New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-14

KEY WEST, July ., 1859.
The schooner Tortugas, Capt. Wilson, arrived on
the 30th from Garden Key, with four sailors, who
reported that they had belonged to the bark New
Empire, Randall master, for New York, at the port
OF Matanzas and that being badly treated, they had
stolen boat from another vessel and escaped across
| the Gulf to Fort Jefferson. Telling conflicting
stories, they have been arrested and placed in
tody of the o. S. Marshal for further development ts.
| The U. S. revenue cutter VIM. Appleton, Lieut..
commanding Randolph, arrived on the 26th insta nt
from cruise to the southeast coast of Florida. Size
brings the mate and two seamen of the schooner En-
terprise Of New Orleans, lost on the Sth instant
| Hlsboro' Inlet. The crew are charged with the
murder of Capt. Moriantes, and the robbery of his
| trunk, and with running the vessel ashore, after
throwing the Captain overheard. ley say that the
vessel was bound from Havana to Carthagena and
that ehe was to bring a cargo of Indians, who were
to be sold slaves their arrival at Havana-that
when off Hillsboro', Captain NJ. accidentally fell over
board and that while they endeayorins to save
him, the schooner struck-that they, finding that
the vessel would be wreck were obliged to abandon
the Captain to his fate and that after getting the
movea5les from the vessel ashore, they broke open
the Captains trunk, took the specie and divided it
| equally among them. Afterwards, they launched
bue Will pTONlslOueu
her, and set sail down the coast. at Jupiter Inlet
they saw the U. S. schooner Delaware, and were
taken on board. To Capt. Owen they said nothing
about the robbery of the money but told the story of
the Captains death and the vessels loss. One of
Capt Owens crew discovered belt heavily loaded
with money upon the person of one of the men, and
reported the fact. They were not arrested until
Lieut.. Randolph came up with his cutter, when
Capt. Owen gave them into his charge, excepting
two who, fearing that they suspected OF crime,
had at night taken their boat and made their escape.
There several very suspicious circumstances about
the affair." which lead the authorities here to believe
, that murder well as robbery has been committed.
Commissioner Browne has had an examination, and
committed them for trial. Lieut.. Randolph searched
the after the arrest, and found over one thousand
dollars in gold secreted upon them. The two who
escaped have gone up the west coast, and will no
doubt be overhaued as the cutter is on their tracks
+ The examination of the survivors of the schooner
Enterprise has taken place before U. S. Commissioner
Il j. B. Browne, ESQ., and proof sufficient ELECTED to
warrant their commitment on the charges Of piracy
+ aud murder, to stand their trial at the November
# term of the Admiralty Court. Capt. Morantes. one
of the confesses, cruelty stabbed and beaten
after the vessel was ashore, and then thrown over
r board. Not being killed, he was chased about by
two of the men in the water stabbed and bis brains
knocked out with an iron pump,handle. Capt. NJ
was from New Orleans.
:, = A SINGULAR MURDER CAsE.-In the Memphis
u Criminal Court on Saturday last, Matthew Mcdowell
" who had been on trial three weeks for the murder
w. II. johnson, WAS found guilty of murder in th
. second degree and sentenced to ten years imprson
d ment in the Penentiary. The verdict so affected
him that lie had succession of tainting fits. Til
e murder Of Johnson was committed about twelv
e years ago, and nothing was known OF the perpetato
until Mcdowell voluntarily confessed the crime, whic
led to the prosecution. 1t appears that he boased
the deed under the impression that no steps would
- taken to bring him to Justice.
X A CURIOUS CoMrRoMIsE.-The New York Evenin
u Post, of the 7h instant, publishes letter from it
~ Paris correspondent, from which we extract the 70
ID loving:
d. was told yesterday that the difficulties betgee
OF the Imperial Bonapartiss aud the descendants {
er Mrs Patterson of Baltimore, the repUted wife of tn
m Dlke OF WeStphalin in the way OF hHlng settlet
ut The Euneror has offered to make her Jerome
x Duke. and her grandson, Jerome, who graduated
rt West Point and is now with the army III Italy,
,g Count with suitable pecuniary endowments for tt
st rank if they will formally renounce all claims to I'll
n. name Of Bonaparte.
er SILVER MINE IN hlIss0uRI.-The Louisiana (lo
II, Herald OF the 7th inst. says:
nr We learn that what is supposed to be rich siiv
m mine has aeen discovered on the prairie near Antot
'A Church by Mr.. Friar. We saw some of the spec
mems taken out OF about bnshe Of the ore that h,
les been dug up and il it is really silver it must be We
n rich. Some jewelers. in this place, who have eSai
1ned it, pronounce it silver, and say that it will
ieF tuSe tnn fnurth in The OF smeltD