The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-06-24

Byron, should judge Of the man by these letters,
written 10 his intimate friends. They will find him
a very different person from the portraits of Poet
Laureate.
TnE I4EE or JEAN PAU FREDggIo RIcHTER.Tran'Iated
by Eliza Buckminster Lee. NewYork, ID. Appleton u
To-, ~ mo-, PIP. 396.
That large and constantly increasing number Of
readers who already acquainted with Jean Paul
by his works, even though TRANSACTIONS, will receive
with pleasure this extremely interesting book Jean
Paul is cassed by his countrymen the third of the
Triumvrate composed Of Goethe, Schiller, and Jean
Paul "the only" We have marked page after
page for publication. In the mean time we advise
all who are fond of German literature to procure
the book for themselves. The book is at Steel's.
SCIENTIFIC WoRKs.-We call the attention of
readers to the valuable works on Railroads and
Machinery, advertised by J. B. Steel.
TRAGEDY IN GEORGIA = Confession Of the Ac.
cused The Tallahassee Journal of the 18th
gives us the following
Our neighbors of Thomas county, Ga, are con-
sderably excited in consequence of the disclosure
of an awful crime, and the arrest and imprisOn-
ment of the party concerned in committing it. The
circumstances, we have been able to gather
them from the many rumOrs in circulation, are
briefly these On the 10Th of March last, Mr. Rob
ert A. Pearce, very respectable planter OF that
time OF his DEATH there was teaching school in the
neIghboThOod, and boarding in the family of the
deceased, man who went by the name Of c.
PlnckneY Henson, said to be an Englshman by
birth, and aged some 81 or 80 years. Henson was
a stranger, but was taken by the hand by Pearcs,
and befriended. On the morning of P.'s death,
Henson was present, and administered to the de-
ceased dose which was taken for quinine. Pearce
soon after got worse, and in about three hours died
in great agony. Henson then removed to another
BOARDING. hDuSe lint pOutIuuab Visiting the yJdoVC
and family of the deceased, until the IumOr
circulated that marriage would shortly take
place between tile parties. The friends of the lady
lnierposed and sought to defeat the marriage and
about the last of May, Henson himself determined
on bringing matters close, and for this purpose
he waited on the lady at her own residence, and
perhaps dined with her, and on questioning her
to their marriage, and receiving negative an
swer, became violently excited, and declared that
he had poisoned her husband 10 get her, and if he
failed In that, no one should possess her, for he
would first kill her and then himself The rumOr
is that Mrs. p. promised a compliance with his
wishes, but on the next Monday she drove to
lh0masyllle, Che court being then in session at
that place. and lodged complaint against him for
the murder of her husband A true bill was found
against him by the Grand Jury for the murder, and
he arrested by the Sheriff and lodged in jail.
In the prisoners trunk were found number of
letters in the handwriting OF, and signed by Mrs
Pearce, which however throw no light on the awful
crime with which he stands charged. They are
mostly, as we are informed, ove-letters, and only
go TO show that there was some ground for her
friends to fear marrige was in contemplation be-
tween the parties. By the direction of the Court,
the body of the murdered man has been disinterred,
and an examination will take place in order to de-
tect the presence of poison in the stomach. Up to
the 7th instant, Henson continued protest his in
nOcenCe, but having failed in an ingenious attempt
to escape, in which he nearly succeeded, on the
morning of the It'll he addressed The crowd assem-
bed round the Jail, and confessed the crime, but
implicated Mrs. Pearce as an accomplish, charging
her with being privy to all the steps taken to
complish her husbands death, and with actually
administering with her own hands the poison he
had prepared for the purpose. He says that the
poison was arsenic, purchased by him from Dr.
Nash Of this city, for the purpose of removing
negro boy who had witnessed too great an intimacy
between him (the prisoner) and Mrs. Pearce, but
failing in killing the negro, it was then suggested
that Pearce be destroyed by mixing the poison with
qunne, which was done accordingly, with the re-
suit as above stated
Henson is represented as being blind with rage at
Mrs. Pearce, and as only DESTROYS TO live that he
may destroy her.
Public opinion, we are informed, is unanimous in
the belief of the mans guilt. He is said 10 be
good scholar, and a fine public speaker He had
been selected by the Sons of Temperance of which
body he was member, to deliver a fourth Of July
Grafton in the coming month";
We have purposey omitted many things in this
imperfect narrative, in regard TO the pOisoner and
Mrs T., as being unfit TO appear in the columns Of
our paper The lady is extensively and most re-
specially connected She is the mother of three
children, and is about eighteen years of age
BosToN NoTIoN.-David Belts, the Captain
of the brig Agnes Sophia, has been arrested Says
the Boston Bee OF the ljth) by Watson Freeman,
at the instance of j. B. Munroe who charges him
with violation of the alien passenger law because
he landed two emigrants without reporting them
The captain states that three days after leaving
GLASGOW he discovered in the hold of his brig two
minors, secreted between the water casks. At first
he says he was very angry, but during the rest Of
the voyage he gave the half starved youths plenty
of meat, and treated them like Christians" Upon
the arrival of the vessel here he did not report them
as passengers, and hence his offence. The captain
thinks it hard treatment after all his kindness tc
the two lads-in saving them from starvation, ant
bringing them to a land of plenty-to be arrested
by sheriff, and threatened with prosecution, lol
doing what he considered to be an act of charity
OUR CoUNTRY,-Irving thus speaks of ou
eountry-truth(ully and beautifully:
| on no country more than our own have the
charms OF nature been prodgally lavished; hel
| mighty lakes, like oceans of LIQUID silyer-hel
| mountains with their bright aerial tints-her val
leys teemlng with fertility her tremendous cata
| racts laundering in their solitude-her boundles
| plains waving with spontaneous verdure-her broad
deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean
her trackless forests, where vegetation puts lortl
| all her magnifcence-her skies kidding with IN
magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine
| no, never need an American look beyond his OWL
country for the sublime, beautiful and natura
| scenery"
A SUCCESSION OF BLows.-J Williams,
| Welchman, employed in Strengthening rails at tn
works on the Conestoga, Lancaster county, use
for that purpose sledge weighing ninety pounds
Every rail made requires at least seven blows witt
this immense hammer to straighten it, and as al
the rails are Strengthened by him, he is compellet
to give nearly thousand blows with it ever,
day. 1t would seem though the human franz
was not capable of such tremendous exertion, We
Mr.. Williams enjoys excellent health, and appa
rently grows stronger with every days exercise
| This John Williams must be decided " blower,
as every seven elbows " he strikes +" he raise
$50 pounds and if he is compelled" to strik
one thousand blows per day, he raises 90, OOl
pounds day. or $4,000 pounds week. Sampson
was a strong man, but Mr.. Williams must be q