New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-08

resident of Marysville, where he had been inter-
ested in stage lines
The Oregonian of the 9th inst has the follow
ing items:
| 1t is said that negotiations are now going on
for the purchase Of all the interests Of the Hud
sons Bay Company in Oregon.
| We are hearing confident opinions expressed
daily of the existence of gold in the Cascade
range.
The recent warm weather has produced
wonderful change in the appearance of the
growing crops. Wheat is ripeniDg fast, and
will soon be ready for the SICKLE
Lead mines have recently been discovered
near St. Helens The specimen shown US has
every appearance of yielding at least rs per
| cent pure lead.
Capt. z. G. Norton, of Clackamas, left at our
Office q specimen Of wheat, the growth Of sin
| gle root. There are twenty one distinct stalks,
each crowned with q large head varying from
| three to six and half inches in length The
majority of the stalks are over six feet in
length. We doubt whether this can be beat in
oregon, and we are quite sure it cannot be else
| where.
The Indian difficulties on Puget Sound are not
yet settled. From the Pioneer and Democrat
we learn that the Indians who have been COM
hitting depredations on the whites are rather
formidable in point of numbers, as well as pos
l S6sSlHR u SulAGicut ludullty VI ar2S TO euuau-
ger the safety Of the sparse settlements on the
Sound
South America.
! The British mail steamer Valdavia arrived at
Panama on the S0th, bringing dates from Val
paraiso to the Both of June. Among her pas
sengers were number of American ship cap
tains whose vessels had been sold in the South
also number Of homeward bound Australians
| CHnI.--In the Echo we find few items of
interest:
On the evening previous to the departure of
the Valdavia from Valparaiso, an English brig
arrived, bringing word that Russian bark
from the Havana was outside the port. The
French steamer Phoque, Commander de Rosis
that arrived on the Goth June from Tahiti dis
abled, with loss of bowsprit and rudder, and her
machinery out of order, was the only vessel Of
war in port, and though she was still in o disa-
bied state and had only just shipped her rudder,
| she got under way, and went out to take her.
Being absent @ few hours, and fears having
been entertained that she was not in position
| to tow her prize, the Valdavia was sent out to
her assistance, and on steaming a short dis
| tance to the south, she saw the Phoque with the
prize in tow, and the French flag flying at her
masthead. She was a brig Of about 500 tons,
| and had been about four months on the voyage
| from Havana.
The projectors of the line Of steamers to Eng
land yia the Straits of Magellan, have been
| granted six months extension Of time.
The paper contains thrilling account of the
destruction by hre of the ship Townsend, of
Boston, Captain Woodeson, on the 25th Of May
in latitude s5 south. The captain and crew,
| twenty four in number, had to take to the
boats during very heavy weather, and after
| voyage of $50 miles, one cut of four boats, and
twelve out of twenty -four of the crew, succeeded
in reaching Juan Fernandez, where they were
Hospitality received and forwarded to Valpa-
raise.
The paper also contains the account Of most
unwarrantable outrage committed by the police
| of Valpa caiso, on the person of Capt. Webster
of the British ship Charles Napier, who was not
only dragged from his house at night for an
imaginary crime, but had his trunk robbed of
$4,000 during his absence; and was further i'm
| prisoned by the judge for attempting to COM
plain of the policemen's conduct. .
There are no further items of news in the
| papers,
PERU We have the Lima Foreign News to
the 18th of July. 1t contains very little news
of any Importance. Echenique is 'sgoing to
| go" to take command of the army in person. %
thing he should have done six months ago If
he can screw his courage to the sticking point
and bring Castillo to meet him, the first fight
will most probably settle the matter but in
leaving Lima, Echenisue runs o great risk, as
no President ever yet left to put down q revolu-
ton and returned as President to the capital
No wonder, then, that Echenique fears to fol-
low so unlucky precedent.
The News says that an ample apology has
been made for the outrage committed by the
press gang at the e. S. Legation in Lima, on
the 9th inst. The soldiers in fault have been
punished as they deserved; and the wounded
servant of the Legation has received recon-
pense from the Government treasury. So, this
affair, which might have led to serious difficulty
has been promptly and creditably arranged,
owing to the decided course pursued by the
| Minister of the United States
Mr. Robert Godfrey, who was wounded in a
battle with the Indians near Camera, about
month ago, returned to Lima on the 18th He
gives very favorable account of the country ::
and although the party with which be was con
nected have as yet found but little gold, Mr.. G.
is well convinced that it abounds thore. and that
a party sufficiently numerous to repel the In
dams would in o short time discover profitable
gold field He says he never saw country
featured more favorably for gold than this. 1t
is his intention to return to the Amazon, when
fully recovered from his wounds, if respectable
party can be raised for the expedition.
The English ship jolly Robin returned to Cal
lao on the 9th inst, leaking at the rate of
twenty eight inches per hour. She was home
Whru pouuu Will u CaFSo VI RuanO.
From Australia.
Dates have been received from Australia to
the 18th of May, but there was no news of i'm
portance.
The product of gold continues about the
same.
We find in the Sydney Herald the following
account of curious phenomenon
The following letter had been received at
Hobart Town.
i MARLBOROUGH, April 81, 1854
beg to inform you Of very strange occurrence on
evening Of the 9th Of March last shock like that Of
an earthquake felt in almost every part of the Mar
borough District Two shepherds gathering sheep
the other day and discovered the of it, to
the place yesterday there has been fearful volcanic
eruption rocks Of enormous size have been driven about
the air and pitched surface downwards not de-
scribe to you the appearance, but you will up
am you will be highly gratied The distance is
about ten miles from this THOMAS BELLlNGER
HEALTH OF MoBILE.-The list of interments
we publish this morning, for the week ending
last evening, says the Advertiser of the 9th inst,
affords even more gratifying evidences of the
present good health of our city than the report
of last week We make our usual abstract from
the official report, as follows .
Deaths of children silborn and under years age
from casualty
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