New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-09-28

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SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.
daughter of a widow lady, in Philadelphia, hav-
ing been seduced by q young man in that city,
the brother Of the girl, on Sunday, the 18th
instant, sent for him, and appealed to him to
contribute to the support Of the ruined sister
| and her offspring, avowing his own inability to
bear the burthen imposed on him, in conse-
quence Of long continued ill health. The author
Of the girls ruin finally declared his willingness
| to marry the sister, and Sunday night, at seven
| o'clock, was fixed for the wedding every thing
was in readiness, but the groom did not make
| his appearance.
The brother is said to be very exemplary
young man. but, rendered desperate by the con-
duct of the seducer, on Monday morning he
went to the boarding house of the latter, at the
corner Of Callowhill and Nixon streets, and had
| an interview with him. Some words passed be-
tween them, and the brother drew pistol from
his pocket, for the purpose, as he declared, Of
| shooting the destroyer of his sister. The weapon
was cooked, and exploded prematurely. the en-
tire load passing through his own right hand
and wounding his leg The sufferer was con-
| veyed home in o high state of excitement A
| warrant for the arrest of the seducer was issued
and placed in the hands Of police officer.
The GOLD MINES OF VIRGISIA-A writer in
the New York Tribune says that of the paying
gold mines in Virginia, may be mentioned the
Marshall mine, in Spottsylvania county, on the
Rappahannock river, twelve miles from Frede-
ricksburg. From this time some $500 900 have
been extracted When last visited by the writer
twenty hands were employed. The yield was
from $50 to $500 per day The workings ex-
tend to depth of hundred feet In Fluvanna
county, Com Stockton has long been working
mines. The yield Of gold has been considerable,
though 1t is understood that large sums of
money have been spent upon machinery, which
was finally rejected. Very recently the mines
known as the Garnett and Mosely mines, in
buckingham county, which have passed through
several hands, have finally been purchased BY
an English Company, who are working them.
This tract contains 1900 acres, upon which are
several veins. The main vein, at depth Of 11O
feet is 10 feet wide, and yields about $40 to the
ton. Besides staff Of engineers they employ
seventy negroes The daily yield we have not
learned. The London and Virginia Gold and
Copper Mining Company have purchased pro.
perty adjoining the above, and known as the
Eldridge mine, for $l50,0O0.
RATHER STRANGE CHR1srrANs.-The Chinese
Reyolutionists, it is said, claim divine mission
and preach christianity, yet Paris paper con.
tains long account from the GO Apostolical Ad-
ministrator,'' at Nankin, giving history of the
prosecutions which the Catholics in that city
had suffered at the hands of the insurgents
On the 25th Of March the Christians were as
sembled according to custom, for the observance
| of Good Friday. The insurgents entered all at
once, crying and menacing They broke the
crucifx, overthrew the altar, and then wished
| to have their prayers recited-at the same time
presenting the Christians with books in which
it is written. Their demands being refused,
they seized, bound and beat and executed num-
bers Of them On the whole, out of six hun.
dred Christians at Nankin, Yang Tchou and
Tseu- -Kiang, fifty have been slain or burned te
death, and several have been bound or beaten
DREADFUL MORTALITY IN uBS-Letters from
Havana to the Goth ult., state that an epidemi,
| of choleric nature, assisted by the pernicioui
fever, was sweeping off sailors, soldiers, negroes
and others, with frightful rapidity in the inte
rior Of Cuba. Some estates, numbering from
| two to three hundred slaves, had been so re-
duced in the space Of q week, that there wer,
scarcely men enough left to bury the dead. II
generally proves fatal in four or five hours Ii
Havana, new comers are also being attacked
The immense military and other hospitals ar,
crowded with soldiers and sailors, one-third O
whom it is stated, do not recover. The stean
frigate Isabel Segunda, whose crew numbers
250 souls, had not thirty hands capable of at
tending to duty; and the steamer Gen. LezS
had lost thirty-one out Of crew of fifty men
| THE CHOLERA IN EURoPE.-The occurrence O.
three fatal cases at Liverpool has been men.
toned in the last advices Information from
Hamburg is that Asiatic cholera, which fol
several weeks has appeared there in single OF
isolated instances only, forming what is tech
l nioally called sporadic - cases, is now as
suming an epidemic form. There appears to
have been in all from 160 to 180 cases of the
disease, about two thirds of which have been
fatal-a circumstance which proves the extreme
virulence of its character. The last accounts
from Copenhagen give for that city, attacks
1887, and deaths 3946, out Of population Of
about 100000. At the same rate Of mortality
the deaths in London would amount to 10000
DINNER TO JOHN NJ. BoTrs.-A public dinnel
was given on Monday evening, the 10Th inst.
at Newark, N. j., to Hon. John Minor Bolts
by dslarge party of his personal and pofftica
friends. There were about sixty persons seate
at the table. Col. A. M 9. Pennington pre-
sided Mr.. Bolts made an eloquent speech
and contendet that the principles of protectio
to industry, improvements Of rivers and har
bors, distribution of the proceeds of the publ
lands, and other questions which the whig part
has heretofore supported, are yet vitality i'm
portant to the welfare of the nation; and ths
the whig party really lives to support them.
THE WRECKED STEAMER ERIE. The celebrate
diver, John Green, descended to the wreck
the steamer Erie, on the 18th inst. He n
mained in his diving apparatus. at the bottol
of the river, four hours, and succeeded j
placing chain around the bow of the vesse
and making it fast to buoy. He also fastene
a chain around the cylinder, and his partner
Mr. Quigley, placed a third chain around tn
stern of the vessel She lies on a hard bottom
and no doubts are entertained that she will b,
raised Mr. Green brought with him severa
Jumps of silver, that had been melted which
he found near the engine.
.THE BouRBoN AMONG Us."-The Reverend
E,eazer Williams, the reputed heir to the House
Of Bourbon, preached on Sunday, the 18th
instant, at st. Pauls Church, Hoboken, N. J
His theme was the Judgment, and the Judg
ment Day 1t is said he has a very command
ing appearance His delivery is easy and grace
fui, and his elocution frequently most fervit
! and persuasive His discourse, it is furthel
stated, was Of an eminently practical character
and seemed to have decided impression upol
his hearers