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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

From Aspinwall

NEW YORK, May [3]. – The steamship Northern Light from Aspinwall brings $615,000 California treasure.

Our recent victories were celebrated at Panama on the 22d by the respects for friends of the Union to Consul McKeith.  The U.S. steamer [Saranac] Com. Lauman fired thirty four guns.

Advices from Jamaica report that the American schooner [Giffiold] from Philadelphia from Jamaica was burnt at sea on the 10th of February by the pirate Nashville.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 4