The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1861-03-09
Eater from California.

ing during the past week. Coffee firm.
1000 boxes candles sold dnring the last
week. Grain market has an upward
tendency.
The Sacramento Valley railroad was
attached for 100000. 1t was not
known whether this would have any
affect on the proposed extension Of the
road. The annual report for the com
pleted portion shows surplus ofre-
ceipts over expenditures of SlO6,OO0,
against 100000 last year.
Different companies in San Fran
cisco are trying to get bills through the
Legislature authorizing street railroads.
The Lady Franklin sailed yesterday
for British Columbia.
The Pony express, with telegraphic
dates to the I'd of February, arrived at
Carson Valley yesterday, bringing the
news of the passage of the Pacific rail
road bill The intelligence was joy
fully received as also that more favor
able account of an early settlement by
compromise of the disunionsquestien.
On account of Indian troubles on the
overland route troops from Fort Buch-
anan are said to have proceeded to the
Apache country, with prospects OF
hostility. gssrs 81 &
SANDWICH ISLANDS. News from the
Sandwich Islands to january 2lst, is
one month later. Business DALI ow-
ing to the rainy season andabsence of
| whalers.
Three remarkably short passages
have been made from San francisco to
Honolulu. The NoEWester and
Comet inside of ten days, and the Fair
Wind in eight days and seventeen
hours, the latter being the quick est
passage ever made.
The commercial statistics of the
kingdo for 1860, prepared by the
collacf5r general, are published. In
almost every item FILLING off is shown
from the tables of the previous years.
The cause of this decline are attributed
| mainly to the decrease of foreign whale
ships Visiting the islands, but in part to
the new tariff of 10 per cent. on lner-
chandise of all kinds, which went INTO
force in 1860.
/ Later from Nesos jNea1co. The Santa
Fe correspondent of the St. Louis Re
publican, under date Jan. %, writes
The mail from Ell Paso to this place
arrived last night, bringing the news
that the Nasajos attacked them in Ia
tornado del Muerto, south of this, and
| they, to save their lives, had to scam
/ per and travel. The first they saw
was about ten Indians but few mo-
| ments afterwards, they saw about tive
! hundred on the hills near by. Oul
1 southern, as well as our eastern Indians
| have become very barbarous but Thu
| is like other extreme western terrific
ries, always in danger, as in old times
in Missouri.
The news from the San Juan, north
west of this two hundred and thirty
miles, is fattering.
Kit Carson informed the people here
/ (only two days ago he was here) that
the news had reached Taos, by return
ing prospecters up there, that they had
Il new field of gold, much richer than
| any in California, but the snow being
very deep, they did not go to work, but
will commence early in the spring,
They can work there about seven
months in the year.
We have lately had fine SHOWS, anC
anticipate fine crops in our next har-
| vest.
\ correspondent of the Democrat
writing from Barclays Fort, New
| Mexico, furnishes the annexed items
\ vote of censure has been passet
by the territorial Legislature against
Col. Fauntleroy, and memorializin2
the secretary of war for his immediate
removal from a position he has dis
grnccd. And ncwrcsoluticn was to be
| introduced on the 10th, requesting the
secretary of war to change the name OF
Fort Famtlcroy to anything else. A
vote of consure and a recommendation
for removal was also passed against
! Judge Blockwood.
There are great exortions making OF
the part of our political quacNs to erect
this territory into u state for their own
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