New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-22
TIE SLAYER GREY EAoLR.-A letter to the
Charleston Courier, dated Havana, July 9th,

deck, ana otnoF circumstances, Bhse SviuohSo
that cargo of negroes had just been landed,
and the Grey Eagle was taken possession Of, but
from the state Of the weather could not be got
acrols the reef that night. Next morning the
Governor Of Bahia Honda claimed her as his
prize He had, it appeared, arrested the me-
groes, but why the crew was suffered to escape
Is a mystery. Commander Hancock, of the Es-
pegle, took q receipt from the Governor of
Bahia Honda for the Grey Eagle, and she was
sent to this city for the Mixed Commission to
decide to whom the prize belongs"
TIE CROPS, etc.-From every direction we
learn the growing crops are most promising
The seasons have been as good as heart could
desire II is thought by many that, if the pres
emit prospects continue, corn can be bought also
to 35 cents per bushel in this market. 81
The damage to fruit, by frost in the spring,
is much greater and more general than we an
| ticipated. We have yet to see the first peach
this year. SO far, we have, like Yellow Bios
som, 1--WE believe that's the name of Judge
Longstreets character been compelled to lux
uriate on black berries
| The mercury in our office has been, during
portion Of last week, up to a. At the pres
emit writing it is at so. ATHENS (Ga.) Banner,
18th.
| The Madison (La.) Journal of the 18th inst.
has the following: ~
The weather for the past week has been as
it should be, none being able to suggest an inn
| provement; and the distended grin which
| pleasantly distorts the countenances of our
| farmers from every quarter, afford unmis-
| taxable evidence of the ready response of their
crops to it's genial influence. 1t is hoped that
| the cotton crop may almost entirely recover
from its (thought to beg irretrievable back-set
| caused by alternate browns and droughts of the
spring and early summer.
The corn crop, however, Though greatly i'm
proving,) had suffered too much before season
able weather set in for US to entertain the hope
Of any thing like an average yield.
| DISCIPLINE ON SHIP. BoARD--Alhert S. Ackley
was tried recently before Commissioner Brida-
| ham, of the U. s. Commissioners Office, New
York, upon complaint made by the wife of a
sailor named Matthew Nelson, who had shipped
as seaman on board the American ship Van
| guard for voyage from New York to Liverpool
and back, but who YVES shot dead by Ackley
before the ship had got out of sight Of Staten
Island 1t appears that the ship sailed on
| Friday, September "a, and that before she left
the port for her destination difficulty occurred
between the second mate and Nelson, the de-
| ceased, while they were aloft on duty in making
| sail. After they came on deck Nelson knocked
| the second mate down, and used threatening
| language to the first mate. The latter replied,
eff you come step further towards me I'll
| shoot you" and drew his pistol Nelson adj
| vanced toward Ackley, and the latter shot the
man dead. The Commissioner decided that it
was case of justifable homicide. New York
| Enquirer.
| DESPERATE AFFRAY.-Mr Peter Mccormack
was seriously, if not fatally injured in an ARRAY
| on Saturday night, in drinking shop in Mar
| ket between Meeting and King streets. He re-
ceived no less than nine stabs, one of which
penetrated the lower part of the lungs and
another the windpipe. One Of his supposed as.
sailants has been arrested and warrants are out
for two others. [Charleson Mercury, 17th
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! MOBY DICK CAPTURED--The New Bedford
! (Mass.) Standard relates the following In 1861,
| we published an account of the whaleship Ann
Alexander, Capt. Deblois, of this port, being
attacked and stove by sperm whale. The
whale was coming at the rate of Is miles an
hour, and the ship going about 5, at the time OF
The collision. The whale came with full force
against the ships bows, and stove in several
feet square, almost instantly sinking the vessel
and barely giving those on board an opportunity
| to escape. The Honolulu Friend, Of May s
states that about five months subsequent to the
| catastrophe the same whale was taken by the
Rebecca Sims, of this port. woharpoons were
discovered in him marked, g Ann Alexander ,
The whales head was found seriously injured
! and contained pieces of the ships timbers. He
had lost his wildness and ferocty, being very
much diseased; but upon being taken. yielded
/ seventy or eighty barrels of oil.
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| WOMAN OVER THE FALLs-The Niagara Falls
! Gazette says:
:" woman named Ann Hall, aged about
thirty -four years, is supposed to have gone over
theSFalls on Monday. Her shawl was found in
the race below the grist mill, and her body was
seen floating in the race by an individual in the
rear partof the Cataract House; but before he
with others, could reach the spot she probably
f1oated from the race into the river and over the
cataract. We learn that she had, till within
about two weeks, lived with Mrs. Jacobs. She
married last week a man named Russell, and
had been residing near the Canandaigua Depot
She was observed on Monday morning, by those
who knew her, to act in rather singular man.
ner, and she is supposed to have been partially
deranged. We are informed that she has g
brother named John Morgan, residing at No
225 Sixth Avenue, New York. Whether the ac
OF drowning was premeditated or not, we, O.
course, cannot say; and how she succeeded il
accomplishing the act in the day time undis
covered, is not q little strange
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HORRORS OF WAR.-In cruises along the coas
of the Crimea, in this Summer weather, thu
officers can see ladies sitting on the beach il
front of their villas, reading, with the children
picking up shells beside them There are cofs
and reading rooms within the reach of g.
FOUNDER and every thing seems to go on as i
in time of profound peace. The Crimea is Thu
Isle of Wight of the Muscovte Empire, and til,
fashionable visitors seem determined that the
Western Powers shall not deprive them of theil
season.
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A most singular death occurred near Roches
ter, New York, on the 18th instant. As thu
Lightning Train was passing the flag station Al
Aliens Creek, a stick of wood fell from the ten
der upon one of the wheels, by which it wa,
projected with the velocity of a rifle ball in th,
direction of the house of the fiagman, who wa,
standing in his door. The stick, about fou,
inches square, struck the man square on til,
head, passing nearly through it, and of cours
killing him instantaneously. The deceased
name was Farrenberg, and he leaves wife ane
three or four children
4 A young man of Bayonne has just invented {
mode of electric telegraph by which the dispatcl
is printed in ordinary letters, or conventions
signs, by the telegraph itself, at the point c
departure, at the end, and at the several inter
mediate stations, simultaneously.
E'AHNESToCK'S VERMIFUGE. REED
Wholesale Drug city, men who tnSa an tbar 49,
knowledge say regard to the virtue of B. A