The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-02-08
Correspondence Of "Gbe DaiIp Crescent. "

Esp York Senator-Separds Election DoMbtfui-Legis
iatire-CanaI Capital Sentence in
Teiegraph-Launehes to take place Panama Rail
New YORK, Jan. 81, 1S49.
Eds. Creseent-It seems from the intelligence that
to-day get from Albany, that Seward election the United
States Senate is growing much doubtful. There
twenty -four wings in the State Senate if not eleven OF
whom will against Seward and without their in his
favor chance of his election Of course Stewards
friends viii not Golfers soppor, and the
must be the selection of some third party perhaps
and probably, Washington Hunt Representative in
Congress from the 34th District.
In the Legislature to-day, petition presented from
the stockholders of the Canal Bank praying for nves
cation into its affairs 1t has been thought that by the crowd
that such investigation had been long
tip be mistake. report also made in the Ssn-
ate against the bill prohibiting the protest OF promissoy
notes and inland bills of exchange The proceedings in the
Assembly of local interest merely.
In Troy, this morning, Andrew Hill and Barney O'Don-
nell sentenced TO be unged the 18th OF March next
between the hours of and M. Hill is the
derer of Mr. Ann Smith, and Donne of the Italian boy
Antonio Raec L. is not probable that the sentence in
either will be carried out, there powerful feeling
against capital punishment in the State and think Gov.
Fish is strongly in favor of its abolition.
The question is raised here whether foreign vessels
legally take passengers freight for California At present
can hndance, our revenue laws do not cover
that district and there is course other authority connie
tent to make such for it, Our laws could not be put IN force
gagemen of foreign vessels in that trade which has be.
come immensely profitable The freight and passenger list
OF the ship Tahmaoo has nan paid for her, amount
ing it is sad to $4,000 than asked for her short
since Several vessels have been put for San
Francisco yesterday and to-day think there must be
seventy up.
said that Charles Morgan has brought the steamer
Crescent City, and another steamer which has belonged to
the parties.
Mr. Van Vechten of this State, is now in Washington
with claim for patent for what he calls Atmosphe
Teeg aph, by which mail and matter may be
transmitted at the rat OF thousand miles an hour. The
machinery consists of tube in which the carriage moves
by pressure of the atmosphere the air being exhausted in
front of the carriage by airpumps The idea not
gentleman in your city Rgested it to
veration Cincinnati last August and followed the
idea out satisfying ourselves that was feasible and that
should live to something like it in operation. His
plan confined the transmission of mail and express
matter but compehended the transportation ofpeons
On Tuesday next to have and launch from each
of the yards of VIM H Brown and Co. and Jacob Bethe
Atlantic and Pacific, the first of E. X. Collins
Co.'S Line between this city and Liverpool to be dev.
cred to their proper element These truly magnificent
yesse-their length 800 feet BREADTH of beam rs feet and
depth 81 eet-tonnage about 5000 each The of each
steamer will be- when completed, about half million of
dollars nearly half of which to be expended the
engines alone.
The corporators of the Panama Railroad Company ~
VIM. ii. Aspnwall John L. Stevens Henry Chauncey,
Jas Brown, C. w Lawrence, Gonyerneur Kemble Thos.
w. Ludlow, David Thompson, Jos B. Vanum S. s. New.
land, Prosper NJ. WetmOe, Edwin Bartlett and Horao
Allen
In the Stock market to-day. s7OOC0 Treasury Notes sold
for 109 1884, and Harlem Railroad again touched So but
bona fde sale Canton Co. went up TO 4O1a. No U.
8. Stock for 1868 was to be had.
The total shipments of specie from this port from the LIST
of January to date, have been s109,667
Yours etc. INDICATOR.