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Saturday and Sunday the city was crowded
with strangers and military. Extensive pre-
paratiOns are being made for the reception of
additional military forces for the approaching
execution.
Churches are all taken possession -fof
barracks. and seGtinels were firing at iinagin-
'aIE foes AND a nfn4A offtizenS narrowly
escaped.
aaE0a Sunday night the military confidently.
expected an attack, and sentinelS were doubl-
ed, no foes appeared however How they are
expected to arrive is not stated, but as the
country is being paraded for twenty miles
around, it must be by underground Railroad
1t is stated on good authority that Wise has
sent spies into Ohio and Pennsylvania as it is
reported that armed bodies of men are NOV
ing towards Virginia. The military forces
are being largely augmented, additional
troops have arrived since Saturday, including
two Companies from Wheeling, so, that we
have now about 800 military under arms.
A letter from Hunterton county Pennsyl-
vania states that large bodies of armed men
are moving towards Virgins, across the North
nountains-supposed to be on their way to
Chariestown-these reports cause a constant
panic-all quiet to-day, and arrangements are
making for an erection Of a gallows. 'a1- r'-t@
Later From, ,CaIiE6rnta..-Arrival OF the
Overland notwithstanding from the
"rs .- s.--+ .... o ST. LOUIS, Nov. 26.
The Overland Mail with dates to the 4th,
arrived last night
Three thousand passengers had arrived at
San Francisco during the three days previous
to the departure of the mail, by two steamers
from Panama, and three from Oregon and
British Columbia. The latter steamers bro't
over 1000 tons of apples from Oregon, worth
| from 81 to IS per hundred pounds. ,'' r.
The telegraph wires were in operation 165
miles easterly from San Francisco by the But
tertield route, and would probably reach Wis
| ALA, 25O miles from San Francisco, by the 1st
of July. :. ..'"
More improvements were going on in San
Francisco than at any time since 1854 and the
city was claimed to be in more prosperous
| condition generally than at any time since the
Revolution of '55.
Since the discontinuance of the Tehuante-
| pee route, the Overland mail has invariable
| taken news from California to New York
quicker than the Ocean steamers. Dates from
| st. Louis to October 9th has reached San
Francisco by the Overland mail two days ear.
er than the Ocean mail which had dates to
9th only. .or-...-.
During the month of October, 81, ,34s, 900
worth of gold was deposited in the mint at
San Francisco for coinage, among which was
considerable amount of Frazer River dust.
The total amount of gold shipped from San
| Francisco in October was So, 620, 900.
| Judge Terry had been indicted by the
| Grand Jury of San Francisco County, and
held under SIC 900 bail for the killing Of Brod-
erick. =. . " '. ''r
A proposition for the construction of Horse
Railroads in the streets of San Francisco was
before the Board of ofSupervisors, which would
probably be favorably acted upon.
1t was understood in San Francisco that
OK. Garrison has sold to Vanderbilt his en-
tire interestin the line of steamships carrying
| the mails between that city and New York
which was regarded as an indication that the
! competition between the rival lines. would con
| tinue long time. .fi
The public administrator was pressing q
suit in the Probate Court Of San Francisco
! to get control Of the estate OF the late Senator
| Brodcrick, on the ground that he had no liv
ing relative at the time Of his ,ieAth The APP,
| I!ication was resisted by Mrs. Lucy Brown
who claims that DrUdcrick was her second
cousin, and she was entitled to the estate as
| next of kin.
| The amount of money in the State Treas.
ury on the first of November, exceeded $780,.
900. There were over 5000, 900 in the Treas
ury of San Francisco.