The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-11

BRAZIL.-We have received files Of the IreSe
de Maio, from Para, up to March 2, and find in
them the following items of later news:
Very few cases of the late epidemic had occurred
at Para within the last month. Of sixtyfve deaths
during that time, nine were of yellow fever.
The American brig Garland, from Salem had
arrived at Para in nineteen days. ... -
Gen. d. Fructo Rivera being suspected by the
Government of design to proceed clandestinely
to the frontier of Rio Grande de Sui, had been
arrested and imprisoned in the fortress of Santa
Cruz .t .. -...... ......
In the Island of Marambaia cargo of one hun
dred and ninety-nine Africans, who had been
already landed, were seized by the Government
officers, and seventy more were taken in another
vessel. Various and similar captures had been
made within short period.
Sporadic cases of yellow fever still occurred at
Pernambuco and Rio.
Notice had been received at Rio of the conclu-
sion Of treaty with Paraguay.
The late frauds at the Customhouse were calcu-
lated to amount to about twenty-nne contas Of
FROM BRITISH GUIANA - The New York
Herald has received files of the Georgetown Royal
Gazette to the 25th February, but they contain
little worth extracting. Landed property has very
much deprecated in value in the colony. Thirteen
thousand acres Of land, eligibly situated the
banks of the Demarara river, and within a short
distance of Georgetown, only fetched at a public
sale, lately, the sum of $4,000, about six and
two-third pence per acre. .t....-.
The Gazette complains of the importation into
the Colony of Coolie laborers, and recommends the
unfettered introduction of free Kroomen, from the
coast of Africa.
The Governor had issued a proclamation against
all vessels arriving from Martinique, where small
pox prevailed, from Cayenne where yellow fever
prevailed, and from Jamaica where the cholera
was then raging. .... .4
LATER FROM SOUTH AFRrcA.-The Ka6ir War.
The NewYork Tribune has received files of the
Cape of Good Hope Exchange Gazette to the 5th
of February. The most interesting news is OF
course the Kafir war the details of which we give
in full: tl-
"The latest accounts from headquarters state
that Maj, Armstrong, commanding force of l2C
Cape Mounted Rifemen, and $50 Fingoes, under
Mr.. Tainton, had dispersed a body of 600 Kaffirs
who had shown themselves about King Williams
Town, with a loss to them of "a killed; on our
side, Fingo killed and trooper wounded. This
occurred on the Oath instant.
The accounts from Fort Hare are to the 27th
"hci tnc BdIIlsoH VI pldct ana tne 1H1dDlI-
ants of Alice were awaiting attack of the com.
bined hordes of insurgent Hottentots and Kaffirs
The published accounts from the Fort Beaufort
and Cradock Districts most lamentabie.-
Owing TO the treachery of their colored servants
the farmers had not been able 10 remain on their
farms, and with the exception Of two strong layers
the whole country for the length Of $50 miles was
abandoned, the homesteads burnt, or with the re.
naming stock, in possession of what a Grahams.
town writer justly terms swinish multitude
Masters had, in many instances, been driven from
their homes by their own servants and maltreated
| Even the town of Somerset was considered in dan
ger of an attack.
Several small Commands of Beers were at las
| turning out. Their first object would be to checi
| the progress of this unnatural state of things.
Reports from The Kat River are also very bad
but would appear to require further confirmation
it being difficult to believe that the colored inhab
tanta of the settlement have behaved nfa
mously
In the upper couat Try, there had been several
skirmishes, between Tambookie marauders and
the whites, in which many of the former had been
killed. Kama and other Tambookie Chiefs re-
maned faithful
A small supply of cattle had been brought from
Kreli's through Umhala's country, which wal
considered to porend favorably of the intention Of
| those Chiefs
By the Douglas, arrived at Agoa Bay from Ma
| tai, news has been received that Mr.. Shepstone
would start with 5000 Zulu auxiliaries on the Is
| instant, and hoped To take his position in the rea
| of the rebel Gaikas before the 18th.