Later From California

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21. – The steamer St. Louis sailed to-day for Panama with 90 passengers and $873,000 in treasure, $600,000 of which is for New York.

The weather is still rainy.  Money is universally tight and business suspended on account of the weather.

The Legislature reassembled at Sacramento yesterday.

Most of the city is still under water, but the last inundation caused little damage to the houses.

Jan. 24. – The Legislature held their first session to-day in San Francisco – the members arriving last evening from Sacramento.  That city continued flooded, all streets being navigable for small boats, and every house having water over the lower floor.

The weather has been pleasant for two days and if it continues for two weeks, stages may again commence running to the interior counties.

Dates have been received from the Sandwich Islands to the 9th inst., but the news is unimportant.

The Polynesian says that in 1860, 130 whalers recruited at their Island, in 1861, there were only 69, while the whole number north was only 76, and in 1862 the whole fleet north, so far as known here, will only be 33, while the coming spring we can only expect seven whalers to recruit here.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 2