The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-08-25

pointed Doctor r. McKibbin, ST., E. Hoffman, and
8. P. Ford, as a COMMITTEE of examiners to prove
the qualifications of applicants for physicians licenses.
Correspondence Pac. Commercial Advertiser.l
Letter from San Francisco.
The E7ection-Horuce Greeley in California
Emigration Erpected-The .almaden Case-
Robbery of Freeman & Cos Erpress-Quick
Trip of the " Golden -dge''-OuerIand Mail
Trans-C Continental IsIegraph-Sonora-pict o-
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SAN FRANCISCO, August 6, 1859. =
Mr.. EDITOR AS the election season approaches.
the contest among the various political aspirants
grows warmer every day. 1t is difficult. at present.
to predict what the issue will be. Some startling
disclosures have been made, amid the heat of party
strife, in regard to the way in which things are man
aged " behind the scenes" Gwin publicly asserts
that Broderick is Z" dripping with corruption" and
that the money to pay his last electioneering expenses
came out of the San Francisco Treasury! Broderick,
in turn. accuses Gwin of being the paid agent of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company in the United States
Senate. Deliver me from my friends" should be
the constant prayer of every politician.
Mr.. Gwin is exercising all his influence against the
election of his former friend. Mr.. Latham, to the
CUBE rnatorial chair, and charges him with attempt
ing, on one occasion, to bride a Judge of the Supreme
Court of this State. Thus elimination and recrimin-
alton is the order of the day. If half the statements
that have been made on oil sides are true, our politi-
clans are rather a SC hard crowd General Denver,
Ex-Governor of Kansas. is no longer heard of in con-
nection with the coming election, as his friends have
sacrificed him on the altar of erpediency.
Horace Greeley is in California. Everywhere he
is received with public demonstrations of regard
not as a politician, but as an upright, fearless, noble
man. Approaching Sacramento, he was met at
Folsom by a large deputation of citizens, and con-
Quoted by them into the city. On the evening after
his arrival he made a very neat speech in Rev. Mr..
Benton's church. in which he expressed his faith in
the high destiny of California. Mr.. Greeley has gone
on a tour through the northern mines, after which he
will visit this city. Preparations are being made to
give him a public reception.
A large tide of emigration is expected to pour in
during the next few months. Mr.. Greeley estimates
the number of e~migrants now on the way ria Salt
Lake alone, at thirty thousand. Add to this the
numbers on the way by the other routes. and they
will make quite a respectable ddition to our popula-
ton.
The celebrated case of the United States Us. Andres
Castellero, is still pending before the United States
District Court. This suit is brought to gain possess
BIOL Vi tne TcfloWucu hliuauen QUICKSILVER Nhlne,
and the amount at stake is immense. 1t bids fair to
be prolonged two or three years more.
Freeman & Co.'S Express was robbed a few nights
ago of a bag containing $4,000 in treasure, under
the following circumstances The robber had a bag
made exactly like the treasure bags of Freeman &
Co., and filling it with shot and old iron, fast
ened it as the express bags are fastened. While
the express matter was being conveyed from the Sac
boat to the wagon nm the wharf M NJ ,ho
bags was distracted, and the bogus bag placed in its
stead. The affair was managed very adroitly. and
the robbery was not discovered until the bags were
opened at the express office. James Mulhare and
John Conner have been arrested on suspicion Of being
the perpetrators of the robbery. Conner has been
by the saddler who made the bag for him.
Passengers by the Golden .4ge on her last trip to
Panama, connecting with the Moses Taylor on the
other side, went through to New York in nineteen
days and twenty hours-the quickest time on record.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company have purchased
The Collins steamers in New York, and intend TO RIM
hem between that port and Aspinwall, in place of
The steamers of the United States Mail Steamship
1t is thought that when the lines on both
'ides are under the management of one Company. the
can be materially reduced.
The number of letters received and sent out bv the
mail is steadily on the increase. The last
nail took out over 5000 through letters. The great
of the overland mail consists not so much
n the accommodation afforded by semi-weekly com
with the East-although that is consid-
in the influence it will have in opening up
good road for e~migrants to this coast.
The San Francisco and Eastern Telegraph Com.
'any have completed their line as far as Gilroy. 30
niles beyond San Jose. Thence it is to be continued
o Monterey and Los Angeles. 1t will be some time
ct before we are placed in telegraphic communities
ion with st. Louis. The President of the Company has
ppealed to the citizens Of San Francisco to aid in
great enterprise.
We do not hear much about the annexation of
nowadays. Quite a number of adventurer.
re there already,-many of them from this State,-
rating for the suspicious day to dawn. Some have
largely Unreal estate at Guaymas, in antici-
alton OF q rush thither. 1t would not be surprising.
the cry of gold should be raised, in order to induce
to that place.
There is no newsof importance from British Colum-
ia. Your correspondent visited Victoria. ". l.. re-
entity. Everything seemed to be at a perfect stand
Ill there. The only accessions to the mining popu-
'tlon are Chinese, who can work to better advantage
ian white men, as they live cheaper. Victoria is
ute an extensive town, well laid out, and having :
appearance. The capital Of British
oiumoia 10 to be on the main land, ON q site already
elected. called New Westminster.
a number Of tea plaptsEsome thirty or forty +
ave been imported from China by the CAoltenrs.
nasef4 <pported TO :be In . AouriShine condition. Al Il
temp Ei1 b mAds b cnldyAte The plant 81 a. =
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