Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-05-07
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
LITTER FROM CALIFORNIA;.
ARRIVAL OF THE STAR OF TIE WEST.


The details of the Star of the West are of
little interest.
The miners were generally doing we'll and
the accounts from the New Kern Rive. dist
riot were as contradictory as ever.
In Sacramento, the municipal election re-
suited IN the triumph of the whole X. N.
ticket, except one alderman. James Eng
lish is the mayor.
Several San Francisco aldermen had been
indicted for malfeasance and held to bail.
The scarcity of coin created much trouble in
every branch of trade.
The an ual report of the San Francisco
mint show a total of Sc, '60, 900 in coin, and
500 ,434, 900 in bars.
About half the town of jackson had been
destroyed by fire. Loss about 100000.
The bill providing for the districting of the
State had passed the assembly, with an an
nouncement which will render special cleo
ton for Congressman necessary in Deem
Der next. This will deprive the State of
California of its representation in Congress
for two or three months, as Messrs. Danyers
and Herbert can never get their seats.
Advces from Utah, to the first of March
mention that Col. Steptoe, appointed to sucA
coed Brigham Dung as Governor of the ter
ritory, had caused great discomfort, and pc
titions were in circulation to have Young
removed.
Yesterday as the Rev. Chas. II. Halsey.
r actor of Christs Church and one of our
most respected clergymen, was inspecting the
work on a new editice beng erected for him,
he fell through n window space to The ground
distance of sixty feet nd-died about half
an hour thereafter.
1t is stated that at the time the supposed
SLAYER Horatio, picked up off Key West was
fitting up in this city. the U. S. District At
torney notified the Custom House authori-
tics that she should be watched and they
should be cautious in giving her register, the
notice however appears to have been little
needed
Letters from Grenada, Ticaragua, mention
that Col. Wheeler our minister to Central
Am RIGA, was there and presented his ere
dentials to the President on the 4th of April.
where the customary civilities took place.
me of our papers says this morning that
Col Walker and 100 others sailed from San
Francisco, on the 3lst of March, in the bark
Success, for Central America, to Join the
Kinney expedition. We find no mention of
it in our California files.
Consul Fabiens was brought up in the q.
S. District Court to- day and ordered to fird
bail in $4,000. His trial is set down for
Monday.
The bail Of Consul Fabiens was fixed at
$4,000 instead of $4,000 as first reported.
Edward Boyle of Rondout became his secu-
rity but was refused.
AT the cattle market to- day. the offerings
wers Isl head and all sold, prices ranging
from So 50 to So IS on the hoof; equal to
ll@lSc.
LITTER FROM H.AT.A.v:A.
The steamship Black Warrior from Ha-
vana on the 18th ult.. arrived here this morn
ing.
The U. S. steamer San Jacinto, was still
in port.
The Princeton sailed for Key West, on the
NOR ing of the 2Sth.
Havana and the whole Island were in a
state of quietude and no new arrests had
been made.
Commodore Nice auley, and the Captains of
the q. S. vessels had been handsomely en-
tertained at banquet BY the Captain Gen.
eral.
The market for sugars continued active
and tendency upward.
Arthur S. hewitt has been appointed Post
Master at New Orleans vice B. w. Adams.
declined.
CINCINNATI, May 3.
At the municipal election in indianapolis
the Know Nothing city ticket was defeated
by 200 majority: But that party neverthe-
less elected I,siority Of the Council.
BosToS, May 3.
Late Halifax papers state that the most
frightful diseases prevail along the coast.
The Canadian French are the sufferers.
The Nova Scotia parliament has been dis
solved BY proclamation of the Governor and
q new election called for On the 32d inst.