American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-01-06
CITY OF LANCASTER;
Eharsaay morning, Jam. Q. 1853.
I I llA,RRRIYAL on THE ILLINoIs.


sNEw YoRK, Dec. 29.--The steamship
Illinois. from Aspinwall, with dates from
Californ a to the 6tn init, has arrived
Her San Francisco adyices are the same as
those previously reached us by the Tehauh
Z tepec route.
g {Phe Illinois brings advices from, Valpa-
raisO to Nov. l6tn, and Gallo 10 Nov. 26
IT,. So sa =.
An immencs Gre had occurred at Vapa.
raiso. caused loss of $4,000, 900. The
insurance npon The property being 81 .726
600. The FIRE origiopated in the Union
Club rooms. and dbufnt the entire range OF
building. from the passage upward through
the plaza Del 0rden to the Quetrade de
San Jiian. Some .fremen lost their lives.
and a numberof persons were seriouly in
jured. s8 -sg ,gl.a
Trade was unusually Gull.
PEaU - The Legislature has passed an
act Tor the general indemnifsation Of all
q parties and a full pardon 70 all persons ex.
cept, Luis, Lomar. aa .9z 1H'li.s Ie
TIE American ship Lizzie Thompson
and Georgiana are being fitted as transport
with six andtwo guns. These ships were
to be used for the transport Of the troops TO
y Ecuador. s,a.,s5a& eSfA 3,,1
The Peruvian Government is said TO be
willing TO get out of the war, bit the Ecu
adorians are eager forths fight. G.,p
q, A proposition has been brought before
Congress to sell Guano at the Cbincha Is
a. lapds at Thirty dollars per ton, delivered a
e longside the shipto any purchaser The
bill is likely to pass. ....sj... K
a'ia' Gen. Echinique, bas issued circular
ftom Bolivia, assuring the friends Of Gen.
LenaTse. that aid will be given to carry out
the revolutionary movement sgainst the
Castillo Government -
Ecuador is still under blockade and the
only vessels that are allowed TO ente, are
= the mail steamers, No fighting had ocur-
ed. bat Ecuador was rapidly raising an ar
my. - Z, I.
Sir William Gore Ousley sailed form
Panama, on the 9Th inst, for Centerai A.
nerica, in H. B. M. ship Vixen. .e
s. The Illinois left Aspinwall on the goth
fnst... with 5 T. 494 ,Oo00 in treasure. 81
,' The steamer John L. Stephens Of the
Tehauntepsc line. with advices from New
Orleans, tothe 18th nlt., arrived at San
Francisco, and reports that the ten or
twelve reported islands and shoals ON The
route from San Farahcis6o to Honolulu,
are myths. T.s s ,@et
II was reported at San francisco that
some disaster had occurred to the ship Sy-
tsn, The one hundred and eighty days out
from Boston. !. >, ~ a Il
@t The EIiaWhitney, with 1856 passengers
from Australia, bad arrived at Victoria.
at The California interior papers state that
Col, Fremont had elected Gle Merced Min.
sfhgoo. from his properly inMariposa coun'
Etya Il, lessa - HMi2g tas
Joel Nc Donald ex,policeman. aud
kJohn Leary constable, had been killed by
thieves whom theyswere attempting to ar
rest at Ceslumbia. One of the murdereiI
was captured and sammarilIy hung. Three
others are in Jail. w 4 .s,es " src- .,.yt
A number Of dwelling and stores at TIE,
p Shasta county, were burned On,ihe n
th ult., 9gi !, I. - t,,iss
2 The people Of San Jose have memorial
lied the government 10 premit the working
1T the Almadan Quicksilver mines
BENZ. f. MouIton. lhe well knoWn sEx
pressman has been killed at San francisco
By ,JosepkW Brewer. ,sgaltslsa.3gt1
Thomas Brown, and Marshal Moultor
were killed. and John Gamblers badly wour
ded, near San Andrews, BY . Mexican il
self defence. ~ e1$sss'. -.
A severe gale occurred at San Fancsct
nthe 2diust, Several Vessels were Sigh
" injured. :, -
The Bhiletine says that John nugget. .th,
Special United States Agent at Victoria
and returned to San Francisco, en- rout
70 Washington. @ r. Y (, sfsl "a !,
Beofors leaving Victoria, he published
an address to theAmericans, insulting th,
Governor and other, British authorities
+ causing much inignstion there.