The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-07
ARRIVAL OF THE OHIO.
LATER NEWS FROM CALIFORNIA

The U. S Mail steamship Ohio, Lieutenant J.
f. Schenck, U. 5. n, commander, arrived yester-
day morning from NewYork, 26th ult, via Charles
ton, Savannah and Havana. Left Havana on the
Sd inst. There were no American steamers at
Havana when the Ohio left The Georgia sailed
from Chagres on the Goth ut. with 600 passengers
She sailed from Havana for NewYork on the ID
inst. The steamer Pacific sailed for Chagres the
same day. The steamers Empire CITY and Cbero-
kee were at Chagres when the Georgia sailed
The Cherokee would remain for the arrival of the
Sarah Sands at Panama, which was hourly ex.
expected, with a large number of passengers
There were upward of 1000 people on the Isthmus
homeward bound. The Ohio brings the mails. 500
passengers, and half million of gold dust in the
hands of the passengers. She left NewYork with
300 passengers, $50 of whom were for NewOr
leans, and the remainder for Havana and Cbaqres
She took on board at Havana $50 from Cbagres
The steamship California, from San Francisco
October /, had arrived at Panama also the steam.
ship NewOrleans, Capt. Wood from San Francisco
October 5, arrived at Panama with $50 passengers
Our files of papers up to the LIST of October
We select from the San Francisco Herald the fol.
lowing general remarks:
The intelligence from the mines is of mixed
description. Wherever the streams have been
damned, plentiful yield of gold has been the re-
suit; but several of the dams have recently given
way. IN consequence of the rising of the waters
and the labor of months has thus been rendered
truItless God-bearing quartz continues to be dis
covered, and this in the end will form the great
resource of miners, when surface gold fails.
" The news Of the engrossment of the California
bill In the Senate, produced, on its receipt in this
city, the llveest emotions Of ioy and the hopes of
the people raised high in the expectation of
hearing, by the next steamer, of the admission of
this State into the Union. Should we receive this
joyful intelligence there is no doubt that business
would forthwith revive, and an immediate improve
ment would take place in the condition of the coun.
try. At present, want of confidence causes every
thing to remain in confusion, and the embarrass-
menLs OF our business men attributable in no
small degree to the perplexing suspense caused by
the delay OF Congress to admit the State into the
Union. Our greatest trouble would vanish at our
admission, and 1t is generally hoped that Congress
viii notadJourn without doing justice. Itwould
be terrible disappointment if the next news should
prove unavorabe.
The coming elections, to be held on the 9TH of
October excite much greater interest than was an
tlclpated. The candidates for the various offices
are almost innumerable Indeed the all-absorbing
question OF the admission of California is lost sight
OF for the time being, and every body is anxious as
to the result of the election.
" The Improvements in this city are progressing
with much spirit and it is hoped that by the com.
mencement OF the rainy season the streets will be
substantially planked. Several of the thorough
fares are already laid with plank and sewers have
been constructed running from the hills to the bay
so as to carry OFT the water. The district burnt
down two week since, is already more than halfcov
cred with buildings in process of erection, and be-
fore the departure OF another steamer it will he
nearly all rebuilt"
We scarce ever Says the Alta California; take
n n mar h., 49,
eye is panied and the heart made sick with account
oil ro0oeHes and brutal muders, committed it would
SEEM with almost entire impuniy. We hear of
no one being punished for these awful crimes. The
perpetrators either escape detection, or, if appre-
nended, find some means of justifying their CON
duct, or escaping conviction and punishment by
'olHe otlef aPPHances-In many cases. we fear, Of
a more Objectionable character
The papers all give the most painful accounts of
the spHerings of the overland immigrants. The
following is from the Alta California of the LIST
October
THE SUFFERING Tnmfgratiou.-For the last two
days we have chronicled in our columns evidences
OF the great suffering existing among the overland
immigration, sufficient to excite even the most
iukewarm. We have known already what distress
has occurred upon the plains for several years
even under the ordinary hardships OF land travel
but we are now appraised that uncommon dastitII..
ton prevatsiand that terrible disorder has broken
out winch, even existing in the midst of ciyiliza
ton, where all the comforts of life are abundant
has spread broadcast death and desolati0a The
heart sWells at the knowledge of what has already
ocCurred-lt slCkens in the contemplation of what
may occur. We can behold from this land If
plenty, famine sweeping off our brethren and sis,
terS, weared and endangered as they are for the
sketch IS not one Of fancy but dreadful stern.
un .SyI F reality; We have already known OF
uiucA suffering, and with pralseworthy liberality
our citizens have come forward and bestowed
funds to the extent of their means towards Tho
alienation OF their distressed countrymen. They
nave cast their bread upon the waters and after
many days 1t shall be returned unto them. But
Iris mas not been sufficient; the funds have been
expended the supplies exhausted, and yet the suf-
Ierlng continues. 1t is beyond peradventurg that
hundreds, aye, thousands, are upon the road which
they TOOK as that leading to fortune, and that thev
are slreWlng 1t with their bodies Private milan
throPy and benevolence, though they have done
much have failed to accomplish all that is required
A gentleman who has already done the State
some service, came down to this city on Wednes
day, and represented the exgencies of the case tn
Col, Collier the Collector of the Port, and we arc
reJoced to learn that the officer assumed the res
possibility and state his willingness to tnrn over
70 Ten' smith the sum OF 500 O0O to be disbursed
by MN Tor the relief of the suffering immiuration
assuming the responsibility of accounting to the
Government for the same. We regard this deter-
IN the Collector praiseworthv in the
extreme and perfectly UNSUITABLE and we have not
The slightest fear that the United States Govern.
nent will ever condemn him for such an annro-
1uatlon OF the funds. The public will sustain him
1 the Government do not for it is work of the |
lollest charity. The Custom-house funds are the !
5nIy available ones in the country and when |
thousands upon thousands of dollars are spent in |
searching after Sir John Franklin-where there is |
he bareSt possibility of the slightest success-we
hnk that no aid which we are morally certain |
ould be rendered should be withheld by any officer
II the Government.
In another article, the Alta California saws;
" W e are indebted to Hawley IL Co.'s Eypress
or the Sacramento Transcript of Yesterday. con- !
aiming two letters from Capt Waldo, one Written
t Great Meadow, Humboldt river the other dated
-ruckee River, September IS.
lie stated that the Relief Committee have not a
ngle pound of flour east of the mountains, that he
Inferred the Desert on the 7th instant, met two men
no had given up to die from starvation same
~ two men died of starvation on Carson Desert:
nat those with wagons have no food but Their
DOR exhausted animals; that foCtmen subsist on
he purified flesh of the dead animals along the
1ad, and disc Use and death are consequently
weeping them down. The cholera made its an
eaTance on the Sh, aud eight persons out Of a
NAH iraln died Of it N three hours. The Indians
re every advantage TO steal their animals, and
nus many are left more than six hundred miles
eyond the settlements. Fighting between them
10 The immigrants occurs almost daily. Twenty
ousand persons yet beyond the Desert of
men number fifteen thousand are now destitute
all Kinds OF provisions yet the period of their