New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-02
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~ Report of Council on eighth page.
YESTERDAY was minus rain, but plus clouds above
and mud below. faint CLEAN or two of sunshine
managed to get through the clouds once twice dur
ing the day. Crnoline was comparatively scarce on
the streets.
We WITNESSED YESTERDAY the very difficult and
unusual surgical operation of ligaturing the
carotid artery. The subject was Mr.. Henry Allen,
mate Of the steamer D. R. Carroll, whom we men
toned few days since as having had his throat cut
by passenger on board the boat and the opera
ton was performed by DR.. Berthelot, assisted by
Drs Graham, Castellanos and Drew.
The wound was stab in the throat, just under the
right jaw, which cut the carotid artery, or Clipped
up portion of it, in such manner as to permit the
blood to escape freely; had the artery been cut a
tre more, instant death would have been the result
Up to Monday night, Dr. Berthelot's course was an
endeavor to close the wound of the artery by com.
presson-by placing upon it what is called a tam
poon. This might have succeeded, could the patient
have been kept perfectly quiet; but his twisting and
turning, and coughing, constantly thwarted the COM
On Monday night the hemorrhage of the wound was
such that it found death must ensue unless the
last resource the difficult and dangerous operation of
ligaturing the artery, or tying it below the wound
with string, could be successfully resorted to.
Yesterday the operation was undertaken and sue.
cessfuy performed that is successful SO far as con-
cerned the operation Whether it will save the pa.
TENTS life or not, is thing yet to be seen. We
never witnessed an operation Of more painful or alb
sorbing interest The patient first put under the
influence Of chloroform 1t rendered him insensible
to the operation, but did not quiet him. His limbs
had to be held; and whilst his tongue ran deriousy,
calling names and giving orders, and swearing, if
slowing away cargo on his steamer, the surgeons
were at work on his throat An incson three inches
in length was made just below the original wound,
the throat laid open, and the intricate interlacng of
artery, veins, muscle, and nerve brought to light,
appearing to us an undistnguishable mass.
After much care, all the surgeons closely inspect
ing and feeling the delicate inner machinery of life
the task being rendered extremely difficult by the
constant flow of blood filling the aperture-the
wounded artery was singled out from its surround.
ings, and firmly tied with string be5w the wound,
,cithn three inches Of the heart the threbbings of
which were felt by all who put their fingers into the
aperture. The artery being tied, the wound was
closed in the usual manner with lint bandages, etc.
and before this was finished, the patient returned to
consciousness. He inquired if the artery had been
reached; and upon being told that it had and that
the hemorrhage was stopped, he smiled and seemed
to be much satisfied. He was very weak, however,
from loss of blood. w..
The reason that it is not considered certain that
this operation will save the patients life, is that the
gaturing Of the artery necessarily stops the circula
tion of the blood one side of the head and the
after danger to deal with is to prevent consequent
softening Of the brain.
"MURDEa WILL OUT" nowadays, just as inevi-
taby ever it came out at any previous period Of
the worlds history. Yesterday we chronicled the
terrible and mysterious assassination of Edward
Grundy, conductor of the Opeousas freight train in
Agiers, on Monday morning. We mentioned that
the scabbard of knife, an empty double-barrel pis
tol, and split whp-hande were found near the
riddled corpse of the murdered man.
These articles were taken possession of by Coroner
Daunoy. The Chief of Police inspected them. Or
the leather scabbard he found written family the in
itals 81. d. Visiting the officers of the railroad he
inquired if they had ever had a man in their employ
| whose name had those initials. They Immediately
mentioned James Dempsey, man of turbulent dis
position, who had recently been discharged from til,
railroad, upon complaints made by Grundy ant
others. Investigations being continued a man wa
found who identified the doube.barrel pistol q
Dempsey's He said, and his testimony will be, tina
one night when Dempsey invited him to drink in
coffee-house after he had been discharged from tn
railroad he showed him the pistol saying that tha
was the pistol that would do him justice some day
Even the shattered whip.hande was identified as th
property of Dempsey.
These circumstances fixing the murder upon Demp
sey, inquiries were made after him. 1t was foun
that he had left Algiers. By good luck, it wa
further found that he had come over to the city, ha
applied to the Jackson Railroad Company for a situs
ton, and had been promised one. Special Ofioel
Isard and Farrell were then detailed to watch aroun
the Jackson Railroad Depot and last evening
halfpast seven O'Clock, they nabbed him. as
much for so much"
ELIZA SIcKLEs' last adventures were rather funn
Eliza is the oldest boarder at the Workhouse havir
resided there, with short monthly and quarterly i
tervals of freedom and drunkenness, for the last
or twelve years. When there, and sober, she is ve
well behaved and whenever she returns upon gettir
drunk at the expiration of her previous term, she
welcomed for her efficiency and value as nurse
fact she has long been called i" the old Work-hou
nurse" by the police and officers of the Workh hous
Some three months since, Eliza finished q teri
was turned out, Immediately got roaring drunk, al
was up before Recorder Summers as usual next moi
ing. The Recorder, fatigued with constantly sendi
her to the Work.house. offered her, aftermath,
!, the privilege of going up to his farm in the pin
woods, near the town Of Tangipaho, on the Jacks
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