The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-09-25

1 DeULeHCGS OF ulG CILTLLSLS.-Ou ulOlludys angus
D. at the Central Criminal Court, J. G. Bezer, 2S
was indicted for sediton. The AttOrney-General
| Mr.. Welsby, Mr. Bodkin and Mr.. Clerk appeared
| for the Crown. The defendant had no counsel
| After heightened trial, the jury Immediately re-
! turned a verdict of guilty.
The other defendants, Smell, Grove and Bryson
| who had previously been convicted of a slmial
offence were thereupOn ordered to be placed at the
| bar with the defendant who had just been convic-
| ted, to receive sentence.
Baron Plat addressed them, and said they had
severaly been found guilty of the offence Of utterng
sedtous speeches for the purpose of disturbing the
public peace and exciting the people to nsurrecton
After short address, he sentenced George Smell
Robert Grove, and John James Bezer, to be impris-
Oned in the House of Correction for two years. to
pay penalty of $40 each to the Queen, and, al
the expiration of their imprisonment to enter into
their own reconiZances in tlOO, with two suretes
of ESQ each to keep the peace for five years. The
| fourth defendant, Bryson, was sentenced TO the
same term Of imprisonment, and to find the same
amount of sureties for five years. and in addition,
to paw fine of EGO; and the whole of the defend
ants further ordered to be imprisoned until the
su~ities were entered into and the fines paid.
When the sentence was pronounced, BrYsOn eX-
claimed to his companions" Never mind, brother
Chartists, come along. This attempt to cheer his
comrades spirits appeared to have very little effect
.-- IRELAND.
From the Dublin Freeman's Journal September 2 ]
The calamity of '49 is no longer menacing pro-
liability. The hearts of men are no longer fuctu-
ating between fitting CLEANS of hope and appalling
dreams of what is to come. We have passed pro-
liability. We have arrived at certainty. There
can be now no rational doubt that the darkest year
in lreland's history of misfortune still awaits u.s.
The fourth year of continued famine in country
like this is calamity that can admit of no parallel
The first famine-that of '46-brOught little DESC
lation. The poorest had some resource to fall back
On-If not in means of their own in the then unex-
hausted and ready charity of the public
The famine of AZ was doubly destructive, be-
cause the previous year had carried off the poor
mans all. The famine of '48. when the crop but
partially failed, ed all its severity to the fact that
it followed two successive famines. The calamly
Of one year produces the exhaustion which tells
upon the year following. The destruction of hui
man food which in '46 would do little or no injury
to human life, cannot fail in '49 to produce deaths
by the thousand
We think it is high time for all classes to look
steadily at facts, and what be done to mti-
gate the calamity of '49 and prevent its consumma-
ting the mseres of past years by pungng all classes
into one common ruin.
The potato crop may be looked upon as lost. There
is, of course disposition to recol from this fear
full contemplation. And the public mind still hopes
against hope that the ruin Of this crop may not be
universal as is represented Heartily do we wish
it may not; but we see no reason to indulge such
expectations. Without dwelling on the accounts
which reached us from the country during the past
week on this painful subject, we may lay 1t down
a broad indisputable fact that the Potato crop,
viewed as the staple food of the Masses is lost
None will now deny this.
This is the first fact. The second fact is, per-
haps, more alarming still The wheat crop is one
fourth below an average produce. On former oc-
casons, when potatoes failed, wheat was invara-
bly, above the average yield. This is the first year
in which both crops were simultaneously defective
Oats. too, owing TO the late incessant storms of
wind and rain, are seriously damaged.
These three facs-the loss of the potato crop, the
defect in the produce of wheat, apd the damage
sustained by the Oats-are quite sufficient to show
that we have to apprehend the direst Scarcity
When in connection with these melancholy facts
we take into consideration the exhausted state of
the country after three successive years of famine
we must admit the inevitable inference that the
calamity of '49'' is likely to be far more disastrous
in its results than any we have yet been doomed to
witness.
Af1irs IN the South.-The stipendiary magistrate
at Kilrush has formally contradcted the statement
that he had helped any lady, old young, from the
steamer to the shore, on the day search was made
for Mr.. Richard O'Gorman.
few indications were presented in the southern
papers of the 2Sth ult of the unsound and immoral
condition in which society continues there A few
nights since an armed party attacked house near
Newcastle, County Limerick, and beat a man
named Kennedy, the owner, dreadfully. Kennedy
had recently come into possession. AT BilIana-
boola, in Kerry, on Thursday night some men at
tackled the house of person named Carroll shot
his horse, stabbed eight cows and burned four
stacks of corn. Pretty work for one night
Arrests are daily taking place, either of persons
suspected of reasonable practices, or charged with
being directly implicated in the recent insurrec-
tonary proceedings. letter dated Limerick
August 81, states that that morning Messrs Nina
mara, attorney, O'Shaughnessy, grocer, and o.
Mo- l. 4 IL. - l.
escort of mounted dragons and a strong body Of
police, and lodged in the County Jail under war
rant signed by the Lord-Leutenant, under the
Habeas Corpus suspension Act.
FRANCE.
The Press MuzzLed.-We mentioned in our last
paper the suppression of four more journals by
General Cavaignac since then the Government has
given notice to the editors of the Ret0rDe the Con-
stitutiOneI, and the Democratic PGcifgue, that if
they are not more measured in their language they
will be suppressed. NJ. Theirs went to NJ. Senard
the Minister of the Interior, to demonstrate with
him on the danger TO which he exposed the country
by his violence against the newspapers and de-
clared that the Republican Government was much
more severe and arbitrary than even that of the
BourbOns or Louis Philippe had been. NJ. Senard
replied that the dynasty of Louis Philippe had
fallen, Notwithstanding its rigors against the press
and as the Republic was not sufficiently strong to
resist such an engine, 1t is necessary for it to use
more energetic measures.
Flight of Louis Blanc and Caussidiere.- fu-
gitive leaders of the Red Republicans are said by
some to have left France, while others maintain
that they are lurking in Paris bnt NJ Louis Blanc
has published the following letter. announcing his
Intention to surrender and take his trial:
Assaled-not as a guilty man, for that was i'm
possible but as an enemy, by men whose political
passions have silenced every sentiment of equity,
withdraw, the better to protest against the conse
quences Of the state of siege and the empire of force
cannot believe that France is of a humor to per-
NIT that the regular cause of justice shall remain
suspended much longer. When the day of trial
shall arrive, shall be present.-PariS, Aug. 26''
Louis Blanc escaped to Client. whence he pro-
ceeded TO Dover, and is now in England, alike the
country of refuge for the ex-Kng Of the Barbados
of 1880, and the would-be Socialist dictator of 1S48
The whereabouts of NJ. Caussidiere is not known,
but he has been too long acquainted with the po-
lice not TO know how to elude their pursuit. even
II the Government desired them to be vigilant but
the contrary appears the fact. The approaching
election for the department of the Herault rendered