New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-20
From Jamaica,

We received yesterday through the mail files of Kings
ton papers to the Sd inst The Journal comments. in
rather doleful tone upon the prospects of the Island
The commercial and agricultural prospects for the coming
year it thinks very discouraging 1t says it is impossible
to review the proceedings of the Legislature for the last
year without being struck with the inecency and
competency of its members,
The following extract, from an article in the Journal
gives idea of the existing state of things and
the causes to which these reverses attributable:
The trade of the island with foreign countries sneary
lost and fast becoming in far the neighbor-
continent and islands concerned completely iso-
lated. An effort is being made by the few remaining
merchants interested in the trade with South America
and Cuba to ensure regular communication with those
places but unless they extensively aided in their
deavors, that effort must prove abortive The inland
trade it is thought will gradually decline from causes
1st-The absence of employment and the low rates Of
wages when employment is had 2d-The people being
thrown upon their and forced either to
dispense with the use of certain imported articles to
produce them themselves The high rates of duties which
have been imposed for the purpose of keeping
will it is thought by many gradually diminish the con-
sumntion of certain mporfed articles nv leading to their
production here Instead artificial being
among the inhabitants of this island they being taught
to realize the remark
Man wants but little here below.
Nor wants that little long,
The simplicity of that mode of life which is content
with few roots and fruit for food and water for drink
is calculated to encourage trade foster
To that simplicity it is said rapidly verging'
1t is estimated that the sugar crop of 1852 will consider
ably excel that of last year but the Journal does
any encouragement in this fact is said that the prices
of this article in the mother country do not make the
crop profitable to the planter says that many sugar
and coffee planters hesitating whether they will any
longer continue to grow either Of these articles
CHo1ERA-The Journal has intelligence from the ine-
ror the effect that the cholera has broken out in
eral towns with increased violence The following is
extract from letter written the Journal from Savanna
LAMAR:
SAvANNA-LA-MAR. Dec. 49, 1851.
The Cholera has returned amongst and with its
usual vruence The rich and the poor at this visitation
have their share On the evening of the 9th instant.
Miss Bonea Stone died and through the Indifference
meanness of her relatives she unbured until
o'clock next morning. Mr. A. NJ. Tonzalin Collecting
Constable Miss Dorcas Moore and wharfman named
Fraser. taken i'll and died the 26th Since then
the dying and the dead surround fear and distress
depicted the countenances of ALL and the inquiry
who next There is no hope now.'
The Cholera is still raging in the parish of Hanover.
fitting about from place to place and Selling ndiscr
Intimately all classes.
An application for the pardon of the St Davds rioters
had been refused
The small pox and cholera continued to rage fatally in
the village of Duncan and the neighborhood
The schooner Marianne, arrived at Port Royal the
Goth of December from Network picked up the captain
and of the American schooner Citizen. from Viz
gnia bound to NewYork which vessel had been wrecked
They were taken at about 400 miles from New York.