Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-11-28
Later from California, Oregon and
Washington Territory.

FosT KrARNEY, Nov. 25
The Pony Express. from San Francisco, with
advic.s to $40 r. N. the l4tb inst, passed
here about 4 this p N.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov 14.-Trsde with the
country 10 less sctivs than during the preced.
ing week. Considerable rain has fallen, but
not sufficient to interfere seriously with the
transportation of goods throughout the inte-
rior. The country has been. however, sup
piled SO literally within this sixty days as to
diminieh the present demand. and IS soon as
freights advance We may look for its cessation.
This is the general expectation entertained BY
city dealers, and hence their continued efforts
to reduce stocks and to avoid calling upon first
hands for any thing not Immediately needed.
The Presidential election returns still lacks
5000 or 5000 votes Of being complete. The total
returned is Ill ,8l8, OF which Lincoln gets 36
$50 Douglas s5,9OOS, Brsckinridge 81. ZIG.
Bell 5O26. Lincol0's majority over Douglas 597.
This is the most favors ole account for Douglas
yet published, other authorities placing him
nearly 1000 behind Lincoln, The balance of
the returns will probably reduce Linco'n's ma
jority, but the State 10 generally conceded TO
have gone Republican. though the official count
is required to settle all doubts.
A Dispatch from Yrsks, near Oregon, on the
l3th says: --latest sdvices from Oregon gives
$50 majority for Lincoln over BreckinTidge.
Douglas WAS 600 behind Breckinridge, with
three ANAL counties to hear from, which cannot
vary the result"
Returns from few Of the principal counties
show donations on election day to the Wash.
ington Monument Fund to the amount of $420
which must largely increase when full returns
are received.
It.is believed that majority Of the people Of
Catiternis voted against calling constitutional
Convention.
At 8 o'clock to-day the express arrived At
Fort Churchill, whence the news Of the Presi
Dental elscMon Was cent to San Francisco and
published in the extra Bulliten sud Atla Cali
jormio before o'clock The news was express.
ed from st. Joseph to the telegraph station in
the unprecedented time of six days. The Re-
publican State Committee issued On address
urging general illun nstion Of San Francisco
tomorrow evening.
A school census Of San Francisco gives Is 400
children under eighteen wears.
E.psrsnzs, one of the ring-leaders of the fli-
busters who went into Lower California from
Los Aogelos county recently. hes been killed
10 q fight. The band 10 committing murder and
robberies by the wholesale on the peninsula
The eitixens of San Diego have sent relief to
the Governor of Lower California.
A letter from " ~ !. 3. Washington Ter
ritory to the Pv,ln AOregon) Nevs, dated
Nov 3. says that an sxpress had just arrived in
the valley from the command Of Capt. Dent,
who was ordered out upon the emigrant road
in ths vicinity Of Fort Boyd, to investigate the
report of the massacre Of the emigrants.
Captain Dent found some ten or twelve emit
granite still alive, and subsistiug upon the dead
bodies Of their associates. The messenger re-
ports that twelve dead bodies had been found.
and that ten more we're still slive, secreted in
parties OF three or four for diatance Of twelve
miles in the vicinity Of the attack.
Some had died OF actual starvation, Mr.. Mey-
ere, his bro.her's wife. Mira. Meyers, with Ave
children, and Miss Trimbail. we're among the
living. The party we're subsisting upon the
dead body Of Ar. Msyers. the father and hus.
band Of the family.
Captain Dent will return 10 few days. when
full report will be forwarded to the Portland
Prsss
This most horrible slaughter ofs many limo
cent emigrants calls for . searching investiga-
tiou by the authorities.