The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-03


trunks contained it is impossible to state what the
loss has been. A dark lantern found which
had been left by the thieves.
Quartz and Goid.-A gentleman, by the name
of Beatley, brought to the city, on the Both March,
very pretty piece of quartz and and gold lntl-
mately mixed, some seven or eight inches in diam
eter which was taken from ravine near Web
erve.
Stock Markst-We have, says the Sacramento
Times, still to report falling market-except for
fat cattle - which still command good prices.
Good work-horses will bring from $50 to 500.
Poor horses, no demand mules, for packing, very
little demand-good ones fetch S45 to $75; work.
ing oxen, per yoke, $50; fat do. 5000.
The title of Captain Sutter to the land claimed
by him has been settled by the following:
Important Deciston.-Judge Robinson, at Sac
ramento, has rendered his decision, in the of
P. H. Burnett ct al. Us. d. w. Mayhall, ct. al
The decision in this case involved the title of J. A.
Sutter to the land in and about Sacramento City.
The Court decides:
/. That the title, although incomplete and
inchoate is good as against mere trespasser on
public lands, and is sufficient to support action
of ejectment.
2. That, although the boundaries by the terms
Of concession within which the land granted must
be taken, was above the confluence of the Sacra-
mento and Feather Rivers, yet parol evidence was
admissible to vary these landmarks.
3. That the fact that Captain Sutter first SET
tied here, is evidence that he designed to locate
the land here, which must prevail the land
marks mentioned in the concession.
From Panama and the Isthmus.
On the 10th ult. II. B. Majesty's ship Daphne
of 90 guns, Capt Fenshawe, from Fonseca and
H. b. Majesty's ship Swift, of 10 guns, from Quay
aqnil, arrived at Panama. and exchanged salutes
with Rear Admiral Moresly, in the Portland.
The Portland brought the intelligence of the
raising of the blockade by the British naval forces
of the ports of San Salvador and Honduras-the
original OF the blockade having been re-
moved by the amcable settlement ef the matters
in dispute.
vessels in the harbor of Panama viz the U. S.
ship Vincennes, the British so gun ship Portland
the Driver, steamer, the Daphne, and the Swift.
The u s. ship St. Mary hourly looked for,
and the frigate Raritan was also expected.
Major Hobbe, the U. S. Assistant Postmaster
General, who has been spending few weeks on
the lsthmus left in the last mail packet for Cali
fornla. His business on the Isthmus was to pre-
pare scheme of postal communication between
the United States and the South Pacific ports, and
to readjust the mail service between Chagres and
Panama.
A large body of North American laborers are
vigorously at work on the Panama Railroad headed
by President Stephens, Col. Totten and Colonel
Baker. great deal of the road is already graded
Will st the cars are actually rolling some Of its
sections. The Star anticipates that the road will
be in full operation in a few months.
decree has been passed, appointing four in
spectors of boatmen for the Chagres river-to re-.
side, one at Gorgona one al Cruces one at Gatune,
and one at Chagres-whos. duty it shall be to keep
Two books - in the first shall be kept the enroll
ment of every one in their district who becomes a
hna bass 81,
next, shall be an exact account of every embarka.
ton, and every thing suspicious which may occur
on the river. The inspector shall also make re-
port monthly. and each bnatman is 10 have pass
port or license, giving description of his person
age, religion, where he MAS born, whose Le
is, wnat province he belongs 10, and much more
useful as well as entertaining knowledge. The de-
cree is the enforcement Of law passed here by
the Provincial Chamber, at their session in Octo-
Der last.
The Panama Herald says: No surer evidence
of the growth and prosperity of our city need be
desired, than the high prices of all kinds of labor
which now exist. Carpenters wages are five dol
lars per day, backsmiths' do, and mule. shoers,
tin-workers, painters, shoemakers cabinet ma kers
turner's, and, in fact, almost all kinds of trades
command about double the rates paid in the
United states, and in many instances cannot BE-
mad at all. This is owing to the new impulses
which have been given to business, and the natu-
raj increase of population attend ng it.
The professions, too, come in for their share of
nigh prices-prices which in the United States
would be considered e1orbitant, if not monsrous,
yet, which are not here deemed unreasonable. The
activity and enterprise manifested by our mer-
chants auciioneers, tradesmen, hotel Keepers and
| IN fact, all classes, evince clearly enough that
spirit which is destined to build up the city, not
only as matter pride its citizens, but to rem
| der 1t eminent in the estimation of the world"
The ceusDs of the nha hita n,s pf the ctv ypbich
we believe, was taken last December and January
exhibits population within the limits of the paro
chlal districts of Panama of nearly twenty two
thousand.
is proper to state, that in taking the census all
Americans and other foreigners, who were in the
city at the time, were included, numbering, per.
haps, two thousand.
Health Of Panama.-The doctors all agree, SO
there can be no mistake about it, that this city is
in provokingly healthy condition. Indeed we
do not know of single case of sickness, though
| there may be some. more healthy climate is
not to be found in any latitude of the globe
| Herald.