New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-14
Later from Mexico.

IEEAENDDtS tiAl5.-LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. |
Mr. DaCosta purser of the steamship Calhoun, who |
arrived yesterday morning on the steamship Phila |
dephia, has furnished us the following report:
The steamship Calhoun, Capt Rathbun, which |
left this port the 18th Of December, for Vera
Cruz the Goth of December, at 9 o'clock, A. NJ,
when about forty miles from Vera Cruz encountered
a heavy gale from the N. W. Was not able to make
Vera Cruz, and hauled up to N. E., and kept the ship
off The gale continued until the morning of the 2st
when it moderated little, and at A. NJ, 22d, it
moderated that the ship continued her to
Vera Cruz. During the day of the Goth, at p. M
sea boarded the ship, which swept off the dining
saloon and carried overheard the second steersman,
Peter Levy, pantryman Peter Thomas, and the bar
keeper-name unknown; also injIrng several Of the
steerage passengers one Of whom blew his brains out
for fear Of drowning
The Calhoun arrived at Vera Cruz on the morning
of the 23d, discharged cargo and passengers and
the 2jth proceeded to Aiyardo river, to repair dam
ages, which it will require about two weeks to COM
| plete.
On the morning of the Goth December, the port Of
Vera Cruz was visited by norther the seyerest
known that coast for many years. It lasted thirty
hours. Six vessels and many lives we're lost
The following vessels dragged their anchors and
went ashore below Vera Cruz during the gale
| American brig Menaph0r, Of New York, loaded
with mahogany and hides. Vessel and cargo total
loss. Second mate lost: captain and crew saved.
French bark Fortuna. Vessel and cargo total
I loss: crew saved.
The Mexican war steamer 1turbide dra .ged her
anchors and went ashore on the Larendaro shoals.
The crew. consisting of los and officers all lost
except six sailors.
The American bark Flash arrived at Vera Cruz on
the 25th December, from New York and would sail
for that port on the 18th proy.
! The American schooner Minna Schiller was to sail
for New Orleans on the 4th January
The bark Gen. Taylor, discharging cargo, was to
sail for New Orleans on or about the 10Th January.
The Hamburg brig Ricardo was lost on the night
of the 18th December, on the Bianquea Shoals
The crew and part of the cargo were saved.
The Conductor, from the city of Mexico, with three
millions of specie under the escort of 1000 troops
was expected to arrive at Vera Cruz on the I'd Of
| January.
The British steamer due at Vera Cruz on the 2Stl
of December had not arrived on the 30th.
We have dates to the 3Oth from Vera Cruz, bu
nothing from the capital except through this channel
Senor Lerdo de Teada Minister of State, ha
resigned, and was succeeded by Senor Payne. Tead
is said to be the abest man in Mexico, and it was
who conceived ana put III operation the pan OF col
iscating the church property. His resignation
which is ascrbed to bad health--caEsed great sci
sation and El Prosreso says it is the hope of the Ii
l. eral party that it will not be accepted.
The unsettled condition of the country has pr
e duced the usual scenes of robbery and violence
Siglo mentions less than six towns that have bee
attacked by organized bodies of banditt. The tow
of Tecolotlan was attacked in open day by band
two hundred robbers, who sacked several stores ar
= attempted to burn the place. They were final
driven off by the inhabitants after sharp skirmis
1t appears that Cuba is not the oEytropical reSic
that has been visited by fall of snow during the la
month. La Nacion of the 2ls ut., published in Il
city of Mexico. states that during the previous nj
! the Thermometer stood at one degree above zer
and in the morning the roois streets, publ
squares trees, and the hills that surround the city
lakes were covered with mantle of snow. l.
Nacon says:
Mexico presents, this morning, aspect truly pi
tresqUc-the green leaves Of our eternal spring tort
ing beautiful contrast to the white sheet OF slo
which clothes them in an uniccustomed garb.