New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-13
NUMBER So.
Later from California.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP pHILapEr

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP PHILADELPHIA.
The U. s. mail steamship Philadelphia, Alfred G.
Gray commander, left New York on the afternoon of
the I'd inst, arrived off Havana the evening of the
sth, and sailed again for New Orleans at P NJ OF
the 9th.
The Philadelphia landed 100000 at Havana, and
brings 1l3 passengers, the California mails and pas.
sengers, and a moderate cargo for this port.
The U. s. mail steamship George Law left Aspin-
wall June 3d. for New York. with $50 passengers and
nearly two millions of treasure.
The U. S. mail steamship Granada left Havana for
Aspinwall June 9th at 10 A. NJ, with New Orleans
mails and passengers for California.
In Havana there was little of interest occurring
The health of the Island continued good
The Philadelphia brought the following passengers:
FROM NEW YORK HAvAsA-tol B Gray. r Dyas. )
1an ss aa%sf5 ans asd o%s ea M
ner Woods, Dawson, Urbayas Escspon, Kegusyo
Fl Fsos "a t Goodman wife
y's is.Ss1
Children and I'd nurse Apdsgs2R shnbe MecstdyJ
w s s f;:iS
ers j ya,aros E D wiaehe,.er Mathew. sayter L
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in the steernge.
We have papers from San Francisco to the goth ult
but they contain nothing of importance.
In the mining regions long drought had prevailed
particularly in Tuolumne county. The Stockton
Argus says:
The large bitches, Of course, will not fail for some
months, but the smaller for water are nearly
all dry and many miners have been compelled to sus
pend operations in places remote from the convent
ence of obtaining supply Of water even from the
bitches. The miners in and around Gold Springs,
where water is to be obtained, although at the ex-
pense of So or 81 per day for tom stream, are
taking out an immense quantity OF gold in the aggre
gate, making average daily wages of 50 to Sc, exclu
sive Of $40 to $50 week paid for water privilege
ber of miners in the thcky settled portions of Tuo
umne, most Of whom permanent, and manifest no
disposition to migrate from one camp to another, as
was the case in the earlier days Of mining.
On the evening of the 7th ult, eight prisoners
escaped from the Ell Dorado county jail
The Yreka Union has the latest news from Pitt
river. The last of the Pitt River Volunteers had
come in, and announced the close of the campaign
against the Indians The Union says:
We have been informed that they report another
battle with the Indians after Messrs. Fox and Lock
hart left, in which they killed more of the enemy
than had been killed before, and took number of
women and children prisoners. According to this
port the whole number of Indians killed is fftynine.
They reported to have brought in thirteen chill
dren, which is just the number of prisoners in their
hands at the time Messrs. Fox and Lockhart left.
The Los Angeles Star states that an earthquake
shock was felt in that place recently at o'clock in
the night The Star says:
1t caused doors and windows to rattle pretty freely
and some people to run out of their houses but did
not create any general alarm. We may mention that
earthquake shocks still of frequent at
Fort TETON, and of considerable violence.
| The disastrous termination of the Sonora eXpedi-
ton and the sad fate of Col. Crabb and his compan
ions, excited profound sensation in California. The
Herald publishes the full particulars of the affair,
from which extract interesting particulars of
the last scenes at Caborca:
Fighting continued eight days. with loss to the
Americans of % killed. The Mexican loss is reported
by themselves to have been twenty-five, but is sup
posed to have been much greater-as high as two
hundred. On the eight day an attempt was made by
two of Crabbs men to blow up the church by placing
keg ofpowder under the portco and firing it.. The
devoted men who attempted this were both killed
and Crahb is said to have been wounded in superin
tending it. 1t is said an offer was made by Crabb tc
retire the Mexicans would allow it. He had refused
to retire when the offer was made him, after thu
fighting had continued two days, and the Mexi
cans confident of his weakness and their triumph,
fused The Americans were gradually but surely
caught in snare from which there was no escape.
= By breaking through the wall of the adjoining
houses the MeXicans forced Crabb and his men into
the buildings, which they repeatedly set or
fire, but which the Americans as often extinguished
At last Papago Indian shot into the roof of the
main building occupied by the unhappy flibusterss q
lighted arrow. The flames caught the roof and in
, few moments the fire caught dropping in great
flakes upon the heads of the doomed men within
Worn out with constant fighting, exhausted with
anxiety, famshed by probably days of starvation ant
thirst, and without ammunition Henry A. Crabb and
tifty-eight men marched out of the burning house
8 with white flag before them, laid down their arms
, and surrendered. it is supposed Internationally
, This was in the night towards morning They
were Immediately tied, their hands behind them
taken to corral near the Acades office, where they
were kept until morning, when they were taken on
in squads of and 10 each and shot In the first
cuti0ns it found that the calmness of the Ameri
dscomposed the eXecutioners and they shot TOT
e high or too low, in many cases only woundng thei
victims The backs of the fated then turned
to the troops, and they succeeded in aiming with bet
| ter effect
u McCoun, (may he rest in peace) owing to his grea
stature, saved this torture, ball struck him full
in the breast at the first fire, and he fell dead Crab
!; | alone reserved for solitary DEATH He wa
taken to the Alcades office, questioned, allowed t.
u write letter to his wife, and to have an interview
with DR.. Evans, prisoner in the hands OF the Mex
r leans, who had been in confinement some weeks OIL
suspicion. The hour for his execution having arrived
- he led out, his hands stretched above his hea,
and tied to post in front of the building he had oc
$ cupied his face to the post and his back to his
!. ecutioncrs. At the command fire. at least hun
3 dred balls were fired into his body, and all that wa
- mortal of Henry A. Crabb hung dead, swinging b,
. his tied hands. A Mexican stepped forward ant
a with large knife, severed his head from the body
the warm blood spirting half way the street
n
office of the Juez, expused to the jeers of the popu
lace. 1t then placed in jar of mescal for pres
ervaton Is there not something peculiarly terribl
e in such fate for man who has controlled
v almost the destiny of great State like California
Two of the Ansas (brothers-nlaw Of Crabb) ar
said to be killed, and also Rasey Biven My inform
e ant, an intelligent and eyewitness of these hoI
II rors says Crabb died gentleman should calm
p and quietly as if he going to pleasant home
, Four men, sick, had been left at Sonora by Crabl
q They occupied the house owned by Z. E. Dunbar
t. Esq, the American side of the line. On the lSt
s Of April, at night, party of twenty-five Mexican
q came up from San Juan, went to Dunbar's house
took these poor sick men out of bed, tied them, au
at dawn Of day carried them to the foot of the hill
J. shot them like dogs American SOIL and left ther
a to rot. A party of Pupago Indians, more mercitu
~ buried them, and four solitary mounds appea
% lone witnesses of beastly crime, to the America
d Government for revenge, Will such appeal go
heard
= Mr. Dunbar just escaped massacre, having left 81
~ noita on the afternoon previous. The MeXicans WEI
IL furious at his escape although he had nothing to
s. with the party except to offer shelter on America
t. soil to four sick men, in his own whouse.
- A party of about thirty recruits, under Cap
Grant Orrey, started from Tucson to join Crabb
e Cavorca. When within ilteen miles of the latt
place they were attacked by about two hundred Me,
i. cans. Capt Orrey rctreated, fighting, and regain,
- the American line with a loss of onlv tDnr killed NJ