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

HS0R P0RTsM OUTH-(P Passage only, kssN
The fast sailing ship 0TOM0GO Capt. Howes
having all her engaged will have Immediate dispatch
only, apply to the Gaptain board.
jaaqs = j. p. WHITNEY CO. 81 Camp street
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

ETOR HAVRE.-The new A fast sail ~
n ing American shp CAMBRIA, Capt Perry
9hang and viii receive prompt datch For freight of Soc
Cotton, apply to -.
]. p. WHITNEY & oo. 81 Camp street.
IL PASSAGE apply TO the Captain board.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

E+NoR LIVERPO0L-Th fine fast sail- se4gS
~ ing American ship pRAPPAHANN0CK Captain ThE8sS INV
- now oAdtng aud will dispacn For
freight Of $50 bales Cotton, apply 10 f y VI
s,-rs-- J. P. WHITNEY CO., 81 Camp street.
to the Cbnta,n
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

ESOR LIVERPOoL.-T fine A fast IN
a. sailing American ship WINDERMERE, Captain SAAAS
Fhtdsd loading and viii have quick Dispatch For
Of 900 oales Cotton, apply Whitney h co al Camp
pass ye apply 70 the Cantatn On hoatd P ,s5
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08
EIVERPOOE.

TN0R LTVERPOoL-(Ta Takes no Grain, -
n Thea fast shing American ship HORIZON Cant &AERS
btone now loading and will have quick dispatch For I
pasa .30tton, apply TO p. WHITNEY d CO al Camu ST.
tS For psssags. apply to the Captain on board mys
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

fE1yOR LIVERPOOL.-The A American ~
III ship r.. u. SHEPHERD, Captain Hamilton, il s4SAxAS
and viii have dapatrh For balance
apply TO GIFF SEY n LOWELL. Common utresi
apps toe. MEEKER 4 CO ~ q; ;rsvter at,sc, 'h
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

N5SOR LIVERPOOL fast sail sgsN
4 ing American ship SEA QUEEN, Captain hanaon {A1K
- new 9adg and viii have imuediate dispatch For
bales Cotton apply to
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

EHOR LIVERPOOL A fast sail ,ssS
a Ing American ahlp AMERICAN UNION Captain SbLx@
os wall be dispatched Immediately baancs o aivht as
- GlFFNEY LOWELL, l6 Common street
nlyo or u. v. RhXTEE Qh dalai atra -
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

Hi VRE.

ENOR HAVRE The A ! fast sailing IN
N American ship EASTERN QUEEN, Capt. Emery {s5EAA9
oadng and will have quick Dispatch For freight q 41
bales Cotton, apply to
z J. P. WHITNEY Il CO., 81 Camp street.
kB- For apply the board,
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

Ex0R LIVERPOOL.-The A j fast 45ss
N sailing American ship CYNOsURE, Capt Tucker eAkAS
y now loadnEt and will
bales Cotton apply 10 J, p. WHITNEY CO., Camp st.
ty- pHssags, apply to the Captain on board sn9f
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

EfOR LIVERPOOL.--The fast sail. 80
fM, ing American ship COL0MBO Harris raas,ar gSSxE
hp paft her cargo engaged will have dispach
my2 j. IL AsHRR GE 4 m 70 G. ,,1.,... (,
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

AVAILABLE SEIrs. ~
Capital stock Of the Pontchartrain Railrss,
Company, as fixed by law. for the purpose oi
extending railroad to Mobile, per Act Of
April 2s 1853.
Subscribed for, paid up and invested in presen;
L'16thbS--.-- .
OF which the city is authorized to take 1,50000t
To be obtained by private subscription 10000
First Mortgage Bonds Of the, Company Bonds
to be secured on the whole line Of road.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08

For sale by dealers in Medicine every where.
1oo j. WRIGHT Il Co, New Orleans,
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-08
BOSTON,.

ESOR BoSTON.-(R Regular Line of ss5N
q Packets )-The packer bark sILIIUS, VIM. G. E2kKS
veazs msee now loading and will have dispatch For
sb2a GEO. W. HYNsoN. 80 Camp street.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
DEAD, LETTERS.

