Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-02-14
TWO WEEKS
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA
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ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER
D AN 81 w E BIS I E R
Great Fire in San Juan.
STn nnO I'M GOLD.
OF THE STEAMER
Great Fire in San Juan.
$4,000 IN GOLD.
New York, Feb. Is

The steamship Daniel Webster arrived at her
dock shortly before r. She brings San Fran
CISCO papers to the 18th January, l2l passengers
and $40 900 in gold dust on freight
The Daniel Webster arrived at San Juan on
the 30th January.
The D. w. left San Juan Feb. 5, at P. M,
bringing the advices brought down by the lnde-
pendence, which left San Francisco at P. NJ,
on the 18th January, 36 hours after the mail
steamer California, Tor Chagres. The passengers
therefore by the Daniel Webster, h we been only
26 days and 10 hours between San Francisco and
New York
San Juan was healthy. Business dull, the
market being oyersocked with all kinds of goods.
The transit route was in excellent condition, No
passengers were waiting at San Juan for passage
to San Francisco.
On the night of the 9Th OF February, most
destructive confagration occurred at the city of
San Juan Nicaragua, by which one third of the
most populated section of the city was destroyed.
Among the buildings burnt were the large Hotel
known as the United States, owned byP. F. Man
cosses q Co., the premises occupied by Messrs.
S. Sheppard Don Francisco Granias. Pedro Po-
mas Domengues, besides a large number of the
houses and stores.
The large warehouses of DeForest g. Co., es-
capped. No loss of life occurred.
The shipment Of gold from San Francisco by
the California on the 10Th, was as follows New
York, 1886, $50; New Orleans. 81, 500, London,
233 1887
The California was literally crowded with pas
sengers. The Golden Gate was advertised to
leave San Francisco for Panama on the 2lst of
January.
California Items.
The clipper ship John Wade, from Boston, has
experienced very heavy weather. She was II
days to Cape Horn.
The weather in California has been delightful
There has been plenty of ran aud but two nights
when the thermometer fell to the freezing point.
Green peas are in bloom, as well as wild and
garden flow ers.
The absorbing political question seems to be
the election Of a United States Senator. The
candidates talked of among the Democrats are
Col. Weller, Gov. Smith, D. C. Broderck, Col.
Henley, Judge Ralston aud Gen Anderson. The
Wings, as ct, have named no one.
A man named J. @. Adams, last from Pha-
delpha, was shot at Sacramento City, on the 18th
January, by the mother of a young girl whom he
had seduced. After the woman had fired one
shot, which took effect in her victims side, she
was about TO repeat the fire, when she was pre-
vented by bysanders He Law in very critical
condition, but was married to the girl on Friday
evening, and shortly after expired from the effect
of his wounds
The Legislature hnd determined on meeting at
Sacramento, and assembled there for the frs,
time on the 10th January. They arrived in a
body per steamer from Vallejo, on the 18th, and
were welcomed with shouts by the people.
The southern mines are represented to be in a
t1ourIshlng condition, gold being found in the
whole range of country. The Quartz mine at
Wall Springs is said to be the richest in the
country.
The Alta California says the Indian war in the
southern portion of the State, has at length been
terminated.