The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-03-12
News from the Pacific-.Arrival Of the Cali.
fornia Overland Mail.

News from the Pacific-.Arrival OF the CALI
fornia Overland Mail.
The overland mail coach, with regular San
Francisco dates to February II, and telegraph
ic dispatches to the 18th, reached Malloy's
Station Friday ard the following is sum-
| mary of the news by it: a#4
There is not much business doing and IL ie
raining again. The little regular trade is done
At frmer prices. A sharp movement took
place In crushed sugars yesterday, specula-
tor taking TOGO to l2oO bbls., paying from II &c
| to l;}c Eastern is held at 13sc During The
! week 800 sacks OF wheat aud 1000 sacks OF
flour have been purchased for export to Aus
| tralia
DR.. Chase has been tried for malieiously
aduiterating the acids used at the San Fran
| cisco Mint, but the Jury could not agree and
| a new trial will take place.
"A bill has been introduced in the Le-
gislature proposing that the State assume the
Indian war debt, amounting to three hundred
| thousand dollars To be paid within ten years
II the United States do not sooner provide
for il.
The resolutions asking Congress TO dissolve
| the INDUCTION against the new Ainaden quick
| silver mine, have passed the Assembly.
| Resolutions have been earnestly debated in
| the Legislature instructing the Congressional
| delegation 10 use their best exertions agains
! the separation OF any portion Of the State
| from which to form a Territory, until ma
| lority Of the people of the entire State have
| consented to such disunion.
| The Secretary of the Pacific Railroad Con-
| ventlOn has sent a communication To the Le-
| lature giving summary of the action of that
! body.
| The principal recommendation Of the Con-
| vention is this That the Legislatures of Ore
Son and California es tabiish each an iuternai
| Improvement fund, for the purpose of bu aiding
| the Pacific Railroad, that the swamp over.
| flowed IaEds within said States, and such
| lands rs may hereafter be donated by them
shall be sold for the benefit of that fund; that
| the road in California shall run from the city
| Of San Francisco through the counties OF San
Maura Santa Clara and Alameda, to the city
| Of Stockton, ana be continued thence toward
| the eastern frontiers of the State, in such di-
rection az the Legislature may direct; that the
counties trayersed by the said road shall be
| authorized to levy a special tax and to.
contract roads TO enable them to SUBJ
| scribe to the capital stock thereof Tha. the
Legislature propose such amendments rs the
constitution, to be ratified By the people, as
will enable the State to lend her aid in the CON-
struction of the road to the extent Of not more
| than Sl5,G1o,GO0. That the Legislatures of
California, Oregon and Washington Territory,
cause the several passes through the noun
tains lying eastward of said States and Terri.
tory to be accurately surveyed.
Great activity exists throughout the State
in mining exploration. This is attributable
to the recent discovery Of silver mines III west
ern Utah. The disposition, since these dis
cover!es, has been to search more for silver
han gold, and the result is that veins of silver
have been found in Cai.veras and Santa Cruz
COUNTIES. anu III itt CUiSl range near Clear
Lake.
Advices from Carson Valley represent con-
siderable emigration thither, notw iths landing
The inc,ement season. The mining accounts
are AS glowing as ever, but the speculative
spirit so covers everything, that it is difficult
TO arrive at the truth. Undoubtedly many
thousand Californians viii visit these mines
in the spring, for the belief that there is an
other ex tenslve mining region the Eastern
slope of the Sierr, Nevada Mountains, rival
ling California in extent and richness, is
steadily growing In strength. Some parties
who have returned from Washoe. are sauguina
enough to estimate the probable produ ton
of silver from the mines already opened al ten
millions dollars during the present year.
New discoveries OF silver mines are reported
at Steamboat Springs, North of Virginia City
and Genoa, and adjacent TO the Truckee Mea-
dows. AT the Virginia mine the ore seems to
be richer as they penetrate deeper; some ore
recently taken ont is estimated to yield S2o,UO
per ton. At Honey Lake Valley the people
think that they have struck silver ore. and
have staked off claims for miles A Black
Rock, ninety miles East Of Honey Lake Val
ley, indications Of silver have led TO the for
nation oi company ior their exploration.
THE LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO GEoNA CITY
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb Isl L. M.--The mar
lsets are quiet. Refined sugar weak at i3c.-
News from Oregon IS 70 The 10Th inst, aud
from Washington Territory and British Co.
lnmbia to the 10TH
DR.. Randall, of the army had arrived ut
Wal!awalla with considerable gold from the
Similkaween mines One hundred and twenty
pack mules left the Dalles on the 18th, tor
SimiIkaween, and parties We're leaving for the
same place every day.
The Washington Legislature had appointed
delegates TO joint convention of Washington
Territory and Oregon, 10 be held at Vancou-
yer, in May, for the consideration of the ne
cessity of constructing Northern Pacific
Railroad.
The only interesting item from British Co.
luln bia is, that much Indignation was express
q Al 81 tffa
live dollar tax on every mule load OF provis.
ions sent up Frazer river.