New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-10
Cat Island Claims.

In the future history Of this greatState of unprin
cipled pecuatars the above must certainly pass into
settled byWord for every baldtaced and transparent
swndle, to be hereafter perpetated on the people
Cat Island clafnls!' Let each citizen examine into
this matter for himself anllif he finds Wat we are
about TO say in reference to Cat Island untrue then
let him pronounce us liar conditlonaiy and damn
us in every truthful consideration hereai ter.s
Cat Island is strip of Sauvial land located above
Bayou Sara in the parish of West Felicana and bor-
derngson the Misisspp. 1t is called island from
the fact that the highlands skirt On the east and at
their base stream of water, coming from the hills
and the river surrounds it at times, and save the i'm
mediate bank Of the river has heretofore frequently
been under water at high stages Of the river The
whole area Of Cat Island Is set down at acres
Of which about 04 acres accrued to the State under
the donation from Congress. This landwas taken up
by spectators as soon as the design OF recIGinng
| it became known. Suppose the whole Is ,404 acres
taken at 81 % per acre, it would amount to 455
| A Board of Swamp Land Commissioners Were#ap-
pointed in violation of the Constitution which declares
ernphatcay that they shall be eieced and Mr. D. c.
jenkins, then one of the editors Of the Democratic
Adv0Gate-betoTe having acquired residence in the
District was appointed one of the Commissioners
forthe First District in which the aforesaid Cat Island
is located. ,z-4-.~ $7s
Mr.. jenkins went to work and contracted for s7S,-
$780, ~ of work to be done reclaim this S19 55 worth
of worthless land and contemplated further appro
priation Of public money for the same Cat Island to
done with the fact staring the Commissioners in the
face, that his district only entitled by appropria-
tion to $685., and the illegal act of 1854 under
which the Board was unccnstiutio7aA4 organized,
expressly says that contract shall be entered into
beyond the amount appropriated. In the face of these
facts, with the contractors pleading ignorance of the
law, bill has been galvanized into life and legality
by the Great inquistoral tribunal of the State p
represented by the great Democratic party appro.
priating $32 900 to go into the hands of spec
ulaors all the balance Of the Swamp land fund has
gone. This too after the matter fully and freely
discussed on Tuesday, and settled by SOME few DEM
ocrats throwing off the usual shckles of party and
voting conscientiously
What shall the people of Louisiana say to this?
What monstrous mountain of sin has the Democrat
ic Central Committee to for through their rep
resentatives in the present Legislature Il Baton
Rouge Comet, 7th inst. ,.,.ag
TIE ARAGo IN THE IoE.--We find in the Northern
papers the following account of the difficulties
tered by the steamship Arago off the Banks, her
last trip from Havre to New York: ..
The Arago experienced strong westerly gales on the
passa ,tand detained 81 hours on the Eastern
edge Of the banks, by ice. Feb o. A. NJ, lat 1T 90
long 46 90, passed three icebergs. From that time
until oath, at noon lat. A 2 long 40 co. the ship
constantly picking her way amongst iceburgs, large
and SMALL and patches of closely packed brokenice.
For part of two nights she stopped her course and
at other times running slowly frequently stopping
and backing to avoid collision with dangerous pieces
At noon, the 22d, she found herself in the blight Of
a bay of closely packed broken iee and large and
small icabergs extending from S. E. around to North
as far Us could be seen, with open water to West
ward. Stood to the North in hopes OF finding an
opening but, after running 30 miles, found the ice
extended to the n and E. as far could be Put
about ship, and stood back again to the South, ex
ploring whatever had the appearance OF a passage;
at one time running into q deep bay for 50 miles,
which was found closely blocked up and had to stand
out again. In this way the ship made 200 miles South
ing, without seeing any open water to Westward be-
fore she found passage. 5-i
The quantity Of ice, from the largest sized ieebergs
gradually down to the smallest pieces dpacked ice
exceeded anything ofthe kind that CaptLnes had ever
seen or heard Of about the banks before and as it is
now early in the season, he is afraid that, in few
weeks the widest track for European navigation will
be impeded by this dangerous foe. He therefore rec
ommends ship masters bound for Europe to go South
Of the Banks and to those coming, to Westward,
when approaching the ice track in thick weather or
in the night, to the utmost vigilance, and have
their ships under perfect command torany manGeuyre
at moments notice. -.r i. =e-a "a. sr.=.ls.
Nor ALL SLAyEs-Our readers no doubt have per
ceiyed by reference to the proceedings of the egis
ature in the contested cases of Leggett and Harrison
vs.. Labarre and Whann that not all the Democratic
members of the House are slaves to the tyrannical
edets of King Caucus. We take great pleasure i'll
embracing the earliest opportunity to do an act Of
justice to those Democratic Representatives who
fused to lend their assistance to the iniquous act OF
removing Messfs. Labarfe and Whann and eeGtng to
| their places Messrs. Leggett and Harrison. Messrs
Walker Patten, Hamilton and Harper, all refused 10
vote upon the motion to adopt the majority report
and resolutions. They confessed that they dd not
uhuHisldnu tile leflts oi INC tstseSyifuu q
not allowed time by the casting vote OF tne speahef
to make the necessary examination n ofaef u futf
understandingy, they were under the necessity ot
asking to be excused from voting such instances IN o.
independence are rare, and consequently az tne more
deserving of notice. Baton Rouge oa2este tsh INST
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| THE SEVENTH SgcrIoN.-The Louisville Denoerat
one of the most ferocious enemies Of Amerieanism'
speaks of the seventh section Of the American Plat
form, as follows:
No form Of words could be devised repadiating
more clearly the doctrine Of the Wiln9t erovlso and
itjust as distinctly repadiaEes tae aoesEae q 'i'
Missouri Compromise
! Stick pin there. s.szf
be mamie suesr crop of the wear 1855 is estimated