American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-03-15
One Week Later from California
Arrival Oft9.e steamer Illinois.

NEW orK, march l3--The steamer
Illinois with advices from San Francisco
to the l6;h ult., arrived at this port last
night.
She brings s1,16o,oOO in gold, on
freight, and three hundred passengers.--
She sailed from AspinwaIl on the Cd, and
in the Gulf passed several war steamers.
The United Safes steamer Fulton arrived
at Aspinwall on the first, on cruise wos.
ward
Business Was better at San Francisco,
though no rain OF consequence had yet
iallen in the interior.
Tho Legislature still continued to ballot
for Senator at intervals. The tiftieth
ballot was taken on the 18Th ult., resulting
as follows: Gwinn II; Edwards SO; Ro-
main 10; Brodrick ~ and scattering 5.
Dates from Honolulu to the eth Jan
uray say that the annexation negotiations
had ceased By order of the King.
Dates from II :l5ournG to Nov, / 1th says
tho Australia markets had improved for
breadstufs and domestic produce. The
gold product had fallen off three hundred
and ninety nine thousand ounces in nine
months.
There are now in the College of Music,
at Leipzig, Germany, Eve American pu-
pils-a young lady from Baltimore, two
young men from New Y ork one from Bos-
ton, and one from Springfield. Gold
schmidt, the husband Of Jenny Lind, was
a pupil at this college.
In the Legislature OF Nebraska, Mr.
Clancy, an lrishman, gave notice ola bil'
to prohibit the organization Of Know Moth
ing Councils.
The rumor that Jefferson Davis will
presently or ultimately receive the appoint
ment of Brigadier General Of the new reg
iments, is contradicted from Washington.
The GAINESVILLE Courier says over 500
persons passed over the Central Ohio road
on Wednesday and Thursday oflast week.
A writer in the New York Herald states
that Bishop Hughes holds property in his
haEds belonging to the Catholic Church Of
New. York amounting to S25,Ooo,Oo0.
The U. 8. steam frigate Sus9uehannah
has been absent in the China Seas for four
years, and has just returned to Philadel-
phia. 1t has sailed CT ,037 miles since lis
departure.
Henry Newman, County Recorder al
Rising Sun, Indiana, fell into the river be-
tween steamboat and coal boat, or
Thursday, and was drowned. He was
much respected in that community.
Navigation is again resumed on the Mus
kingum. The trade Of that Valley prom
ises to be brisk during the season.
Three powder mills at Wilmington, Del.
blew up on the 10Th, killing one man ant
wounding three oilers.
Nine hundred barrels of snails were ex
ported from Switzerland for foreign con
sumption in October ard November last
In England, efforts are making 10 de
wise a means ofannihilating of the wood pig
cons, whose rsva5es are very serious II
agricultural districts.
Snails are regarded as good eating il
Paris and Vienna, and in October anC
November last, no less than nine hundrct
barrels of Snails were exported from
Switzerland for foreign consumption.
/ A letter from afriend at Burlington
Iowa, dated Feb 9Th, says they had beer
without an Eastern mail for four weeks, ol
account Of the great snow storm Of the col
January.
A snow storm prevailed at New Orleans
on the 9th of February.