The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-02-01

By arrival Of the steamship Star d the West Al New
York from san Juan have full flies Of San FrAnrisco
papers % me slh atinaos inclusive
The passengers By this steamship t~ough from
san Francisco In tsenty0Be days and three hsursess
by detention Of tweafy hours At Key West twenty days
and SIN hours
The new year ushered in reported BY the last
Steamer BY storm Of rain, bail and wind the like Of
which has been Witnessed b. few CaforniAnk In San
FrAncsco several houses unroofed and three four
entirely demolished. The equally severe at
Benica Sacramento and throughout the mining districts
Although he aggregate loss Of property very consider
erabls in instance has any individual suffered % any
large amount
The legislature Of California assembled al Sacramento
Tuesday the % instant and organized the follow
ing day the assembly making choice Of Mr. Stowe wing
for speaker From the annual message Of the governor
learn that the STAKE debt unprovded for amounts 70
2s4 lA2 % This evidence 0f sound condition 81
the public finances Snce December 1888 the debt has
bern reduced sl7lIsos 80 bring az the message sag
s4s361 "a than the entire present public indebted
ness AT this rate the State viii mot owe dollar IN De-
cemher, 1856.
The amount realized from the sales by the California
board Of land commissioners has been Ss45 54Q OF
which the of s7l has been paid into the treasury
The senatorial ball has been put in motion, aud gives
far promise Of crushing out all leg taie subjects OF l
gislaton. The nth was fixed for the election
The governors had BEEN submitted and eKhib-
tied fatie-ing state Of affairs
Two French tgates arrived Francisco the 7th
January.
An advance had taken place in -four which selling
al SIS SIS SO for Gallego and HaxalL
From the territory acquired under the Gadsden treaty
reports in various shapes Of the discovery OF rich
mines Of gold and copper A company OF twenty men
from San Francisco have already commenced the washing
Of copper mine about hundred miles from the Colorado
Specimens assayed In San Francisco yielded sevenyve
per cent Of pure copper and nice percentage OF gold
Emigration is tending towards the new purchase and II
VIII soon be filed with active population
majority of the prisoners who escaped from the State
prison month ago had been recapfured Five OF the con-
victs however took advantage OF the detective condition
Of the San Jose Jail where they were temporarily oontned
and made good their escape.
Measures have been taken provide for the funding OF
the floating debt of the city OF San Francisco, which
amounts 70 about one million Of dollars A petition to
the Legislature asking for ACT TO egalze the object has
been signed by nearly five Thousand citizens.
Eight hundred brick buildings have been erected in San
Francisco up the present time Of which number Mont
gomery contains 54 Sansome, 80; Battery SO
Front, Go kearney, 20; California; az Dupont 81
Stockton, S. Sacramento 80; Clay, 2R Commercial "a
Washington, 81 Powell 22 Jackson, % Pacific, ~
Frank Sonle, editor Of the California Chronicle mar
ried New Years day, BY Bishop Kpp Miss Eunics
r. Soule also, the day by The same Ferdinand
Ever, editor of the Pioneer Magazine TO Miss Sophie
Congion
Dates from Honolulu to The nth Of December have been
received The Polynesian thus the death o
King Karnehameha
After serious Illness of five six days his Majesty
kanehaneha III expired his palace Friday Decem
Der Is at fifteen minutes before IL o'clock He born
the 18th of March, 1875 and WAS consequently forty
years and nine months old.
This painful event Immediately made known BY
hosting the royal and national standards hama
and by the firing Of mnuteguns corresponding with hs
age of his late Majesty from Punch-bowi battery
A the spread the flags shore and afoa
all set al haEmast and places Of business were
closed Large numbers Of people assembled The
palace and testified their grief BY loud and heartfelt wall
ing At l2t O'Clock his exceencv the governor Of Oahu
escorted by company Of Guards, caused the oficia
proclamation To be read In Hawaiian and English
at the Of the principal streets of Honolulu The
proclamation Of his Majesty Kamehameha nv received
with shouts from the people and evident satisfaction where
ever il made known.
Minute guns fred by the United States soop-owa
St Maryis yesterday between and O'Clock and TIL
Trincomalee firing in like when went IL
press
The time for the obsequies Of his late Majesty has no
YET been fixed upon