The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-05-03
Later from Cnlifornia-Arrivai Of the Pony

1
Express left San Francisco On the evening O
the 21th inst, coming through in less than te,
days. The Express brought two hundred ant
eighty-five letters, private kilograms, and
large summary of rews.
| SAN FRANCISCO, April 2O--33O p. Nth,
| first Pony Express, with telegraphic date
| from the Atlantic cities OF April Sd and le,
| ters from ST Joseph's. mailed at 6 81 p NJ O
the same day, reached the telegraphc station
IN Carson Valley at 23o r. NJ, April 18th
| whence the news was telasra phe(i TO Sar
| Francisco and pu ublished the same evening in
| extras by the Bulletin and Alta California
| Ihe news was only nine days from ocean tC
ocean. The great feat created unbOunded en-.
thusiasm. The Express encountered serious
obstacles in crossing the mountains from Car.
| son to Placerville snow having accumulated
lour feet deep during storm which prevailed
Just previously. Oniy narrow mule path
had been opened, and this was entirely occu.
pied Tor miles by pack trains, on their way
from California to the Washoe mines-
Inc Express rider was compelled to dsmount
! ana break path around each mule, thus
causing several hours delay. Finally he over
came these bstacles and reached PIacerville
at 30 +. NJ. OF the 18th, and Sacramento at
300 r. NJ, and thence proceeded to san Frau
CISCO by steamer, arriving at A. nj. on the
l4th. spontaneous celebration took place al
every town through which the Pony passed
At Placerville guns were fired, speeches made
etc: AT Sacrament the Legislature adjourned
We're
draped with banners ladies thronged the bal
Comics, and crowds blocked up the sidewalks
along the streets through which the Pony was
expected to pass as he came ga!loping along
I,lioWed by wild cavalcade of men, who had
gone out on tle Plains to meet him, the city
echoed with the ringing of bells. booming of
cannon an0 the long-continued shouts of the
multitude. The demonstration Was equally
enthusiastic and more imposing when the En-
press reached San Francisco 1T late hour OF
tue night. The city was lit up by numerous
l'oHHEes, and torch-iight procession was
formed, the military com panies We're out, and
the P"hy was escorted from the steamer to the
heart OF the city amidst a bi>bs OF fireworks.
The Governor has approved the following
bills passed by the Legislature: An appro-
priatiOn of $1,000 for Il Deaf and Dumb and
BIND Asylum ct San Francisco; an act ;ip-
pIoPrlotlng N35,00u for q State Reform School
at Maysville; an act establishing county in
f1rmarIes tor the INDECENT and an act appro-
prlating $4,000 TO the San Francisco Orphan
Asylum The following bills have passed and
are awaiting the Governors approval: An act
authorizing San Francisco county TO is> ue
10000 bonds San Mateo county Sl0U,0Oo, and
Santa Cara county S2u,DOU toward building a
railroad from San Francisco through San
MateO TO San Jose Also an act authorizing
Nevada county to loan 5000 600 to the Sacra-
mento, PIaceryille and Nevada Railroads. At
ter approved by the Governor the people of
the Counties concerned must vote these debts
before the bonds can he issued.
John G. Bell, men b.r from Fl Dorado coun-
~. who was shot by DR.. Stone on the llth,
died OF his wounds on the 18th.
A bill has passed approprating S200,000 for
the liquidation Of the contracts, and all claims
held against the State by the lessee OF the State
prison, by which the penitentiary reverts to
the State freed from incumbrance.
The Senate has passed the trans. con tinental
telegraph bills, giving a bonus of S60,O0O to
the cdolp lpany building first, and SiO,GtiU Tor a
second line. payable at the rate of $4,000 and
S4,Uu0 per annum, provided bot h lines are COM
pe'ed to the Mississippi within eighteen
months. The bill will probably become 4 law
The Legislature will probably adjourn May
lst.
The prospect for fruit and all kinds OF crops
throughout the State are excellent.
The latest accounts say that the inclement
weather and the scarcity Of provisions in Car
son Valley, have checked, temporarily, the
Washoe emigration.
