New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-26
Recent Publications.

We have received from the publlShers, through Mr..
j. c. Morgan, of Exchange Place, copies OF the fol-
lowing new books:
PROSE Works OF HENRY W ADswoRTH LoNGFELLow.
Two volumes Boston: Ticknor d Fields
Two elegant little pocket volumes, in embossed
muslin, gilt. A book which needs no praise from US,
and which every lover of beautiful and refined litera
ture should possess. The first volume contains
'sOutre.M er, Pilgrimage beyond the Sea-" and
Drift Wood, a collection of Essays" The second
volume contains Hyperion aud g Kavanagh.
CnARAorER1sTIcs OF WOMEN, Moral, Poetical and
Historical. By Mrs. jameson Boston: Ticknor
g. Fields.
A beautiful little volume, uniform with Longfellows
Works. 1t is literary gem of :" purest ray serene
The heroines of Shakespeare the subjects and the
elegant and fascinating manner in which they are
treated s sufficiently attested by the number of edi
tions through which it has run.
DRAMATIC SCENES, with Other Poems, first
printed BY Barry Cornwall Boston: Ticknor u
Fields.
Here is another delightful book the name of whose
| author renders remark from us unnecessary. The
miscellaneous poems, published for the first time, and
sxty-three in number are little brilants on all ro-
mantle subjects The book will prove so!ace to all.
1t is neatly printed and bound volume of 36S pages.
| THE WORLDS Own. BY Julia Ward Howe author of
| Passion Flowers and Words for the Hour"
Boston: Ticknor & Fields.
| A drama in five acts, written in classic style A
true and loving, but passionate and highsoued wife,
faithless husband an unprincipled syren, mobiles,
court butterflies, etc, the characters and love-
Jealousy and Understanding the chief excitements.
| 1t will while away leisure hour agreeably.
| Through MFR. B. NJ. Norman, No IA Camp street.
| we have received
| Poems. By Charles Swain Boston Whttemore,
| Niles & Hall.
| Another casket of brilliants, by one of Englands
sweetest poets. The poems are all Short and number
nearly three hundred. The book is a pretty little
thing, embossed and gilt.
For summer reading, whilst travelling or Longing,
the above list of books cannot easily be surpassed.
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MuRDER.-The Eutaw (Ala) Wing states, that on
the 18th there occurred case of homicide, not far
from Knoxville in that county, of which Brown Ellis
was the victim, at the hands of G. W. Perham. No
one witnessed the deed nor of it until Per-
ham informed some persons that he had shot Ellis in
the woods, stating that while out hunting Ellis had
approached him in state of iutoxcation, and cut
him in several places with knife and struck him
once with large stick, and that he thereupon shot
him to preserve his life. perham bears the marks
of the knife his body and of the stick on his fore
head. The jury of Inquest which Investigated the
case report that Ellis had knife in his hand wher
. found dead aud o stick near him and a bottle abon
il half full of liquor, and are of the opinion that thu
a killing was done in self defence,
The shot took effect under or between the right ey
and the nose and passed out behind the left TIL
gun was shotgun, but the distance was so inconsd
Al cradle that the whole load acted as one ball.
1t appears that there had been misunderstanding
between them in regard to some land matters 70
al some time, which is the only known cause of tn
$. tragedy.