New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-06-12


Notary appofntees Of Ills predecessor and the re-
lfsa o. the frat removal to surrender the seal of
ofllee brought The matter into courts and was de-
:!ded IN favor Of the present incumbent in the District
Court, but it will be taken to the Supreme Court,
where the decision may be reversed.
:, W; I. Sherman, Esd, Of Measra. Lucas Turner&
g., has been appointed by the Governor Brigadier
General Of the San Franci5co Division of the State
military forces
Later from Oregon.
By the arrival of the Columbia at San Francisco,
we have papers to the 18th May.
From the Oregonian Of that date, We learn that
the campaign against the Indians in tie northern
portion Of the Territory is at an end, and that the
country above the Dallas will be in undisputed
possession Of the Indians, the volunteers having all
been disbanded. From the South, the 0regonian has
the following:
From sIr. Bradbury, of the South, We learn that
the volunteers numbering two hundred and fifty, nm
der Gen Larnerick, surprised band Of Indians en-
cafnped on bar Of Rogue river, near The meadows,
and firing upon them, killed about thirty, and COM
pletely routed the remainder siTS 55g
e The volunteers lost none, and had two wounded,
one Ga Mr.. Mercer Of Capt. Wiliinsons Company
badly, and it is feared mortaly HeWas brought into
re hospital at Deer Creek, and has died
The Indians fought for some time, but finally re-
treated Gen. Lameriek made preparations tofoIfcw,
hoping 70 strike an edectaa1 blow. The volunteers
captured ten horses. t5# III s4S
Mr. B. states that a Me- Nc Hardness, of Crave
Greek Holses while carrying an express from Grave
Creek TO Cen Lamerick was fired Hpon he fell from
his horse and Eas horribly mutated the Indians,
while alive, as the wound was not mortal
LATEST NEWS FROM PuGEF sougp-Wg d learn.
says the Oregonian, from Mr. e. u Gum editor and
publisher Of the Puget Sound Courier who arrived IN
this city on Wednesday morning last that consdefa-
raffI
the Indian war That The volunteers and regulars
were all taking the field to concentrate then fDrees
expecting to meet the indiana large body near
Fort McAllister, South Prairie, between the Puy
allup and NisqualIy rivers. An el1carnpnlent had
been found in swamp near by, from which, it is
supposed about $50 Indians had Just left. Fresh
signs of men and horses were seen in abundance
close around, and it is probable there were spies
| the immediate vicinity. Lieut.. BfcKibben, with
command Of twenty regulars, left Fort Stellacoon for
that region on Wednesday of last week, by way Of
the Nsqually, and Lieut. Kuntz, with the same num-
ber, on Thursday, By the Puyalup: Major an Box
Eelen, and Capts SWndel and Rabbeson, of the vol
unteers. with their different commands had moved
in the same direction. The volunteers still garri
soned Fort McAIIister. \
BARSUMs FRIENDs--9ver a thousand people, says
the New York Times, of the 4th instant, led of by
such men as E. K. Collins, Commodore Vanderbilt,
IF. B. Cutting, Robert stuyEesant, and Thomas
Thumb, Esq, have united in rendering to PT- Bar
mum q series Of benefits. Barnum sends them the
following reply:
| LONG ISLAND, Tuesday, June 8, 1856 Gentlemen
can scarcely find words to express my gratitude for
| your very kind proposition. The popular sympathy
/ is to me far more precious than gold and that sym
pathy seems, in my case, to extend from my M1ne-
/ date neighbors in Bridgeport to all parts of our
| Union. TI=E 55,S,si F8s,l 5fsss .s5s5 III 4#1s E
Protfers of peeuniary assistance have reached me
from every quarter, not oDy from friends but from
/ entire strangers Mr.. Vim. E. Burton, Miss Laura
Keene and Mr. VIM. Niblo, have, in the kindest man
ner rendered the receipts of their theateFs
evening Mr. Cough volunteered the proceeds of one
Of his attractive lectures-M James Phalen gener.
ously offering me the free use of the Academy OF
Music. Many professional ladies and gentlemen have
urged me to accept their gratnitous services. have
on principle respectfully declined them all as beg
With the most grateful acknoWledg lat least
Il for the present) to decline yours-not because q
benefit in itself an Objectionable thing but because
I have ever made it point to ask nothing of the
public on personal grounds, and should prefer, while
possibly avoid that exigeney to accept nothing
from it without the honest conviction that had in
dividually given it in return a full equivalent
While favored with health feel competent to carr
an honest livelihood for myself and family Nor
than this, shall certainly never attempt with such
load Of debt suspended in teTTorem over me. Whls
earnestly thank you, therefore, for your generous
consideration, gentlemen, I trust you will appreciate
my desire to live unhnmilate by aisense of depend
!, ence, and believe me sincerely yours, "A
To Messs Freeman HINT f. K! Collins and others