New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-17

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gence than was received by the Europa.
The money market is tighter, and Consols
have still further declined, the closing quota
tions being 86s to 864.
The Queen had announced to Parliament the
refusal of the Gar to reply to the ultimatum Of
the Allied Powers, which was considered equi
valent to declaration of war.
Southern Commercial Convention.
Charleston, April ia motion was mad
in the Convention this morning, to exclude the
reporter of the New York Tribune, in conse
quence of the Abolition tendencies of that sheet
A spicy debate ensued, and the motion was
finally Withdrawn.
Resolutions were adopted, advocating the poll
cy of employing more capital in Southern manu-
factories, and in mining interests, and appoint
ing committee of three from each State rep,
| resented in the Convention. to obtain statistical
| information relative to the manufacturing in
terests of the South, and report to the Conyen.
ton. Resolutions were also adopted in favor OF
| addressing the people of the different State
represented, urging upon them the Importance
Of action on the part Of their Legislatures, en-
couraging manufacturing, ship building, trade
| in general, education, etc.
4 A committee of three from each State was ap-
| pointed to memorialize Congress in favor of the
passage of an act reducing the dnties on rail.
chant marine service, by encouraging boys to 60
to sea, and for the prevention of desertion; and
an act authorizing the sending Of one or two
small steamers to explore the Amazon river and
its tributaries, which have been declared free to
| the navigation and commerce of the world The
memorial is also to request our Government to
| ask permission of the Governors of States Dor
| dering on the Atlantic for our officers to make
explorations and surveys, and that the estab
| lishment of a line of mail steamers from some
Southern port to Europe be encouraged. Pend
| ing the discussion of the resolutions on the i'm
provement of harbors aud the navigation OF
rivers, the convention adjourned 1t is doubt
tul whether the final adjournment will take
| place before Saturday.
| Charleston, April 14-In the Convention this
morning the committee to whom was referred
the Pacific Railroad project, reported, lst on
the vital necessity of the construction of the
road to the pro perity of the South I'd, on the
Eastern terminus of the road at some point on
| the Mississippi river, between st. Louis and New
| Orleans, through Texas, connecting with all the
| Northern roads; Sd, that the Gadsden Treaty
| so far as securing the right of way through
| Mexico, ought to be adopted; 4th recommend
| ing combination Of the Southern States for the
construction of the road independent Of the
| General Government; 5th. recommending the
| Incorporation of the road by the Legislature OF
| Virginia, and subsequently by the Legislatures
of all the other Southern States. All the resol
| utions, except that referring to the Gadsden
i Treaty were adopted.
Gadsden addressed tine Convention, and indi-
rectly in mated that the treaty WAS prepared
i with view of securing Southern route for the
Pacific road through Mexico, and that it had
been rumored that Northern Senators had COM
bined to defeat that part of ii. He deprecated
the passage of the resolution by the Convention
1t was subsequently, withdrawn Resolutions
were adopted providing for the encouragement
Of a direct trade with Europe from Southern
ports, by legislative assistance; for treaties to
secure the reduction of duties imposed on to-
bacco and hemp, by foreign countries Con-
yention adjourned.
FROM HAvANA.--The steamer Isabel arrived
at Charleston on the 18th, from Havana The
Courier publishes the following intelligence
The Moro and Cabana Forts ut Havana are to
receive some eighty guns.
Creole had been denied n passport to go to
the United States with his son for education
AT ball given on board the Columbia, the
attendance of Creoles was slim, as they were
fearful of being suspected by their Government
as favoring'the United States
The weather was cool and rainy.
An enumeration of the population, and the
amount of cash in possession, had been demand
ed by thu authorities. An enrolment of the
inhabitants is also to take place.
Assassinatons have been more frequent in
Havana recently.
There was n report current in Havana, when
the Isabel sailed, that the authorities had sent
on board the United States ship Columbia, to
| know if the Commodore intended to salute the
Spanish flag, to which he replied that his had
been insulted and that he never saluted any
flag that had insulted his, and until the difficult
ties now pending were settled, he would have nj
communication with them
FROM VENEzUELA.-T bark Venus arrived
at New York on the 9th inst. from Curacao
which port she left on the Goth alt The yellow
fever had disappeared, but political affairs in
Venezuela were, as usual, unsettled.
The EASTERN Mall ~RourE--The Presidents
Of the Montgomery and West Point, Muscogee,
Southwestern, Central, Waynesborough, South
Carolina, Wilmington and Manchester, and Will
, mington and Ranoke Railroad Companies held
, q meeting at Charleston, on the 14th, and agreed
upon running double daily trains, so as to gain
twelve hours upon the present time of the mails
between Washington and New Orleans The
arrangement is to go into effect as soon as prac-
tioable-probably about the first of June.
The GADspEN TREArY- Washington, Apri
l3--The Senate has acted upon the Gadsde1
Treaty, by changing the proposed boundary
and reducing the compensation to Mexico t,
81 900 900.
SuIoIDE.-On the 3lst ult., DR.. E. E. Smith
an old resident Of Painsville, Ohio, shot himsel
through the head with rifle pistol He dressed
himself as he desired to be buried, and left
directions to be buried as found, to be Inferred
with Masonic honors, and that the children OF
the vii age accompany his body to the grave
No reason was assigned for killing himself
other than that he was tired Of living. When
first discovered, his eountenanoe was calm and
composed as though sleeping, and his hands
flooded across his breast, one of them grasping
the pistol.
The t.nr''g'5 Times announces the almost
0 simullauHor,s discovery of another planet, be-
E tween Malrs and .Inniter hu astrnnnrners u