New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-25
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FROM CENTRAL AMERICA.
i The steamship Daniel Webster, Capt. =. W. petten
arrived last night from San Juan We are indebted to
her obliging Purser NJ D. Hart Esq for California pa
/ perB to 9th inst, end the following memoranda:
i The steamship Daniel Webster Capt. J. W. Patten,
left San Juan the morning Of 19th and after bois
| ferrous passage arrived at Balze last evening.
The Star of the West left shortly after with $50 pas
ssngsrs and Saoo,0oo in Treasure for New York S
The following vessels at anchor in the harhor, to-
wit, H. B. NJ. soop-of-War Eurydice Of % guns, and
brig Espeege Of Il guns brig O. H. Sampson with mer-
chandize, brig Olive that put In time since from
Aspinwall with all HANDS slok with Chagres Fever. The
died Of the fever hour before the Webster
| the fagswere at half-mast in the harbor
Last accounts from Chsgres state that % vessels were
detained account Of sickness and Chagres Fever was
| raging to an alarming degree in that place.
Brigadier General Hornsby ana several other distn-
guished officers Of General Walkers army left for New
York on the Star Of the West. s$S
Captains Trumbull and Thorp, belonging to Walkers
yogeurs, and Capt Oliver, Of Col Kinney's Company
passengers in the Daniel Webster. Captain Oliver
of the several companies that have successful
In agriculture Indian river six miles from Greytown
Not Of sickness hes occurred in these companies
Gen. Walker has placed mounted company of sixty
rhemen on the Transit Companys road to protect the
specie train.
Gen. Sores, Minister Of Foreign Affairs and Benevan
tura sevas Minister Of War; have sent in their resgna
tions. The reasons assigned by these gentlemen
that they previously pledged to assist in restoring
Gen. Cahona to the Presidency Of Honduras and finding
Walker opposed to this apparently aggressive policy
they compelled to resign their respective positions
to place them right with their Hondurian friends.
Gen. Walker has received by the Uncle Sam, from Cal
fornia seventy under command Of Capt Suffer-
General Suffer- the old pioneer of California armed and
equipped for seryce thirty by the Webster and seventy
five by the Star of the Matchmaking his force eight hun
dred and fifty effective Everything is at present
quiet Roman Riyas of the present President, col
| lected and ammunition for revolution, but
Commodore De Bipet the officer appointed to escort the
United States Minister from Granada to Greytown SEIZED
at Serapugui twentyfour thousand cartridges thirteen
kegs of powder, hundred and fifty musket balls and
seventy muskes The latter he threw overheard in
presence Of the American English squsdrons at
Juan General has control of the whole country
and the almost entire confidence Of the inhabitants
the State Of Nicaragua his judicious regulations and
| laws strike the whole community with admiration The
old Spanish laws abolished, and American laws sub
stituted. 5f
Col. Kinney is steadily and efectually coonzing his
of land the Mosquito coast and is receiving by
the arrival of every steamer accessions to his different
I
tYating the beautiful land on the margin of Indian
river His health is good and he is most sapguine of
speedy return for his enterprise. All under him
much pleased with his beral grants Of land and his
kind attention to them After the arrest of Alfred Cohen
mentioned in the California News his brother attacked
the Bulletin office, demolished the furniture and at
tempted to shoot James K of William the editor He is
also arrested says the Extra, of which have
copy Il.
The news from California by this arrival is not import
ant.
Since the sailing Of the last steamer the weather
throughout California had been unusually cold. Ice
formed In San Francisco half inch in thickness
much had fallen in the mining regions. The ther-
for several days had been in the neighborhood
Of thirty degrees Fahrenheit.
From the mines we have the most cheering accounts.
Recent have given the miners plenty of WATER
therefore plenty of work.
The Legislature was to meet at Sacramento on the 7h
instant.
The exports of wheat during the past year. had been
quite large equivalent to 1886 barrels of -four The
total amount Of wheat in California during the
past year, is estimated high 525A44 bushels.
much larger amount will doubtless be produced this year
On the goth Of December, the o. s. Land Commissioner
confirmed the claim of the Catholic Church, to the Mis-
sion Church buildings the graveyards and orchards and
vineyards attached to them in the twenty old Mis-
sions of California. i
The election for Aldermen in the Fourth and Seventh
Wards (san Francisco resulted in the choice Of H B.
James and G. ". Bryant, the Know Nothing candidates
A. 9. Haskell, charged with embszzlng 81 600 from
his employers discharged, appearing to pros
him. and it is said he has gone to Nicaragua The
gamblers who had won the money paid it to his
| ployers. n. 3.. .,.. .~..=,. .5s.s E... -.0
Joshua L. silsbee, the Yankee comedian died on the
! morning of the I'd.
severe shock of an earthquake was felt in San Fran
cisco on the morning of the I'd. 5.-.. 81
| Geo. NJ. ChaEe q. 8. Consul at Lahaina, Sandwich
| Islands, is dead. .. A.. .... ..,s.s.- ....
Thsatricals were Furnishing. Mr.. James Stark had
opened the American Theatre where after Mr. Buchanan
completed his engagement, Camille was brought OUT
with Mrs. Stark Camille .. ."..-. III
At the Metropolitan Marie Duret bad played round
Of her characters. Jack Sheppard drew crowded houses
several nights. ..- .t-.s s..
The Minstrels have excellent houses.
The Union opened for few nights by the Risey
Troupe, but is closed.
Mrs Sinclair had been drawing crowded houses with
"The Marble Hearth at the old Sacramento Theater
The Rayes at Murysville. Their trip to Cefor-
nie had not been profitable.
ME- Buchanan sitter long and successful engagement
in San Francisco had gone to Nevada. $500 Nz1
The prominent candidates in the American party for
Senator In place of DR. Gwin, Messrs Crabb Foote
Marshall, Flint, Newa of Ell Dorado Peyton and Dr.
Hitchcock. The Legislature consists of seventy-two
Americans thirty nine Democrats and Independent
1t is believed that jealouses will arise in the American
party, among those who formerly Wings and Demo-
Gratis such to prevent concentration of the vote of
the party and hence the opinion prevails that
| there will be no election. Il, g..1-
f., ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING. -