New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-16
The California Overland Mail.

! MELoY's STATION, Thursday, March Is, 1860.
The Overland Mail coach, with regular San Fran
cisco daes 10 Feb. Oath, arrived at this station Al
SAs Francisco, Feb. 2i-I2m.
There have bes, m arrivals or departures of vessels
since the last mail left
Dnsinete with the country was fair at tn, -
put mas been dull for the past two days. The couI-y
demand still limited. There have been speculative
mo'e~ehis TINS week IN Muscovado and Orleans
sroars. 80 W first barde has been taken up Eew-Or.
issns in hall hhls cold high as l2c, and China No.
/ Prime 89SiSj Crushed is quotable at l3ic.; Re-
fnery is not selling
Provisions are in speculative request. Clear Pork
In bbs. $50, and in half bbs. 81; Mess, sl7. Bacon
I3a I4lc. Lsrd-Skeldne's, be- D. III. & Co.'S
llIc. Ham uncalled for. Butter dull, aud dropping;
the next lsthmus receipts will not bring over JDc.
Large speculative operations in Olive Oil are taking
place; 1000 cases here and to arrive, taken up.
Washington's birthday celebrated in this city by
partial suspension OF business and the firing Of ma
tional salutes.
The taxes for the ensuing year on real eJtate aud
persona property in San Francisco fixed at two
eighty -6fths per cent on each 500 valuation.
the relief of the destitute widow of Ormund Chase
whose murder at Topic by the Mexicans was alluded
to in the Presidents last Annual Message.
Over $500 were donated to the Washington Monu-
meDt Fund in San Francisco the 3D. principally in
small dropped in the box placed for that purpose
at the Post-Ofice.
At the Democratic primary election in San Francisco
twenty lone Southern and four Gwin and Weller dele
gates were elected to the State Convention.
The Republican State Convention met at Sacramento
on the I'D, two hundred and thirty delegates boing
pregent. Leland Sanford, 4. p. Tracy ID. w. Cheese
man and A. A Sergeant were chosen delegates TO the
Chicago Convention. No resolutions were pas,ed,
but a majority Of the delegates are understood to be
for Seward
Tuolomne and Shasta Counties, during the present
week. have elected autGwin kelegates to the Demo
cratic State Convention. Indications grow stronger
that the delegates to the Charleston Convention will
all be friends of Senator Latham.
The annual report of the Sacramento Valley Rail-
road. shows the net earnings for 10 months to be
500 600 and the expenses $780, OO construction &C
count, $2i OCO; net earnings all expenses,
$4,000 This is considered highly favorable state
ment for railroad only 100 miles long, and is likely
to give impetus TO tother railroad projects. The
tension of hs rosd Is 20 miles further to Lincoln,
in Placer County, will be completed early in the
Spring.
The San Francisco and Marysvlle Railroad Com
pany are making progress, % miles of road being
under contract and grading going on at the rate of one
mile week.
Accounts from Che agricultural districts say that the
wheat planting for the present is completed under such
favorable circumstances that there has seldom been at
this better prospect for the crop. The rains
have been abundant gentle, and warm.
fire occurred at harysvle on the list inst, on
street. between Third and Fourth, destroying 5000
of wooden buildings.
VEN of silver ore has been discovered in Zou-
lomne County, in the Stanisaus River, from which
some good specimens are exhibited.
Glowing accounts continue from the new quicksilver
mines Of Sonora and Napa Counties, with occasional
reports Of silver and copper. The people are very
much excited in those counties, and all the mountains
hills, and gulones are being thoroughly searched.
But little has transpire0 in the Legislature during
the week. The Assembly Committee on Mines and
Mining interests have reported bill in favor of in
creasng the tax foreign to $50 per month"; with the
Anew of excluding Chinese laborers from the mines
bill has been introduced to build State Capitol at
Sacramento to cost not over $50, 600.
Gov. Downie has transmitted TO the Legislature a
petition signed by several thousand citizens of the in
terror praying that the crime of highway robbery may
hereafter be punished by the death penalty.
The PlacerviDe papers notice renewal Of emigra-
ton TO the mines OF Western Utah. email companies
foot and horseback pass through that town daily,
and line Of stages has commenced running
The last weekly report from the Washoe gold and
silver mpes published in The Territorial ERterprise,
contains the following items:
During the week much attention has been directed
10 the Feovery Diggngs district, that being
gion of exploration. Through the center of that
N rurs an immense lead OF quartz. The supposton
of many IL that contains hundred miles north to
the Black Rock mineral region. The lead varies in
width from fifty to hundred feet Running parallel
with II smaller leads known as the Roger,
Morning Star, Car and Newcastle leads. Very fine
prospects have been found and sales have been made
npon the snd from $40 TO $40 per foot. Indications
OF silver have been found upon nearly all the lands III
that district.
At Virginia. the center of the silver mining interest,
all the tunnels progressing and speculation in
claims was stil unabated. Many San Francisco capt.
taIists were on hand aud the bulls and bears were
continually eneountering ecch other.
At Goldhill tbeY taking out large amounts Of
gold. Near the Devils Gate the Boston Company
cleared up with four hours work with a rocker seven
and half ounces of gold.
New diggings were reported daily from all all Sec
tiOns.