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Later from California.
succession feeling in California--destructive
fire — Marine Affairs, &c.

Outer Station, Pacific Telegraph Line, 95 miles West of Fort Kearney, August 30th.--The Pony Express passed here at 3 o'clock, A. M., with San Francisco dates to the 21st. There had been no arrivals.

Sailed July 19th, ship Yeoman, for Sydney; July 21st, steamer Uncle Sam, for Panama, carrying 193 passengers and $1,100,000 in specie for New York, and $138,000 for England.

Among the passengers for New York are Lieutenant Isman, Lieutenant E. Ball, Lieutenant Alexander, Major Allen. Major-General Grier, Captain Gregg and Major Hungerford--all of the United States Army.

The ship Thatcher, Captain Magowen, has been chartered to load for New York. Business generally is assuming a more healthy inclination to purchase leading articles of merchandise recently received. Some 400 bales of drills and sheetings were sold yesterday, concentrating the stock in few hands, and establishing the price at eleven cents all round for standard; in other respects prices are unchanged.

The demand for money for to-day's steamer was not urgent, but sufficiently active to enable bankers to obtain two per cent. for the usual short paper accommodations, and-one-half per cent. is the rate upon the street.

There is more disposition manifested to buy wheat for export, some irregular export buyers are paying $1 42½d$1 45.

Relief committees, composed of former residents of New York and most of the New England States and Michigan, are organized in San Francisco, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to aid the families of volunteers from the States named.

The body of Terrance Bellow McManus, one of the Irish exiles of 1848, was shipped to day by the Uncle Sam for Ireland, via New York. The Irish residents of San Francisco joined in a grand funeral demonstration previous to placing the body on the steamer.

Shaw's flat, in Touloumne county, was the scene of a destructive fire on Saturday. The total loss is estimated at $18 000. Supposed to be the work of incendiaries.

There are said to be a good many sympathizers with secession in Nevada Territory. They held a convention at Silver City on the 28th, and adopted resolutions reaffirming the Breckinridge-Baltimore platform, in favor of the preservation of the Union, the duty of the Territory to yield obedience to the constitutional acts of Congress, recognizing Mr. Crittenden's compromise as sound, a Union formed in peace is not to be maintained by force; that it was the duty of the General Government to establish a branch mint, and to provide for entering lands, and to leave the universal lands to private enterprise. Also, the following:

Resolved, That the President of the United States has been guilty of a violation of the Constitution, and an usurpation of power, in borrowing and appropriating money, raising armies and increasing the Navy without the authority of Congress, and that such acts are dangerous to liberty, and tend only to convert the Government into a military despotism.

Only twenty delegates were present.

Judge Cradlebaugh and Judge Bryan, of Carson, and J. Williams, of the Enterprise newspaper, have announced themselves as candidates for delegates to Congress from Nevada Territory.

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