovered.
| In Bolivia the duty on foreign cotton goods has
been reduced from 40 to Is per cent.
Affairs are quiet and the public tranquility seems
safe from disturbance.
| The business portion of Georgetown. in Eldorado
| county, was destroyed by fire on the 10th of Aug
| involving a loss of 100000.
On the 4th of August desperate ARRAY occurred
| between some French and American miners in re
| gard to their right to a mining claim 1t resulted
in the death of three Americans, and the wounding
| of three others.
| Senator Broderick designs travelling TO WashinG-
| ton by the overland route.
MARKETS
At the date of the last steamers summary receips of
merchandise although enough during the preced
ing fortnight suddenly became profuse, owing to the
advent on that day of quite Ieet of square rugged yes
sells from abroad. Since that time the arrivals have
tinued at few days interval market by this
time is abundantly supplied with assorted mer
chandise. These supplies have been derived from all
quartes-cpper carsoes of staple goods from New York
and Boston, English and French goods from Liver
pool and Bordeaux: Goals in good store from Balti
more and New York, Cardiff and Valparaiso; sugars
rice; &c from China; hemp, sugar and cigars from
the British East Indies: coffee and cedar from Cen.
|
the Pacific Islands and the Coast of Mexico and Lower
California The demand for these goods are sorry to
say. has by means been in proportion supply
The Jobbing trade has tagged and tagged too consder
bly, The interior trade has been it should have
been at this of the year and fever shipping
goods TO the North coast subsidized very considerably
this last direction city is likely have formidable
rival to contend with inasmuch the from
New York that both there and at Boston vessels
had been laid for Victoria direct However, the field
must be- for time at least monopoized by our own mer
chants cessation of emigration necessarily caused fall
ing off in the expectation of goods the Frazer coun
try and in consequence, August presents striking CON
rast when compared with the brisk times in July The
signs to be changing again would by
no means surprising if September should prove a busy
month for those Yenturing in the channel The auc
ton sales of the month, of the safest suest critic
rons of the of trade in this city have been Of slight
Importance since the sailing of the Their num-
Der was less than during the preceding fortnight being
merely twelve, and of these the majority assorted
groceries of course the heavier dry goods and boot and
shoe sales not included in this list.
From the Albion, Sepfc1a L.
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