New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-25

BY THE PONY EXPRESS.

Fort KEARNEY, Feb. I8. - The Pony Express
passed East at $50 P. ". By It we learn that the
name Of Camp Floyd has been changed to Port
Crttenden.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.,2. $40 P. M.-Arrivei on
the 30th bark Alma, bordeaux; Feb lst3 snip TAT
farette, Havre; 30, steamer Golden Age, Panama.
The heavy shippers Of revenue by the California
were: Wells, Fargo & Co. s254, 500; .. DaVitaons
$I29 GOO; sather & Church, 500, 600 schae Bros.,
$7T O0n W. T. Coleman & Co.. $50 sos; Levi Strauss,
s59.7S2; Alsop tSzfio., $50 lao; Murphy Grant II
Co.. $4,000; D. o. Mills s Co.. $50 900; and other
smaller amounts, making total of 81 056 200 for
New York.
CoMMERc1AL.-Continued fine weather encourages
transportation of goods to the interior. giving some
| activity to the jobbiug trade. AS get little has
been done from first hands, but there Is moderate
inquiry which should lead TO transactions.
Butter is stiffening lsthrnus bringing from rs 10
26c., and higher figures asked for extra brands
| Crushed Sugar is moving more freely, lie, being
| paid in some instances. Lard ID quiet. Hinseed
oil is lower Other imported articles are withont
change. 8
Money affairs on steamer day were comparative
The export demand for wheat keeps the market
bare at an average of l10c. per 100 lbs. The
weather is exceedingly propitious 10 farmers and
a much greater breadth of ground will be devoted
| to wheat the coming season than ever before.
| GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. ~ The Pony Express
| with Eastern news, telegraphed to Fort KearneEs
OF the 18th, arrived at San Francisco on the 3lst,
giving detailed account of affairs at Charleston
after the Star of the West was fired into, the debate
thereon in the United States Senate, and the prs
ceedings in the New York and other Legislatures.
All together it is considered the most alarming iii
| teiligence received here.
The Legislature has spent most of the time since
in debating the various series Of Union resolutions
| formerly introduced, with prospeesof continuing
the debate some days before reaching any eoRctn-
| sion. AS was expected most Of the Breekinridges
members sympathze with.or justify tue secession
movement.
Another Intellectual effort has been made to aes
the Douglas members into eancus on the Senatorial
question. II is believed if a caucus could be held,
with a full attendance. Denver would ger tia nosri-
nation, and afterwards receive sufficient Breekin-
ridge support to secure an election 4
The State Agricultural Society has Just held it5
annual meeting and decided that all general State
fairs shall hereafter he held at SaGramenta.g
Since the discovery of the WaShoa and otherail-
yer mines in the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada
fifty.tbree silver mining companies have been regu-
larry organized under the laws of California; for the
prOfessed object of developing the various argent
ferrous districts, with nominal capital Of Sit &c.,
600. Most of these companies have their head
quarters at San Francisco.
| Capt. Richard l.. Whiting, long in the service Of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, died suddenly
of apoplexy At San Francisco. on the evening of
the 3tst, after having been ab9ntthe city in usual
health all day.
There are again various rura3rs ia circulation of
a secret movement among Southern pptiGans to-
precipitnto crisis in this State undeF the watch
word Of Pacific Republic 4.
The Federal employees OF the Mare Island navy
yard received 10 pay for soma weeks and all that
could possibly be spared ar discharged