The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-11
HEws FROM THE PACIFIC.

NEWS FROM TIKI PACIFIC.
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Arrival or the CaIi1srnis Overland Mail.
SHIPPING AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE Hor
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN In PRo6REss-AGklcuLru-
RAJ FAIRS, ETC., ETC.
p JosHru, Sept 10, 1880.
The Pony Express rom San Francisco the 10Th ult,
arrived here lest night
saw FRANCISCO, August ~, 1850.
Arrived August rs, ships Evira, from New York
Locke, from Newcastle.
Sailed August 49, ships Georges for New York 2oth,
B. y Shaw, for Australia; bark "crs,ina, for do.
mo general tendency OF the market this week has been
IN favorable owing the ndspositon OF buyers 10 ope
rate There have been but few leading transacors
quotabe changes cannot befecorded No artclecan be
sold as well . week ago il except coal, which ex
hibs greater frmness 1t auction Five hundred boxes
Of candles were bid in to-day At decline Of fully
cent per pound from the highest point reached The
country trade has Stacked up and jobbers doing
thing Without revival in this respect general reaction
seems unavoidable. Wheat largely; buyers for
export 10 Australia have withdrawn and the majority Of
tonnage for other quarters limits operations decline
Of &C. per 100 bbls be noted good shipping lots
quotable At 81 49, The ship g. Helena, which has
commenced loading for England win carry Is 900 sacks
Of wheat. Tho bark Christina has sailed for Australia
with 10000 bushels Of wheae, and the ship Lord
Raglan has ommenced loading for the destination.
The Pony Express with St. Louis dates 10 tine l4th Of
August and the in coming express with dates to the 2h
10 autographed from Carson Valley this morning.
There have recently been strikes Of aborer In
San Francisco for the hours syst which have been
partially sustained.
At the Douglas democratic primary election In San
Francisco demonstrated that nearly all tho Irish
OF the city win give their support 10 that ticket.
Political mass meetings throughout the State are al
most entirely engrossiDg the public attention.
Primary elections and conventions are taking place
daily all tho counties TO choose delegates 10 represent
the four political parties whose state Conventions will
meet at Sacramento between the ID and llth OF Sep
TENDER.
Senator Gwn s 70 mako his nrst Political speech this
year At stockton, to morrow evening Al the canvass
great bitterness 10 manifested against the Senator, who
. candidate for reelection next winter. Some Of the
democratic County Conventions have required pledges
nom their legislative delegates 10 use Ill honorable ex
ertions TO defeat him when the State legislature
tembles.
The Republican state Central Committee has decided 70
call Our State meetings barbacues in the four
most prominent interior localities
The several state and county agricultural fairs are
about meet all the reports represent the progress
Of the country, In agricultural sense most extra
ordinary.
Al the stockton fair, 900 tons OF copper from Cole
county arc exhibition, which creates the impress
sion that the mines whence the specimens came from
must be valuable
The Contestants 10 the Broderick VII! have applied
for commission TO be sent 70 New York TO take tho
testimony Of Joseph c. McKibben, and some othsvs by
whom they expect TO that the day the will pur
ports 70 have been signed Frederick could have ere
cuted IL, and that the will not among Broderick's
papers at Washington when they nrst examined ar
ter his death Tho application strcnuously opposed
and the Court has the matter under adviscment
Thirty three State prison convicts made desperate At
tempt 70 escape the 2sth ult, by rushing upon The
guard me prisoners fred upon and three four
them moraly wounded before they could be secured
On the TIN Of August the ship Lawson Of Bath AAine
sailed IRON Port Townsend, Washington Territory, for
New York direct with cargo Of yellow ar spvs, vary
ing length from 90 TO lls feet This Ia the nrst cargo
ship timber shipped from Puget Sound for any Atlantic
port Another weasel loading with the kind Of
timber for London.
The value Of the merchandise, not including the rea
sure exported from San Francisco dsnE August exceeds
o. 600 900, nearly all OF which being products Of Cali
fornia.
The ship Wild Ranger cleared this afternoon for Aus
ala conveying 10 sscks OF wheat 1000 sacks OF oats
and over 900 quarter sacks Of nour