The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-29


County Commissioners.
In consequence of a domestic afflction, Hon.
Walter Forward, Charge at Copenhagen, has re.
quested his recall. 1t has been granted, and his
old constituents in Pennsylvania expect to find him
among them again shortly.
SITUATION OF New MExrco.-A gentleman
now IL this city has furnished us with the SUBJ
stance oil letter recently received from his cores
pondent in Santa Fe. 1t exhibits any thing but
satisfactory state of affairs that Territory The
Indians, 1t IS said are completely overrunning the
country. " | cannot get the aggregate Of all the
stock taken from the Territory since the United
states took possession. but | can give you the
amount from two counties, Bernalillo and Santa
Anna, viz: Sheep, 146,714 horses, 979 mules,
772; cattle, 1901. Valuing the sheep at 81 25,
the horses at $50, mules at $40, and cattle at SIS,
per head the loss in these two counties amounts to
S26l, ,l57 SO. Since the above estimate was made.
the NavaJoes have taken from Dr.. Connolly Sl2, 900
worth OF sheep more. From the town of CorraIes
the Indians about ten days since took all the stock
from three to five hund ed head of horses, cattle
and mules. DR.: Connolly has lost twenty-six
thousand head Of sheep in all, and has but three
thousand left. Don Jose Chavis has lost forty
thousand in all, leaving about five thousand and
good many others have lost from five to fifteen
thousand have list of all the sufferers, and the
amount OF animals lost in that district. Fifty-two
"A
the time of Conneily's last loss the pastore went
to military post, and informed the commanding
officer OF the facts small party, under the
mand OF sergeant, was sent in pursuit The
pastore went as guide, but it having showed after
the sheep were run off, he was unable to find the
trai and the sergeant gave him severe whip
ping, sent him off, and returned to his post" 1t is
added that the people afraid to inform the off
GERS Of these depredations. This may be so, but
we are inclined to doubt it. There is nothing in
the character OF an American officer to Justify any
such presumption. They are generally as prompt
to protect American property and American citi-
zens, as they would be to revenge personal insult
and we believe they have shown themselves to be
so on every occasion. [St Louis Republican, 22d
The price of bread in Paris is fixed the first and
fifteenth OF every month by the police This price
is regulated by the sales effected at the corn mar
ket At present land during the months of Decem
Der and January last it was the same) the price o
bread OF the first quality is 26 centmes the killo
gramme. The centme is trifle less than the tift
part Of our cent, and the French kilIogramme i
| equal to 2-1O avoirdupois. This makes the brea
| about 2 1-2 cents per pound. 1t is of most excel
lent quality, much better than bakers bread gener
ally is in the United States, and good any ma
need wish to have upon his table for common uss
LAKE NAvIGATIoN.-The statistics of the com
merce OF the Northern Lakes, for 1850, exhibit tn
following loss of life and property:
| Loss of life..............,,...... life. &
Sum6s U, =, paopess nf pesssi. : sSSsO
The value Of property and number of person
running this risk, are stated as follows
Value of the commerce s1sl OrO o.
mree 3o9'U
N"'efea" o"hase. io''V
Nor AS BAD AS 1T SoUNDs-The author of tn
"Comic Law Dictionary"in in the Burlington (Ve
mont Sentinel, says of the legal phrase" Damnul
sum-, that " 1t doth not impart profane and pc
emptory comm and of the law that any aggrieve
person shall bring immediate suit against wrong
doers-as one might hastily magine-but is
| Latin expression which signifies ones " own hurt
and contains no intimation of hurting any bod
| else"
Trade OF GREAT BRITAIN.-The returns
the Board Of Trade show that the exports fro
Great Britain amounted in 1850 to more tha
t70,OOO,OO0 in 1S49 to f63, 900, 0OO and in 49,
to I53,OOO, ,0O0-a rate of increase without
parallel in the history of the country In these r
turns cotton goods stand foremost amongst Il
articles of export. The woolen, linen and 81
trades all evince the same gratifying improvement
A writer in the Boston Journal, speaking of IL
recent destruction of several bituminous coal lad
$ vessels from spontaneous combustion, recommen
, that no coal having the least perceptible mostu
should be allowed to go on board vessel, but tl
it should be perfectly dry, however disagreeabls
may be to handle; the ship should be tight, staun
;. | and strong there should be a sheet iron tube
l., four inches diameter, from the keelson up throu
the main hatch, and in large ship one at ca
hatch; and every day the thermometer should
: lowered down to try the state Of the atmosphe
l. This method, the writer adds, would detect fire
y its origin, and give timely warning to fill the h
with water, and thus extinguish it.
sr CosT OF DRUNKENNEss.-At recent temp
At ance meeting in New York, the Rev. R. S. Fos
" made address, from which we collect SO
startling facts
AZ "He commenced by depicting, in eloquent /
j. guage, the wees and misery produced by intemf
u, ance. 1t was lamentable truth, he said, that
Is less than two hundred and fifty thousand drunka
10 were annually made in the United States by
Il, liquor traffic; and during the year lS49, in
s33 State OF New York alone, forty thousand pers
wv were tried for offences committed while under
" " influence of intoxicating liquor.
~ 1.-The expense OF these trials to the State is e
. mated at about 100000 while the taxation for
ID support of pauperism caused by intemPerar
~ amounts to the annual sum of 100000. indep
of dent Of 100000 paid yearly to the police fo
twothirds of whom employed for no other r
"a pose than to arrest offenders who made such
Ise the grog shops, of which there are five thousant
IN. this city. The speaker made calculation of
he money expended in the traffic of liquor in the
;tv ted States, which he said amounted to ab
~ Sl6OO0,0O0 yearly. More was yearly spent
o' | than would huild all the rhurches and sch