New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-11

discharge OF her cargo; that information had been
received the preceding day from the Spanish Consul
at New Orleans that he had three hundred barrels of
flour on board. 1t appears that among the cargo of
the AA. Chapman there were three hundred barrels
OF potatoes, which barrels cleaner than potatoes
are usually exported in, and that either some enemy
OF Captain Laurent wag at your city desirous
of hoaaing the Spanish Consul there, gave him the
information that the A. A. Chapman had three hun.
dred barrels Of -four board, which it was intended
to smugge into this port. steamer came alongside
the Chapman and placed her at her berth at the
wharf, where gang of " "Mutriculados - at once
commenced discharging her, under the superintend.
ence OF the Custom-H House officers, and continued
their work until all the cargo was discharged, with
out OF course, finding single barrel of flour among
it. Except the annoyance thus occasioned Captain
Laurent has not any cause of complaint indeed, be
has been rather beneftted-hs cargo was discharged
at least two days earlier than he would have been
able to discharge it, and that too without any cost
to the vessel. l dare presume he would not have
much objection to repetition of such an event.
have observed in the impression Of the 2lst inst.
OF New Orleans paper, which has become of late
rather notorious for misrepresentation of Havana
affairs paragraph headed "a Georgian Garroted "
which heading is assuredly original with the New Or
leans paper. The paragraph contains report ex-
tracted from Macon (Georgia) paper, which states
that MIR. Perry Rigby an engineer from that city,
who is now in the employ of the Havana Railroad
Company had been garroted here for having through
carelessness or negligence caused train under his
charge to run off the track whereby the lives of sew.
eral persons were sacrificed. Such at least is the
substance Of the paragraph, which is quoted from
memory as l merely CHANGED to see the paper at
ship chandlers, where dropped in to avoid shower
few evenings since. l need, perhaps, scarcely in
form you that there is not any truth in the statement
OF MIR. Rlgby having been garroted, your readers
would have been informed of such an event by the
first steamer after its occurrence. The truth of the
matter is that some little time since the hinder cars
OF a train under the charge Of Mr. Rigby, from the
bad state of repair Of portion Of the railway got off
tie track, and brakemans thigh was unfortunately
smashed but no lives were lost.
Some two Or three weeks after this event Mr..
Rgby was quite unexpectedly arrested and sent to
prison, where he was kept twentyfour days. He was
also fined 500 for having permitted the cars to get
off the track, circumstance entirely beyond his
troll and for which he was, under the circumstances,
in no manner to blame; indeed, am told the railway
is requentyin so bad state of repair that it is only
by the great skill and care of the engineers that ser
GUS accidents do not frequently occur.
| On the 25th ult. the French ship Willie de Dieppe,
Rosseau, MASTER arrived in ten days from Canton via
ST. Helena, with 52l "Asaticos free colonists con.
signed to Messrs. Fernandez Il Schimper five died
on the passage, four jumped overheard and died
in this harbor the day after the arrival of the ship.
On the 9th ult. the Dutch ship Bellona, arrived
from Macao via ST. Helena, with 427 Asiaticos free
coloniss. She had seventythree deaths on the pas
sage.
senor Alcazar, formerly administrator of the Tacon
theater, has gone to the North to endeavor to obtain
Italian opera company to visit this city ;yshould
he not succeed at the North, he will go to Europe for
the same purpose.
soldier Of the regiment of the Grown, who had
deserted two or three times and committed various
heinous crimes against society, shot the morn
ing of the 2Sth ultimo
A patent for five years has been granted to Ramon
Saladrigas for GARLIC (hoisting tacke) for drawing
| water from wells.
His Excellency the Captain.G General, with his amia
BILE family, has gone to reside for the hot months at
the splendid house erected by Doctor Heviaut Ma
| rianoa.
| About o'clock on the evening of Goth ut., the
fast day of St. Peter and ST. Paul, respectfully
attired person, named Antonio Maria Campos, drop.
| ped down dead on the Plaza de Armas.
| The steamer Rapido, formerly the St. Lawrence,
| on a recent passage from Batabuno to Trinidad de
| Cuba, had her smoke pipe blown down in,a gale of
| wind, and the wood work which had surrounded it
catching fire caused great alarm to the passengers,
who feared the ship would be consumed The fire,
| however, was speedily extinguished and the Rapdo
put into Cenfuegos where the requisite repairs were
effected.
For an hour or two the last two or three days we
have had smart showers, before which the atmos-
phere is oppressvey warm. Yellow Jack has got
among the shipping but is not yet epidemic, and the
doctors tell the attacks of the monster, either in
the city or board ship, are not SO malignant as
they were the past two years.
| The schooner Express, Boss, sailed for New Or
| leans 29th ult.
The schooner Republic arrived from New Orleans
yesterday, lst inst. As ever, ~
1 DISASTERS AND Loss OF LIFE ON THE LAKEs.-A
dispatch of the 4th inst, from Cleveland, says:
| The bark Sunshine capsized Saturday afternoon of
Fairpolt and the captain first mate four of her
| and three children We're lost. The captains wife
second mate, and six of the crew picked up on Sun
| day morning.
The B. A. Stannard, from Buffalo to Chicago, cap
sized on the north shore Saturday. and her two mate
/ were drowned.
A dispatch of the 5th, from the same city, says:
A sail boat containing twenty-eight persons, OF
Clear Lake, Ind, capszed on the 18th. Sixteen per
sons were drowned, whose names are not ascerained
They were mostly ladies and children.
MURDER OF A WELL-KNowN BoArMAN.-A cold
booded and deliberate murder perpetrated q
Cairo, on Friday night last, the victim being Jane
Shannon, rst-mate of the steamer City of Memphis
and gentleman well and favorably known on tn
Mississippi an old boatman and kind hearted AM
efficient officer 1t seems that misunderstanding
occurred between Shannon and deck hand on tn
boat, which resulted in the latter being discharged
S Soon afterward, and without any ntimation of hi
purpose, the deck-hand assaulted Shannon with
large dirk knife, inicting several stabs in his abdd