New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-23

a man by the name Of Thomasson has been on
trial in Georgetown, KY, for the murder of his
brother. Thomasson, it is alleged, shot and
killed him deliberately, but excuses himself fol-
so doing by asserting that he intended to shoot
over his head to scare him. A dispatch from
Georgetown says the jury, after an absence Of
six hours, being unable to agree, were dis
charged, eleven being for conviction and ore for
acquittal. The dispatch adds
"Upon the jury leaving the courthouse, a
large crowd followed after him with cries Of
tar and feather him!' He made his escape
through the back door of Pratts Hotel. 1t is
thought that there will be violence done to-
night N. i.
A correspondent Of the Louisville Courier
thus describes thrilling scene that took place
in the courthouse during the trial of Thomas
SON
"The widow Of the deceased, after testifying
that she never in her life had seen her husband
carrying weapons, much less ON the morning he
was killed, and that he had not been out of her
sight more than an hour before she saw his
mangled remains, with heart. rending sobs,
(stepping up to the prisoner, cried out, Muir
derer look on this child Truly this seemed
enough to move the stones of our streets to mu-
tiny and rage
WING PRIMARY ELECTIONS IN NEW York
The New York Herald states that the issue at
the late Wing primary elections in New York
city, for delegates to the Wing State Conven-
ton at Syracuse, was between the Seward and
the Anti-Seward Wings, and that the arch
sgitator has been signally defeated. The
Herald attributes this result to the Know.
No+b pLo,, IL L. Al
gauntlet of defiance in the Senate The Herald
says it has reason to believe that the Know.
Nothings will first endeavor to "crush out 7
Seward, by breaking up at Syracuse the Wing
and Abolition alliance pre- arranged at Sara.
toga, and which is his programme for the Presi.
dency. To secure that alliance, the Saratoga
conspirators hold another convention, six days
after the Syracuse convention In this dilemma
with the Free Sellers in the rear of that con.
vention, the KnowNothings appear upon thei,
flank, and menace them with their own hos
tility, if they unite their fortunes with tht
Free Sellers. The Herald thus concludes
Nor are we satisfied that the Know Nothings
will limit their hostile operations against tn,
arch agitator to the doings of the convention
We are admonished to the contrary, that he il
to be followed up in the elections with the view
Of such Legislature as will GUST him from hi
place in the United States Senate. And WIN
not The Know-Nothings are but short
lived society, upon a false and sandy founda
| ton. They do not stand upon the rock of tn,
Constitution With the mystery which encircle
| them, their power will disappear. A taste Of
| two of the spoils, and there will be mutiny
| among them, rebellion and dispersion. But fol
the present, they are, as described by an oil
4 l.
spree" If, while on this frolic, they shall sue
coed in killing off for once and for ever an arch
| agitator and his reasonable aspirations, they
will have rendered at least one glorious victory
| to the country. e."
War has been declared against him. Hos
| tilities have commenced. The first brush j
suspicious; and we look to the Syracuse con
vention for something still more decisive. Al
| hands ahoyl
MURDER IN New YoRK.-A man named Johl
| Graham was stabbed to the heart and Instant,
killed, on the evening of the 14th, by an Irish
man named Barney MCGEE. The parties ha
quarreled about business transaction, an
MCGEE had gone to Graham's house and abuse
him in the presence Of his wife, Graham or
dered him out, and they finally came to blows
clinehed and tumbled down the stairs together
| McGee drew knife, and in the scufae killed hi
antagonist and severely wounded Mrs, Grahar
in the arm. He then made his escape and ha
| not been arrested at last accounts.
| ANOTHER MURDER IN NEW YoRK.-A ma
named John Murray, forty years of age, wa
murdered in New York on the evening of tn
18th, by man recently in his employ, an
with whom he had some difficulty in regard t
wages Murray died in about ten minutes
The deceased was entering the door of his resi-
dence, No. 1856 West Twenty seventh street
when the murderer, who was concealed in tn
hall, rushed upon him with knife, infictin
two wounds. One of them took effect in hi
breast and one in his heart, causing almost in
slant death