The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Later from California--arrival of the Pony
Express.

The election of Speaker of the Assembly on the 14th, was effected by a coalition between the Republicans and Douglas Democrats. A similar coalition will be attempted to elect a Douglas ' candidate of Northern bias U. S. Senator. A portion of the Breckinridge and Douglas members are negotiating to combine on some Southern Douglas Democrat.

The Governor's message was delivered on the 18th. The principal feature was the strong ground taken in favor of preserving the Union, and opposition to a Pacific Republic under any circumstances. He urges a petitioning of Congress to alter the Eastern boundary of California so as to take in the Washoe silver region.

The receipts of the State Treasury during the past year exceeds the expenditures by $86,000.

A Union meeting is proposed at Sacramento, when all the candidates for United States Senator will be called on to define their positions.

The following is a complete list of all the known aspirants for the Senatorship:--James A. McDougal, J. W. Denver, Edmund Randolph, John Conness, John Curry, John Nugent, John Bidwell, J. P. Hoge, and Humphrey Griffith. J. L. Shafter, Wilson Flint and Leland Stanfort, have been spoken of on the Republican side, and A. M. Given on the Breckinridge.