New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-08
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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY By THE MAILS.
Later from California.
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ARRIVAL or THE OVERLAND NATL.

From the st. Louis Republican we extract th.
following California intelligence
The overland mail s a,ss. s si;s I sss
Francisco dates to February 10th, and telepraphia
dispatches to the evening of the 18th arrived bar
| at O'Clock this evening. - ~ =
The Pacific Railroad Convention has been II
\ session at Sacramento since the 9Th It il com
| posed of about seventy members. representina
California, Oregon and Washington Territory ne
| object ID to concentrate public sentiment memo
rlallze Congress- and recommend legislative action
| on the part of California and Oregon
resolution has been unanimously adouted uro
| ing the California Legislature to offer bonus 81
| sixty Thousand dollars to any company that shall
first complete an Overland Telegraph to the Allan
tic States, and forty-thousand dollars to the com
pany completing second line by a different route
provided both lines are finished within eighteen
| months.
| Several days have been spent discussing the pro
| priety of recommending the Legislature to pas
law, subject to the ratification of the people O
| California at the next general election, creating
a State debt of $l5, 900, 900, for the purpose .
building railroads to the eastern boundary of Cal
ifornia.
Members Of the Legislature have been invited
into the Convention to express their views on th.
subject. The proposition will probably be re
Jected as premature, and an appropriation be re
commended sufficient to thoroughly explore all
the mountain passes through which the Pacific
Railroad may be built.
Petitions in favor Of Sunday law continue to
be sent into the Legislature SO numerously signed
that it is evident legal day of rest is demanded
An act has passed to protect California bound
emigrants, by establishing State Agency in New
York to detect bogus ticket swindlers.
vigorous effort has been made in the Legisla-
ture to pass resolutions asking Congress to dis
solve the injunction which has resulted in closing
the New Almaden Quicksilver Mines and throwing
six hundred lab0rers out Of employment thus rem.
dering unavailable one of the richest mineral re-
sources of the State. The question is still under
consideration.
The argument advanced in favor of the resolu.
ton is that the Government has been deceived BY
spectators into the commencement of an expen-
sive suit, which can result in no public good and
that it is scheme to make the United States nav
the expenses of litigation, when only private par
ties can derive any benefit. cit is also urged that
if Government closes quicksilver mines to deter
mine titles, it may with equal proprety close gold
mines.
The Democracy are preparing for an exciting
contest at the primary elections to be held through
out the State this and next week. for the purpose
of electing delegates to the State Convention,
which il to choose delegates to the Charleston
Convention. The contest is between the Douglas
and Administration Democrats, all acting with the
regular party organization. Different tests as to
the qualification of voters have been agreed upon
in almost every county but generally such as will
allow the anti-Lecomptonites to vote at the pri-
mary election.
DR.. Robert P. Chase, formerly of St. Louis. has
been arrested for clandestiney adulteratine acids
used for refining gold at the San Francisco Mint
rendering thereby considerable quantity value
less. The alleged object for committing this sin
gular crime, is that the doctor is an enemy of the
acid manufacturers and wished to injure them and
that he purposed establishing an acid mandatory
OF his own, and hoped to secure the patronage Of
the Mint through the depreciation of the quality Of
the acids made by his rivals. The case has ex-
cited great surprise, from its malicious character
and the previous good reputation Of DR.. Chase.
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Three silver veins have been discovered in Calaye-
ras county, within a week, which are represented
as being very rieh In Napa county, what was at
first regarded as silver mine, producing such an
excitement that one thousand men congregated at
the spot at one time, turns out to be very extern
sive vein of cinnabar, or quicksilver. About four
hundred people have taken possession of it, and
are continuing examinations.
New gold diggings are also reported in Calayeras
county, and in extensive veins easy of access
From Tuoumne county, there are good accounts
Of the quartz mills in operation, and generally
throughout the State mining intelligence is cheer
ing
AdVices from Carson Valley continue to speak
favorably of the Washoe gold and silver mines,
claim having just been sold in silver lode for
forty-two thousand dollars. While this betokens
an increasing and probably extensive demand for
goods in that direction, the San Francisco mer-
chants express much uneasiness as to the effect
upon the mining localities in California; many of
which, it is feared, will be nearly depopulated as
soon as spring opens ana the stampede commences
for the other side of the mountains.
Everything betokens that the ensuing season will
witness one of the most exciting hunts for new
mining regions ever experienced on this side of the
continent.
San FRANCISCO MARKETS, Feb. 1O.-Trade is dull
and feet arriving. Rice is active in small spec.
1lative way $50 packages old butter sold at auc-
lion at 81 to lie. Candles are weaker, at not over
Zoe. by the 500 boxes. Provisions are firm, but
here is nothing doing. Crushed Sugar is quiet.
Coal is heavy. Business is at a stand for want of
country demand.