The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-15
From Kingston,

We have copy of the Kingston Damaica) Jour.
nal OF the LIST inst, received by the schooner La
redo, Capt. Harmar, which arrived here yester.
day. We find little news tn it.
AT Kingston the weather had been cooler than
usual, the mercury in the thermometer falling as
low as 800.
ST. CRoIx.-The Port of Spain Gazette men.
tlons on the authority of advces from St. Thomas,
that Zen. Van Hansen, the new Governor General
OF the Danish Islands, arrived at that Island in the
DANISH man-oiwar brig ST. Thomas, ACCOMPANIED
by Messrs. Flensberg and EIberling, as Commits.
soners Extraordinary appointed for the trial of the
slaves implicated in the insurrection which issued
In the freedom of the whole slave population
ABOUT The same time three transports arrived with
troops, consisting of fifty cavalry and 400 infantry
which had been distributed through the Island
up to the arrival of those troops several parties of
the insurgents held possession of different parts in
the mountains, against which the former were at
once directed. Many of these people have already
been captured, and together with such as had been
previously secured, will be Immediately brought to
trial. "
rumor is current at St. Thomas, that pape rs
had Deen discovered indicating that the late Cover.
HOT uenera, van Sholten, was himself the head and
prime mover OF the insurrection, and that among
0ther papers was list of subscriptions made for
nm Dy !he saves on his going away. Such
document might, however, but demonstrate the
affectlonate gratitude which they naturally might
be expected to have for their liberator Van Shoj
ten is said to be in England. ''''''
The soldiers sent from Porto Rico to assist St
Croix have been withdrawn. The expense of their
maintenance in the Island is estimated to amount
to half million Of dollars. The sum is large
but it is scarcely to be doubted that but for their
prompt arrival the fair Island of ST. Croix would
have been the scene of bloody catastrophe.
The Trinidad papers contain no local news.
MARTINIoUE.-The St Lucia Palladium saws
We have just seen Martinique letters and journals
to a late date. Numbers of those persons who had
been forced to abandon their properties in the
Island, and to fly to the southern States of Amer
lea, IN consequence of the threatening aspect of
things on the outset of the republican system in
Martinique, have been induced to return since the
later notifications in the government From all
we hear and read, however of the progress of the
L16erfe Egdtte, Fraternite,' there seems but
slender ground for any better hope as to the desti-
MES OF the French colonies under the present sys-
TEN. Little or nothing is done upon the plapta-
tons, and trade and commerce are depressed to the
lowest possible degree. A sort of memorial. bear.
ing the signatures of upwards of one hundred in
habitants of St Pierre, and supported by the local
Chamber of Commerce, was on the 10th inst. adj
dressed to Governor Bruat, purportng to set forth
the misery and sufferings of the inhabitants, and
praying for relief by means Of prompt establish
ment OF public credit that shall be within the
reach of all property holders, and particularly as
to real or immoveable property The three points
more urgently pressed by the memorialiss as essen
tlal to the existence and prosperity of the colony,
are-compensation, if not large and liberal, at
least Just and reasonable encouragement to the
productions of the Island and public credit