Reading in a contemporary the subjoned Post Office
statistics reminded US of word we have some time
wished to say about deadetters Every three months
there carried out from the General Office and burnt
some forty fifty bushels Of dead letters We think it
pity that much useful material should be utterly de-
sroyed and in the present high price Of paper and the
inadequate supply Of material for its fabrication the
periodical burning of such mass of it is particularly
to be regretted 1t would be much better we beg leave
to suggest that those forty bushels per quarter of dead
letters should be sold to papermaker and ground
up and re-conyered into good paper.
The operations of the Finance Bureau Of the General
Post Office Department for the year disclose the
fact Of rapid increase in the business Importance
OF the deadletter Office In the first quarter of 1852 the
number Of deadlettes found by the openers which
tanned money was i 101-the amount $10,238; second
quarter 1886 letters and 81 176 third quarter 78
letters and $10869 fourth quarter 1s42 letters and
Sl1713.
In the quarter ended 31st March, 1S54-two years af-
terwards-he number of valuable dead letters reached
$685. containing Sl4 401 The second quarter yielded
2, 4S7 letters and SD, 1926 in money We have the
third quarterended 30th September last 1854 letters
in which found S14 088 in cash When it is recol-
ected that these do embrace the dead-etters from
foreign countries which all returned unopened the
progress Of this branch Of service is
apparent
All deadletters from day day returned the
covering clerk, by whom they duly registered the
the outgoing mails to the places at which the letters were
originally Mailed by which quick process an ayerag &c of
sepeegs Of the money is safely returned to its legal
owners.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
THE SLAVE TRADE IN CUBA.

In one Of the latest circulars of Gen. CoNcHA,
Governor-General of Cuba, we find the following
paragraph, addressed to the military and political
governors of the eastern and western departments
Of the island From this it will be seen that there
is protested determination for the absolute repres-
sion Of the slave trade:
Whilst the first attentions of the Government do not
permit me to give your Excellency full instructions
ought to indicate to you the conduct you ought to
sue IN the delicate subject of the trade in negroes The
free loyal, and absolute repression of that condemned
trade is towards the Government of her Majesty
obligation in the fulfilling of the treaties Towards her
In this island it is not less and to all
them will constitute question to. the honest This
trade must disappear and it shall quite disappear Ny
worthy predecessor has thus actively endeavored by his
dispositions, and to the end mine will direct them
selves to put an end to that immoral and prejudcial
trade being requisite to do 50 that those who
sess them shall be troubled under the preext of
tanning whence they are derived the laws Direct
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07

The GREAT CANADIAN CoUsTERFErr GAsG.-A month
two since announced the in Canada Of
of seven persons engaged in the manufacture Of
felt bank plates and dies the extensive scale For
long period this gang have been quite successful
cuatng their counterfes upon the banks of the United
States and in instances have grown gray head
ed and wealthy in the business We learn from gentle
man from Montreal that the gang arrested have
their trial there the 10Th of this month Among the
number True f. Young who several years since in
custody in this city similar charge There is also
one Of the Benny family; an old man Of sixty, named
Heard possessed of considerable wealth. whose daughters
signed the bills; also three named Bowers Wilson,
and Gleason the latter excellent engraver The spoil
obtained from them is probably the most extensive
secured in the United States There less than
fory-se bank plates nearly all for counterfeits
banks in the United States.
is to be hoped that by the breaking up Of this great
band, who, with Others for the last twenty thirty
years, from the Canada sde have flooded the United
States with enormous quantities Of counterfeit money
blow has been given which will finally put end to the
business.-Boston Traveller.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
IRON BRIDGE OVER THE ST. LAWRENCE.


