The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-28

that the seat held by Mr.. Jackson, the returned
member, should be vacated, and then adjourned.
THE MASON ROUGE GRANT.-By the minute of
the finding of the jury upon the points submitted to
it in case of Heirs of Henry Turner the United
States all the material facts involved in the case
have been decided in favor of the plaintiffs, and
there is no longer doubt that they will have udg
ment in their favor We do not know what extent
of land the plaintiffs claim, but the decision will
settle all the titles to the large tract known as the
NIaison Rouge Grant, embracing some of the most
valuable lands and fourishing settlements in the
upper part of the State, the titles to which are de-
rived, by their present occupants, through the
Marquis de la Maison Rouge, but which titles the
United States Government, on one pretence or
another, has heretofore refused to recognize.
U. S. DISTRICT CoURT-Heirs of Henry Tur-
,ser u.s. the United States.-The following issues
were decided bv a iury in this case Yesterday, pur-
suant to an order of reference:
l. Whether the document annexed to the depo-
stion of Charles Tessler, purportlng to be grant
of thirty square leagues of land from the Baron de
Carondelet to the Marquis de Maison Rouge, and
bearing date June 20, 1877, be genuine-Whether
the signature of Carondelet be genuine, whether
said document was executed at the time OF its date
Answered in the affirmative.
3. Whether the fguration, plan and certificate
marked B., and annexed to the deposition of &. les
ser is correct copy-which original purports to
be a fgurative plan and process verbal of thirty
superficial leagues of land laid off and appropriated
for the Marquis de Maison Rouge, June 18th, 1897,
by Carlos Trudeau, Surveyor Genera, be original
whether said signature, plan and certificate be
wholly in the hand writing of said Carlos Tru-
deau-Whether said plan made and executed
by said Carlos Trudeau at the time which by its
date it pnrports to have been made, to wit 18th
June, l797-Whether said plan and certificate be
the same plan and certificate referred to in the
grant from Carondelet to Maison Rouge, which
grant is mentioned in the preceding issue-whether
said plan and certificate in existence at the date
of said grant from Carondeet TO Maison Rouge
whether said plan and certificate was the basis of
said grant and of the description and location of the
lands embraced therein Answered in the affir-
NATIVE.
3. Whether said C. Trudeau was guilty of any
fraud in relation to said plan and certcate whether
he antedated the same or caused 1t to be, or con-
sented to its being antedated, and is the ante
dated Answered in the negative.
4. Whether said G. Trudeau was Surveyor Cen
eral at the time Of the date of said plan and certf
cate Answered in the affirmative.
Jas. Cousin, ct al vs. The Steamboat Montezuma
This is case brought for damages by coming into
collision the particulars of which we have before
given to the public. 1t was removed to this Court
by the U. S. Circuit Court, and evidence having
been heard, the Court decided that the damages to
the MonteZuma could be fairly estimated at $400,
and it was ordered that the lbellants pay one-haf
of the said sum.
The United States, ct al vs. The Schooner Renais-
sance.-The above named schooner was captured
off the coast of Mexico, by the U. S. steamer Scor
pon, in the month of November, lS47, and brought
into this port, as lawful prize. The case was sub
mtted for consideration, on the 4th of March last,
and the judge, yesterday, gave his decisions; the
reasons for which, will be given at length at some
future time. 1t was ordered that the schooner
seized, should be returned to the claimants, upon
the payment of all charges, costs, and fees incurred.
James Turner VS.. The Schooner Natiue American.
In this case, the Court having become satisfied that
the allegations contained in the libel, are not sus
taned orders that the suit be dismissed, with costs
payable by the libelant.
o. The New York papers hav' mt yet settled how
much Mr.. Astor's wealth amounted to- Some of
them turn up their noses at it, as only petty seven
millions
AN ASTRONOMICAL FAcT.-Mr. Deshong, the,
mathematician called on us the other day, says the
New York True Sun, and after rerplexing us with
some of his wonderful feats in the way of adding,
substracting and multiplying multitude of figures,
stated that he had discovered very curious astro-
nomical fact, which he thinks may be of great add
vantage to astronomers He shows that the dis
lance from the centre of one planet to another, is
certain multiple of the distance between any other
two planets To demonstrate this fact more clear
ly, it is known that the distance from the earth to
the sun is ninetysix millions of miles, and the dis
tauce from the earth to the moon is $40 thousand
miles. Now, one is just AGO times more than the
other. So it will be found with all other planets,
and if it does not prove, the astronomer is at fault
in carrying it out decimally This goes to prove
that there is certain harmony in the universe
which has not been explained, and also proves that
any body must be exactly so many times larger Tor
saller than another body, which is situated in the
fathomless depths of space.
ABsURD.-The report that John Jacob Astor was
not a naturazed citizen of this Republic.
STATISTICS OF MURDER, HANGING, ETC, IN
THE UNITED STATEs.-A correspondent of the
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