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From California.

--By a late arrival of the Pony Express, the Northern papers have advices from San Francisco to the 7th inst.:

The news that ten thousand troops are to be enlisted in California to protect the Overland Emigrant Route, has started up a good deal of military enthusiasm in all the towns, in the absence of the arrival of instructions as to how this force is to be organized. There will probably be difficulty in enlisting the number of men, though most of our soldiers are disappointed that the call is not made for troops to serve in active war, as it exists, than to perform monotonous duty on the plains.

The new Sunday law, which requires all places of amusement where liquors are sold to be closed on the Sabbath, was not strictly observed on the day when it was to begin to take effect. It will soon be legally tested.

A large brewery in Russian Hall was destroyed by fire on Saturday night, resulting in a loss of $10,000.

The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardice & Hammerers. Richmond. August 23, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proudest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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