New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-08

in San Francisco sixteen days before it started for the
Territory
Hon WAtruThc rains for eight or ten days previous
to the Sth ut uucommonly and the water
ia the willamette was unusually high for that season Of
| tho year,
General Gaines appointed the 9th of December to p
| served Is a day of Thanksgiving and prayer.
a new steamer is soon to be put on the river
Portland and Astoria The steamer Matnomah IL
sumed her trips between Portland and Oregon City since
| the late rains.
The Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon will
commence its annual session at Salem the present seat
of government) December Is
The Times says The People of Portland have had and
are now having December ~ many experiments in the
rapping line and there some protested believers
They have very convenient way Of avoiding tests il
wrong, they attribute 1t to evil spirits We hope the
good people will not far of the track that they
not return again
The flags upon tine liberty poles shipping etc were
displayed at half-mast and thrtyon minute guns
fred in Portland the receipt of the of the death
of Mr., Webster.
Later from the Sandwich Islands.
The brig Zoe, fifteen days from the Sandwich Islands
brought dates to the 2lst of November.
Rior-We learn that a riot took place on the 10th of
November, at Honolulu 1t that the attention OF
the keeper of the station was attracted by noise
made by two sailors confined there. The keeper in
and striking Of them accidentally killed him On the
next day the sailors in port assembled In mob and
manded that the Keeper should be delivered to them
This being refused they set fire to the station house
which together with the arbor Masters office adjacent
was demolished. The affair subquently died away the
American Consul having published statement that the
keeper in confinement and would bo tried by jury
selected by him.
Mulr,m coMrANN.-A military company called the
Hawaii Guards. has been organized at Honolulu A }.
McDuiie well known to many OF citizens chosen
Captain and A. Cartwright and g, W. Vincent First
Lleutenants.
THANKSGIVING Thursday the 18th of November was
observed as day Of Thanksgiving throughout the Sand
wich Islands,
In the two places Of worship in the English language
appropriate discourSes We're delivered and the Poynesan
regrets that more who understand that language did not
attend those services.
The brig Wallace, Capt. Crowe to Honolulu
the 18th November, from Francisco having been
absent but a days
We hear by this arrival of several disasters The ship
Bramn of New Bedford was lost in the Arctic ocean in
the gale of Sept % Her cargo consisted Of 1900 bbs
polar oil OF which was saved. The officers and
were all saved by the ship Adelaide which vessel has
rived at the port Of Honolulu. The ships Tuscany and
Adelaide were both saved in the gale only by the
most untiring efforts Of the officers and and the
former vessel in fact time the midst Of the
breakers on rocky lee shore The lbernia, ID Capt
JeIres in lat 40 H. long l70 in contact during the
night with the Gen Pike and swept away all her arboard
boats and davits and also lost her b-boom flying lib
boom and wung the bowsprit besides receiving further
damages The Gen Pike arrived at Honolulu the 18th
November, in very crippled condition without any bow
spirit aud having lost her boats and boat sprung
her toreEast in the collision with the libernia The ship
Heroine which had arrived at Honolulu reported having
experienced gale in n lat 10 long III during
which swept the deck carrying Oft every thing
Guiding mz1en mast buiwark boats davits and drown
ed six men including second officer aud one boatteerer
me negrgr ash'hgton captain Hoh. IN the gale Of
September - in the Arctic lost 100 bbs oil with
boats and larboard anchor. and sprung her ruddcr.
Foleys Circus is still at Honolulu
Surprising the whaling fleet has averaged 1900 barrels to
each ship. each whale yielded 100 barreand that $50
ships have visited the North Pacific and Arctic Ocean u
ring the past then it follows that about 5000 whales
must have been taken No allowance i made those
whales which killed and not taken which would
doubtless amount to several hundreds. Friend
Connected with the whaling fleet that has arrived at the
Islands this fall from 5000 to 5000 and wealth in
ships and cargoes to the amount Of eight millions
Of dollars These interesting facts nasmuch is
msuest destiny that the headquarters Of this immense
whaling fleet will be at san Francisco in the course OF
few years.
The ship ramin which lost in the Arctic 0uran on
the 18th Of September together with valued
at 100000
The clipper slip n y Palmer passed Honolulu on tho
9th November, on her way to Manila
The American brigantinc Marvin arrived at Honolulu
on the 10th November II days from San francisco On
the 18th the ship Emily Taylor arrived from Francis
in II days The clipper ship Florida arrived the same
day having made the passage from San Francisco in IS
days also the schooner L. l. Frost ON the 18th the
Hawaiian brig Wallace 10 days from San Francisco an
rived at Honolulu