The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-27
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
Nearly One Million en- route for New York.
Also Silver Ore from the Nashoe Mines.

ST. JOSEPH, Aug. 24.-The pony express, with
San Francisco advices to August Ilth arrived here
last night.
SAN FRANcIsCo, Aug. ll::-Arriyed, August 10,
bark Investigator, from Liverpool. Sailed, 9th,
ships Viking, for New York; Harriet and Jesse,
for Hong Kong; 10th, Ida d. Rogers, do bark
Onward, for Japan.
The steamer Uncle Sam sailed at O'Clock this
morning, carrying $50 passengers, and 81, 100000
in treasure, of which 1884 900 destined for
New York. There went by the same steamer S62,
900 worth of silver from the Washoe Mines,
destined partly for New York. and the balance for
England where it will be smelted and refined.
The following vessels now loading in this
port with California produce: Ships Champion,
Cowper, George and Pampero, for New York; Jack
Wells and Comet, for Hong Kong, and Lizzie
Spaulding Wild Ranger and kleiper, for Australia.
The aggregate amount of produce carried away by
this fleet will amount to upwards of 10000 tons, of
which meat, wool and hides form the leading
ticles.
The commercial tradeis without striking change.
There have been no operations of an extensive cha
racter
Money is abundant and cheap. The collections
for to-day's steamer quite easy, and most of
the iobbers were anxious to discount their own OBJ
legations at = per cent.
Since the last report, an improving tendency
can be noted in bacon, hams and pork, but they
| are only wanted in small quantities, by dealers.
Good 1859 bacon sells at 12@13 cts; 1860 do, at
l419 cts. per ID. Clear pork Sl7@l9 per bbl.;
mess pork $3.50; prime meat 1l1@. Butter and
lard are also further improving. June .lshmus
butter sells at 32@33 cts; choice Horn butter, in
double pks., 25@27 cts. J. II. & Co.'S lard has been
placed in small quantities at l6 cs and the outside
brands have moved freely at l3@l31a cts. Pure
spirits quoted at 35@36 cts, whiskey 3714 cts,
rum 6213 cts, alcohol 60 cts, with a moderate
business doing. Brown drills have declined to 10
cts. Other goods are without change, and moving
moderately. Crushed sug ar has advanced to u cts.
| Wheat is coming in more freely. Choice export
samples are worth to-day Sl.50.
There is great want of tonnage, and vessels will
be able to get good paying freights hence for some
time.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
The various Democratic County Committees
| throughout the State have been holding meetings
and have divided into Douglas and Breckinridge
wings, each division calling separate County Con-
ventions to elect delegates to or the other of
| the Democratic State Electoral Conventions. All
these County Conventions chiefly composed
last year of Administration Democrats They now
| average about an equal number of Douglas and
Breckenridge men. This is a favorable indication
of the Douglas strength in the State as the anti
Lecompton wing of the party, composed last year
almost entirely of Douglas men, not represent
| ed in any of the County Committees.
1t is understood that the sixteen State Sena-
tors who hold over, and will vote for the United
| States Senator next winter, about equally di
vided into Douglas and Breckenridge
The Breckenridge wing called a Convention to
meet at Sonora on the first of September, and the
| Douglas Branch also called Convention to meet
on the 30th of August.
Ii is stated by his friends that Senator Latham
contempates returning to Washington city with
| his family by the overland mail route, and that he
will commence the journey by the lst of Septem-
ber and this indicates that he will take little
| part in tbs political canvass in this State.
The patronage of the Pony Express is greatly in
creasing since the trips are made in due time, and
news has been received of the safe arrival of all let
| ters sent eastward.
The new buildings being put up on the line oil
| Carson
place of the stations recently destroyed by the
Indians 60 feet square and feet high, land con
structed with stone walls, being designed to serve
as forts when necessary.
| The latest news from east of the mountains il
contained in the following telegraphic despatch:
CARSON CRY, Aug. Sth, 1860-By arrival here
to-day, from Clear Creek Station, ON the Honey
route, we learn that the Shoshones and Salute
Indians are about to go to war against each other
| INTERVIEW WITH THE PYRAMID LAKE INDIANS
| The Indian Bureau has received official intelligence
from Carson Valley, in which is reported an inter
| view on the 1st instant between the Indian agen
and two hundred of the so-caed hostile PyramiC
| Lake Indians. An examination was made pertain
| ing to the assault by the Indians on Williams Sta
tion, in May last, and the opinion is expressed thai
the whites were the cause OF said troubles. Tht
Pah-utes disposed to be friendly, but the
| Bannacks and Pitt River indians were in the war
path in the northern part of that Territory ant
Southern Oregon. Depredations of every conceiv
able kind were being committed ON the Indians BY
the whites in Pyramid Lake and w alker river re
serves, and the whites were intriguing to provoke
a war with them.
INTERESTING DISCOVERIES FOUND IN ULSTER CoUN
rY, N. Y.-For the past three or four years pOr
tions of the remains of mastodOns have occasional
ly been discovered in the swamp of Mr.. McElhone
near Ellenvie, Ulster county, and workmen arr
now engaged in eXcavating for the New Y ork &c
illogical Society, under the superintendence of the
agent. They have already found an immense tusk
measuring ten feet length, and it is believed tha
| perfect skeleton of the mastodon will be takeI
out, there are signs of one or more of these an
tedeluvian monsters. valuable bed of mari, sait
to be equal to the mari beds of New Jersey, ha
| also been discovered.
| couple of young boods of Memphis, Tennessee
agreed to fight duel on last Tuesday morning ol
theArkansas shore of the Mississippi but the fighting
ardor of one of them cooled before the hour arriy
ed, and he failed to "come to time," so the affai
Of honor was fzzle.