The California mines are yielding sure re-
turns.
The gold receipts AT San Francisco during
the quarter ending March, were Sl0,s0000O,
being an excess of more than Il million over
the first quarters OF l-5S aud 1859 and show
ing AN unusual accumulation ot gold.
AiliSonS quartz mine, in Nevada county,
yielded -, 900 from three days cruising.
The accounts from The quartz mines near
Jacksonville, Southern Oregon, continue al
most fabulous. One ledge, worked by Aras-
tras, yielded i'll one week one thousand ounces
of gold. Several other ledges were also yield
ing enormously.
majority of the people of Butte county
voted last week to loan S2Uo,C00 towards a rail-
road from Marysyilie 10 Orovil!e.
On the llth OF April the Governor vetoed a
bill arpropriating s25, 900 10 open nine roads
over the Sierra Nevada. The veto was sus.
tanned.
The Northern Telegraph Company has or
dered Wire to build Il line from Yreka to Port
land, Oregon.
The Overland Mail, leaving on the I3th took
over 10000 letters; on the 10th, about 5,ooU and
to day 1000.
The barks Rover and Pontiac have sailed
for japan, with mixed cargces. principally
Yankee clocks, notions, wines aud liquors.
The trial of udge Terry. for killing Senator
Broderick, IS again postponed till June.
Senior Castro, Governor of Lower Califor-
MIA, was assassinate near Santa Thomas on
the 7th by notorious bandit, named Manuel
Marquis. Castro was friendly to Americans
and was appointed Governor in le'5 by CO.
monfort. and re-appointed last year by .Jua-
reZ. Renewed contests among rival actions
i'll the Peninsula will probably ensue.
OREGON
TIVE arrivals bring Oregon advices to the
l2th, and British Columbia 10 the iith. rhe
charter election in Portland on the ID resulted
III the election of an Opposition Mayor and
Treas urer, and the balance Democratic
There are conflicting accounts concerning
the Snilkameen gold mines, and the genera!
impression is uniavorablc TO the mines being
OF much extent or value.
The Republican State Convention would
meet Aprll lttu 10 nominate candidate tor
Congress.
The growing crops throughout Oregon and
Washington were III fine condition. The Bri-
fish Columbian mining news was unusually
encouraging. The gold receipts at. Victoria
averaged 100000 monthly.
Extensive new diggings of coarse'gold were
reported on the upper Frazer River. Large
numbers OF Chinese were arriving from Cali
fornia. and were likely soon to outuumber the
whites In the mines.
LATEST.
SACRAMENTO, April 2l-6 P. M.-The As
sembly passed To-day, a bill to issue war bonds
to run ten years, bearing six per cent. but no
interest TO he paid until the bonds become due
The amount of the bonds is to be limited to
500, 600.
fhis act is TO pay the expenses incurred in
the Indian hoStilities in 1857 aud 1855 The
proposition is to apply To the General Gov
ernment to pay said indemnities. but il the
United States fail TO do So, California will
at the expiration OF ten years. The bill has
yet 10 go before the Senate
REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE. The Boston
Post Of the 2Sth ult, says: We learn by q
private letter from Marblehead of singular
occurrence in that place. Some time last week
Mr.. Eban Harris who keeps q number of
fowls, was driving them into the COOP in
which they were usually confined during the
night when one of the cocks became enraged.
and jumping up struck him with his spur
Just below his knee. Mr.. Harris paid little
attention to the wound, and it did not troub BILE
him until last Mo. day, when he started To 90
to Salem. He had proceeded about four miles
when he was taken with a very sudden and
severe pain in his leg and was taken back to
his house and put to bed. He has suffered
great pain aud has lost his sleep since that
time, and the letter states that on Friday
night he several times crowed like a rooster
The physicians have given him up TO die.
RUMORRD DEATH OF TOWNSEND HARRIS
A Washington correspondent says that sit is
rumored that Intelligence has reached this
through private correspondence of
a member of the House Of Wetmore, Williams
4 Co, at Shanghai, of the death Of Townsend