The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

T HE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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DREADPOL SHIA RE C K.-1 -The fine packet Creole,
which was long employed 1 3etween New Orleans and
Bordeaux, has been wrecked on the eastern coast of the
island of Cuba. She left Borg Beaux on the Bth of Novem-
ber, with 135 persons on boar d, including crew- and pas-
sengers. On the 19th of Dec ember she was driven on the
submarine rocks off Nuevitas„ Canal of Bahama, and re-
mained in this perilous situati on during two days and three
nights. All hopes of getting her off, notwithstanding the
passengers added their exerts. ons to those Of the crew, be-
ing at an end, the captain oreiered her masts to be cut off
by the board, and turned ev. effort to save the passen-
gers; but before means could be taken the ship broke up.
Out of 155 persons, only 82 reached the shore. Among
those who were lost was the captain, M. Jules Cayol, who
refused to quit the vessel 'until every other living person
had been.got off. Those saved have been-well-treated by
the inhabitants, and were expecting to leave shortly for
New Orlea, s.

THE BLikeK SEA.—The Siecle quotes the following
letter from Odessa, of the 29th ult. :—" The trade of
Odessa .was never more flourishing than in. 1846. In the
course of that year, 1,441 vessels entered our harbour,
and 1,512 -sailed from it. The exports amounted to
22,763,055'effective roubles (91,052.220 f.), and the im-
ports to 7,,715,047 effective roubles (30,508462 f.), forming
together a total of 30,508,462 roubles' and showing an
increase,. as compared with the amount of the preceding
year, of 4.,318,360 roubles. The imports of 1846 con-
sisted of .5,840,803 effective roubles (25,363,208 f.) in
-landise, and 1,904,605 roubles (7,618,4200 inspe7

merc

The wheat exported last year exceeded 2,000,000
tzetwers, representing a value of 15,000,000 of effective
roubles (60,000,000 f.), the largest quantity of grain ever
exported from Odessa in one year. There were still
lying at Odessa, on the Ist instant, 725,000 tzetwers of
wheat (1,515,250 bectolitres), and 95,000 tzetwers of
other grain (198,350 hectolitres), besides 30,000 tzetwers
of flax seed."

A MONSTER STEAM SHIP.—On Saturday, the 31st
ult., the first of a line of steam ships, to run between
New York and Bremen, touching at Cowes, was launched
at New York. She is built of white oak ; length of keel
220 feet, length of upper deck, 240 feet, extreme length
over all 260 feet ; breadth of beam moulded, 39 feet ;
depth of hold, 31 feet ; on the outside 40 feet ; Custom-
house measurement, 1750 tons ; carpenters' measurement,
2350: the has four decks, the upper one will be flush fore
and aft. She is to be fitted with two engines, each
of 1000-horse power. The capacity of the cylinders is
72 inches, with ten feet stroke, and they weigh 20,000
pounds ; each of the bed plates, which are of cast-iron,
weighs 40,000 pounds ; she has an entire wrought-iron
frame ; four cranks and shafts, each weighing 8000 pounds ;
the shafts are 20 inches in diameter, and IS inches, in the
journals. The boilers are 16 feet front, 36 feet long, and
are braced in every square foot. The whole will be 40
feet diameter. The cabins are designed to accommodate
200 first, and about 72 second class passengers. Her
freight eanacities. and all the wants of the shin_ inelndirny

coal; be-600 tons

She will be commanded b;

Capt. Hewitt, late of the Havre packet ship Utica, and
will leave New York on her first voyage about the first of
March.

EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.—Mr. Seaman
has introduced a bill into the House of Representatives,
the object of which is to prevent the evils arising out of
the course pursued by the pariAh authorities in many of
the European states, namely, that of sending their crimi-
nals and paupers in ships to this country—thus' for a tri-
fling sum, getting rid effectually of supporting them; and
throwing upon us the responsibility and expense of pro-
viding poorhouse or prison accommodation for the trans-
ported. The bill provides that the consuls and commer-
cial agents of the United States shall examine on oath or
otherwise, as may best serve the proposed end, all immi-
grants who take passage in vessels from the ports where
they are resident, and which vessels are bound for the
United States ; and if it appears that such emigrants have
not been paupers‘or convicts, then the consuls are to give
certificates to that effect ; but if, on the contrary, it ap-
pears that they have been the inmates of prisons or work-
houses, the consuls are to refuse the certificates. The
certificates, when given, are to be duplicated, and a copy
sent to the authorities of the port for which the N.23sel
sails. Persons arriving in ports of the United States
without such certificates are to be sent whence they came,
and the master or owner of the vessel from which any im-
migrant is landed without such certificate shall be liable to
a fine of g2so.—American paper. .

AN INDIAN BATTLE.—A letter from a gentleman at
Council Bluffs, dated on the 17th of December, to his cor-
respondent in St. Louis, states that on the previous day a
band of the Omahas were met by a band of the Sioux, in
the neighbourhood of the Bluffs, that a battle ensued be-
tween them ; and that the Sioux killed 60 of the Omahas
before the conflict terminated. The following particulars
we find in a letter to the St. Louis Republican :—" it was
a cold-blooded butchery of women and children, in the
absence of all the warriors of the village. On the night
of the 12th and 13th, the letter states, a war party of
Yancton Sioux Indians defeated and destroyed 14 tribes
of the Omaha tribe of Indians, located at the time at
W' d's Bluff- it-- '

