New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-27

The steamship Pampero, Capt Flanders
reached her wharf in this city, from San Juan
on Saturday morning, bringing news from Sar
Francisco to the lst instant.
| List of passengers: @ WG q t-
/ " Hayes wife and four chdren- Mrs Wrightnan ]
Poinsett, D Nage, J B Shean. Trembley, 4 Graft
Whitman coghii e Coghill ] Boney, wife and foul
ton, Breitipg, Foster, Clarke, Corey and wife
| Butt, Fanng, y Borne. Pendleton Trumbul ]
Plumer, W Stewart, Hastings Lusk, Bessap, G
/ Godfrey, II Hunt, @ Cavel. Gaithwait, Miller,
Swain, Cording, A Weidman, W Woodward, L Baxter
| W Walker, Yetter, Hathaway Mr. Byan Mr. Walker
Mr. Ward, j jackson. t Harvey, Blair P Oliver Nj
Stubbeheld TStubbleied, MIR smith Brown R Fisher
and wife, Deyence, Casiday Mrs Emerson, Tyew,
Muddock. Owens Davis M 81. Yergsr Collins Kit
man II Hillery, g Gathwait, Keefe Mitchell, D Day
Shawn, Brother, Zimmerman, Stanley, Smith
Miller D Winter. Clarke, @ Meckeson, Ellis A
Moseby D Hunter, W Hunter Lubert, Boin, Goonce
| r Riser, L Soue D Dodge Davis and boy, Calison
Ii Hardiston. Pruett, NJ Quinton, r Robbins, Bush
| On the 18th inst, at 8 o'clock, P NJ. in lat,
| 10 deg so min, long. SO deg. 20 min. Andrew
| O'Grady, a steerage passenger to California,
aged about 3S years, for the last fifteen years
a resident of New Orleans, whilst in a state OF
delirium tremens jumped overheard and was
drowned. He has family now in New Orleans.
We find little of Importance in our exchanges.
A charge of bribery against Mr.. Peck, sena-
tor, from Butler, had created some excitement.
A Mr.. Palmer had sworn that Peck offered to
sell his vote and influence for $4,000 The Sc
nate resolved itself into a judicial tribunal on
| the matter, and was engaged in making inyes
| legations.
An unfounded report of the failure of the
banking house of Adams and Co, caused run
upon them, during which $s416,O0O were paid
out and the run finally ceased
The weather had been very cold.
The steamboat Helen Hensley exploded her
boilers, on the 10Th, killing two men and in
juring several others.
The Herald of the 1st inst. says:
The u s. sloop- war Portsmouth is expected
to sail tomorrow, accompanied by u s. Mail
steamer, on a cruise along the coast of Lower
California, to arrest, as far as the power of the
General Government can be exercised, any
violation of the integrity of the Mexican terri
tory by any lawless incurson of men claiming
to be American citizens.
The Theatre at Placerville was burned on
the Both ult., and property to the value of
twelve or fourteen thousand dollars was de-
stroyed.
By an arrival from China, files of Hong Kong
papers have been received up to December ii.
From the Overland China Mail of that date we
learn that the revolutionary party were still in
possession of Shanghai. Trade continued to be
carried on at that place under the provisional
regulations of the British and American Con-
suls Vessels of all flags are in request, and
the Mail states that the exports of teas and silks
are far greater than those of last year.
The United States Mail steamship Golden
Gate sailed from Panama for San Francisco on
the first of January, and when within about
five hundred miles of San Diego, broke her lar