New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-26


Ihs lively Italian correspondent Of the Phlladel
phia Bnllesln, IN arecent letter tells Of wonderf
adventure thAt beiei certain Genoese pilots In re
cent storm. BE nys:
The other day he wind made an extraordinary
effort, and s1ccee6ed in wfecking divers y61sels Of
the coast and doing much damage hereabonts. There
was Genoese pllotboat caught by it, with seven
pilots On board The poor fellows were OF the harbor
and after two days Ct great buietings reached sestr
raw and bloody from long rowing. Itappears that
they were pious pilots and were saved entirely By the
interpretation 81 their friends In phfgatory ftom
which one would suppose that settlement to be the
particular resort Of the pilot Species after they leave
| this world.
happened to become acquainted with the manner
Of their salvation, from feeling Of curiosity, which
induced me e enter little chapel down By the sea-
side, where had been stroling. There was fresco
over the entrance and cheerful one, Co., for win
terfe day It represented number Of naked men and
women standing in bright. lively fire, the flames Of
which were remarkably pointed and red, and there
pay trile, no matter how small to get them into
tie ffying.pan again, which, ia this instance was
probably preferable Owning stock in the Atlantic
Mutual, and from instinct being always opposed to-
the drowning element francois e seuii, as they do
in the French countries. and deposit my mite in the
antt6re box. The attention of the benevolent donor
was here arrested by watercolored painting on the
adjacent wall It was not large In dimensions or de.
El8u Auu WAS, u6 JuuSeu, Inc WOrk Of an untut0feQ
hand Of an Individual in fact, possessed of lively
imagination and Of devil for drawing
There was small vessel. or rather, large boat,
long, rakish dandy sort Of craft shining with black
paint. In it were half dozen Of ford complexoned
youths, the same number Of chinablue coats with
yellow 0chre buttons, +" infinite whiskerage" six
right hands grasping six unnatural long oars and six
left hands raised in the first operate position The
pillows were o faithful copy of the /" Comparative
heights OF the principal mountains on the globen
1sec Mtchell) and were very peaky and very green.
The sky was confused mass of cotton bolls varied
in size and dirty it was perforated by Thames tun-
nell in the corner Of which shone pocket edition of
my purged or rather purging friends before men.
toned the whiteness OF their bodies in fine contrast
with the vermilon flames, which were very tongue
like, and licked the purgees in vicious way, the pur
gees not Winding in the least, but smiling and hold
ing out their dgts in the fifth operate position to
the wave.tossed below. hl IVY
This animated scene, we are informed by writing
appended thereto, lin which Jaatei spelled with
one !, and other outrages commtted) was . The mi |
aculous of the Brothers Bruschet and four of
25th day of November, A. D., 1858, were unexpect-
eddy oyertaken by burrasca (squalD and on the |
point Of being engulphed by the waves, when sud
denly the Heavens opened and the Anim in Purga-
t0rio appeared, and by their soothing presence IA
crowd OF naked wretches in red hot fire lis SO sooth.
ing) Gained the storm and enabled them BY constant
rowing to get into Sestri The Brothers Bruschetti
and the four Others, have in gratitude placed this
painting in the church of the Anmi and request for
them the prayers of the faithful etc., The Arcyes-
cova adds postscript to the effect that any one say
ing certain number Of Paters to the aboye shall
be entitled to two weeks absolution