The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1859-05-17
Correspondence OF the NJ Y Times.
Latest by the California Mail--Summary
of the News.

OF the News.
Our merchants and financiers are begin
n,ng to breathe little more freely since
the steamer of the 9th left, with its over
100000 OF treasure, which it gave them
terrible squeeze to raise. The worst
troubles in financial affairs here are bcIiev-
ed to be over for the Spring. Gold dust
is coming down quite freely now from tho
interior, and we shall doubtless send you
another two millions by the steamer of the
goth. The receipts of dust at the Branch
Mint in this city, during the first week in
April, exceeds the March average by a.
bout ten thousand ounces. So you per
ceive that our gold fields do not present
very startling indications of a disposition
TO give out. Indeed, not a day passes
that docs not disclose new and rich dig.
gings. 1t has become 80 old story, how.
ever, that little is said about it. The mi.
ners are doing well, making from three to
ten dollars day, and occasionally doing
much better. Mining. too. !" "''>ndnA
now with less risks and deprivations than
formerly, and miners are able to live com
fortably at little greater expense than la.
borers upon the Pacific coast. The mines
still would afford abundant and profitable
employment for thousands of laborers,
while the agricultural lands Of California
offer rare inducements to those who prefer
TO labor in that inviting field. But more
of this on some future occasion, when l
can do something like justice to the sub
jcct.
Shippers to California are evidently in
great danger Of again overcrowding this
market. The supplies Of goods reaching
us this year from the hcme Atlantic ports
have been enormous, and greatly in excess
of the wants of consumers, SO that the
prices Of staple goods in very many cases
are ruling below the cost OF importation.
The statistics Of registered tonnage entered
at this port show an excess during the first
| quarter of the current year of upwards of
SO per cent. as compared with 1858, and
nearly 339 per cent. ms compared with H.
81. Tue, the wants Of the county are
increasing somewhat, bu' nothing in pro
portion to this excess of importat on. The
increased consumption here is chiefly Of the
kinds which occupy the least space, as
compared with their value, and which we
cannot produce or manufacture for our
selves. Of bulky goods we are importing
less every year. 1t is a fair estimate that
we can take and pay for nine or ten car
goes per month from eastern ports, and if
your shippers persist in exceeding that a.
mount and suffer loss. we beg of them not
to set it down against the honest or pros
perity of California.
A recent decision Of the United States
Court upon a California case Of much in
terest to merchants may not have been no.
ted in Eastern journals. 1t is the case Of
Britt in Us. the ship Albion. 1t has been
the practice in San Francisco, when ship
began to discharge, for consiGnecs to 90
to the agent Of the vessel, pay his freig"t
an ddvaace, according to bill Of Iading,
and then take away his goods as fast as
discharged, package by package. 1t this
case Britain refused to pay freight until
his goods were discharged, so that he cod
examine them. They were accordingly
put in store. When they had all been dis.
charged Britain rendered payment Of the
entire freight, but the ships agent refused
TO deliver the goods unless he would also
pay some sixteen dollars storage acc uing
upon the goods first discharged while wait.
ing the discharge Of the remainder. This
Britain refused, and libeled the ship
Tn" Courts here gave judgment for the
defendant, but the United States Su RENE
Court reversed the decision. holding that
before corsignce can be called upon TO
pay his freight he is entitled to see his
consignments all discharged and so placed
that he can inspect them and ascertain
their CONDITION. The cost of this suit,
originally involving only sixteen dollars,
foots up something like ten thousand.
We have very little general news for this
mail. Judge McKune, at Sacramento, has
granted to j. R. Hardenborgh, Postmaster
in that city, divorce menSa etM3ro from
his wife Eliza r. Hardenbergh for the rcas-
on that she refused to leave her home IN
Ncw Brunswick, N. j., to join her hus-
band in California.
The Legislature has rejected tho Bachel
ors' Homestead bill, which proposed to
give to give to men who prefer life of
gle-blesscdness, the same immunity from
seizure of their homesteads, for debt, as
now enjoyed by those who have the good
sense to get married. The schemes for
the attempted dismemberment Of the
State, and the creation of "rerrtores" in
the North aud South extremes, still hang,
with little prospect of success There is
likely to be lively time in the Democrat
c household, upon the Slavery question,
before the Legislature adjourns, a Senator
having given notice Of resolutions disap-
proving of the enactment Of Congres-
sional Slave code for Territories OF the
United States, and constituting tho Kansas
Nebraska act ip accordance with the views
Of Mr.. Douglas, and in opposition to tho e
of Jefferson Davis and the other Southern
leaders.
Capt. Dillingham;, of the ship Kt Car
son, has been arrested on charge Of cruel
and unusual punishment preferred by one
Of his sailors The Grand Jury have not
yet acted on the case Of Capt. Pendleton,
but there is little doubt that he will be in
dictcd for the homicide of the sailor Will
liams.
General Walker is still here, with Col