New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-14
KEy-wEsr CORRESPONDENCE

Special to the New Orleans Crescen
kEY-WEsT, Dec. G, 1859.
Ed. CTescent-The following vessels have ar
rived at this place since my communication of the
26tf ult:
Arrived, Nov. 81 Ar brig Rodney Carr Camp
bell Tonala, Mexico, with loss of sails and leaking
in upper works. She will make temporary repairs
and proceed; smack G. R. King Fish, Havana ;
smack w. H. Middleton, Phillips, Havana. Nov
IS, schooner A. Crandall, Fitch, New York, seven
teen days out; ship S. R. Mallory Lester, London,
under jurymast, was dismasted the 18th October
in lat. 1912 Ion. 2l:29 came in to repair; bark
Casco, Mclean, from Trinidad, put in for water
Nov. 80, brig Samson, Leerhotf, New York: U. S.
steamship Water-Witch, Lieut.. Comdg L. G. Lar
tori Norfolk; schooner Bay State, of and from
Rockland. Dec. |, schooner Ida Della Tore, Ty-
Ter, Attakapas, touched for water and to repair
spars, broken on the voyage: schooner J. B. NY
ers, Cobb, Tobasco, ten days out: bark Lyra
Thompson, New York. ten days out: U. S. trans
port schooner Guthrie, Perry, New Bedford; U. S.
schooner Agassz, Fitche, New York, nineteen
days out; schooner Fowler, Dewey, Charlott's
Harbor. Dec. 2, Br. schooner Convoy, Stirrup,
Nassau, with crew of ship Constitution, lost on
Cat Island, from Liverpool for Mobile: schooner
Phoenix. Lea, Apalachieola schooner Garland
Parsons. Minatitlan, with loss of bowsprit; steam
ship Alabama Lawless, New York: schooner Ex
change, Albury, Balize, with officers and crew of
lost schooner Velocity, of this port. Dec. 5,
schooner Rough and Ready, Dixon, from st. Do
mingo, with cargo of logwood, leaking in upper
works; she struck Caysfa Reef the Sd inst, and
lost rudder. Dec. g. schooner Sultan, Wilcox, Ha
vana; q. S. steamer Isabel, Rollins, Charleston.
The following have sailed:
Sailed Dec. L. schooner Black Squat, Dennson
Pensacola: schooner Urbana Small, Pensacola
schooner Ida Della Tore, Tyler, New York I:
schooner j. B. Myers, Cobb, New York. Dec. 2,
schooner Fowler, Dewey Havana. Dec. 3, steam
ship Alabama, Lawless, Mobile. Dec. 4, schooner
Agassiz, Fichall, Bay of Mexico. Dec. 6, brig
Samson, Leerhof St. Marks.
The ship Slas Holmes, Capt. Griffith, from New
York for New Orleans ran ashore East Key,
Tortugas, the morning of the Sd, and took assist
ance from the wreckers, who got her afoat on the
evening of the 9Th, and carried her into Garden
Key, leaking. The captain agreed to pay the
vreckers for their services $1,000.
CARRYING DEADLY WEAPoNs-A curious illustra-
ton of the extent to which the habit of carrying
weapons and using them rccklessly is being carried,
| was afforded by boatman named Kirby. employed
on board barge at the foot of Delaney street New
\ Ork, saturday morning. n nulnDef OIL poor
little girls were picking up refuse coal in the neigh
borhood. He desired them to desst and go away,
and by way OF emphasizing his order fired loaded
pistol into the group, woundng child eleven years
old, MORALLY The statement of the fellow before
the Coroner was almost as curious as the crime
with which he was charged. He fired the pistol
to scare them away, and did not intend to do any
| injury" person whose playfuness manifests
itself in this fashion is clearly entitled to such
experience of Imprisonment and hard labor may
diminish his animal spirits. New York Times.
SNOW IN TExAs.-The Houston Republic of the
Sth says
On Thursday night storm arose which was fol-
lowed by ran slcet snow and severe frost. The
snow was three inches deep, and ice two thick.
We had sleigh riding in Main street with its accom-
panied cnjoyments and hilarity. We hope yellow
fever has been etectuaIly banished.
| FLORIDA AND HER FEDERAL RELATIoSs.-The fol-
lowing is extract from the portion of Gov. Per.
rvs message to the Florida Legislature, touching
| Federal Relations:
| believe thather voice should be heard in "tones
not loud but Deep in favor of eternal separa
! ton from those whose wickedness and fanaticsn
forbid us longer to live with them in peace ant
safety. There are good grounds for the hope tina
most of the Southern States will not consent to
the General Government pass into the hands avow
eddy hostile to the South If such is their purpose
| it is not unlikely that they will prepare for the
emergency Of the approaching Presidential cleo
ton. What, if any steps will be necessary, You
part, to provide for Florida's cooperation witt
them in the contingency suggested, leave for the
wisdom of the Legislature to determine.
A WISE DETERMINATIoN.-The Fredericksburg
(va.) Recorder says:
/ Heretofore Northern nurserymen have made
large sales of fruit trees and shrubbery, and have
always been received and treated in the most
kindly manner by the farmers of Eastern Virginia
but since the late Harper's Ferry outrage, many o