New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-10
/c6slins Steamers.

1t seems, are DESTROYS Of resembling the contract
entered into with the Collinss line of steamers
running between New York and Liverpool, for
the transportation Of the United States mails
The Senate will not agree to it.
We trust the House may be induced to back
out Of its present position, and continue the
generous, polite and praiseworthy appropria-
ton of firmer administration. There has pro-
baby been no one thing that has SO interested
the whole nation as the contest between the
Collins and Cunard lines of steamers, nor any
success which has been more largely enjoyed
than the victory of the former over the latter
not only in the speed of one single trip, but III
the average speed of all the trips put together
The Collins line has been an honor and source
of pride to all our countrymen, and has, ever
in England, done more to advance our repnta-
ton than any number Of different enterprises
Ithas, ALSO facilitated trans oceanic communlca-
ton and benefited all classes of citizens. The
fact that thus far the company has been unable
to pay any dividends, instead OF being an argu-
ment against its protection should work strongly
in its favor. For if, with the Government as
sistance, it is unable to make profit, what will
be it's fate when that is withdrawn And if the
American steamers are once withdrawn what
are we then thrown upon, but the mercy q
English capitalists, for the transmission of our
mails and the voyagers of our countrymen
1t is notorious that the Cunard line is heavily
subsidized by the English Government; ami
certainly if they, some hundred Of millions III
debt, and at over too, can afford to pay their
line of steamers, we, with unused millions in
our treasury and at peace with all the world,
ought to be able to do something for ours We
hope Collins may get his grant and the line still
continue to defy all competition.
THE ELECTION The election yesterday, says
the Mobile Tribune Of the 9Th inst, passed off
without excitement or riot. barring an unim-
portant scrimmage at the West Ward Hotel,
which is naturally pugnacious. Below we give
what returns were received last night. They
are sufficient to show that Turner, as Assessor,
McMorris, as Auditor, and Gazzam, Cleveland,
Smith, Stodder and Mcclure, as Commissioners
of Revenue have been elected by a considerable
majority. The aggregate vote is small, but
| this may, perhaps. be attributed to the merely
| local character of the offices.
The Register OF the same date says the cleo
ton was purely local, and conducted in all
respects without reference to party principles,
or by party drill. 1t was generally understood
| that the Know-nothings were extremely
! active, though cautious and quiet, and it WIS
equally believed that they we're unsuccessful.
Of this, Of course, We kno,c nothing; but the
ticket they support is ahead in the city at least
six to one.
| Col Lander, Chief Engineer Of Gov. Stevens
Surveying corps on the extreme Northern route
arrived at Council Bluff, Iowa, on the 18th July
| from Pugets Sound, in Washington Territory
He reports the Council Bluff Bugle says-the
Northern or Puget's Sound route for railroad
impracticable, and brings public documents
showing that the territories of Washington
Utah, and Oregon, are decidedly in favor of the
Platte Valley route. In Washington Territory
the Legislature had instructed their delegate
| in favor of the Platte Valley route. In pub
| lie speech at Council Bluff, Col. Lander stated
that no better line can exist than he found be-
tween Puget's Sound and the Valley Of the
| Great Salt Lake. Col. Landers is on his way tc
/ Washington.
| Count Casimir Bathiany, the Canada reports
| died in Paris on the 18th of July. He was a
| brilliant and accomplished member of one OF
| the oldest and most noble Hungarian families.
| He never sided with any open revolutionary
| movement until 1849, when he was made head
Of the Department Of Foreign Affairs in Kos
1 III He obora in a cal an
| ties of the organization, and was, along with
Kossuth. o captive in Turkey. Since his resi-
| dence in Paris, he has been heard to express
doubts respecting the honesty OF capacity Of his
former associate and leader, Kossuth,
BANBHED The bark A. H. Kimball, from
Leghorn, arrived off Sandy Hook on the I'd inst.
She had ON board twenty five Romans, banished
| by the Pope after four years imprisonment,
without trial or any communication with their
| families.
"BILL NEBRASKA THE first white male
child born in Nebraska since the passage of the
organization bill was born at DR.. Clarks Hos
christened Bill Nebraska Kinney. His father,
the Hon. J. f. Kinney, Chief Justice Of Utah,
has taken the lead in sustaining the Douglas
bill - in a very forcible manner.
The New York Assay House is nearly finished,
being six stories in height, and one of the strong
| est buildings in New York. The vaults, which
are twelve feet square, are designed to be burg
| lar proof. The sides are formed of thick blocks
of granite In the centre space between each
two blocks, there is let in six pound iron ball
50 that should q thief attempt to remove a block
| by drilling hole through the mortar, his drill
when halfway through, would come in contact
with tho ball, and prevent his further progress
/ IT
| A correspondent of the Boston Advertise,
denies emphatioally the story that Dickens hat
| reduced himself by extrayagant habits to sucl
| a condition that he was obliged to dodge con
stables. He says that Mr.. Dickens lives in {
style of simple elegance, and is sswell to do il
| the world.
| RESISTING THE CHuRGH,--A blacksmith il
| New York named Callagan, whose wife was
sick, knocked down on the ID inst. an Irisl
Catbnlie nriest who insisted upon visiting anC