New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-05

Of the deed was drawing near. English and
French influence has been very active in the
Islands, in the hope Of defeating the Annexation
lists, but these efforts are not very successful
The story was circulated among the natives that
the Americans would make slaves of them, as
soon as they had obtained possession Of the Is
lands; and thesrury, for while, obtained some
credit among the ignorant. But a paper printed
in the native language has lately been started
to support the Annexation movement. 1t is
said to have,a .Vety large circulation, and to be
Iraost siccesAul in forwarding the object it has
1 The King is known to- be fully reconciled to
The transfer Of his right title and interest to the
United States, provided he and his family are
pensioned Internationally and the Legislature
10 represented as favorable to the project In
Washington they have been expecting for some
time to receive the announcement that Mr..
Gregg, our Commissioner to Hawaii, has con-
cluded treaty Of Union with the Hawaiian
Government The Islands are most important
to our commerce in the Pacific, and as both
France and England watch them with covetous
eyes, we must not throw away our opportunity.
UNCLE SANS LAND SPECULATIoNs. THE New
York Express has the following on this sub
ject: W
Uncle Sam seems to have become the greatest
land speculator in all Christendom. He began
buying up sc lots F" from an European ownership
as soon after the revolutionary war as he was
able to look around or had any money to spare.
Louisiana and Florida were the first results Of
| such speculations; but these were mere trifes
compared with subsequent operations, and
operations that appear to be now in contem-
plation.
few years since we paid out of our national
fpan tEf HI
| treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby we per-
| fected our title to certain lands coded to us by
Mexico And it was only the other day that We
paid out seven of ten millions more for an indie
| finite strip of territory belonging to the same
country. And now we are told that no less a
parsonage than the Emperor of all the Russias
is in the market with Sitka, if not the rest Of
| his territorial possessions on the Northern Pa
cifc. Being in want of funds to carry on the
war against Turkey and the Western Powers
We are assured he will sell cheap, and that it is
tiny, to buy.
| Sitka, doubtless, would be valuable acqui.
siton, if for nothing else, its supply of ice, and
as stopping place for our whaling vessels IN
| that black region; but before We buy, perhaps
| ii were advisable to ascertain whether our good
| friend Nicholas is owner of Sitka, or any othe,
portion of the territory over which he has hat
sway in that quarter.
| 1t is well known that at last accounts from
the Sandwich Islands, British squadron wa
on its way thither, expressly with view o
taking possession there, and, by this time, W
have but little doubt the place has a British IA.
flying over it instead Of q Russian one. 1t
not long since that the British Government off
cially notified our Government of its determine
ton to blockade those coasts and to procee
against them in all other respects as Russian
John Bull intended to Get possession of, and &C
cupy that territory if he could; and, more
over, that he intended to have that determine
ton especially known at Washington.