Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. Gold Excitement—Russian Telegraph. San Francisco, Cal., December 18—Addi tional reports from British Columbia report no abatement in the gold field excitement. Every thing is progressing finely. The Rus sian telegraph line has been completed four hundred and forty miles above New West minster, and wire for four hundred miles