The daily crescent., 1850-01-02
Items of News.

lffOm the n. Y. sunday 1lneS.I
The native princes from the Sandwich Islands,
9sons Of King Kaanehamha. who is by the way a
remarkably tine looking man, polished manners
and pleasing address, sailed in last weeks steamer
from this port for Liverpool His Hawaiian ma
jesty is likely TO be left without subjects ere long
Four-tiiths of the population of the Islands have
disappeared since Capt. Cooks visit seventy years
ago, and a physician at Honolulu says that between
death and emigration to California scarcely. ma
tive viii be found in Hawaii five years hence.
1t seems that the French Socialists are at logger
heads. One section OF them has denounced Proud
hon by the way, this precious specimen of re-
former has recently published a book in which he
says, " God who governs and does not explain
himself is God whom l deny and whom | hate
above all things M. Proudhon is at present in
prison for libel on President Napoleon
The English correspondent of the Boston Post
says that DR.. Dicks, the celebrated christian phi
losopher, author of /" The Sidereal Heavens" and
other valuable astronomical and other works, is now
actually reduced to want. If this is true, it is
disgrace to the English Government If James
Montgomery, the poet deserved a pension, DR..
Dick, the profound man of science, is certainly
entitled to one ~
Liverpool paper states proof of increased
refinement in this country, that five hundred casts
OF Shakespeare S bust had lately been shipped for
New York. The truth, however, appears to be
that these leaden casts were intended for the melt
ing trough. Uncle Sam charges duty on lead,
but admits works of art free
A horrible murder was committed by a boy eleven
years old qamed George Green, in Emily town
ship, Canada short time ago. He killed little
girl five years old, with hoe, buried her, and then
went home and said a bear had carried her off
Subsequently he confessed the deed.
1t is said that the Directors of the Bank of
England, alarmed at the enormous importatons Of
gold, have resolved to apply to Parliament to be
released from the legal obligation which compels
them to buy all gold which may be offered to them
at E3 It's. l0ad. an ounce
bill has been introduced into the Georgia Le-
gislature levying tax of so per cent upon manu-
tactures and products of -slaveholding States.
This is on par with abolition fanaticsm. There
are fools and madmen on both sides of Mason's
and Dixon's line.
Humbug Hudson, the discrowned English Grail
way King" is not abashed at the publicity given
to his peculations. He is daily seen on the Lon
don Stock Exchange, lively and jolly as ever.
Punch has literally tayed him alive but he minds
it no more than if he were eel, and used to it,
The latest Vicksburg Wing informs us that in
those dggings they inhaling exquisite odors''
| and +" listening to the music of birds" Meanwhile
we poor Northerners are inhalng refrigeration and
listening to the howl of a northwest blast Posi-
| ton IS everything.
The Nova Scotians have adopted the Yankee
custom of Thanksgiving, They gave thanks on
Ile Suth uit. IL Is astonishing how rapidly the
| British colonies becoming civilized-they will
| be ripe for annexation soon.
| Two works on California by the Rev Walter
Cotton, well known as the author of "Three Years
Before the Mast" ETC., and late Alcalde of Monte
rey, U. O.. are now in press in this city.
A Chinese writer, whose essays have recently
been translated, says "Very early in the morning
the human energies are of doubly increased pro.
portions.n That depends entirely upon what the
human" has taken overnight.
The receipts on the Western Railroad exceed
those of 1S4S about $4,000. Not one dollar o.
expense has been incurred by accident or collision
Pro-di-gi-ous!
The doctors must be doing a glorious business
in California. A gentleman writing from the val
| ley of the Sacramento says " One can hardly ge
| through fever under Sl000.n
There is bad news from Portugal for the por
wine drinkers The vintage is failure.