The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-12-04

FROM WAsHINGToN.-Tr Treasury Report-Th,
correspondent of the Charleston Courier says tina
he has been favored with a sight of the estimates
which are to accompany the official report Of tn.
Secretary of the Treasury to Congress. From
these he learns that the Secretary will ask from
that body additional appropriations for the fsca
year ending 30th June next, to the amount O
S3,744, 600 part of which is for payment to Mexico
under the twelfth article Of the treaty made witt
that country.
The Secretary also submits estimates of the ap.
preparations that will be required for the year 1885,
in obedience to a law of Congress.
He estimates that new appropriations will be re-
quired to the amount of S24, 900, making, with
the nine millions and half of permanent appropria-
tons for that year, S33, 100000 the entire sum
that will be required.
MEXICAN MINISTER. sr. D. Luis de Ia Rosa,
Minister Plenipoentiary from the Republic of
Mexico to the Government of the United States,
arrived in Washington City on the 2Sd ult.
GEN TAYLoR.-We are informed that the old
General passed up the river yesterday, on his way
TO Washington 1t is said that he received orders
at his plantation night before last report himself
in propria persona at the seat Of Government upon
some business, the nature of which we did not
learn TScks5Urg Wing, 18th alt.
The Wing, Of course, is misinformed, General
Taylor being at present in this city.
90 The Secretary of State has left Washington
on a short visit to Pennsylvania.
APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT. 20. C.
Pratt, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States for the Terri
tory Of Oregon, in place of VIM A. Hall, declined.
TENNEssEE.-The official vote of this State has
been received, and stands thus Taylor "a, l46,
Cass 81, 985-Taylor's majority 6l61. The Cover
nor has issued his certificate that the Taylor Elect
ors are elected.
MICHIGAN. We have now complete returns
from all the counties in Michigan. The majority
for General Cass is 72OS.
VIRGINIA.-In the counties heard from the vote
now stands
Taylor .....................-A,S95 759 maj 44154
Casss majority. 1853
Braxton County, which gave Mr.. Clay 80 ma
jority, to hear from.
NORTH COMMUNICATIONS Legisa-
ture of North Carolina convened in the city of
Raleigh on the Doth ult. THE following dispatch
has been received at Petersburg
Senate-R g. Gillian (whig) Speaker of the House. Zone
OF the democratic members absent.1
INDANA.-E ighty-six counties in Indiana show
Cass majority of 1862, six counties to hear FROM
which, it is supposed, will increase the majority to
somewhere about 5000.
a.. o.. - ,os,-o. H.
votes of ten of the Old Thirteen States, to wit
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New:
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary
land, North Carolina and Georgia.
THE VoTE FOR GOVERNOR IN New YoRK.-
The Albany Argus publishes the footings Of the
official vote for Governor in all the counties of the
State as follows: Fish, wing, 2l8,616; Dix, free
soil, I22, 5S3; Walworth, Cass, II6,0l9. Fish over
Walworth 102 597; do. over Dix, &C, OBS; Dix over
Walwortb, 1854; Dix and Walworth over Fish,
1886.
1t will be seen by "a comparison of the above with
the vote for President, that Fish has received 65
more votes in the State than Gen. Taylor, that Gen.
Dix has received 2064 votes more than Mr.. Van
Buren,, and that Chancellor Walworth has received
1927 more than Gen. Cass.
REVIVAL "A religious revival is going on at
Baton Rouge.
ACCIDENT. A valuable negro, belonging to
VaIerin Ledoux, Of Pointe Coup6e, was killed last
week by being dragged between the rollers of his
sugar mill.
DEATHS OF PUBLIC MEN.--Colonel Andrew A.
Kncannon, a conspicuous democrat, died at Column
bus, Miss the 18th ult., aged fifty one years. A
native of Virginia, he removed to Lincoln county,
Tennessee at an early age, and was elected sheriff,
and member of the convention which formed The
present constitution of that State In 1888, he was
appointed Indian Commissioner, in Mississippi, and
removed to Columbus. In 1910, he was member
of the Mississippi Legislature; and in 1885, received
from President Polk the appointment of United
States Marshal for the Northern District of Missis
sippi He was highly esteemed in all the relations
of private life.-MObiJe Register.
We are panied to announce to-day, the melan-
choly intelligence Of the death Of Mr.. George W.
Creagh, Esq, of Clarke county, Ala. He died on
the oath November, and was one of our oldest and
most estimable citizens. In the war of 1873, with
the Creek Indians he rendered good service in
protecting the pioneer settlements of Alabama.
He had served often and most usefully in the Legis
lature of the State.-Ibld.
FRAUD ON A BANK.-We learn from the Wayne
county Ohio Democrat, that Julius A. Moore,
merchant of that place, was lodged in Jail on the
charge of having distracted from the Wayne county
Branch Bank, the sum of $1,000. He acknow
lodged the thief and stated that a part of it was
deposited in an ut-house on his mothers premises,
where $4,000 Of it were found The teller of the
bank had previously been uniustly suspected Of
hBving been guilty of the robbery.
The RIvER-Last evening there were six fee
three inches water in the canal by the mark Dut
ring the previous twenty.fOur hours the river had
receded three inches On the falls there were three
feet ten inches water. We see by our Geographic
dispatches, that at Pittsburg and Cincinnati, the
river continues falling. AT Pittsburg, however the
weather indicated rain At Nashville, on the 2lst
ult, the water was falling. with five feet on the
shoals-LouiSUille Courier, 23d Ut.
THE LATE STORM AT THE EAsT.-M1rine DIS