The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1860-05-26
OUR MARYsvILLE LETTER.


everything mas Dccoih6 bo uuli thdL IL
shocked the nerves of old mother Earth,
she in turn giving us good shaking, try
ing to shake off that dull and lethargic stu
por that seems to be prevailing over the
entire community. This vibration was
from east to west, occurring on the 18th of
March, and lasting for several seconds. 1t
was the most severe shock ever felt i'll this
locality In Sacramento the shock was
severely felt 1t occurred at the moment
when, in the Senate, there was being I'M
rolled large petition from San Francisco,
(signed with some ten thousand signatures,
the greater portion of which were subse
quently denounced as spurious in favor of
bnlk-head or sea.wall around that city,
causing the honorable Senators to stand
aghas: and look at each other with terror
depicted ON their countenance. In the
Assembly the members became SO terrified
that they rushed irantically from the build
ing into the middle of the street, and for a
moment all was utter confusion.
The bulkhead above referred to has
been the great incubus of the past and
present Legislatures, and upon its success
nearly every important measure has hung.
| have not seen the bill, but believe it
gives to certain parties all the States in
terest in the property, together with fif
ty years lease of all the city's interest, to
levy tolls, wharfage, port dues, &c. At
the expiration of eighteen years, the par
ties agree to build certain wharfs, store
houses, &C., and at the expiration of the
lease the property is to be appraised by
disinterested parties, and the city of San
Francisco to become the purchaser, (if she
CAM The project is denounced by ma
jority of the residents of San Francisco,
and the larger portion of her Senators and
Representatives, as gigantic swindle. 1t
has passed both houses of the Legislature,
and only awaits the Governors signature
to become law. BY intelligence of la
ter date than our correspondents letter, it
is announced that the Governor has vetoed
this measure.-ED.
The next great feature of the past week
was the arrival of the pony express, new
and very important event in the history of
California, bringing news in nine days from
St. Joseph, Mo-, and eleven and half
from New York Judge Field, Chief JUS
tice of this State, received a letter from
Cyrus W., of telegraph notoriety, by tele-
graph from New York to St. Joseph, thence
by pony express to Carson City, U. r.,
and by there to this city by telegraph, i'll
nine days. Quick time, that. Butterfeld
talks of putting pony express on the
southern route, to make the trip from St.
Louis to San Francisco in is seven and a
half days. We viii await the result
The last overland mail, which left San
Francisco OH Friday, the 18th, carried five
through passengers and over five thousand
letters There were hundreds of people
around the office to see the stage off, which
had not been gone FIVE minutes when five
more were booked for the next stage. The
overland travel is beginning to be fea-
ture Of some Importance
On the 18th, a portion of the extensive
livery stables of Messrs George & Woods,
of this city, used as a carriage honse, fell
in. Two men were on the awning paint
ing at the time, one of whom was serious
ly, if not fatally injured.
On Wednesday, the 18th, difficulty oc-
Cured at the room of the Sergeant-at-
Arms, at the capitol, between DR.. Stone, of
Ell Dorado county, and the Hon. Mr.. Bell,
Assemblyman from the same county, in
which the latter was fatally stabbed in the
abdomen, and died on Saturday 1t caus-
ed a good deal of excitement i'm the Assem-
bly,. Stone delivered himself up to the
authorities.
During the past month we have had
great deal of rain, which has been of much
benefit to the country. In the valleys all
the small streams have been flooded, while
in the mountains everything is covered
with snow. Last week, in the upper por-
ton of this county, there was two or three
feet of snow, while here in the city and
valleys adjacent the snow never falls, and
what will seem more strange to the peo-
pie on your side of the continent, it is all
within space of forty miles.
For the past few days the Washoe ex-
element has been little on the decline,
the reports from there being very conflict
isg. Nearly all the trails were closed du-
ring the great storm, and provisions are
consequently very high there, everything
in that line ranging from fifty cents to one
dollar ner pound Hav sells at from three