The Montreal Pilot says the work on this bridge called
the Victoria Bridge" is rapidly progressing and that
it knows Of nothing the continents of America or
Europe which approaches it in the grandeur and great
ness Of its design.
Its total length will be 1924 feet and from the north
shore of the ST. Lawrence the abument there will be
solid stone embankment of rough masonry 1,200 feet in
length raised ike artificial rock resist the current
The stone embankment leading from the south shore
the river to the south abutmen will be half this length
or 600 feet The first stone laid in the bed of the
river the Oath of July last and the 18th instant
pier No. several feet above the water The Pilot
adds.
Sunless unforeseen difficulties arise the first railway
train will pass the broad ST. Lawrence by the
mer of 1855 The commercial advantages will consist
in the fact that the Victoria Bridge win bring into direct
communication, without break Of gauge bulk the
haustess products of Canada West and of Michigan
Illinois, Iowa. Wisconsin, and all the Western States of the
Union Reciprocity will have opened the door of internal
communication, and the requirements of traffic will be
cheapy and expedtlousy met by the iron road and its
tubular bridge few years hence and this very bridge
will become of the greatest attractions the tourist
and the traveller.
The Colossus Of Rhodes, under which the pigmy
shaops of former ages could pass esteemed Of
the wonders Of the Old World but iron bridge span
ming river two miles in width, giving safe passage to
hundreds OF tons of weight between its iron Sides and
permitting ships Of the largest tonnage to pass beneath
its elevated arches achievement still more remarka.
BILE for the New World aud worthy Of the young giant
rising in the West
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07

Mr.. DuvALL NOT DBAD.-We stated, few days ago, on
the authority of contemporary, that Mr.. EDWARD w.
DuvALI, Of Prince Georges county, (Md mad died from
the effects of gunshot wound inflicted upon him by
German respasser upon his land We learn that he
is likely to From his statement on oath the at
tack upon him very wanton one. There were two
persons cunning upon his land against his wishes He
says:
g" observed to them both that against to gun upon
particularly mine them Won don't
forthwith shall endcavor
that observation turned II was going aor
assist driving them smaller one of the
when turned shot me in the de being more than
feet from Immediately faced them
walked towards The one He loaded his saying The
very and gone lie observed the
pistol lie did 50 and cccked u pointing it saying
observed him, Don't YOU have
already load there, believe dead man, haloed
murder get larger observed
getting from hsre going about ten
fifteen steps whether his gun was loaded
told load quick possible sad Ell be ready
any rascal and immediately through the
mnrch.n
The examination of the respassers has been DELAYED to
await the result Of Mr.. Duvalls wound.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
THE BABY CONVENTION.

The grand National Convention of Babies assembled,
pursuant to public notice. at the Fair grounds of the
Clark County Agricultural Society ut Springfield Ohio
on Thursday last No pains spared in getting up
the show large pavilion procured, with lesser
tents for dressingrooms reception rooms sc. Compe-
ttion was open to oil children not exceeding years
age born in the United States One hundred and twenty
babies were entered for the premiums The show at
tracted large number of visitors The first premium
for the finest baby not exceeding two years of age
awarded to Mrs. BONNER, of Vienna, Ohio. It consists
of silver tea set with salver valued at $780, The Sc
cond premium for the finest baby one and over
two years old, awarded to Mrs. MCDOWELL Of Gin
cinnati. 1t consists of tea set valued at 5000 The
third premium for the finest baby one year old
was awarded to Mrs. ARTHUR CANNON, Of Philadelphia
1t was purse of 5000 The fourth premium, consist
ing of o Parian marble group, was awarded to Mrs
HENRY HOWE of Cincinnati. Among the exhibitors was
an old woman who with her seventeenth child She
claimed premium on that ground, and ought to have
had one
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
WHAT DOES THE SOUTH GAME

WHAT Dues JHE SOUTH GAlNI
The Louisiana Courier, a Democratic paper, pub
fishes letter from its special correspondent at
Washington which answers this question. After
referring to the confusion at Chicago on the occa-
sion Of Senator DOUGLASS address there the writer
says:
Has it ever occurred to you or your readers, Mr..
Courier that amid oil this abolition hue and cry about
the repeal Of the Missouri compromise line, the prac-
tical workings of that repeal entirely lost sight
Of! The abolition press have already raised the cry mo
more slave States shall be admitted into the Union and
the senseess cry finds ready echo from the demorazed
Wing party. But where the slave States to come
from? From New Mexico! No. From Utah No.
From Oregon? No. From Washington? No. From
Minnesota No. From Nebraska? No. From KAN
sas? Mo- If the Freeso immigration continues to set
towards that Territory in the why it has commenced
Texas Is yet to furnish States the Conederacy
Will they be slave States The lusrious Sam Houston
assures the three thousand cergymen of New England
that these three States will knock the door the Union
for admission without the cncumbrance of peculiar
stuton The South gains nothing by the repeal of the
Missouri compromise line beyond the recognition of that
fundamental principle the Democratic party the right
Of sefgovernment and is principle tainted by
the narrow spirit of sectonaty, and should be held
dear to the citizen Of Maine the citizen of louisiana
The Union is now composed Of sixteen free and fifteen
slave States Before the next is taken in all proba
bity nine free States l Be admitted the Union and not
single sue STATE unless through the annexation of Cuba
this is not giving the balance of power to the North
with vengeance, then there is truth in cpherng."
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07

