New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-26
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A document Of nearly four hundred pages
| has just been printed embracing all the CORES
l pondence which has passed Between our Gov
| srnment and that Of Spain, for several years
past, upon the various maritime difficulties
I wiiuirA fHve occurred ut Cuba. III is with some
4 pride that observe that the whig Secretary,
Clayton, appears most advantageously Id this
collection of State letter. writer's. iibpeters.
3will not probably trouble themselves with these
3records,y being already satisfied that Spain is
Railways wrong, but others will find that there
iEare1 two sides to almost all the questions, and
llbhat the Spanish diplomatist sometimes makes
very fair case for his side &
In this connection may mention that cen 4
\ siderable curiosity il manifested here to know
wAAs the bark Grapeshotis doing in your region
with her shipment Of Lewis mHskets a
What was left Of the Gadsden Treaty was re-
Elected day before yesterday, and this rejection,
l was reconsidered yesterday, and think it not
unlikely that the basis of q new treaty may
Finally be agreed upon by the Senate.
bill was reported some time since from the
Committee on Commerce in the Senate. which
Twas this morning called up by Mr.. Seward, Of
New York ,and passed, which is to prevent delay.
in the unloading of@cargoes from foreign ports !;
the bill applies only to steamers and enacts
that, when it appears from the bill Of ladings
that the goods are to be delivered Immediately
on arrival, they shall be taken at once to the
bonded warehouse, and where this does not 50.
Iappear they shall be SO taken upon three days
notice. There is no provision for lien on the
goods for freight, this being left to- the operation
Of existing laws
4 bill was also passed to give " LOG, 600 to the
true dseoverer Of ehloroform as an agent for
dental and surgical operations; Drs. Morton,
Jackson, Wells, Guthrie and Dickinson are
named in the bill, and the question of which
shall. take the prize is to be decided in Court,
The Homestead bill was then taken up and
\ very humorous and sarcastic argument against
| its passage was made by Mr. Thompson, of Ken,
lucky. commend Mr.. Z. s speech to the par
;icular attention of the Know-nothingss The
vote upon this bill will be likely to Be a close
| one in the Senate. 81
The House spent the morning hour in wrang-
1 ling about the mail contract between Mont
somery and Mobile, but did not dispose of the
| subject. The rest Of the sitting was devoted to-
che bill, which have heretofore informed you
| the Senate passed, for donating ten millions
acres Of land to the several States of the Union
for the benefit of the INDECENT insane The
minority contested the passage ofthis bill by an
obstinate series Of calls for tho yeas and nayso on
al intervening questions, but the bill was finally
passed by ayote Of eighty one to fifty three and
deeds only the Presidents signature to be a
fixed fact. This, in my humble Judgment, is
he most glorious act Of this Gongress--its espe-
sial opponents were the Presidents especial
adherents. NJ s,s$3 CHRoNIoLER. :
ST. CHARLEs THEATRE. The manager Of the
| st. Charles Theatre, Mr.. DeBar, has with much
generosity set aside his house tonight for o
benefit, the proceeds to be applied towards the
erection of o monument to D.. Woodruff and
VIM. Mcleod, the fremen who were killed re-
Gently at the great fire in Magazine street. We
hope to see such house as will show, on the part
Of our citizens, disposition to commemorate
these brave men, who, in the performance of
their duty, gayeup their lives ~.
The \" Tempest was again performed last
night at the Varieties to large house Mrs
Howard madeher appearance for the first time
since her indisposition, as -fyiel tsAs You Like
IT has. been put aside to make way for new
play in five acts, entitled g The Sea of Ice and
The Thirst For Gold,'' blood and thunder)
which is in preparation and will shortly be pro-
duced 1
iPLACtDE's Mr.. r. H. Allen, who is one Of
the most popular aetorsaof the Varieties, and
one who has labored hard during the past sea-
son to make the place Of interest to the public,
takes . benefit tonight The comedy of ''Mars
ried Life and the Rake's Progress are to be
performed, The bill is such as should draw a
good house. u d. aaA@ pa sI5 n
3WAsHINGToN.S BIRTHDAY-AT RIO JANEIRe 80
Robt. q. Scott, ESQ, the American Consul at
Rio, give entertainment to the American
citizens there on the I'D Feb in commemora-
ton Of the birthday of General Washington
which was attended by about sixty gentlemen
Al sumptnous dinner was served up in the large
dining room of the counting house of Messrs,
Maxwell, Wright & Co.
MAN KILLED ny ANOFFICER We learn from
the Van Bnren Ark, } Intelligencer that on the.
9th inst, IA Cherokee. named James Rogers, who
was being conducted to Little Rock, broke from
the custody Of Mr. MeKizzick, United States
Deputy Marshal, who followed him to retake
him, and was in his turn pursued by Tom Rogers,
the brother Of the prisoner, with the view Of
communicating the escape, Mr.. John W Curtis,
who was engaged on duty with MIR. Mex. fol
lowed Tom Rogers, alton horseback and whom
Curtis came up to Tom, the hitter wheeled around
and commenced firing a Colts revolver athim.
After several discharges had been delivered,
Curtis got his revolver out, and upon the second
shot, inflicted mortal wound upon Rogers, OF
which he died the next day.
+ THE CRYSTAL PALACE.--P T. Barnum, the
President of the Crystal Palace Association, is
out IN lengthy card, stating that large fresh
contributions of Interesting products OF manu-
features and the arts are promised from Europe
and this country, and that the Palace will be-
made place of greater attraction and novelty
than ever before. On the 4th of May there Il
to be grand, popular, re-opening, at which,
artizans and laborers are to have places Of
honor A prize of 800 each is offered for the
best 60 lines eide, and 80 lines song to be snoken
and sung on the re-opening. The Palace stock
stands at 90. and Barnum is in the market us
buyer for large amount. The feeling is be-
coming confident that Barnum will bring the
concern out of its dilemma and into paying
shape.
IMPERIAL BououET.--We find in late Lon
by the horticultural Society of Toulouse, to the
Empress of the French. 1t is two and half
feet in diameter by three feet high, and contains
no less than 10000 violets and 300 eamelias.
II is composed of q dome of yiolets surrounded
by circle Of camelias. garlands of these last
raining down the dome, on which is to be seen
the initials of the Empress in orange flowers.
A blue ribbon, also having the cipher of Eu-
genia, ties the stem of the bouquet.
+ A CHANCE FOR THE PoETs.--The Crystal
Palace Association, Mr. Barnum) in New York,
offers two prizes, 500 each for the two best odes
in honor of Art and Industry, to ba sung at the
re-opening of the Palace in May--the same to
be forwarded by the 10Th inst Mr. Barry also
offers 800, we see it stated, for the best poem,
to be delivered on the occasion of the opening of