New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-07


Granada NO take place the LIST instant The Pa
Star of the 18th ut says that placards posted
up in that place notifying of slaves to for
ward. and receive the amount of their valuation.
The Star says there is greater number Of sailing
in port than has been known for several months
The SroRM AT CRucEs-The Star states that the water
at Cruces did not rise high has been represented
At time it above the Atlantic Hotel At Gorgona
Mr.. Wades Hotel was carried away. NHllers Hotel was
not materially injured
TAxEs PANAMA.-The Star complains of the burden
some taxation imposed upon business in Panama 1t
gives the following list of taxes
Commercial houses agencies the first class pay
monthly tax of S120 S1440 yearly Of the second
class S1co Stores of the first class. pay $50 second
class $780, third class $40 Shops of the first class pay
So second, S. third 81 fourth. s. Hotels inns
tayerns ETC. are ranked stores shops
of the different classes
Capitalists taxed five per cent upon their incomes
Each passenger arriving or leaving Panama has to pay
tax of 81 Clerks receiving salaries of $500 taxed
per cent. per annum
Gov. HesRER.-Genera Thomas Herrera has been in
| auguiated as Governor of New Granada He has par-
oned all except the officers engaged in the late attempt
at revolution. Gen Balrera receives pardon con-
dtion Of leaving the country for years The other
officers exiled for four years The Star in speaking
of the course of the new Governor says These enent
measures are so different from those usually adopted here
tcore by victorious party in this country that
gladly announce them advance in liberal Govern
ment which hope will hereafter receive the assistance
of many such excellent movements
THE RALRoAp-The mails of the steamer Georgia. on
her last trip landed at Navy Bay and taken Ga
teen distance of thirteen miles by railroad.
IMPORTANT FROM CHnIt.-The Panama Star of the 5tb
ult says The brig Manuea, Capt Lascayas arrived
here yesterday from Calao whence she sailed the 18th
November The captain reports that ten days before he
sailed French schooner of arrived from Valparaiso
bringing that shortly after the sailing of the monthly
British steamer revolution broke out in the city of VAL
parso, which at first quite formidable The vessels
of of different nations lying in the harbor immedi-
atey discmbarked all their marine force the protec
ton of the and the property of foreign
dents that the insurgents finally overcome by the
government forces but not before tcelre hundred persons
rere Killed This is the rumor-and, except to the
number slain, to doubt No letters how
have been received in this city containing one word
in reference to the matter epresume shall scarcely
have reliable information until arrival of the British
steamer on the 10th inst
Our Havana Correspondence.
We have letters from Havana correspondent of the
18th and 31st ut
Business very dull consequence of the festivities
of the holidays Our correspondent says that attentions
were avishcd upon Chief Justice Euss during recent
visit to Havana. There are but few strangers and no in
vas in the city at present owing doubtless appre
tensions of unsettled relations and bad feelings with this
country. of the British Admiral Prodigy was the
only stranger of note in Havana he had taken house
upon the Pareo Isabel
Our correspondent excessively bitter and severe in
his comments upon the conduct of the late Consul
Owen He says that he learns from reliable source that
no letters advising the State Department of the position
and circumstances attending the trial Mr. Thrasher
were OF record in the Consus Office But since the trial
and condemnation of Mr. Thrasher the official hatus has
been supplied.
In his letter of the 31st ut he advises of the arrival
OF Judge Sharkey and says it has produced great sens
ton in Havana. The Cubans are impressed with the
idea that the new Consul is of resoutc decision and
great frmness Of character; in consequence the Amer
cans have of security and can sleep and walk
abroad without dreams fears of the Moro Castle or the
stote The Consul was conveyed shore by the boats
OF the United States soopofwar Decatur, and with his
family he has taken at the Hotel Cubano recently
opened by lady from Mississippi
The last Of the Lopez prisoners, Fdez English lad
left on the 24 in the bark Lyra for NewYork his pas
sage having been generously provided for by the indie
atigably kind Sidney Smith, Secretary the British Con
suate
Our correspondent is again upon the subject of Mr.
OVENS short comngs. We should hesitate to publish so
rave charge as he prefers not of the fact
hat Mr. Owen was at least very inefficient and had he
ot previously been charged with culpable official negli-
ence in the same matter and in regard the same per
on 1t will be recoected that the Captain of the Amer
an brig Franklin at the time of the Lopez invasion was
rocked at Bahia Honda seized ilibuster and from
he effects of exposure his shpwrec and the severe and
ntimely treatment of the authorities died Mr. Owen
i'd not then, it was charged by correspondents
Interfere in behalf of the Captain go to see him
,ur correspondent now says that Mr.. Owen refused to
as the expenses of his illness the funeral charges
rgllng, that Captain not operative under
ur laws this be true Mr. Owen certainly was entirely
unfit for the responsible position he occupied
The Decatur to sail for Pensacola about the LIST
nst thence to Vera Cruz. Officers and crew all we'll