RuMoRED DErALcArIos were three errors in
the teegraphic report Of three nes Thursday morning
respecting an alleged defalcation by Samuel Davidson
King late Surveyor General Of California The amount
was doubled his first name was omitted and the
was described fact while it was only rumor and
Washington rumor at that The amount is now stated at
$l2, 400-Boston Daily Adpertisev.
We thinkt very wrong that whenever an officer OF the
Government has difficulty in the settlement Of his &C
counts he should at onoe be proclaimed as deauter
without waiting for investigation. The delay in settling
accounts, when the claimants not backed up by spe
oia influence, is most shameful 1t is not necessary to
add to this injustice the punishment Of man as de-
faulter while his accounts have not been examined or
the merits or dement's Of this particular case know
nothing but there have been instances of great injustice
Of this knd.-Propidepcs Journal c
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
We PROPERTY.

/ Some of the NortL-
to prove that ait requiem journals are laporing
slavery in the Territoriesositive law 70 estaphsn
the South, which contends "a position denied Dy
be held Of right under the Cch slave property can
Il not expressly prohibited by laRuon ma anywne
Times" says: The chicago
"Under the Nebraska Act, the slayehol1
lures INTO the Territory with his slaves befo
Its Legislature shall have prohibited IT, or wt aIter
positive law establishing it, under the
CONSTITUTION guarantees him that right does so at ~
peril; but he would run risk if he did the sam,
g wtn the Wilmot roviso the Msst uri restriction
IA iu operation In either he rests his right on the
Constitution and no Wmot proyss, Missouri restric-
ton, or Nebraska bill can deprive him of it,"
Does not the Times know that the right Of
the Legislature to act upon the subject at all was
expressly denied by two distinct votes of the House
OF Representatives? In what way, therefore, we
ask the Nebraskaites to answer, has the South
an equal chance with the North in the Question
OF settling the institutions of the proposed new
States 1t is true clause of the bill says that
the Constitution and all laws of the United States
which are not locally inapplicable shall have the
same force and effect within the said Territory Of
Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States.
except the eighth section of the net preparatory to
the admission of Missouri into the Union !" and
provlso to the ninth section, that nothing therein
contained shall be construed to apply to or affect
the provisions Of the act respecting fugitiyes from
justice and persons escaping from the service of
their masters" &c. But the proyiso which fol
lows breaks down all walls of protection by declar
ing that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to revive or put in force any law or regua-
ton which may have existed prior to the act Of the
9th March, 1920, either protecting, ESTABLISHING,
prohibiting, or abolishing slavery
,ed dnt, .---,.alI., "a AZ C,4L
by denying to the people Of the Territories, through
their Legislatures, the very SOVEREIGNTY claimed
for them as can inherent natural right" For,
when MIR. FULLER of Maine, an Anti-Nebraska
Democrat, Cover whose reelection all the " faith
fuP' are now rejoicing offered an amendment pro-
posing to give the Territorial Legislatures athe
power to admit or exclude slavery, as to them shall
seem proper" it was negatived by vote of rs to
81 So that, notwithstanding the claim Of EQUAL
ITY set up for the South, here was an express de-
NAL Of protection to her peculiar property 1t was
to be left to the mercy of the squatters, to regulate
it in any way except by law.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
A JUST COMPARISON.

