The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-29
,DD,T1oNAL FROM CALIFORNIA

CT Iorrs. March 23.-The Pony Express, arriv-
ed at Fort Kearney, with San Francisco dates to
the 18th, furnishes the following additional items
of news:
GENERAL NEWS.
The steamer Golden Gate sailed for Panama on
the 18th, carrying l60 passengers and nearly mil
lion in treasure.
During the last four days the Legislature has
met each afternoon and gone through with the
routine OF baloting for a Senator, without ap-
pearing to make any progress towards an cleo
ton.
Ten ballots in all have been had. 1t requires IS
votes to elect, and candidate has yet received
high as 80 votes.
Gov. Downey had vetoed the bill changing the
murder trial Of Horace Smith from San Francisco
to Placer county, but both Houses of the Legisa-
ture passed the bill over the veto, the Hobbies
shouting enthusiastically over the result.
Without new combinations formed no Sena
t or can be elected this winter.
Commandant B. b. Cunningham, of the Mare
Island Navy Yard, died this morning.
A. R. Mallory, late State Comptroller, died on
the LIST inst.
The California Coal Mining Company, with a
capital stock of ST, 100000 incorporated yes
terday, to develop the recently opened mines in
Mount Diable region, which promise to be mex
| haustible and of excellent quality.
! 1t is proposed to build railroad to make the
mines more accessible to the Bay of San Fran
| cisco.
! The bark Guaymas sailed for the Mexican port
| of that name on the 9th, taking a cargo of goods
| for Arizona, to be transported across Sonora by
the route opened by the authority of the Gov
| eminent of that State.
Alexander Purple, one OF the Vigilance Commit
tee exiles of 1856, returned to California on the
last steamer, and has been arrested and placed
under $500 bonds for disturbing the peace:
OREGON AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Oregon dates to the 6th instant have been re.
ceived.
| A;.oe+ror, oonnooro4;or ooo,-rod a. Uonoor
vers on the 9Th Property to the value of SCI 900
| had been destroyed, and man named John Ry-
an was so badly burned that his life is despaired Of
Large crowds of miners are pursuing their way
SANDWICH ISLANDS.
The schooner W. l.. Richardson brings Sand
witch Island dates to the 14th of February.
On the 10th of that month the United States
sloop Wyoming, six guns, under the command OF
John X. MITCHELL arrived at Honolulu, for Pana
ma via Hilo and Lahama, in search of the sloop-of
war Levant, supposed to be lost
THE SLOOP-OF-WAR LEVANT.
| The Honolulu Advertiser of the 18th has the fol-
| lowing speculation on the subject:
There is every reason to believe that the United
| States sloop-oi-war Levant has met with some Sc
rious disaster soon after leaving Hilo. ltwas Capt
Hunts intention to have taken northerly course
from the Islands, till he judged be could fetch the
port of Acapulco, where he purposed going first tc
| forward his dispatches to Washington.
! If this plan was followed, the Levant probably
ran North to about 81 degrees, then tackled anc
headed for the Mexican coast. The bark Consort
was dsmanted in gale about October Is, accord
ing to one account, and October 20, according tc
another.
Had the Levant simply been dismantled, sh,
could have reached these Islands under jury masts
or the boats could have got here. The conclusion
forces itself upon us that if she met with disaster
it has proved fatal to the ship and all on board.
In looking back over shipping memoranda
we find that the whaling barks Emerald, Rober
Morrison, Florence and Braganza, and ships Re
Sd to October 10th, (wind southwest in whic
they all received more or less damage.
The anniversary of King Kamehameha's birth
day occurred on Saturday, the 9th of February
and was observed at Honolulu with great publ
rejoicing.
The annual parade of the fire department, i
uniform, with their engines, was held on this oc
| casiOn,