New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-07

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yocates Of the measure, an Influential banker
of this city, has been charged with having offer
ed bribe to 8 member. Of the Senate in order
to secure his vote. The matter will probabfv
be Investigated at the Capitol, to-day.
THEATRICAL AND MUsICAL.--Mr. Murdoch
engagement at the Metropolitan has closed for
the present, and Madame Anna Thillon makes
her debut there this evening. On Sunday night
week Mrs Sinclair appeared with great success
at the game house, in the French drama Of
" Kean"-a decided novelty in our city Miss
HERON becomes more firmly fixed in the popular
favor on each appearance. On Monday week
last she appeared at the American on the occa-
SION OF Mrs. Judah's benefit, and on Friday
night she herself received benefit, the house
having been Allied to overfowing each time.
She IS ABOUT to make professional tour into
the interior Mr.. and Mrs. Baker, having closed
| their connection with the American. have gone
| to Sacramento, and are now PLAYING a. success
full engagement. Haydn's grand 0ratorio Of
| the Seasons has been produced at Musical Hall
| The Rousset Sisters are now performing at the
| American, before well-flled houses This we'll
| known theatre is now under the management Of
Mr.. Jones Mr.. and Mrs. Thorne, and Mrg. and
Miss Pelby, are in Marysville.
Law INTELLIGENCE. great case Of Col.
| Fremont, in which the vast tract of land known
as 60 Los Mariposas," was confirmed to him by
| the Board Of g. S. Land Commissioners, has
| been decided by the o. S. District Court The
decision of the Commissioners is reversed. An
| appeal has been taken to the Supreme Court of
| the United States
The Board of q. s. Land Commissioners, on
| the Tuesday of each week, continue to render
decisions in cases which have been submitted to
| them.
In the Supreme Court number Of decisions
of an important commercial character have
been rendered, among them one affirming the
validity of the tax imposed by the last Legisla-
| ture upon consigned goods, and the license upon
Bankers and Auctioneers. These impositions
are regarded as not only onerous, but destruc-
tive of the commercial prosperity of the city
A public meeting has been held in regard to the
means Of avoiding them, and it has been resolved
to apply to the Legislature for a repeal of these
| features of the law, and in case this fails, to
carry up the case to the Supreme Court of the
| United States.
| GENERAL ITEMs.-The mail steamer Ranger,
| which runs across the Bay, was blown up few
days since, scattering the fragments in different
| directions. One person, gentleman of our city,
was killed, and several injured
| Our harbor was visited by ss norther'' on
the night of the 5th inst, which did some damage
to the shipping, but inflicted no serious injury
other than the sinking of one or two small yes
| sells
Returns from exploring parties are still
coming in. DR.. Wozencraft, who has just come
| back from Mobiles Pass, in the North, reports
but little snow as far as he penetrated, and the
Pass highly favorable for the construction Of
railroad
A slight shock of an earthquake was felt in
our city on Monday morning last, at about three
| o'clock.
Crime in the city and throughout the State
| is rather on the decline. --
| No important facts in relation to the move
ments of the Indians have reached US.
| Several more clippers have arrived, making
passages averaging about one hundred and
twenty-five days. This is the general average
of the season.
| A great deal of real estate, in small lots, has
been recently sold at auction, in this city, re-
| alizing handsome rates.
THREE MEN KIILED.--The Auburn Herald
| learns that a land slide occurred in Ell Dorado
| Canen, near the fats, on Thursday night last,
which covered cabin, in which four miners
were sleeping at the time, to the depth of six
feet. Three Of the men were Instantly killed ;
the fourth escaped. Two of the deceased were
named Smith; the third Mitchell The unin-
jured man is named Jenkins.
A breach of promise case, in which ths
damages are laid at $4,000, is now pending il
the District Court of San Francisco, which ha
given rise to great deal of gossip, and has ex
cited some interest in the city. The plaintiff
Miss Mary Gates, has been resident here from
the early part of 1850. Mrs. Gates, her mother
before she emigrated to this country, resided il
New Orleans, where she kept private boarding
house, and was well known as respectable
lady--was received into good society, and held
an irreproachable reputation.
DEPARTURE OF FILIBusTERs learn that
a company of flibusters from Stockton and
vicinity, left here last evening in the Goliah, en-
route for Lower California.
The marksman who shot Captains Gilman
and Mckibben, of Walkers command, is said tc
have been an Indian. So at least say thost
who have right to know.
FROM THE SoUrH PAcIFIc.-The San Fran
cisco Herald learns by an arrival at that port
that the French Government have taken pos
session of the New Hebrides, in the South Pa
eite, Some resistance was made by the natives
to the French force, but without success.
SAN FRANCISCO MARKET.
The San Francisco Chronicle of the 18th ult
in its semi monthly review of the market, says
Since the departure of the last mail, 3Ist
ult., our market has been in a most depressed
and unsettled condition. Prices for nearly
every description of goods have greatly receded
with tendency still further to decline The
demand for the interior having nearly ceased
transactions for the past fortnight have beer
confined to a local trade of little interest. The
greater pOrtlOn OF sales maze were by auction
The receipts of gold dust from the interior hav,
come in sparingy, and accounts from the
mining districts and country towns are of the
most unfavorable character. The continued
dry weather has put stop to nearly all opera,
tions in the dry diggings, and the rise in the
rivers has produced similar result with those
engaged in their beds. The heavy receipts o
almost every description of merchandise, ant
} the remarkable dullpess of the season, togethel
! with q scarcity of money seldom known in oul
community, have had tendency to destroy tn,
confidence that existed some time since in al
improvement in trade.
If consignors abroad will conform themselve
to the orders of our merchants, and not, as the,
usually do, duplicate them for their own &C
count, we may have some hope of extricatin
our market from its present sluggish state.
to the contrary, and our adyices go unheeded
the time will come, and perhaps it is not fa
distant, when they may expect to see re-ship
} ments of entire cargoes of merchandise to tn
ports whence they came.
Many of our merchants and capitalists VIII
8 were formerly very large operators in our mar
kets, have now lost all confidence in such opera
S tions, and they are turning their attention an,
interests to real estate, there being suret,
| of compensation in this branch of business thai
0 in the former.
: From the San Francisco Plcayune
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