The Mobile Advertiser, referring to the proceed
ings OF the late Wing Convention in New York
says:
So The Committee Resolutions reported series
which, though too antsavery to be acceptable to South
ern Wings are far less exceponable than those adopted
by the Massachusetts, Convention"
The following is the strongest Of the series:
Resoced That by the act procuring the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise hold that we are forever dis
charged from all obligations to support any compromises
with slavery except such contained in the Consti-
tuition Of the United States and most especially that
are forever released from all obligations admit into our
Union any State which sanctions or permits slavery.
There is no pledge here. Of practical resistance.
The Massachusetts, DenaoeSncy adopted series Of
unmeaning resolutions, claiming sovereignty for
counties, towns and districts, and reafirming the
Baltimore platform of 1852 J, but no where can we
lind any recantation of the following resolutions,
adopted by the Massachusetts, Democratic State
Convention of 1S49:
ssoced That we are opposed to slavery in every form
and color and in favor Of freedom and freeso wherever
man lives throughout Gods heritage.
Resoped, That by common law and common sense as
well as by the decisions Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States, lin Prigg vs. Pennsylvania, l6 Peters
" the state of slavery is municipal regulation
founded upon and limited to the verge Of the Territorial
law that is, the limits OF the State creating it.
Resoped, therefore, That slavery does exist by any
municipal law in the Territories and Congress has
no power to institute it, the local laws of any State
horzng slavery be transported there nor can
slavery exist there but by local law of the Territory
SANCTIONED by CONGRESS the legislative act of State
in its sovereign capacity
These sentiments have never been recanted, but
in lieu Of them we find some loose generaltes about
the principle .selfgovernment"
This is the same party which coalesced in 1851
with the Freesolers to elect Messrs. RANToUL and
SUMNER to the United States Senate.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
THE SCHUYLER ovER-1ssUE OF STOCKS.

special meeting Of the New York and New Haven
Railroad was held Tuesday in New York About four
hundred stockholders were in attendance. We learn
from the Evening Post that Mr.. BoARDMAs, the Presi
dent in introducing the subject Of the overssue of stock
by Robert Schuyler said that it had caused great loss to
some persons but to whom had not yet been ascertaned
The road was enjoying unequaled prosperity He thought
possible to settle the difficulties without litigation.
The report of the directors then read Mr.. Board
then stated that Of the fraudulent certificates
were signed by Mr. Worthen Schuylers clerk who took
upon himself the responsibility.
Mr.. 3. u. BRADFORD OF Roxbury, representing two
thirds Of the stock taken in Boston, then addressed the
meeting, maintaining that the company not holden
for the fraudulent certificates He had yet to the
first respectable lawyer who thought He strong
~ opposed to the admission of the holders of spurious
stock, and was ready for fight the question He
satirica on the alleged Innocence Of the spurious
Stockholders and said of them very comforta
bly, situated while there were poor clergymen and
widows who would be losers. In conclusion, Mr. Brad
ford offered some resolutions repudatng the spurious
stuck
Mr.. ABIJAH MANN, Jr. then rose and said that such
doctrines not tenablo in New York that higher
standard of morals prevailed there which would not per-
NIT reputation OF obligations imposed by the acts Of
agent acting within the scope of his authority He rep
resented twelve hundred shares An excited debate fol-
lowed
For about hour (says the Post) the meeting was
perfect Babel Motions of all sorts were put and reject
ed, Cries for the police" shouts, and stamping
kept up almost without cessation.
/ II was maintained by Judge IsoERsoLL, Of Connect
cut, with great vehemence, that this Illegal meet
inS and it should be adjourned New Haven inasmuch
I'm his opinion they not authorized to convene
Of the State by which the company Incorporated
Mr. MANN, however, kept the floor, and proceeded to
argue that the opinion Of Messrs Wood and Noyes did
justify the reputation of the Schuyler stock though
it did make the company liable for damages incurred by
individuals from the fraudulent acts Of the companys
agents position after order restored, he sus-
ttSSineo VIII ~ ao.,Asy 81 rhass that commanded
series Of resolutions appointing committees to tho
roughly examine into the affairs of the company from the
commencement to the present time defining the duties
and qualifications Of all officials and employees of the
company entirely aboshng all free passes, after much
opposition, were adopted.
The meeting then adjourned to the second Wednesday
| in November, at New Haven.