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

New YORK, March 1.-The steamer Atlantic sailed
hence to-day at noon, having Hon. Geo. M. Dallas,
our new Minister to England and his family on board
The Atlantic took out no specie.
NEW YoRK, March 3.-The brig London, of New
Orleans, with cargo of moasses, is ashore at Squam
Inlet, full ofwater.
PORTLAND, March 3.-The bark David Nickels,
from Cardenas, was sunk in the harbor yesterday by
the floating ice, and Captain Sweet her master, was
drowned.
A fire occurred here on Saturday night, which de-
stroyed five stores on Middle street, occupied by Da
mous White, 0. Fl. Perry, W. s. Riehland and William
Russell.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-llr. Champion has writ
ten note to the editors of the ntegencer stating
that he was not instructed by Lord Clarendon to sub
mita proposition for the arbitration of the Central
American question, but only to inform Nh. Marcy that
such proposal had been made to Mr.. Buchanan.
CHICAGO, Feb. 29.-Thomas Hayne, United States
District Attorney attacked Charles L. Wilson, editor
Of the Chicago Journal, in the street yesterday,
striking him a severe blowsin the face, Mr.. Wilson
returned the blow, knocking Hayne through the
window of the State Bank. The difficulty was occa-
stoned by the comments in the Journal on the p0liti
cal course of Hayne.
CHICAGO, March Ia dispatch from Kansas, dated
yesterday, says the Kckapoo Rangers had commenced
preparations for driving the Free State men from their
claims
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 29.-The notes Of the Central
Bank Of Tennessee at Nashville, are refused by the
other Nashville banks. The bank is said to be owned
in New York. The Attorney General of the State has
been directed to examine into its condition. Their
recent issues are payable at Danridge, Jefferson Co.,
Tenn.
TIE MISSING STEAMsH1p-AIr. Chas Abon, of
Baltimore, mate of the English brig Bogart, which
arrived at st. John, New Brunswick, on the 9th ut
publishes in the New York papers the following re-
port:
We left Shields on the It'll of January last, and ex
perienced veryrough weather the whole passage. Fell
in with great quantities of drift ice on the banks and
saw number of icebergs Was under the lee of berg
for two days On the 10Th of February, between two
aud three bells 3 o'clock in the afternoon, as was
standing on the quarterback with night glass in my
hand II saw steamship crossing our track between
two and three miles ahead, q think about that dis
tance she was steering to the eastward The weather
was thick and foggy, with slight drizzy rain, and
blowing gale from W. N. w. of N. N. w. Occasion
any the log would light up could see her through
the maze nut not very distinctly. thought it was one
of the Collins steamships, as she had no bowsprit.
KNOW the Paeliic having seen her frequently. Her
Starboafd bulWarss We're gone starboard wheelh
was also gone, and think part of her wheel, Her
wheel was ~ moton very slow, 50 far as could see
She WAS rolling very heavy, and remarked to one of
the sailors, There's steamer which has had lick
new and then The foretopmast staysail and main
spencer were set. The foremost was carried away.
She had list TO port of about three streaks We last
sight of her Ia half an hour did not report this in
New Brunswick, as knew nothing Of the absence of
the Pacific.
The New York Express says that the above state
ment was read on Change Saturday afternoon, to
an auditory composed of Mr.. Cunard and Capt Nye
and other leading ship owners, all of whom rdiculed
it as utterly destitute of foundation.