Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-11-23
OVERLAND DISPATCHES
SPECIAL DurArcn TO ruI GOLD ELL DAILY 1IW'
DATES TO Yesterday.


DATES TO Y~RsTERDAE.
Fall in Gold MISUNDERSTANDING
Of tho Cholera on m
Ship.
PH1IApsLrH1A, Nov. 22.-The fall OF
gold two per cent. has unsettled trade.
New YoRx, Nov. 22.-The Packet ship
Mercury, from Havre Oct.2 20, arrived last
evening, having lost 81 out Of 46e pas
gers by cholera. The ship is now at quar-
sntine.
Business Panic In philadelphia.
The Evening Express says: "There is
general fear Of business paper owing to
numerous reports Of failures in all direc-
TONS"
Tho President.
WARRINGTON, Nov. 22.-The National
Republican says, apparently by authority:
"That the President being necessarily en-
gagged on important documents, prepara-
tory to the rs-as.embling of Congress. he
will have no time to give tho slightest at
ten,ion to applicants for office, who are
therefore referred to the head, OF the diff
ferens departments"
Consulate Appointment.
The President to-day appointed Edward
Uhl, of New York. Consul at Guatemala.
Coming to California.
General B. s. Alexander, long in COM
mand of the defsnces Of Warrington, will
soon leave for California to superintsnd
the construction Of docks at San Fran
cisco.
Going 70 the South Pacific.
Admiral Dahlgrsn 10 about to leave
Washington to assume command Of the
South Pacific squadron.
From Canada.
NIw YoRx. November 22.-Ths Her.
ski', Toronto special dispatch says: Ten
suspicious characters were arrested yes
terday."
Under the habeas eorpts act the United
States Government has instructed its Con.
sui to apply for a new trial for the con-
demned Fonians. These condemned pri.
soners are supplied with one substantial
meal per diem, our Consul paying the ex-
penss.
From Washington.
The Times special says: There are
less than $4,000 troops in tho entire De-
parsmsnt Of Washington, which includes
Maryland, Delaware. Virginia and West
Virginia"
Tho Pacific Railroad.
The route Of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
having bssn changed from the Republican
fork to the Smoky Hill fork, the Commits.
sionsr Of the Land Office has directed
some three million acres OF land within
the limits Of the abandoned route to DO
restored to settlement under the pre.smp-
ton and homestead law.
Change Of Mail Route.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-NeIt Monday the
route Of the Overland California mail will
DO changed from St. Louis to Chicago,
and will go BY the Northwestern Railroad
to Woodbins. Iowa; thence by stage IS
miles to Council Bluffs and Omaha ; thence
by the Union Pacific Railroad to its pres
ent terminus, west Of Omaha, 2s6 miles.
The gap Of IS miles between Woodbine
and Council Bluffs will be filled by the
frat Of January, and the running time
from New York TO the North Fork Of the
Platte river. all raiL, will be six days.
The Union Pacific Company have COM
pletsd the bridge across the North Fork,
and make their present terminus on the
west side Of that fork, whore their work
men are sncampsd to await the resumption
Of operations next spring. No more work
will b done on the railroad until next
March; but Vice President Durant 10 con-
fden, he will complete 800 miles In the
first hundred working days under the
new arrangement.
Tbs mails will leave Chicago at 7 P. n.
containing the New York morning mail Of
the day previous, and connecting with
Overland coaches.
Two Chicago Men In Trouble.
Two Chicago men, ono Of them lately a
respectable merchant, have been arrested
for a vlllainous conspiracy to burn the
steamer Morning Star, on Lake Erie, their
object being to get q paltry insurance Of
$4,000 on bogus freight. They hired q
tool who got drunk and bunglsd the job.
New Telegrahic Limo.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-The Western Un-
ion Telegraph Company have opened their
newly completed line to California via
Denver, Bridger's Pass, and the Overland
stage route, a. o travelled. This 10 an
addition to the old line via Fort Laramie
and the South pass. The nsw line is con-
,tructed in q superior manner; and there
will DO little interruption in eommunica-
ton with the Pacific coast. The new line
has also been opened between Salt Lake
and Montana.