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

United States. -
u The Advertiser says that Sir Henry Buwer, in CON
certwth member Of parliament of great experience,
is endeaYoring to arrive at solution which may be-
more acceptable to both countries than the plan of al
btratioll. This interference in nonotfcial capacity
takes place at the instigatOn of Lord Palmerston,
An interview had been fixed upon for to-day, (Thurs
day. at 8 P. NJ at the American Embassy, when Sir
Henry Buwer will explain at length to Mr.. Buchan-
an the compromise which he is prepared to recom-s
mend. lam
From HAYTI.-A recent letter from Port-au-Prince
to the New York Evening Post, says:
Political matters stand about the same as on the
18th. No one seems to know what to expect The
Emperor is still the lines with the remains of his
army-say some ten or twelve thousand men, We
know but little of them, but we fear he will attempt
to renew the expedition. Should he do SO, We do
not know what would come of it. But we most
earnestly hope he will return; in which case, bust
ness, now moving very languidly, (though in its
Emperor is probably the only man in the Empire
who is in favor Of this expedition and if he can sue
coed in it against all this dead weight of opposition
he must be very able man.
never saw it worse. It has now {the last spelD
lasted over fifteen months, and it seems as if it
would never cease. Vessels are losing nearly half
their crews Hardly q man escapes the fever, who
has not already had it. -Four Of the barks men ran
away and went oil by vessel going out, just after
she arrived; and this, naturally enough is an Incl
dent OF common occurrence. The two Others the
second mate, cook, and two BOYS. have all been on
shore sick. The two former died. The nursing and
funeral expenses amounted to over s. 1000 Hayten
currency. Either the shore or harbor is almost Ger
tain death to an unacclimated stranger.
A writer in the Baltimore Patriot relates danger
GUS adventure the Western plains, in which he
says he killed large buffalo bull. He then states
what followed after rejoinng his Indian companions
While journeying campwards, related to the party
my adventure with the old bull i of course finished
it by stating had slain him. Capt. Wolff looked at
me with most quizzical and ncredulous SMILE and
emphahcally remarked, i'll his broken English, Car
valho no kill buffalo. insisted that had left him
dead on the field At this the whole party laughed
at me- felt annoyed, but soon found that it was no
use to contend with them. Weuchas, who was really
my friend, and to whom had rendered several ser
vices such bleeding him and curing him of fever,
could not believe the statement had made. Capt.
Wolf, seeing me look offended, said in these exact
words: hen Capt Wolff kill buffalo he cut out tile
tongue Indian shoot buffalo, bring home tongue.
Carvalho no bring buffalo tongue; lie no kill buffalo,"
This was powerful argument and the inference per-
fectly logical; and soon changed the subject.
With all due Difference to Mr.. Caryalho we must
be permitted the privilege claimed by the Indians
to remain incredulous.
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MURDERoUs AFFRAY IN TEXAs.-A letter from
Buena Vista, Shelby county, Texas, gives the follow
ing account of affair which occurred in that place
on the 10th:
Four men named William Therman NJ. Wheeler,
John Marlborough and Bob N1cCay, attacked man
by the name of tephen S. Rnnnels while he was in
the house of srend TheInlan fired the first shot at
Runnes, when the latter returned the fire, neither
party being wounded. Marlborough then shot Run
nes from behind, wounding him MORALLY. Runnels,
however, shot Marlborough in the thigh and also dis
charged ball at Wheeler which broke his ARM Their
man in the meantime, beating Runnes over the head
with his pistol. Runnes' next fired upon TherInan
and struck him just above the hip. Runnels lived
about three hoars after the bloody aray, and twas
reported that Therman was also dead. None of the
party had been arrested.
AN ANCIENT CH1EF.-A correspondent of the New
York Times, writing from Omaha City, Nebraska
Territory, says: su,..
Yesterday the Omaha Indians made their appear
ance in town to get their -four sugar and coffee from
the hands of their agent About noon the scene was
quite interesting particularly so, presume to who
might never before have seem gathering of an Indian
tribe in their native costume. The ground was coy
cred with snow, and they built fires around the town
plat, and gathered in groups around them Many
were painted and bedecked i'll their Indian nery, pre-
senting wild yet interesting appearance. One of
the chiefs we noted particuariy-hs age could not
have been much under one hundred and yet his step
elastic and his carriage as erect as those OF
man of twenty He recollects the celebrated eN-
porers Lewis and Clark and bears his certificate of
chieftanship from Governor Wilkinson, of Louisiana;
tins country tnen belonged 10 the Territory OF LOUIS
lana. On his breast hung an old Jackson medal from
whose hands he received it in Washington.
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| BLOWING UP THE I6E.-The Philadelphia Ledger
gives an account of unsuccessful attempt to break
up the ice i'll the Delaware river near that city Sey-
eral trials were made with different quantities of gun
POWDER and finally, the committee concluded that it
was impossible to sset fire to the river and abandon
| ed the attempt. We copy the result of two blasts
For the fifth trial, 4 keg containing so pounds of
powder was sunk twenty feet below the surface, Its
| explosion caused a violent conclusion, and vast
body of water intermingled with fragments of ice,
were thrown into the air to height of twenty feet,
while the ice for considerable distance around was
raised up and then fell again without affecting its
soidity The aperture made in the ice was not more
than fifteen feet square,
On the sixth trial, keg containing forty pounds
was discharged at depth of only seven feet. when
tremendous conclusion ensued. A column of watel
was thrown up not less than forty feet in height,
hole twenty-five feetin diameter was broken and the
surrounding fields of ice agitated clear to the ada
cent shore without however injuring its sodity fur
| Their than causing a few cracks The. water throw
| up by the force CT the explosion had deep greer
| tinge and presented a beautiful aspect.
A gentleman who has recently visited many OF tn
sugar parishes of onr State informs us that the plant
ers universally complain of the destruction OF thei
seed cane by the frost and the thaw which ensueu-
In many places the stubble has also suffered severed
from this canse He gives it as his opinion that tn
next sugar crop will fall considerably short OF til