Daily national Democrat., 1860-01-04

Lake, on the 18th inst, with goods for the
opening of the spring trade. Another com.
pany will leave in few days.
Our citizens are complaining of the a
mount of sickness that has prevailed here for
the last two or three weeks. The most prev
alent complaints are of infammatory rheu-
natism, chills and fevers and colds.
CHANors.-The Los Angeles Star learns
that Dr. c. G. Hollenbush has been appointed
to relieve Dr. Hernden at Fort Yuma The
latter gentleman has been ordered to take
the place of DIR. lillian, at Fort Mojave, who
is to relieve Dr. Tenbroeck, at present serv-
ing with the First Dragons at Fort TETON.
AT Southwicl, Massachusetts,, Henry Hol-
comb, resident of that place, recently at
tempted to murder his wife by beating her
on the head with heavy oak scantling. He
made his escape. Mrs. Holcomb was not ex-
pected to survive her injuries many days.
BEAUTIFUL and accomplished young lady
says the Norfolk Argus, passed through this
! city, last week, en- route for St. Louis, where
she was being sent by express, She was from
Paris; and, being unable to speak our "bar-
barous lingo" her friends had adopted this
method of sending her TO her destina ton
She was regularly entered upon the "way-
bill, and freight paid all the way through.
NNLAN, first officer of the steamship Co.
lumbia has been arrested at San Francisco,
for asssaulting n sailor named Daniel Taylor.
DoATH OF a SAN FRANcIsco LAwYER.-Jas
Scarborough, Esq, a lawyer of San Francisco
died in that city on Friday afternoon, in n
carriage, while being conveyed from the
boarding house of Mrs Yanness, on Pike St,
where he had been taken i'll.
TELEGRAPH ENrERPR1sE.-The Union learns
that the California State Telegraph Company
have opened an Office in the folding room at
the State House for the convenience Of mem
bers Of the Legislature, State officers and 9th.
ers who may have business at the Capitol
and may desire to avail themselves of the
services of the company.
Ok the 9th of December, at noon, the re
tort house and machinery of Hyatt & Woo dis
candle mandatory, in Cincinnati, were
burned Loss, $4,000 Insured.
The custom of making calls was kept up
to very great extent in San Francisco on
Monday
The fare on the Golden Age, on Thursday,
is Sl57 in the upper saloon.
The Champion sails with the mails for
Panama on the 9Th.
LEWIS MAHoNEY has been arrested in San
Francisco on a charge of stealing horses in
San Mateo county.
OK the 8th of December, the steamer
Rochester snagged and sunk in the Ohio riy-
er Loss, about $4,000.
AT Boston, December 9th, in the case of
Cochran VS.. Perry, for the seduction of the
formers wife, the jury awarded $4,000 dam
ages. Cochran transferred the amount to
the House of the Fallen.
PRESTON, United States Minister to Spain,
and Baron Rothchild, arrived at New York
on the steamer Persia
ONLY one paper, the Times, was issued in
San Francisco on Mofday
A PETITION is being circulated in Trinity
county asking the Legislature to pass a law
-.
'"As IN highway robbery punishable with
IHE number of letters sent in the Overlord
Mail on Friday, was 1870 or 49, or ~,
were way letters.
Gov WELLER has restored to cit;zonsh;,
Seaborne Coffman, convicted of mans,orch.o,
in San Joaquin county, in 1856, and sep,ero
ed to three years imprisonment in the Stat,
Prison.
A steamer is being built near Petaluma t,
run between San Francisco and Bodego Port
DEPUTY Sheriff Cbas. P. ONeil, of Sacra.
mento, has been presented by the Chimes
merchants of that city with massive golC
star or badge of Office, made by their owr
countrymen.
Removal OfLivery Stable.