Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-05-30
From California.

Fort kearney, May 81 The pony
express passed here at l clock P. NJ,
with the following advices:
San Francisco, May 11.-Sailed,
steamer Sonora, for Panama, carrying
100 passengers, and 1921 900 in treas
ure, of which 1854 900 goes to New
York.
General News. The shipment of treas
urc to-day is smaller than was anticipa-
ted, there having been plenty of assur-
ances thrown out that the risk from pri-
vateers is not great. Exchange on New
York rules at and 6 per cent. Mon
ey was in fair demand yesterday, aud
the market easy at l.! per cent. ill.,
terest.
There has beer fair trade, and no
notewo orthy change in the prices of any
leading article of merchandise since tho
last express. Turpentinc commands l4O
a $50 per gallon
The Union demonstration in San
Francisco to-day is an astonishing sue
cess Nothing like it was ever seen
here before. Business is totally suspend
ed, and all the men, women aud children
of the city are on the streets, and flags
are almost as plenty as stacks of grain in
a wheat field;
Three stands for speakers are erected
near the corner of Market and Second
and Montgomery streets, which are sur
rounded by men with the folds of the
flag floating over them. Senators La
than and McDougal, General Sumner,
General Shields, and other of less note,
have addressed the vast audience. The
spirit of all the addresses, as well as of
the resolutions adopted. is that the Ad-
ministration must be sustained in all its
efforts to put down secession and pre-
serve the Union complete.
The Douglas Democratic State Com
mittee has issued call for State Con-
ventior to assemble in Sacramento on
the ensuing Fourth of July, to nominate
a State ticket. The resolutions passed
by this Committee. adopt the Union aud
the Laws as the platform of the party
which means that they favor coercion
and civil war to any extent necessary tc
put down secession.
A procession moved through the prin
cipal streets, composed of thousands o
men on horse back, incarriagcs. on foot,
and embracing all the military aud civ
il organizations of the city. All th,
political parties joined in the demonstra
ton, aud the outward signs are that the
people of San Francisco are unanimous
iy for the Union and the Administration
and that they will peril everything tt
preserve it.
, Six ships are loaded and ready for sea
but are detained in consequence of th'
inability to obtain crews. Seamen have
been very SCARF here for some time.
A telegraphic dispatch from Los Angelo
: states that lone star flag was raised il
Emonta, on Sunday last, by band Of A
, mounted men. They were probably Texan
rs emigrants from that State have alway
composed large portion OF the population
residing in the Southern counties of thi
) State. Not much importance is attached t.
this small rebel crowd. This is the first de
G monstraton of the kind that has occurred o
. this coast, and is probably destined to be th
only one.
The rebcllious settlers Of Santa Clar
= county had a conference yesterday with th
Legislature Committee. They are memorial
izing the Legislature to pass an act to enabl
: them to amend the record in the Distric
Court, 50 that they can take such an appea
e as will present the merits OF their defenc
D more fully than the same now appears o
{ record.
o The Conference was still in session at th
, last accounts, and it is hoped that comprc
mise will be agreed upon, by which tn
question of title to the land they occup
may be read and indicated Sc as to remov
0 all causes Of complaints they now make.
The latest Pony Express da-ss are to a
pril 30. The general belief here is that
{ terrible and inexhaustive civil war is inevita
BILE, and ought not to be shrunk from l:
J.. dishonorable peace is to b. the consequence
The enthusiasm of tho masses throughor
the populated districts Of onr State in beha
of the Union, and the organization Of club
: 10 the cities and towns to maintain tho Law
= and preyeHF trcasanaole designs. are con,