The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-22

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NJ We take the following sensible article from
the Dotil Wisconsin, published at Milwaukee:
CAPITAL AND WAGES 1t is frequently remarked
that though capital may largely increase in a cOun-
,rv wages do not adva ice. In many eases, they
diminish, for capital eneralIy secures the lions
share in the adiustmeI 1t of the new relations. A
deep thinker COgently emaTks:
" In En@iaRd, every few years wages have been
thus reduced. so that in the course of fifty years
they have fallen oil fifty per cent. In the mean
WHILE capitalists have been increasing in wealth.
In 1900. the father of Sir Robert Peel was worth
OaIV moderate fortune; in lS4S he the pos
SCISSOR of twenty mi Hons of dollars. OF course as
the few be come rich, the many become pOor-the
bic fish dest roy the mInnOWs. striking exempli-
fication Of his found in the fact that while
there were 10000 landhOlders i'll England in l77G,
there are 10000 now. But in l776, there was
scarcely a man with All income of Gl00,000,
whereas now there are numbers"
There has zen some dispute whether wages have
ad&aIly decreased during the last hundred years,
vet there is more absolute restitution of food now.
Than there WAS fifty or All hundred Years ago Yhen
the successful abOrer might not have Jared as COM
rortabv as he does now, but nearly all obtained
| Suliiceucy OF the common wants Of life, death
| from starvation was of rare occurrence. There
seems 10 be a tendency in all old countries for CAPT
! tai 10 crowd labor TO the wall, while in COun-
tries capital may be scare labor is rewarded not in
! money but in kind. Yet every true patriot will
ASK is not the lJrepOnderatlng and crushing power
| Of capital caused in no small degree by the partial
and special legi station which backens the statute
| book of nearly very State, even in our Republic
VENEZUELA BLOCKADE. The blockade of
! Maracaibo as the. only place remaining under the
control of Gen. ? aez or of his partisans, was an
nounced in decree issued by Vice Urbaneia, on
the Ilth of May 1t is possible, however, that the
| surrender heretofore reported, to Manages may
have taken place without the fact being known at
! Caracas that day. Forty days were allowed for
the notification of the blockade in the United States
and Europe.
From SoUTH AME RICA-Dates from Valparaiso
up to the LIST of May says the New York Sun, state
that trade although not PROSTATE during fore
| going months, did not recover rapidly the
general tranquility of the country appeared 10 pro-
| mise SIG Borgano, Minister of War and Marine
| had resigned Col. -. Pedro NOlasce Nldad Is to
succeed him.
il is expected that in the beginning Of May the
Treaty. with Peru will be concluded The Peru
Wan Envoy, D. Felipe Pardo, will soon return to
Peru, to commence his functions as Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
The Government of Chill have published De-
cree concerning the payment of tlthes, considered
as q step toward the abolition thereof There had
been serious fires in Santiago de Chill within a
few days.
Valparaiso papers pllDSl interesting leIIefS con-
corning q CHILEAN Colony in the Straits of Magel-
Ian at the port of San Felipe. 1t has now been
founded four years
ARREST OF TIE BANDIT Sol. On the 18th
instant. we learn from the Free Trader, Mr. Moose,
gunsmth at Natchca landing, going out upon the
bluff in the rear Of his shop TO try a double barrel
rifle gun saw two runaway negroes, one Of whom
he recognized as the notorious Sc Sol, the Natchez
bandit They ran and he gave pursuit He came
within long shot distance and fired, Wounding Sol
/ iu the arm, SCATTERING it badly. The misCreant
still ran until he reached the field of Smith, late
the Setzer residence, mile and a half south of
/ NafcheZ-vhen he was recognized by Margaret, a
Girl who sells vegetables in Natchez, belonging to
Smith She gave the alarm and set all the dogs
upon hrn-Margaret being the first to collar him.
The negro with him escaped.
FIRE AND NARROW EsCAPE.-A new brick store
in New Haven, occupied by Mr. Joshua W. Newell
was destroyed by fire on the 7h with most of the
goods. Mr.. Ferre, one Of the owners OF the build
ing, having assembled to the top, stood upon the tin
on the roof and the boarding below having been
burnt away, he fell through the burning cinders,
four stories to the cellar, from whence he was taken
in an insensible state. He was restored however,
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for recovery.
Struck By LGGHrNING.-The ship Francis De-
pau, Capt. Muford, twenty days from Mobile,
/ bound to Liverpool, put into Ne"f ork bay on the
10Th in distress On the 9Th INST, at A. NJ, during
2 heavy small accompanied by heavy thunder and
lightning, the head Of the maInmast was struck,
and split so badly down to the rigging that but lit
tie sail could be carried. The shock was remen-
dous and all on board were stunned, the whole
vessel being filed with electric fluid. She is
owned by Messrs. F. d D. Fowler, Of NewYork,
and will remain there to repair damages
I ACQUITTED James Murphy acquitted at
Boston on the 9Th, of numbering his wife by throw
ing her down stairs, etc: his intention not being
to injure her.
SEsTESoED,-AugustusD utee, convicted in Bos,
ton few days since Of the murder Of Ellen O8sgs,