New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-07

wA.HIvaros, june IS, 1861

Ministry The New Bruuswickers are utterly
| opposed to it, and probably other colonies, and
| finally its fate III the United States is very
doubtful. However important the treaty may
be in reference to future peace between the par
ties to the treaty, it is not likely soon to be con
| cluded
The prospect of the annexation Of the Sand
wich Islands is also much dimmed by recent
advices The King, the Chiefs, the Ministry
| and the people, who were believed to be in favor
! of the measure, seem to have become hostile OF
Indifferent to it, Their hostility to it has been
produced by the influence of self-oonstituted
committee of thirteen, consisting of foreigners
and \ few Americans, who are opposed to an
nexatien, because they wish to become them
selves the masters Of The Islands.
t.ten Cuba is not likely to be Immediately
acquired Filibusterism has failed to accom-
plish the object. Spain is not ready to sell it,
! nor is Congress ready TO so to war for it.
Under these circumstances, these measures
must stand over till another year as unfinished
| business,
The great and comprehensive speech Of Mr.
Gerrit Smith, Of New York, in favor of the in
definite and unlimited expansion Of the terri,
| tory of the United States, has attracted much
attention. Mr.. Smiths philanthropy is not
bounded by parallels Of latitude, nor by the
limits Of this continent, nor by shades of color
or difference of condition. He proposes to bring
| Cuba, Hayti, all Mexico whether with slavery
or not, within the embraces Of tho Union and
the Constitution. This is as wide a scope as
any one would be willing to give to our policy
OF territorial expansion.
The Senate determined, to-day. to drop the
public business and proceed with the discussion
of the memorial Of twenty mine hundred citizens
of Boston for the repeal of the fugitive slave
| law 1t was several times stated by Senators
that, if the law should be repealed, the Union
would be dissolved This was admitted on all
sides The dissolution OF the Wing party, as II
national party, or rather the separation of the
Southern national Wing party from the Northern
abolition party, was proclaimed and was not
| denied
The field of agitation is given up to the ab0li
tionists and they are disposed to make the most
of it. There are but six Northern Wing Sen
ators, and it was stated, to-day, that these
Senators are in favor Of the object Of the Boston
petition, and also of the measures proposed in
the anti Nebraska address. Ion.
John Mitchell speaks plainly and bluntly Of
the Boston traitors who resisted the execution
of the Fugitive Slave Law. There's a little fire
and much good sense in the following paragraph
from tile Citizen:
"To compel b lazy, woolly- headed negro to
return to his master, and to work for living,
| is the highest crime known to the higher law ,
| " But if the traitors only received their desert
in this world, the position to which they would
be elevated IS gallows higher than any steeple
| We rejoice that so far the majesty of the law
| has been vindicated even at the point of the
bayonet; but it would receive q higher and
more salutary vindication, if the retels had
been shot down like dogs, and to this complexion
it must come Mt last''
JEALOUSY B!ach .AlonSfer-At Owens
boro', Kentucky, few days since, negro man,
| fearing that a negro woman, to whom he was
engaged, was about to marry another, took
summary measures to prevent it by knocking
her down viii y club, and then cutting her
! Throat il such manner as nearly TO sever her
head from her body.
| Nor so GREEN IS lie LooKED.-a green-ook-
ing Individual was picked up in Cincinnati a
few nights since by roted watck-stuffer, named
Myers, at coffee honse on Fifth street, who
forthwith commenced the old game Of roping the
apparent sucker in, by pleading poverty and
producing the lever After little haggling
about the price, the sucker paid $s13 for the
article and departed. The atutfer, q short time
afterward, to his dismay, discovered that his
money! ten and a five on the State Bank of
Oho-was counterfeit, nr. u.-
LoCKJAw We learn from the Norristown
{Pn.) Waterman, that short time ago q man
by the name of Joseph Dettra was employed by
MIR. Wampole, of Towanenien, in thar county, to
SOW guano and ashes, which caused his fingers
to become very sore, and several of The nails to
come off. In due time, however, the wounds
healed over, and nothing more was thought Of
it, until about two weeks ago, when owing per-
hans to the warm weather. he was seized with
great pain in his throat and jaws, and on the
18th ult. died Of lockjaw.
RAILROAD Accidental dispatch from De-
troit, dated the 28th ult., says:
This morning the lightning train going west
on the Michigan Central Railroad, when three
miles from Wayne, ran into . carriage contain
ing wealthy farmer, his wife and child killing
them all instantly. The train was thrown off
the track, and the locomotive and several cars
were broken. No one on the train was killed,
but the engineer, fireman, and ten or twelve
passengers were more or less injured.
We find the following in late Cincinnati
paper;
We are now in Railroad connection with Lou
willie: time five hours.
The weather here is dreadfully hot Their
mometer 100 deg. in the shade.
Eastern Exchange has declined to l per cent.
premium.
In the New York Marine Court, a few days
ago, n verdict Of $3.50 damages was awarded to
young man for injuries sustained by the bite
of u dog.
The present Spanish force stationed at Cuba
consists of two frigates, seventeen briggs and
nine steamers
cat belonging to butcher at Loughbo-
rough, England, having been deprived of two of
her kittens, has adopted chicken, which she
has stolen from brood in the yard, and row
fondles with a maternal eohcitude.
terrible accident occurred on the morning
of the 18th ult at Niagara Falls. little girl
five years of age, who was playing on the top of
the precipice known rs the Devils Hole mp
preached too near the edge, and overbalancel
For an instant she chung to the bushes, but,
losing her hold before assistance could reach
her, fell into the gulf q distance of $50 feet
Shestill survives, but her recovery is impossible
st Johns Day was celebrated at Richmond
Va !, on Saturday, when the Masonic fraternity
laid the corner stone of q Methodist Episcopal
church on Union Hill.