New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-21


moment snxiously inquiring where sufficient
labor to supply his necessities ID to come from ~
From the Sandwich Islands.
The Polynesian and Argus of the Sd Of June
had been received at San Francisco They
contained the following items:
The CRoPs ON THE IsLANDs.-The Polynesian
Of the Sd of June says, by recent intelligence
from Maui we ere happy to learn that the
growing wheat crop isilikely to fully equal the
anticipated yield Of $4,000 bushels Some $50
acres were destroyed by the caterpillar, but the
balance promises to yield heavier crop than
was expected, or than has ever before been har-
vested on that island per acre. The weather
has been fine during the past few weeks, and
some fields first planted are now ready to har-
vest. With the present high price of -four in
the United States, from whence our supply has
been principally received in former years, our
readers will rejoice with us in the prospect of u
domestic supply equal to our consumption, at q
cheaper rate than it can now be imported !;
while, at the same time, it will retain in the
country large amount of money hitherto sent
abroad IN payment for that indispensable arti-
Gle OF consumption. Wheat is said to flourish
well on the highlands of the Island, and the
Polyneslan thinks that corn, oats and barley
lands adapted to their growth, many Of which
are now lying uncultivated or used merely for
grazing.
THE RELATIONS OF THE ISLANDS WITH FRANCE.
From the following preamble and resolutions,
introduced by Mr.. Harris into the House of
Representatives on the S0th of May, it will be
seen the French still insist on reduction of the
duties on their brandies, and the Hawaiians
despair Of ever obtaining indemnity from the
Emperor Napoleon for the destruction of pro-
perty caused by the French feet in 1849:
" Whereas, The Commissioner of France, in
his dispatch to the Hawaiian Ministry of
Foreign Relations, No. 95, dated March OF
1854, states: That it is only after the conclu.
sion of a new treaty that the orders which |
have received will permit me to make known the
opinion Of the Emperor And whereas, the
said dispatch further states, That a great
reduction of the Custom house duty imposed on
French brandies since 1916, when imported into
this Archipelago, is one of the principal condi-
tions ola new treaty. thereby reiterating one
Of the principal demands of Admiral de Trome-
lin, in 1849; Therefore, be it
Resolved, That this House respectfully request
HIS Majesty to withdraw the reference of the
subject of indemnity from His Majesty Napoleon
III, and that this House will insert in the Appro-
priatlon bill for 1854, the amount necessary to
indemnify His Majesty and private individuals
for injuries committed on their property by the
French authorities in 1892
MOVEMENTS OF RUSSIAN AND BRITISH MEN-oF
WAR.--After stay of a fortnight, the Russian
frigate Diana, Captain Lessoffsky sixty guns.
sailed from Honolulu ON the 2Sth of May, bound
to the northward. On the following day the
the British sloop-of-war Trincomalee, which had
also been in port several weeks, sailed on the
same course as the Diana, evidently watching
her.
From Guaymas.
The U. s. revenue cutter VIM. L. Marcy ar
rived at San Francisco on the Both from
Guaymas, which place she left on the Sd of
June. @
She brought up 80 passengers, the same who
went down from San Francisco in the Petrjta !:
were made prisoners, and treated with such
cruelty by the Mexicans. Six of them were
taken from the British sloop-of war Dido. the
rest were released, on compulsion, by the Mex
lean authorities at Mazatlan. m.M. .4..--
1t was rumored that Count Boulbon had sailed
for Sonora in small boat, having on board
two hundred rifles and two pieces of cannon.
lie was accompanied by eight other persons
From San Diego.
ARRIVAL OF Col. GRAY's SURVEYING PARTY
The Surrey of the Southern Route.-Colonel
Gray's Pacific Railroad Surveying party, which
reached San Diego on the 18th of Tune, left San
Antonio on the LIST of January, examined and
explored the country in the vicinity of the par
allel of thirty two, from Fort Chatbourne in
Texas, to Ll Paso, crossing the Lano Estacado,
(Staked Plain) and the Pecos River, about As
miles above Captain Macey's trail They en-
countered several severe northers, the ther-
mometer falling to four degrees above zero. No
accident occurred to the party, and the route to
Ell Paso was found to be short and practicable
one This was the first time the staked plain
was attempted to be crossed in the winter sea-
son, and near the same spot where Capt Macy
lost some twenty of his animals, as we'll as
Lieut.. Michler, in their expedition through that
region, from the severity and suddenness Of the
northers.
The trip from San Antonio to Ell Paso by way
OF Fort Chatbourne was made in twenty six
and half travelling days.
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