New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-05
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| Island
| The =. -,. Wh,irnmb Wednesday morning last.
| y ugft tn, bark Success and brig far'inina
tom Sa with cargoes for this place, The
urig Virginia aud BARI Trenton from San Francisco
in the below and the brig Marshall is reported out
side the bar.
| public meeting held at Portland on the 18th nlt
for the purpose of concerning to facilitate the
conveyance of freight and passengers direct between that
city and San Francisco The following resolutions were
| passed
reas It understood that it is in contemplation by
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company to remove their
depot from the city of Portland and to stop the direct
communication between Portland and San Francisco be
| it therefore
Resolved That we the citizens of Portland do unquali
| fedly dsprove Of the said action
Be further resolcsd That we will give our hearty sup
port to such steamers will ply directly between This
| port and San Francisco and to none others
Resolred That Captains Norton Hoyt and Abbot, be
committee to sound and buoy out swan Island chahhe
and report the depth of water therein
| From he oregoaan, February a.
We have been furnished with the following names Of
persons who claimed salvage for money found upon the
dead bodies Of those unfortunate men who we're LOST by
the wreck Of the steamer Gen Warren viz p 6erheart
Justice of the Peace Of Catsop county S condt Jas
Cook and Joel WEIGH.
The weather is remarkably and vegetation begin
ming to increase rapidly The winter M it may be called
winter has departed and spring is again upon u.s. with
all its beauty and loneliness.
DEATHS OaEGoN.-sarah wife Of Thomas G. Nayor.
James H. Goodrich formerly Of Fairfield, Iowa.
From China.
By arrival at San Francisco dates from Hong Kong
the 18th of November have been obtained not as late
as we have received by the way Of England but the
Friend Of China gives items which we have not yet
published;
On the 18th t four vessel that left Canton four days
previously, with provisions and money for the imperial
troops stationed the borders of kwangs just as they
reached the river in the department sen
| a., bnls pphn
the crew, and wounded the Commander After taxing
possession of the specie viz 100000 strings OF copper
and 900 Tae Sycee silver the vessels were sci
on fire and burnt to the edge Governor Yeh has
determined that the lost shall be made up by the
people of the district where the plumber was effected
One of Chinese correspondents tells OF successful
attack made by body of 5000 rebels the chief city
the Wing Oh department in the Province OF h"angse
three hundred Of the insurgents dressed
bly, and protesting be traders had entered the city al
various times. and ready to cooperate with the
main body when they made the assault which occurred
the 2'd ult The Imperial troops stationed IN great
numbers in this city suffered severe loss The following
= casualties are reported:
: Kied-The Governor. one General of Division twc
Colonies, one Major, eight Captains Graduate ant
nearly three thousand soldiers The whole contents O
Government Treasury fell into the hands of the rebels
who allowed the prisoners in the ais general delivery
The whole of the rich families in the neighborhoot
= | were also laid under smart contribution.
The residents at Ningpo experiencing more thai
usual unhealthy autumn which has occasioned grea
deal of sickness og the Chinese The principal epi
emic has been cholera which yet prevalent Not
d very good and the second crop which by this tim
Il has harvested promised also to be abundant Rc
in consequence very cheap lO0oto HOO cash per pcu
which is cheaper than it has been known for many year,
d From the Sandwich Islands.
The steam propeller Constitution arrived at San Fran
CISCO bringing dates from Honolulu to the It'll February
We learn the Polynesian that the Constitution
turns there sufficient nducement for he
5 to ply coaster among the Islands The causes a
signed in that paper the unprecedented stagnao
u Of business generally the scarcity Of money the
h of market for Poynesian products the general feen
depression these have produced in the comml
nifty and that the Constitution is regarded arg
and expensive vessel for the present amount of patror
Y | age
The Polynesian says smaller boat. informe
on good authority is be substituted it
procured from California In about sixty days Their
e. fore. may expect boat to be employed permanent
AS coaster in furtherance Of the contract between Cap
)e Howard and this government.
r we also from the authority that the Cor
" suon will continue to run between this city and sa
Francisco and should the patronage be sufficient anoh
steamer will be added to perfect the arrangement Tn
will be the step towards the trasPacifc line whic
there little doubt will be in operation before the e1pr
le ton of the year 1852
The trip of steamer between two ports of Il
az Islands made by the Constitution before her depa
rs ture for San Francisco She left Honolulu ocloc
P NJ. the 3lst of January. 1S52-reached Lahaina
as the 1s of February, and returned to Honolulu at
ID on the I'd.
IS RECIPROCITY UNITED STATEs-An effort
IL being made obtain from the United States modic
II of the treaty entered into between the Hawai
S Government and our the Goth December 1919
admit for proper equivalent the sugar and tobac
of the Islands of duty the ports of Caforn
coffee being already free The following is the substar
m of letter from Mr. Wyne this subject to Mr. Sept
Reynolds, President of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultu
ON FOREIGN OFFICE. 31st January. 1857
ere S-In the absence of the Honorable VIM, L. Lee
siden of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society h'
the honor submit you Vice President of the
of for Oahu the documents aforementioned
am strongly induced to the opinion that for a pro-
49, equivalent for the produce of California here the
re- Government might be induced to admit sugar cot
,he and tobacco. free of duty in the same ports.
in The information by Mr. Jarvis. on the subj
of his interviews with the Honorable Mr. Clayon and W
Mr. Hunter and the declaration to the King by the
III sent worthy Commissioner of the United States at his
7ed cepon the 18th of January 1851 remove all doub
by to the spirit of beraty with which the Government
70 the United States will receive all proper suggestions
the amelioraton of the subsisting treaty engageme
~ with this kingdom
zen The clipper ship Typhoon Captain sater, went to
on the 9TH February bound for Singapore and Cacut
thence England and the United States The Typhc
Ca the largest merchant ship that inside
eefat Honolulu was visited by large number of
ons sons before her departure The marine officers of
yandalia were engaged drilling the native troop;
was the Fort in Honolulu
The weather throughout the Islands had been very
settled The winds light, and mostly souherly
ste westerly with frequent calms-the trade winds b'
the wholly interrupted
aim UoSoLuLA MARKErs-With the exception of lum
SINE saws the Poynesian the demand for merchandise
49,, nues as dull at any other time for the past Il
eu months Sales auction in small quantities and in
ar articles strictly retail character and prices
this small way almost invariably below the inv
cost Goods are abundant and importations continue
of which have to be stored to be worked off as they
may be.
age Rru.KKAyLE PtrNoMESoS-On Wednesday eve
1t in last at o'clock. the at Waiaua. this Island.
observed be rapidly rising. and wave after It
in each higher than the preceding until the usual b
we ary the highest tide passed and the ordinary
has land submerged
ions We have no authentic account from any resider
fell NAV paeu n 49, ; o tu,ant ar fvnt1 va
hch bnre its nsual hounds Five houses were swept a
and fences and other property destroyed to consider
amount small vessel at anchor completely
merged her scope of chain not allowing her to rise
cent fcirtly to float clear For about hours the
end water continued and then began to receoe
al, Of NO ptenon,'ioh tIi s s h h hf a,
ans place 1t probably the effect of some subm
Gala eruption in connection with the volcano and its lii
action at Waialua alone while other parts of the
island are unaffected, is mystery not easily eXpla
wing We remember similar rise of the at this place
Ston Maui and at lio on Hawaii all occurring Sc
+. wears ago and each isolated and distinct from each
This at Waialua appears to be another of the same
ERUPTION. and owing to the cause. which has us
ugh been attributed as above stated to volcanic action
from From Panama.
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