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The California Pony Express.

Fort Krarney, Dec. 18.
--The Pony Express bound East passed at two o'clock this morning, leaving the following summary of Pacific news:


San Francisco, Dec. 5--3 P. M.
--The Pony Express, with St. Louis advices to the 21st and Fort Kearney 23d, arrived at San Francisco last evening.

The Secretary of State on the 3d inst. opened and counted the official returns of the late election, declaring the following result:--Lincoln 38,721; Douglas 37,964; Breckinridge 33,971; Bell 9,113; scattering 170: total 119,807.

The people voted against calling a Constitutional Convention by a majority of only 173.

The vote for paying the State debt was largely in the ascendant. This debt amounts to between two and three millions of dollars, which should have been legalized in 1857, when the entire State debt was legalized by a vote of the people; but by a mistake of the State Comptroller, a large enough amount was not then submitted to the people to cover the whole indebtedness.

On the night of the 1st inst., the flume of the Tuolumne Water Company was blown up with gunpowder, used for that purpose, by some unknown enemies of the company. By this vandalism the company sustains a heavy damage, while a large mining district will be deprived of water two months, until a new flume can be constructed to conduct the water across a deep gulch into their ditch.

David Seannell has been elected Chief Engineer of the San Francisco Fire-Department.

The official vote of Oregon was as follows; Total vote 14,761; Lincoln 5.368, Breckinridge 5,067, Douglas 4,144, Bell 192. Lincoln's plurality 301.

British Columbia dates to the 19th ult., per steamer Labouchere, arrived at Victoria on the 15th, from the Northwest coast. She brought a large number of furs.

The Indians about Queen Charlotte's Island were represented as talking very saucy and troublesome.

The New Westminster Times says the total value of the imports into British Columbia during the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1860, was $317,328.08.

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