The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1860-02-11
From California.

NEW YoRK, February 10.-We have, per
steamer Atlantic, dates from San Francisco to
the goth ult. The steamers John L. Stephens
and Cortez sailed on the goth with Eve
hundred and twenty passengers, three hundred
and twenty Of whom were on the Stephens.
There was $1,5O6,025 on the Stephens and
$4,000 ON the Cortez. E.t
A fair trade for the season has been doing
thus far this week. Communication with tho
interior Is almost cut off by the hard state Of
the roads, which retards business materially.
The money market is quiet. Receipts Of
gold from the country fair, and no difficulty
in obtaining loans on good collateral.
But little had been done in legislation since
the Senate election. A resolution instructing
Senators in Congress to oppose the division Of
the State, for the purpose Of erecting six
Southern Counties into Territory, has been
probably pass, o test vote having soindicsted.
Several propositions have been introduced
for opening and improving wagon roada, and
for protecting California bound immigrants.
An attempt to authorize the raising of .
volunteer company to suppress the Indian
hostilities in Mendocino County has failed,
and Governor Downey has referred the sub
ject to Gen. Clark, Of the q. s.. Army. @
The expense of capturing the Pitt River In
dams by Gen. Kibbee was upward of 81, 900,
for which the Legislature proposes issuing
war bonds and asking Congress to redeem
them.
The State Constitutional Committee of the
nti-Lecompton and Lecompton Democrats,
met at Sacramento City on the 18th and 10th,
and an Intellectual effort was made to unite
the two wings into one regular Democratic
Party, but it was impossible to agree upon
test mutually satisfactory. ~
The Lecompton Democratic State Conven-
tion to select delegates to the Charleston Con-
vention, is to be held at Sacramento on the
29th of February. nl4-.
The Republican Central Committee meet at
San Francisco on the 2lst inst, to issue call
for State Convention to select delegates to
the Chicago Convention. '"t
The excitement in Napaco concerning the
discovery Of mines In Mount st. Helens con-
tinues. About7 900 people were on tho ground
at last accounts, prospecting by day, camping
out by night, aad meeting with just enough
success to encourage further search. Some
specimens of silver ore have been obtained,
which assayed S76 to the tun.
An attempt to rob . stage in Calveras County
was made on the 10th, by gang of highway
men. Fortunately the party in the stage were
prepared, and fred upon them, wounding two,
and put them to flight after some twenty OF
thirty shots had been exchanged.
A preliminary survey had been made on the
railroad from Nevads oia Auburen, to connect
with the Sacramento Valley Railroad.
The Pacific Steamship Company will soon
lay on steamer to ply between San Francisco
and Mazatlan, teaching at the other ports of
the western coast of Mexico.
1t is rumored that undue quantities Of gun
powder and firearms continue to be shipped
to Mexico by Americans on every steamer
leaving, and that an unusual number of pas
sengerS accompany such freights. Evidently
considerable support is given to the Liberal
party in Mexico by unorganized parties Of
volunteers struggling down from California.