The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-30

,,snfs have h-r,, killed. or more than five or six
wounded vet it is be- Ond all doubt that eleven or
Twelve of the cOmbal3n!s are dead, that many more
are seriously hurt and that Lie amount OF loss on
the part Of the rebels greatly exceeds our informa,
ton The party in widow Cormack's house fired
altogether 80 Shots each man being good marks
man, and taking steady aim.
Whenever one Of The rebels put his head above
the wall which surrounded The house he was IN
stantIy fired at and 50 great was the slaughter
that the priest had 20 and ask PERMISSION lor
the removal of the dead and wounded, who Were
lying in great numbers on the field. II ~ beyohu
al doubt that MIR. Dillon has been severely "onhn-
ed. lie was covered by three OF the police AT tle
same moment, and was evidently struck. Smlth
O'Brien himself appears 10 have had very mar
row escape, from Tie Two shots fired at him. for
hear Today on good authority that his coat and the
ends of his neckcluth We're both perforated. lhaVe
only to aid that there is authentic account OF the
presence of any other rebel leaders this occasion,
except Smith o Brien and Dillon.
from the European Times, of August 81
We have received our Irish correspondence, dated
Yesterday. There is not any news of Importance
Twenty-three prisoners from BalIlngarry We're
brought into Dublin Yesterday, and committed to
Kilmainham charged with aiding in the late attack
on the police al that place on Saturday last.
number of additional arrests had taken place
in Dublin and the provinces
All is reported quiet in the South. Nothing fur
ther known Of Smith O'Brlen.
Arrest of Ten Re5el OFcers-On Monday morn
ing party of police visited the haberdashery es-
Enlistment Of Messrs PIN d Co., South Great
Georges street, Dublin, and commenced search
for arms. The chief clerk, OF being required by
the police, at once ordered all the young men TO
open their boxes. Ten were at once taken into
custody. 1t appeared by certain documents found
upon them that they had received regular commits
slons to act field officers and captains in the
guar army. The parties names are as follows:
Iames CrOttv alias Captain Crotty R0screa; James
Baker aIias Captain Baker, with William Walsh,
Henry Brackston, Edward Beahan, Andrew Bea-
han. Thomas Bergin. Richard johnson, John Shee-
han. and William Walsh. An order was drawn
mp for their committal to Kilmanham, where they
We're forthwith transmitted.
State of the Country. IF rom the Dublin Patriotl
How is 1t possible TO reconcile, we often ask our
selves, the story Of forty police having beaten
thousand men, with the enormous influx of troops
still pouring into this COuntry-with the alarm and
CONSERVATION every where pervading the authOrl-
ties-With the arrival of Lord llardlnge, late Gov
ernor-General of India, TO virtually supersede the
officials of Ireand-with war ships Marines load
ed guns, portfolios open and cleared for action, and
other indications of either the Government being
ridicuously deceived, or else important events by
some machinery We have not yet detected, exclu-
ding the facts from Journal which, in our case we
KNOW Only Willis ilB ldClS. NIialrNGf IeV are. 10
publish them. If it be true that Smith o Bren had
50 few fUllOwers-and we have obtained no facts
10 the conrary-dOes 1t not suggest the question:
if so ncOnsiderable demonstration in Ireland car
thus move England 10 its depth-summon her
iorces-cause them TO encamp, march, and cOun-
termarCh, and put to SuCh eXpenSe-a!iect her
iunts-and thus spread alarm through every nerve
and artery of antnority-why not correct the mis-
government of which, with all lis faults such
movement only represents the fruits Some of Mr..
O'BrIens political principles of action il is we'll
known, have never had our support or approval;
neither have they had the support approval of the
vast majority OF the Catholic clergy or intelligent
people Of Ireland but if there be any who thirst
to offer him up a sacrifice to the MoIOch of mis-
government, we tell them that, whatever be the
errors of Mr. 5. OBrlen, they will then be forgot
ten in his sacrifices
He may have adopted most erroneous modes of
conducting tie Repeal CauSe-have been stimulated
by flattery or amhton--he NAV be. as he has heen
nrecipiiaed into this most unhappy conllictby wri-
lings n" dd not sanction or COnirOl-but the people
viii Only recOiect that, with an ample fortune,
high standing IN society, he proved himself ready
To seal his sincerity with his blood and his fortune
lie may he deieaird-cruShed-a we suppose he
VIII he; but let no man believe that Ireland is
Therefore cUutented or crusiad-or that British neg
lect or mlSgo, ermeni viii not, if persevered in,
create and foster more powerful, because more
discreet and legal, popular organization and univer
sally dlfiused discomfort, which must keep England
either up TO the prolgaltv of her present war pitch
else instruct her in the wisdom of extending to
Ireland the economy of justice. 1t is one Of the
mstortunes of misrule that its antagonists are
deemed patriots, and its victims martyrs.
Erection of Barricades
Yesterday week barrcades Were erected at Kille-
nary, on an alarm being given that Cavalry were
coming to take the town Smith o Brien was there
at the lime, and being at the head of an immense
body of insurgents, walked up with pistol in each
hand TO the commanding officer and asked him if
he had come TO arrest him; the other replied that
he had no orders of the kind his instructions being
TO pass from one point to another; therefore the
rebel chief agreed to let him and his party pass.
To-day there were two barricades erected one
of carts near Balngarry, the other of stones from
an old wall near the AIardike Coal Works. The
Times reporter, speaking of the peaceful aspect of
The district, says: 9 Yet it was evident, after a
time, that some mischief was on foot the faces of
the men one met appeared detected in the dusk Of
the evening" passed man in cart who had evil
IDENTITY been just wounded, and on arriving at a
genteman's house, where | went to receive aCcu-
rate information, found the place barricaded and
Fortified in the most formidable manner-the lower
windows were built 10, the doors of immense thick
Ness, double boiled, windows above most inge-
nlGusly fitted to protect the besieged, and enable
them TO pour their fire in the most destructive man
on the assailants Within We're six or seven
young men-as fighting garrison, and large party
of ladies, many Of whom had come to seek prOtec-
tion-pistos. double-barreled guns, hand grenades,
etc, were the weapons used for defence of the
place. Altogether it was perfect fortress on a
small domestic scale.
American COntederateS.- About l o'clock on
Wednesday morning, steam-tug, which had been
specially engaged for the occasion, proceeded out
into the river with party of police, to search
amongst the passengers of the ship John S. Skiddy
which had inst arrived from New York. for armed
svmpathizng american confederates The search
was unsuccessful Some respectable Young men
of desperate fortunes, connected with Dublin clubs
have gone by the great Southern and Western Rail
ways, with view of igtaing the amy at Sieve
namon mountains, which they say is to be the ulti-
mate headquarters of O'Rrien and Meagher and to
occupy Waterford; Doheny, Cork ; aad OGorman,
Limerick.
The 9th regiment of Infantry, which lay last
week in Liverpool, went off by railway, immedi-
ately on landing, into the disturbed district
LATER.
On Sunday, Smith O'Brien and his followers
were still in the Colliery district, between Sieve
namOn and village of Ballingarry.
1t was said considerable accessicns to the rebel