New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-11

shortly 100 tuna Of Sydney sold at sl4. Dry
goods are Auiets drills, SAc. sleetngs, &c.; Molas
ses and syrups firm Eastern s. to 9oc.i pas are
heavy at AL; Oils are lower for olive and nnseea
provisions quiet pork clear sls for ~ Y, sna
50 for half hhls; mess SIS bacon. lo3 e. lic.i
hams ID brine IDJ To llc. butter &C soe. iol
Ithnus; $500 irkns old sold Ct aucl,on ~ . s.
tic higher; brandy, Is to 50c pure spaIs' y -
47c.: alcohol ~ I'd s0o.; whisky, 46 70 4,c,; lot
egn brandies are very firm; GIN duii CIV arou ".
/ ING {. surar--rew quiet and unchanged; reheea IN
4 settled with an upward tendency crushed, iEc.
Money Ii rather easier, sud dust is coming more
4 freely frGm the country.
y gsss s Z s p MT Tih steamer
I Northerncr, Capt Dali, bound for Portland, Ore
| son, was wrecked January 6ta, on the rocks near
Cape Mendocino.
Ihe following ere lie names of the lost and miss
Bloomfield, bound for Victoria; Deischreider
switasr, kelley Farrell, Samuel Gregg and sister,
Ramsey q Thomas Andrew Hunter, Trefor Daily,
Greenfield Hans. all bound for Portland: Perkins
Mskcr, for Steilacoon, and Taylor, for Puget
Sound.
The following officers and crew are known to be
fost.
Mt. French, first officer; Mayhood third officer .
Caldwell, pilot; Barry, express messenger; Ma
ton, first engineer; nine Of tile stewards crew.
enc fireman. six sailors, and the carpenter.
The vessel Is total loss. The mails and treasure
were saved.
The Assembly yesterday adopted concurrent
resolutions providing for the establishment Of a
daily overland mail from San Francisco to the Mis-
sissippi river.
LATEST Observation-Disclosures were active yes
terday. High proof Whisky sold at 30 cents, and
s. il now asked. Other kinds are tending up
wards under strong speculative movement
Crushed Sugar from importers sells at ii 3c
MARIsE.-Arrived, january 14th, steamer Uncle
Sam, from Panama.
Sailed 10TH Russian steamer Alexander II, for
| New ArchangeI; I1th, bark Early Bird. Hong
Kong; bark Pndel, Valparaiso ship Nazarine,
1 Melbourne.
| The san francisco Bulletin Of the 18th January.
Lin long editorial sets forth the Importance of i'm
mediate artion in building an overland telegraph
| line. 1t says half dozen of our capitalists might
without Inconvenience, advance enough money to
bniid the California portion. and urges them to do
Iso Is also says that the line at present in course
at construction was expected to be working to
Frescoe City, twenty miles south Of Firebaugh's
Ferry. and about one hundred and eightyfye miles
I from san Francisco.
Adyices from Victoria were to January 9Th. Bu-
siness and mining were dull in British Columbia.
Coy Latham had addressed long letter to Pre-
sident Buchanan in reference to the separation Of
San Louis Obispo, San Bernardino, Los Angeles,
San Diego, Santa Barbara and part of Buena /
State, for the formation Of q Territorial or other
government. He submits his views on the subject +
as proposition new and Of grave consideration. I
both State and national. He asks, can portion /
Of State 10 backwards and be RENTED to a Ter
ritorial condition? II so, it may be within the I
power Of several State Legislatures and Congress I
e dissolve the Union He urges great caution on I
the part of Congress in the matter.
This proposition had its origin in the dssatisfac-
ton of the mass of the population in the southern
counties to bear their proportion Of the State Gov
eminent.