The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-22
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
The following is additional news per th
Pony EXpress

The following is additional news per the
Pony Express:
SAN FRAxcIsco, Jan. I'm November the
amount of treasure received from the country
was 81, ,3sl .gyl, and in the same month the eX-
port was S4,3g5, ,56S. 1t viii be perceived,
therefore, that we increased our. exports In
December by 1887 ,0U9, while our receipts III
1ninished s36l 100. The difference OF 81 ,29o ,0o9
had TO be furnished by the floating capital OF
San Francisco, and so heavy draft i'll so
short a time could not be made without ineon-
yenlence.
In order to show how much more treasure
we exported in both months than received, the
circulation OF our city was depleted by the
sum OF 81 ,i5l ,el9. This amount Is dimlnls ned
somewhat, but not materially, by the imports
of treasure from Mexico curing November
and December--some &l6J 600 i'll ali. so Tar as
the demand for money is affected by business
geIations here, we have no doubt IL has reached
the climax of the season. January wlii swell
the amount coming III from the country, and
the obligations for the coming month WiI di-
minsh the desire TO remit eastward. Inns,
however, has vet TO manifest Itse11.
During the month just past about lZoo let.
ters have been sent from California eastward
bv the Pony express, and the patronage of the
express con tini,es 10 increase steadily, being
fully doubled since August.
Members of the Legislature begin TO congre-
gate at Sacramento and San Francisco, ana
are actively canyassing the claims OF the dIf-
terent aspirants for the Speakership of both
the Senate and the Assembly. Both Houses
will convene ON Monday, the 9th inst II is
now claimed that the Douglas Democrats lack
five of IL majority over All other parties In the
Iecislat,irr and great diiticulty i'll electing a
United States Senator is anticipated.
There is only S14l 900 i'll the general fund OF
the State Treasury, which Is already more
than appropriated TO the States prison pur-
noses, SO that the Legislature will encounter
/ pecuniary embarrassment from the start.
/ During the late storm SHOW accumulated t6
seven feet in depth on the Strrr1 Nevada, bu
~, ft~- %.a1 t.af
/ teams TO and from the Washoe mines crossed
the SUBMITS daily.
/ Throughout the Washoe mining region th'
snow is now from one 10 two and 4 half fee
/ deep Gilbert A. Grant, Republican OF soIn'
prominence, died here suddenly on The 3lst ult
San Francisco was thrown into unusual ex
| element ON New Years day by the killing o
| Samuel l.. Newell, editor OF the late Demo
/ cratic Signal of Placer county, by Horac
Smith. a lawyer of considerable position il
the same county.
Newell is charged with having slandere
| Smiths Wife which so incensed him that h
| followed his intended victim to San FRANCISCO
| i'm company with his wife's brother, who /
the somewhat noted Judge Hardy. Newer
was stabbed several times by Smith, so tina
he died in a few minutes without making re
/ sistance Smith was formerly Mayor of Sac
ramento. He has given himself up TO the au
thorities and is now IN lail.
Another tragic affair occurred in sacrament
on the same day A person named VIM Diel
nay who had Jtsst returned from tne W asHt
mines, became suspicious that one John L
Cassiday had seduced his wife during ms ai
sence and at once armed himself to Kill hi
supposed seducer. Meeting Cassiday in u
street, he commenced firing ut him. The hrs
| shot hit DR. j. r. Boyce, an old and highl
!. respected citizen, infiicting wound whie
will probably prove fatal. Diernay continue
to fire upon Cassiday, who retreated and q
capped unhurt, after being chased u distan'
of three blocks and being repeatedly fired
; by his infuriated assaiiant, Diernay was u
, rested and lodged in jail.