New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-20
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The Washington Union publishes among .its
department tbs diary Of Of party Of Amsrscsn
citizens who made visit last year to the gold derict
Peru onhe head waters Of The Amazon The writer had
been familiar With the gold dggngs ofAusraa and CaR
fna and EXPRESSES the opnion that thoss ef Peru viii
equal the best he had Hsand his companions
prevented from Tsshipg aud prospecting extensively BY
the hostility Of the Indians He says:
This district is the reputRd the from which
tesnept lucas tpokout the immense quantities Of gold
that they said be possessed of coming OF
spsniards with ftz4tro. sm now wsitiDg with Of
frsnds for the sFstapce and protection Of the gover
nt TO return again and have saDgune hopes OF success
The streams eeud De easily turned The climate IL
healthy sDd finely wooded frequent rains nd abun dancs
Of water everywhere Washing Dirt According nay
opinion the locality is about hree four thousand miles
from the mouth the AmazonasI and naygable almost
all the way-in fact all hs way for steamers of nghf
draugbt of water with great many wild cattle hogs
deer and wild turkeys. The rivers we'll stocked
with fsh, which are easily taken.
Espeuard who visited these parts
vsy in 1876 told he considered it the garden of the
world According to the above authority the locality Of
successful prospectngswas in south latitude 13
Isl west longitude 10 % and about twenty days jour-
ney from here Bee Prescdtts History Of Peru for the
amount OF gold taken by the ancient Incas and the
quantity they possessed at the coming Of Pizarro.
The New York Mirror says of the recent State
election in Maine: ,.5
Maine has played the trick Of the rusty uskekicked
and knocked Prohibition and Repubcanism fat asfouu-
ders Even the Tribune gives signs of that all ia
lost a Morrill, Maine Law Republican, fails Of majority
vote and the berasu az tbs Tribune calls theI have
carried majority of the Legislature, which, will enable
them to elect the entire State officers. Bell, Democra
or keed, tWhig1 will be Governor. It is regular
Waterloo Fout and suggests the 1uestiophas'Dt Proh
bbon had Its day Yet the Portland Adyertiser arm
that Maine heart Republican aud for Prohbirion
that the defeat Is the result of lying SANDER brbDg
double dealing, etc. On ah The cradle Of the Maine
Law bas become its cGf1n. at ~ "E
While the bark Juniata, of Boston, from
Bahia for Trieste ashore the Of Bsrbary,
the Straits Of Gibraltar, early in August the Arabs
assumed threatening attitude, and 1t momsntary
expected they would attack the vessel French war
steamsr to her assistance and placed board fifty
marines her protection until got aoat Ii
the meantime the Feenfh Consul had also sent
guard Of soldiers to the basks assistance. ss.a
Rachel having been desired. to sing the Mar.
sease by the Frepoh residents of New York declines in
note saying she has not sung IL for seven years.
fears has voice and strength enough She
her dear compatots that ahe did love sing the Mar
sease 8, well s play her finest ,es from Corueie
Still ID is suspected her true is poltiesl poc
Peat, it is said, is noW being used for locorno.
tivss on the Worcester and Nssha (sass rardad and
with great satisfaction, SO strong the belief that IL
are buying up large tracts of land pest can be OBJ
tained adjoing various rsilroads in Massachusetts
The following singular fact has been brought
to light connection with the late issster on the Qa
den and Amboy railroad
Mr. Charles Ingersoli of Philsdeiphis one Of the
killed. would have inherited fortune OF s5000e0 had be
lived nntil arrived st the age of twenty years
which would been the last of the present month
clause in the will provided that in the event of Bis
decrease before arriving st age, the fortune would fa to
anotber branch OF the family II is said that effort
will be made to recover this amount from the company
as in all probability had not this accident occurred he
wead have lived to come in possession of the ertune
On the 10Th inst. the New York Board Of
Couneilnen voted $1,000 for the relief of the yrgri
sufferers The actual subscriptions in New York, up t.
that tize, amounted to $40 4l9 50
The eolored population Of New York oity hslt
L,eetipg on tha 1gh to hear the result of eir stat
CopSention at Troy The planks in their platform
lst The elective franchise upou eqna terms with th
whits man. I'd Eligibility to civil office; and the right
send black children to the public schools As the law
New York Sands at present. cpored person pannot Vet
unless he be seized and possessed of two hundred dollar
worth of property.
II there is any one thing besides eating driet
fish and rice thar the Chinese thoroughly understand
s kitedyine AZ an exhibition of the kind street
of sacrameno California, the other day ths Union say
they excited great curiosity by thsr flyers one
which resembled bird another the rising while th
third emitted musical sounds similar to the Eoan harp
The spectators not little surprised to messer
ger in the form Of bird ascend the string of of tn
kites and return again TO terra frmae
A dispatch states that at party given men
psr seyyiils in Haywood county, Tenh few days ag
forty 6ys Of the gless poisoned One is dea
and several other not expected to
The poison contained in seme Of the ingredients
ca ke used on the occasion. =asg
Mr.. spates left water melon at the Office
the Red Wing Sentinel Minnesota SO large edit
and his dsvilsJived upon IL week. and then made bo
Of he shell and fishing in the river Red Wing
A FIRE occurred ct st. John, N. B., on Il
18th which destroyed nineteen dwellings and numero
farms and out-houses The amount Of loss is not state
| Persons in the eie,hborhood. Of the railros
depot at Lasalle Ill, Tuestay night last heard mo-
on e track like the mewing ofa cat Pfoseeuins iowa
IT, tive sound became that of an infant crying anu @
the bundle was picked up, sn infant wrapped IN v
blank,ts was found It lay directly on the track ana
/ few minutes st would have been crushed ey an
proaching train,
On the 18th a young man named Byrnes,
tailor fell from the third story of the Burke House
Atlanta Ga, he fell his head, but only fractured
4 skull, andeit was thought be might recover. -
/ The holders of the first mortgage bonds Of I
Maysylis and Lexip gton Road have commenced procs
ings Of foreclosure whchhe stockholders did not oppo
the holders of the second mortgage bonds have obsil
/ an adjournment Of this question TO November, wpe
special court will be held to try the ease Ihey pa'
plea Of usnry.tr q Isss = r. > - zss'=- ~:
The distance from Cincinnati to thicago
Il the railroad will be 2s5 miles The road ia finished
milea to Anderson and track is'apidy being mio
Logansport 36 miles further and will De completed u
by November Some IA miles of this, from Loganspor
! Kskomp, is now in running order On the line from
Rausport to Chicago but lttei done, but the Comp
ssnsuine of completion in the next twelve nor
| The Richmond Enquirer states that accor
from the tobacco growing sections of Virginia go to
that il not Injured by continuance OF the hot yea
the product Of the Stats will exceed that OF last year
inspections thus far show increase Of nine thou
. hbds over the corresponding period Of last year.
! The sales of the public lands for the fiscal .
ending june 1856 haye been larger than ever before
the exception ef the great year Of speculation, 1856
the ,e sera IN tbs aggregate 10 600 GOO aores
70 been this yeap 15oess6e asses, yielding 70 To
=, trs,,,,ry $40