The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-01-03

ever, It is subject that should in the future be left
to the competition of private enterprise. feel as
suTed that in the struggle American enterprise and
American industry will eventually be successful"
ANEwLAw QnEsr1nx Ihe F4nliuweii CnTe,s
Gazette states that novel case is to be brought be-
fore the District Court, to try fathers right to
his own child:
" The grandmother OF the child claims it by viz
tue OF gift from the mother on her1death-bed, and
has sued out writ of replevin and obtained pos
session OF it. On the other hand the father who is
much attached to his child, and amply able and
qualified to provide for it, and desires so to do CON
tends that the gift was not intendedto be pefma-
nent one, and that it was conditional gifoptonal
with the father to ratify or annul."
NEW ORLEANS AND CHAGREs LINE OF STEAM
ERs-The Report of Mr.. Preston, ,-the Secretary
of the Navy, contains the following passage in re-
gard to the New Orleans and Chagres line Of steam
| ships
The contractor for the New Orleans and Chagres
line bound himself to establish line Of steamships
consist of at least five vessels for the transpora,
ton of the III. S. mail from New York to New Or
leans twice month and back, touching at Charles,
| ton, Gf pfaeticable,) Savannah and Havana, and
| from Havana to Chagress and back twice month
that two of the steamships should be completed ans
ready for service on the first day Of fOctober 1846
and should be Of te burden Of not less than fteel
| hundred tons that, should the SecTetary Of tn
1 Navy determine to employ steamer Of not les
| than six hundred TONS burden, for The service be
| tween Havana and Chagres, in heuof oneuaf tn
hVe seamersspf not less than fifteen hundred ton
| burden, then he7eontractor agreed TO construct
steamship complete m all respects for .I1erformin
the service and answering all the conditions re
quired by the law. The contractor further boun
himself to complete and have in readiness for sci
ENyff3 flAA .T
ot October, 1919; that the line of steamships shonl
be kept up by alterations repairs, additions, (c
approved character,) fully equal to the exigencie
| OF the service, and the faithful Accomplishment
the purposes intended by the law; that the vessel
should be in full and entire,operation on tHefirs
October, 1S49 that each and all Of said steamship
should be commanded by an officer of the NAVY o
the United States, not below the grade Of lieufen
ant to be selected by the Contractor with the an
proval and consent of the Secretary of the NAVY
that the officers should be accommodated on lboard
thereof, in manner becoming their rank and sta
lion, without charge to the Government of ths
United States and further agreed to receive on
board each of said steamships, and accommodate in
manner suitable to their rank, without charge to
the Government four passed midshipmen Of the
U. D. Navy to serve as watch-officers. In Deeem-
Der last, before any of the vessels under this con-
tract were completed, the contractors desirous to
meet the wishes of the Department proposed to
place on the route, temporarily the ocean steamer
Falcon, and she was accepted until the steamships
to be constructed under the contract should be ready
to take their places on the line; the Department
Isreservng The right to terminate the arrangement
whenever it should think proper to do so. In view
of the facts that vesselo this line has been COM
pleted that the demands of our citizens require
every facility for the transmission Of the mails and
for the transportation Of passengers this route
which can be afforded, have not thought proper
to discontinue the service and the Falcon has BEEN
ha
between New Orleans and Chagres. When the
steamships contracted Tor shall be accepted for SER
vice, when, from any other cause, the Departs
ment deems it proper to dispense with the services
of the Falcon, notice will be given to the proprie-
tors in accordance with the agreement under which
she is now employed. But one steamship built
under this contract has been reported as ready for
the service, either by the contractor or his as
signees, and that has not been accepted. Com.
Perry, the Superintending Agent reported on the
18th of September that the Ohio was not then cop
pered, and consequently cannot be considered as
finally completed according to contract. The Ohio
has, since that date, been placed by her owners on
the line between New York and New Orleans, and
sailed on the Goth Of September on her first trip
without being accepted by the Department. - The
contractor, some days before the sailing Of the Ohio,
informed me that she would commence the mail
service on the Goth of September; and asked that
the Officers provided by law should be sent
on board. The vessel not having been completed
according to the contract, did not accept her in
fufment thereof and declinedto order the officers
to the service as suggested To prevent, however,
any embarrassment delay in the movements Of
the vessel, the officers were ordered to report to
Com. Perry to be assigned to duty in the event Of
the completion Of the Ohio according to the agree
ment, and with permission il she were not SO com
peted, to join the ship on such terms as might be
agreed upon between themselves and the iproprie-
tors. The vessel not having been completed, Com
Perry declined to. order the passed mdshipmen to
I-duty on, board Of her, and the terms which were
proposed by the proprietors not being such as could
be accepted bythose officers, they did not join the
has NJ, oomDlatsd and Save NJ ans
assurance that she viii be finished on her return a
third time 10 New York. The Georgia is progress
| ing rapidly, and may be ready in January next
The construction of the other vessels for this line
! has not been commenced.