situated about 60 miles from this ilice-L-
Belleview. The men and warriors of the Omahas had
left the camp on a hunt ; and the Sioux, soon after they
reached the camp, discovered that they had only women
and children to contend with. The slaughter was terrible
73 were killed, and 19 mortally wounded. Two men
made their escape—one of them named Joseph Lafleche,
a trader in the employ of Mr. Peter A. Sharpy, and at the
time in charge of a stock of goods. He ran from the
scene of blood barefooted, and arrived at Belleview with
both feet frozen. Mr. Sharp and Major Miller, the pre-
sent agent, dispatched a party of men to ascertain the
facts, and they confirmed, on their return, the report of
Lafleche. They also reported that five of the Sioux In-
dians had been killed, no doubt stabbed by the Omaha
Squaws. Going 20 miles further than the ground of the
massacre they found the place where the goods of the
trader had been divided among the robbers. It seems,"
adds the letter, " that fate is against the Omaha Indians.
Four or five days before this event took place, one camp,
lodging at Carbanne's old trading house, was attacked by
a war party of Ayonasi commanded by the well known
chief White Cloud, and four of the men wounded. and

one woman killec

SUPPLIES FROM NEW ORLEANS.—We find, in an
American paper, the following estimate of the supplies
that can be furnished from New Orleans, and which is
stated to be made by a long-established and extensive
house in New Orleans, intimately acquainted with the
capabilities of all the cultivated districts on the great
plain of the Mississippi, the produce of which passes by
New Orleans. The statement embraces the probable
amount of provisions that have come or will come to New
Orleans, from the Ist September past to the 31st August,

, 1847." It is impossible (say the writers) to ,say.witir any
accuracy what portion of it will reach England, as large
ships cannot get to New Orleans for want of a sufficient
depth of water at the entrance of the Mississippi ; this
difficulty will be overcome next year by the recent dis-

covery of Cat Island Harbour, where vessels of the
largest class can be admitted and laden with grain and
provisions, this fine harbour being connected with a short
railroad of only .forty-six miles in length, by which
the produce landed from the Mississippi can
board in less than three hours travel

be put on

Quarter

sacks 500.000 say
Ditto Flour in barrels 900,000 „

2,000,000 or 250,000
4,500,000 „ 550,000

bulk
Ditto shelled in sacks 1,500,000 „ 4,500,000 „ 510,000
Ditto meal in barrels 150,000 „ 450,000 „ 56,000
Oats, barrels, and sacks 300,000 „ 900,000 „ 112,000

,608,000

000 quarters of grain of every description, to

500,000 lbs. weight of hams in bulk,
45,000 barrels and kegs of butter,
400,000 barrels and casks of salted pork,
1,000,000 lbs. weight inbulk of salted pork

110,000 barrels of lard,
350,000 kegs of lard.

" The total estimate of the value of products brought
to New Orleans this year, including sugar, molasses,
cotton, tobacco, hemp, hay, tallow, staves, lumber, &c.,

,
may be set down at 90,000,000 of dollars."
TRIAL OF A NOVELIST.—On the 29th ult. at the tribu-
nal de la Seine, the Paris papers, Le Constitutionnel and
La Presse, preferred their charge against Mons. Alexandre
Dumas and the proprietors of certain Parisian journals.
M. Alexandre Dumas was charged with having broken his
engagement with the two above-named journals in the
year 1845, and for not having wr: tten any one of the works

assembled, it having been announced that thelrillilirroo7
author of Monte Cristo" would plead his own cause ; and
the doors were scarcely thrown open, when every corner

patient audience had listened to an unimportant and un-
interesting case which was going on, and their impatience
was in no wise allayed by the non-appearance of M.
Dumas. It began already to be rumoured that he would
not appear, when he was ushered in by. the hussier by a
private door. He was at once recognised by his dark
complexion, -and his being extremely over-dressed. The
first outburst of satisfaction at his appearance having sub-
sided, a deep silence prevailed. Dumas pleaded his own
case, contending that he had not broken his engage-
ment, but must first complete previous engagements to

the extent of 80 volumes Weeeli was less remark-
able for modesty that for (French) eloquence. He dwelt
complacently upon his almost superhuman labours as a

Writer. " The plaintiffs pretend,"' said he, " that at my
villa at St. Germain d remained idle. I wrote there eight
volumes of Balsamo.' At the same time I was occupied
with representations of Shakspere and Dumas in the
theatre of St. Germain ; hut I do not think I can be re-

proached for that, especially as I gave them 27,000 lines
in two months. As regards my journey to Spain, I never
solicited a mission ; the Duke of Montpensier, who en-
tertains a degree of friendship for me, said to me as his
brother had said formerly. ' Come to my marriage, I wish

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you to be pregent at a national fete.' M. (16
then asked me if I could leave for Spain and Algeria, and
I replied that it was the very thing for me, as I required
repose. ' You will then go to Spain,' said the minister,
' and to Algeria, a country not much known, especially to
our deputies, who speak about it every day without know-
ing anything at all about it.'—(Laughter.) I left for
Spain as a guest, and was the only Frenchman present

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der to reach nuns, the French government had placed at
my disposal the steamer Veloce ; it was for the use of
myself and the Bey of Tunis alone.—Such favours are
only granted to Princes and friends. We were close to
the African coast when I learnt that our prisnueis might
be liberated by prompt intervention on my part. Twelve
lives were to be saved, the sole remnant of the captives
who escaped the. massacre of Sidi Brahim. It was I, who,
with the Veloce under my orders, saved Captain Cognard
and his brave comrades, and brought them to Melina,
where 3,000 persOns offered me-a banquet. lam now,
forsooth, asked for 50,000 francs damages for having been
idle—whilst I—yes, I—saved from the sword of the enemy
the lives of twelve of my countrymen ! I took six persons
in my suite, who represented the art of painting, as I my-
self represented the art of literature."—The case was ad-
journed. A large crowd was collected outside to see M.
Dumas come out, and they accompanied him to the Rue
Barillerie, where a magnificent Arab charger, with gold
trappings, was waiting for him.