New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-18
KEY EdEsT CORRESPONDENCE.

hEN WEST, sept, u 1905
Editors Crescent-Since writing you on the 25th
and 26th ut we have further intelligence from the
reef
In the case of the Prussian ship Langgeuten, j. J.
Albrecht MASTER the parties have given their evidence
before the Commissioner of the District Court, which
will be submitted for the decision of the Judges A
Board of Survey has pronounced the ship seaworthy;
she will therefore, proceed to her port Of destination
so soon as the necessary arrangements have been
completed for the settlement of the salvage and ne
cessary expenses The ship lies at anchor in the
quarantine, but has no sickness on board
The bark Pentueket, Leighman, with a cargo of
sugar l6 days from Trinidad de Cuba, put into this
port on the 9th ul for stores and in want Of men,
having lost part Of her crew since leaving port.
The ship Sultan, Mullen, sailed hence for Boston
on the 4th inst. She has steam pump on board
and is taken on by her first officer, Capt Berry re.
naming to settle the affairs Of his ship in connection
with the burning of the ship Otseonthe, which, as
previously reported, was chartered to take forward
tae Sult0ns cargo.
The Spanish schooner Sen Ygual, from Havana
bound to small port in Cuba drfted otIand fell in
at Cape Florida, where the services of Capt Filler OF
the wrecking schooner Joshua Skinner were engaged
as plotgto bring her to this port competent per,
son has been engaged to carry her across the Gulf
she having no navigator on board.
The schooner q. c. johnson, chartered by a com.
pany in New York to convey Lieut.. Sinclair, U. s
Navy to the Swan Islands, for the purpose of survey
ing them put in here on the 9Th inst to bury Capt
Osborn, who had died suddenly in fit of apoplexy
the day previous, and whilst apparently enjoying
good health 1t appears that Capt. o. had been for.
ward to give some instructions regarding the per
Torrance OF portion Of the ships duty and had re-
turned aft, but noticing that the work did not pro
gress satisfactorily, was in the act Of returning for
ward, whenhe fell to the deck. The man at the wheel
saw him fall and supposed that be had struck his foot
against some obstacle in his way, but seeing he did
not ran to assist him in rising and upon reaching
him found him dead
The schooner has been placed in charge of Capt.
Reid, of this city who sailed for New York 7th inst
Lieut.. Sinclair, together with two other gentlemen
who accompanied him, returned to New York in the
steamer Daniel Webster.
The steamship st. Louis arrived from New York
on the night Of the Sth inst bringing 500 passengers
for California, to 60 forward per Granada for Aspin-
wall She returns to New York day direct so soon
as she transfers her passengers and freight.
The Champion, pilot boat, has been chartered at
900 to take the St. Louis Havana mails and passen-
gers across.
The report in circulation at New York and other
northern cities, that the yellow fever is raging
badly at this place, is incorrect, The whole nun.
Der Of deaths on the Island since last July, are
lG of these, two only have died in the town of
yellow fever; most Of the deaths have occurred at
the Marine Hospital, and greater part of them
we're Of yellow fever. You will see by this account