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The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from California. (search)
on. It was expected that most of the Breckenridge members sympathize or justify the secession movement. The State Agricultural Society has just held its annual meeting, and decided that all general State fairs shall hereafter be held at Sacramento. Since the discovery of the Washoe and other silver mines on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, fifty-three silver mining companies have been regularly organized under the laws of California for the professed object of developing various argentiferous districts, with the nominal capital of $14,000,000. Most of these companies have their headquarters at San Francisco. Captain Richard L. Whiting, long in the service of the Pacific Steamship Company, died suddenly of apoplexy, at San Francisco, on the evening of the 31st, after having been about the city in his usual health all day. The Federal employees at the Island Navy-Yard have received no pay for some weeks, and all that could possibly be spared are discharged.