The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-07
Important from Yucatan.

Concerning the state OF affairs. III ucatal. we
acknowledge ourselves to have been III error When
we stated that we did not believe the situation of
things in that Peninsula to have been bad as had
been stated The following article, which we find
in the Merida Union, shows that the inhabitants
consider that nothing can save them from utter ex-
termination but the protecting hand of some foreign
power, to obtain which they are willing to sacrl-
flee even their nationality
The government of Yucatan is in imminent danger of
the property and the existence OF the white and
mixed races disappear before the erocy of the who
have them. Under these circumstances 1n
mpores the assistance and favor OF civilized ma
ton combining generosity and philanthropy, and freely de-
liver itself to it to be preserved from the contest transfer
ring the right of possession, dominion and sovereignty of
its territory and cedng to the ownership of its public build
ngs and half the value of all its urban and rustic property
as also half of all its capital and taxes the total of which
present may be estimated at four millions of dollars. Ser
vices of such nature although due to humanity merit
great recompense which always excite avarce, the first
moving principle of the human heart 1t would be well to
notify foreign Consn of this Offer recommending celebrity in
the of it, that the may in time to
existence and property, which without them will soon be
annihlaed This cesson deprive us OF nothing, be-
reality possess nothing, and in this manner
may preserve something for ourselves and for Children
saving Yucatan from the hord fate which threatens it. and
perhaps opening path which conduct prosperity
and social felicity, among cultivated and civilized people
forming morals and delivering itself to the protection OF
the only method of obtaining felicity and webeing Yucca
has position favorable to agriculture and commerce. 1t
does for which developed by knowledge
and wisdom will form its true and solid wealth. substituting
for the siothfuness which has brought to terrible tna
ton industry and labor which conduct it to happiness
and glory.
THE disastrous loss of valladod the evacuation of which
is positive and indubabe fact, has brought with 1t
the abandonment of Espa, to which will follow Tez
min. Twothirs of the Peninsula in the power of
the Indians proving and the necessity that exists
of foreign aid. Tezimn offers hold long posi-
bic, but it Claims at the time that (foreign) assistance
which the peril of its situation much demands Many
other have the wish and the government
has recommended such measure to the Council OF State
The necessity OF delivering ourselves to the first that
will adopt us, under just wise, and benecent laws
general conviction. Whoever doubt the necessity of
this step should to this city and the spectacle OF
the wounded brought from Valladolid of the hundreds of
families deprived of homes Of food and of the hungry
naked, and defeated Troops
From the -'Tampico Notcioso, we learn that on
the evening Of the 9th ultimo, the Spanish brig of
Juanita, and the Chur arrived at Sisal. The
commander of the Juanta, d. Ramon Quintero,
brought dispatches to the Government from the arl-
thorities of Havana The principal of them :. came
directed by the Governor and Captan-General of
the Island of Cuba, the Count Aleoy, in which he
declares that complying with the offer made at the
Capital of that Island, relative to furnishing aid to
this State, which is now in such pitiable situation,
i'll consequence of the war waged by the Indians
against the whites and i'll view of what was stated
by government in its note dated at Maxcana on
the 18th nit, it sends this communication by the
commander of the vessel of war which = sent TO
Sisal, putting on board to be delivered here to
government, under inventory and valuation,
1000 good muskets and bayonets, 200 cavalry
swords, two twelve pound howitzers, small
carronades, and 200 quintals of powder, which are
the principal things asked by our government, all
these articles being worth 1872, l6l Is. The su-
preme authorities of the Island of Cuba, also
state in,their communication, that the powers
of Her Catholic Maesty's representatives at
that place. are not sufficiently extended to permit
them to furnish the money asked by the govern
ment of Iucatan, adding that in furnishing them
succor, the authorities acted independently of |
any selfish political consideration, having only
humanity at heart, and wishing to save the inhab
tants of all classes and conditions from the fate
with which they are threatened by the Indians.
The commander of the Juanita, also informs us
that in few days the corvette Luisa Fernando
will arrive, with various arms and munitions
Touch AND Go Already the French revolu-
ton has been dramatised for the New York stage.
At the Bowery theatre, in that city, II piece was
produced on the night of the 29th ut, called The
Insurrection of Paris" Also, in Boston, piece
called The Last of the Kings founded on the
same subject, has been produced at the Boston
Museum.
WIscoNsIN.-The new Constitution of Wiscon-
sin has been adopted by large majority of the
people. A Legislature will be elected in June, We
believe, upon which will devove the choice of two
United States Senators.
REVOLUTIONARY MATRoN GoNE-Died III 7
New Prospect, Bergen county, n. j., on the 9th
nit, Mrs. Charity Berry, at the extraordinary age
of ll0years. She married during the revolu-
tonary war. and was the mother of thirteen child
rem, all of whom still survive
% 1t is strongly suspected that Langfelt, the t
murderer of Mrs. Rademache, in Philadelphia, had
an accomplice