The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-19
NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1856

killed and thirteen wounded. rwcntyone men and
two officers died during the cruise. In her home
ward voyage the Powhatan ran nearly fourteen
thousand miles in seventyfve days, consuming two
thousand two hundred and forty.two tons Of coal
Our files from Port Louis, Nauritius, are to the
10th of December. The Port Louis Price Currtnt
Of that date says:-We have only to confirm our
last accounts regards the sugar crop, which win
not exceed 95 COO tons. The dry weather has been
interrupted by few showers, but the heat is ex
cessive the rain has had little effect on the panta
TONS The Chamber of Agriculture has been occu-
pied with proposed means of destroying tbs borer
SO destructive to the cane.
Our st. Domingo City correspondent, writing on
2lst of January, says:The Haytien war and invasion
OF the negro Emperor Soalouque is serious affair.
The Domincans have fought three battles and were
victorious. The Haytiens were chased like mad
dogs, and about loo of them was killed and fifty
six taken pr soners.
Cape of Good Hope papers, dated at Cape Town
to January 6, have been received. Trade was i'm
proving and the country quiet. We learn that the
Presidents object in his late visit to WnburS and
Rhenoster river was to investigate the causes OF
some dissatisfaction among the inhabitants OF that
remote part of the country in reference to measures
adopted regarding number Of natives who had
squaited at the new village Of Cronstadt, and on
Walls river. Nine Wesleyan mission schools had
been examined by the Rev. W. Moister, the society's
general superintendent, in the presence of the re-
spective resident ministers and few of the parents
of the children. The aggregate number of scholars
present was six hundred and seventy-two. Rev. Mr.
Pixley, an American missionary on his way to Natal
from Boston, had arrived in Table Bay. cor
respondent of the Frontier Times, writing from
Winterberg, under date Dec. II, says:-One month
since the crops of wheat appeared in beautiful
and healthy state: now many are all but destroyed
by rust, some will not yield sufficient to pay the ex-
pense of reaping
In a private letter received from highly respect
able source at Lima dated January 25, the follow
ing paragraph 0ccurs:-
should De sorry to that further notice will be
taken Of the dg sceful murder of the party OF Aer
brtcheIed at Tsbainga on the Amazon IN septem
Der last certain person Of standing here has written
to Washington that they belonged to another coun
try and were not Amelca In this they wilfuly
represent the Iutp which know to be the acti ana
steps ought to be taken to have inquiries made mp
the matter With TWO exceptions. the whole
party Americans who set out from this city ON an
exploring expedition
Fully crediting the above, we hope the govern
ment will adopt speedy measures for having the
subject fully investigated In reference to the place
where these unfortunate Americans were massacred,
we find it alluded to by Lieutenants Herndon and
Gibbons as follows
The river upon which now entered is the naiu
trunk OF the Amazon which carries it's Peruvian of
Maranon as far as Tabatipga the Brazilian frontier,
below which, and the junction OF the Rio Negro
il takes the name oinoens and then:e to the ocean
Ii is called tie Amazon. It is the same stream through
out.
1t thus appears that Tabatinga is town in Perm.
on or at the Brazilian frontier. II in Peru, that
government should be called upon to account for
the wholesale and unproyoked murder OF our citi-
zens. Tie notice Of the massacre of these Ameri-
cans has been heretofore published in this Paper.
In another column will be found an interesting
letter from our Toronto correspon lent Canadian
politics. We published on Saturday the speech Of
the Governor-General opening Parliament. Our
correspondent states that his Excellency looked
exceedingly anxious and nervous upon the occasion,
his growing unpopularity appearing to inspire him
with appiehensions regarding the future. The ef-
feet of reciprocity thus far has been to reduce the
revenue Of the Provinces but it is to be recoected
that the importations last season were remarka-
bly, small, and those of the previous remark
ably large. The depression is, therefore, viewed as
only temporary. The general condition of the pro-
to offer satisfactory prospects for the coming year.
1t is thought that the Parliamentary session will be
brief one. The leading questions that will come
under discussion are the selection of permanent
seat Of government, the constitution of the Legis
lative Council, the clergy reserve communication, the
demand Of the Roman Catholic population for dis
trict schools, the representation Of Upper and
Lower Canada in Parliament by population, and
prohibitory liquor law The latter bill will doabt
be lost. Last year similar measure was proposed
and rejected.
We give to-day an interesting debate which took
place in the House OF Representatives Of Georgia
the bill to promote the settlement of Kansas Terri
tory. The bill proposes to give fifty dollars head
to all destitute emigrants who may desire to go into
Kansas from the State of Georgia to the extent Of
fifty thousand dollars, and to reimburse the State
treasury by special tax on slaves. The act was
strongly opposed, the ground that lift passed
it would be carrying out the principle of the North
ern aid societies, against which the South had, up
to the present time with great unaninty protested
The bill was finally lost by a vote Of G3 TO AZ.
Another instance of rapid .eegraphing is brought
to our notice. The European news by the steamer
Canada was despatched from this city by the New
York and New Orleans Telegraph via Washington,
between and 8 o'clock on Sunday evening, and
went promptly through to the agent of the Asso-
ciated Press in New Orleans, whose acknowledge
ment of it was received here at ii P. NJ.
The mystery attending the late case Of abortion
which took place in Houston street few weeks ago
has not yet been cleared up. Mrs. Croker was re
arrested yesterday morning on some fresh evidence
obtained against her. The accused was taken to the
Mayors office, from whence she was committed to
the Tombs for examination. A hearing win take
place in the this morning, when witnesses for
the defence will be placed upon the stand. No one
has yet identified the body of the deceased womsn
Anne E. Smith, although many persons have visited
tie receiving vault where the dead is resting, with
hope of being able in some manner to solve the
mystery that shrouds this entire case from begin
MIN 10 end For further particulars We Ynuld le.