Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 32, Number 4906, 18 December 1866 — Gold and Greenbacks - Arrivals - The Assessors' Cases - Gould and Curry - The Reported Walking Match - lnspector United States Quarter Master's Department - Shipments of Flour - Vessel partly Dismasted - Sudden Death - Rain Fall - Sales of Stocks. [ARTICLE]

Gold and Greenbacks - Arrivals - The Assessors' Cases - Gould and Curry - The Reported Walking Match - lnspector United States Quarter Master's Department - Shipments of Flour - Vessel partly Dismasted - Sudden Death - Rain Fall - Sales of Stocks.

San Francisco, December 17th. Gold on Saturday in New York was 137-1/2; sterling, 109-1/2. Greenbacks, to-day, 72 ; selling 72-1/2. Seven-thirties, June issue, ex December coupons, 76-1/2. Arrrived, United States screw steamer revenue cutter Wayanda, seven guns, 180 days from Hampton Roads ; came all the way under sail. Bark Sharp Shooter, 154 days from Liverpool, via Valparaiso, merchandise to Rogers, Meyer & Co. Steamer Montana, from Portland. Bark Hercules, 67 days from Sydney, coal to Flint, Peabody & Co. Bark Zanga, 172 days from Liverpool, merchandise to Agard, Foulkes & Co. Bark General Athlin, 183 days from Bordeaux, merchandise to Schroder & Co. • In the United States District Court to-day, on motion of George Cadwalader, Judge Hoffman entered a general order in the cases of each of the fifteen Assessors indicted for reporting to A very instead of to Bigier, fixing bail at $1,500 and allowing it to be given before any State magistrate. 1 am reqnested to say that this renders unnecessary the appearance here of any of the Assessors. There was no quorum present at the meeting of the stockholders of the Gould & Curry today, and the meeting was accordingly adjourned to Thursday, December 27th. The report of a walking match at Platt's Hall, one hundred miles for $500 a side, proves to have been a sell on a morning paper, no such race having been contemplated. General Rusling, Inspector of the Quartermaster's Department of this coast, arrived hero via Salt Luke and Orearon from Washington, by the Orifiamme, yesterday. He goes south as far as Fort Yuma on a tour of inspection. An agent of the company holding the Imperial charter for a railroad tiom Guadalajara to Lake Chipala, and a steamer line on the lake and rivers entering it, arrived here by the Continental to purchase materials for the line. The' experiment of shipping California flour to New York by steamer being looked upon as a success, one shipper has engaged to send three hundred barrels of Santa Clara extra by next steamer, and seven hundred by the following one. Other dealers are preparing to make considerable shipments. 1 he brig Deacon, while attempting to get out of port on Saturday night, was partially dismasted off Fort Point by a squall, and was towed back foi repairs. Frank Woods, of the old firm of Hodge & Woods, stationers, and -^Joshua J. Creery, a pioneer fireman of San Francisco, both died yesterday after a very brief illness. Creery was around town on Saturday as usual. The total rain fall to date is -1.74 inches. . It is still showery, Henry Johnson, formerly of the detective police force, has again been commissioned as a special officer, by the Police Commissioners, on the petition of Wells, Fargo & Co., the Pacific Mail Co. and the leading bankers and merchants of the city. Sales of stocks this evening were : Savaare, 51, 075; Yellow Jacket, $1,165; Daney, (4; Crown Point, $1,115; Gould & Curry, $725; Chollar, $215 ; Imperial, $140 Confidence, §76; Overman, 820 ; Steam Navigation Co., 64 per cent.

Major Coon was thrown from his horse and had his right leg broken below the knee this evening.