New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-22

c'tc0 Oaee 10 mMCn ana teltrrhpMc duyfccb 70 tnt
3D. arrived here st 81 o'clock this evening
| SAN FRANCISCO, Friday, March 2-Eoon.
There is not much business doing, aud only triAinl
country trade. Candles sie weaker. Coffee un
Changed. Bacon l5c. Mes Pork, go. j. II. Il Co.
Lard, l5lc. Butter, vs the Isthmus, 25@ 2sc., aud
the market very Gull. Sugars quiet Crushed, 13Ic.
sign ard domestic Spirits Inactive.
The Democratic State Convention met ct Sacramento
en- The 18th S e Eebu1y On the preliminary orsapi-
Convention adjourned till evening. On reassemblng,
desperate struggle took plsee the election Of
permanent President. Mr.. Kirkpatrick, q Latham
man. aud Mr. Merritt, Gwin and Weller mao, were
the candidates Neither conld be elected, when both
finaly withdrew their names, when Philip Moore was
unanimously elected he being satisfactory both par.
ties. Committee Of Forty WIS appointed to draft
resolutions senator Sharp OF San FraBcieco sympa-
thizsr with Douglas, being the Chairman when the
Convention adjourned to March /. On reassembling
series of resolutions were adopted in substance Us
follows:
The first Endorses the principles Of tho Cincinnati
Platform re those which can alone preserve the Caion
~ maintain the integrity of the Democratic party
Tie second approves the bred Scott decision.
graph, and the overland mail. =.
he fifth fully indorses the administration of Mr.
Buchanan. |l
Tie sixth approves Of the past and presert Demo-
cratic State Administrations. e.
The following delegates were then elected to the
Charleston Convention 10 the order in hich their
ames appear. The Last four are probably elected as
alternatives, and not entitled to cast any votes a.
Charleston: John Bidweil OF Butler Co., John A.
DIessbslis of Shasta Co., w. Patrick Of Taolumme
Co., John s.. Dudley of Calaveras Co., Austin T..
Smith Ct San Francisco, John Rens ID. b. Gregory,
ano Major Bradley,
As the delegates are not instructed and are selected
from cioIeIt wings of the party, it is impossible to
forssbadow their votes. None of them have boon
known particularly hostile to Douglas. After their
election Mr. Gregory, positive Gwin aud Weller
man. offered resolution that Stephen a. Douglas be
declared the last choice of the Convention. The Yeas
aud Nays called aud the motion laid the table
by 2Si TO 65. Humphrey Griffith, positive Douglas
man, spoke against the resolution and Mr.. Weller,
who wac a member of the Convention, voted for
tablng IL. Both wings of the party were indspossd
to make an issue Of the Douglas question.
The Official survey OF Gen. suffer has been returned
TO the United States District Court by the Surveyor.
General. 1t locates the claim 10 tHo tracts tract
Of two eqUaIe Leagues covers Sacramento City and en-
yirons. TIE other of nine leagues located Fraser
River, so to insluds the City OF Marysville, The
locations will be contested by hundreds of people OUT
SIDE ard ipside of the boundaries indicated.
The recent discovery of silver in Cslsyeras County
has created large Lumber OF miners and the Interest
which at st excited In the extent and richness Of
the veins has not in any degree subsided.
bill s maturing and viii DO introduced in the Leg
slature to provide a METROPOLITAN police system for
San FTs1cisco after the plan Of the present New
York law It's evident object is to break up tho Reform
Government Of San Frahcisco ard restore Democratic
| pafiizan rule.
The Bukhesd BILL which proposssto give the San
Francisco Dock ard Wharf Company the right to con-
s;ruct sea all along the wafer front of the city and
to collect tolls for wharf privileges has been INTRO
duced in the State Senate ard there 10 reat dagger OF
its passage. The project s violently opposed by the
| property holders at San Francisco as dangerous
| monoTciy and tax on comerce. Soch ses WAL as Is
| prop osed viii cost s., 0Oo0oo.
Since the 70 sds have become passste for loaded
teams from the Wsshoe Silver mines, about tun and
half Of silver ore has arrived In San Francisco, at
| a coat Of sl2 per hundred fer transportation. Many
peute leave SsD Francisco daily for the silver region.
The interior papers report parties leaving many Call
fl mia mining towns for the same destination The
fortune habers determined 10 be on the ground
long before the leaves it, Ssaqes arrive at Pa
ce1v.Ilo daily from Sacramento loaded down with pas
ssDpers s eager TO crofs over tie mountains al tho
| earliest moment.
R,,ll. Baker & Co.. banlo7s Of San Francisco, havs
bought ninety sixth interest in she Opnr Compass
| Part Of the original Comstoek lead, for $l0,ee0
Three other shares IN the Company, representing
us feet of the lead hsvs been recently sold in San
Francisco for $0 600. Another sale of 124th of 000
| feet was made at $45 600.
The news from CarseD Valley continues Of tho sans
/ character before. Many San Francisco capitalists
sad arriyed there and the ysae of mining caius was
rsPidiy incrvHsing on THO oasersss Of parties "a
puIchasf On the Devils Gate aud Climate Tn dTtrlc
2Ii esds Of what hopedto be silver ORE have beer
claimed and recorded, including an area OF hve m'io
| square. 49,,
| LATEsT--By Telegraph 10 Fren0. CITY.
| SAN FRAscIsoo Saturday, March 3,-p. NJ, 1860.
There IL no trade whatever. Money il easy; oollat
ersl paper fBds favor account Of suspicion pre-
vslng that the city trade is more or lass engaged II
the Wsshos silver speculations.
1t Is now pretty generally conceded that seven
the EIGHT delegates to the Charleston Convention 81
friends of Senator Latham, and elected through hi
| influence.
SAN FRAsorsco March eAr. FEB. 49, Sip Huntsville. en
Boston slip Colbert Fr Bordeaux 18th, bark Dennar
Dsi fol Liverpool; March ship Alta, from csr, s a
steamer John L. Stephens from Panama Size reports all tn
vel snt dg cotss savt SD ship
Moonlight, Hong Kong Pdms Donna West Wind aud Moon
| day for Calso,