New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-04
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Later from, CaIiforuts.

sT JOSEPH, NO., Aug 3i.-~The Pony Ezpress,
WIN the following summary of news, has arrived.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18.-Sailed 18th, Jacob
Bell, Hong Kong; schooner Kate Kearney, sgd
ney; l6tt-ship Lizzie Spaudng, Melbourne 18th,
| ship Benjamin Howard, Manila.
| C0nldeTcidL-There is an active business doing
with good demand by the regular trade and
some speculative operations Of limited extent.
The market Is assuming more favorable appear
anee, while the state of money matters contributes
70 increase the disposition to buy merchandise.
Candles are In active request with free sales to the
trade at 22 to 23e. Rio Coffee is worth Is to 153c
and other kinds are unchanged. Coal is quiet and
dr1n. Molasses and Syrups have a downward ten
dency. Nails are firm at He Olive OIL ia heavy
other kinds are quiet. Provisions are doing Bet
ter. Choice Old Bacon quotes at I2J to- I3c with
out much doing. Pork IS more active at an ad-
vance bbls. ciesf, $40; haIfbbls, 80 SO; Mess,
sl8; Hans are qaset but firm. Buttev Is quite
active; 1sthmus, 55e.: choice from % to 28c;
ordinary, , TO llc. Lard is steady j. H. & Co.
eases 173c.T good outsiders, Ae:; kegs, 1sac.
Cheese, Ice. Rice is dull but unchanged. Sugars
are more actiye. Foreign raws are looking up
triffs; No. China 755css domestic faws unchanged
with moderate sales Eastern refned, I23c.; re-
bnerg IL heid at be. Spirits are steady and fairly
sustalBed; American is armer with free los at
presens IN fiFss hands, Fine Teas are-in betteTre-
Gnest; common grades continue dull. Spirits Tur-
Eentine are selling at 81 20, and ali controlled.
IN row very freely, sld heavy export business i5
doing at st 90 to 81 E2ll per 100 lbs Tonnage ID
ver7 scarce: there il not vessel in The harbor
unengaged, and every hing is picked up mi reach
ing port.
The ship Altnackleokeg has cleared for Aus-,
tralia With 2Sl0s0 bushels Of wheat and the ship
White swallow has been chartered TO taae full
cargo Of wheas 70 r the same destination.
General In5eligeace.--Reports are In etrenIa-.
ton that the gekuantepec route is soon to be
opened and lire af steamers established between
San Francisco and New Orleans. The authority,
ior these reports b supposed to be Hon r. r. Ben
Jamin, who arrived by the Iast steamer
The pony which should have brought the ex4.
4 nrp Intt aaxF%t I l~k. 4. "
rived at Carson river the morning Of the ia,
without rider letter bag. The suppcstion il that
the horse threw the rider and got away or else that
| the Indians Killed te rider tcok the letter hagv
and allowed thshorsa to escape The latter theo-
ry is not probable, as thesIudians would haveakept
| the horse also. The pony arrived at the station
only few hours behind time, so that the accident
or whatever was the matter, mus have happened
but short distance east of Carson Valley and vet
after an interval Of nearly three days no farther e.
PLANTATION of that strange intermssion is given. An
other express with St. Louis dates to the eth ia due
to-day. His arrival vii; be telegrapaad to overtake
| the outgoing expres8sat Carson Valley Tomorrow
evening, as it comes ia sufficiently early. The out
going pony Of the 18th passed through Gafaon Val
ley on the 18th, and departed thence for the east
the same as though nothing had happened. The
last tive expresses have taken their Usual supply
of letters.
All the political parties are actiTaly prepar-
ing for their respective State Conventions to
nominate electoral tickets, and politics IN all the
interior counties engross the general public atten
1 eion. fn SdH rEaHclScO the republican 0rganiZa-
| ton manifests most force and zeal. They viii
probably carry the city for Lincoln ana entertain
| strong hopes Of carrying the State. Everything
indicates that this to be year of great political
| change throughout California
/ Col. Fremont has issued notice to the Chinese
who are working the gold mines on his grant for
bidding them to pay any more license tax under
the State law taxing foreign miners. He claims
that all the gold contained in the soil belongs TO
him, and that the State has no control over the dis
position Of private property The principle is
| whether the owners of land under our Government
/ are also owners of the mineras-gold and silver
contained in the SOIL question never vet deter
mined by the Supreme Court of the United States
The schooner Caroline E. Foote, which recently
| brought the camels from Siberia, sailed yesterday
| for the Amoor river, via Hakodai Japan, taking
home several Japanese, who were left here sick BY
4 the Japanese steamer Candinmarrah.
The first crushing mill erected at Wash0e mines
commenced operations on the .I1th. It is capable
of crushing from 800 to 400 tons Of gold bearing
quartz per week. Another mil of considerable
power has since commenced operations and
several small mills are in process of erection.