New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-21

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On Tuesday morning We dispatched our reporter
to the steamer Alabama, that he might visit the
gulf shore watering places and report the results
of the great g9!e in full. Finding that the Alabama
was going a1erey on an accommodation trip
the mail-linc company having abselvcd themselves
from all responsibility to their patrons the people
Of the shore towns, because inc wharycs mad been
washed aWay-and that she was to go on to Mobile,
the Creole 10 take her place and arrive here proba-
bly, no sooner than Friday, {to-day) our reporter
did not 60.
We thought IL strange and cruel thing that,
after lying over till Tuesday, (he schedule requir-
ING the boat 10 return % the coast towns on Mon
day) the Alabama should thus in manner desert
the suffering people along the coast, many of
whom had lost their houses clothes, food, every
thing but their lives, and proceed TO Mobile with
out giving them any definite assurance as to when
Oil By what means they might expect to set back
to the city. a large crowd Of citizens anxious
about their families and properties, went oyer on
the Alabama, their anxiety rendering them nflif-
farent as to the time ofthe boats return.
Al Biloxi, where the people waited patiently
| nom Monday evening, when the boat was due, to
| Tuesday evening, expecting as matter Of course
that she would return to the city, usual, after
| t9uehingat Ocean Springs, the disappointment and
yexation took . riotous form when il was discov-
| cred chat the boat was going on to Mobile.
A gentleman who went over on the Alabama,
wont onto Mobile. and returned Yesterday on the
Mobile boat, furnishes us with the following par
| fienIars
| BAY ST.. Loufs-Fri1ay night, Sept. H. At
about . o'clock it commenced blowing hard from
file Northeast. accompanied by heavy rain. Sat
uylay morning, wind North. then North Northeast
then North Northwest. when suddenly the rain
almost ceased and the wind gradually abated to a
dead calra The sea running yery heavily, and the
tdc rising with great rapidity. During this calm
| all tie wlaryes lighthouses, and nearly all the
summer honses along tile bank, were destroyed or
washed away by the force of the sea. At about
o'clock, the wind, in burst came from the
| Southwark and Westward, creating heavy cross
sea- Three schooners lying at anchor cut away
their masts and dragged their anchors, but tht
wind shifting they got under way and got safel,
into llarbor
The schooner Achilles was one of the three tha
| cut ayay her lnasts. One sloop was seen fioatn,
bottom up Several small craft drifted away
among which was the yacht Ellie, belonging to L
W. Road The yachts Mist, (Pcyton's) and Fairy
| Caoreno's) rode out the gale most handsomely
Can't Martini the wharimaster, says that in TWEEN
ty.seven years he never saw so high tide at thi
point.
A.quantty Of timber aoated aShore some of
being evidently new, and supposed 10 be from tht
cargo Of a wrecked schooner
The telegraph lines from the Bay to Pass Chris
tian were broken, it is supposed by the sehooue
that dragged her anchor and the telegraph lin
10 New Orleans was broken, it is thought near til
Bay and Rigocts. The telegraph agent at the Ba,
started with force from the Bay on Sunday +
make lie necessary repairs.
The loss incurred by the storm at this point, it j
believed, will not fall short OF $4,000. Ninety
seven wharyes were destroyed. A noticeable foa
ture Of the storm was that there was neither thun
der nor lightning until 10 p. NJ Saturday and thel
faint lightning to Eastward.
PASS CHRsTiAS.-At this place the wharyee
hatlhouses, ali the shore improvements are gone
n The same remark will apply to Mississippi CT,
. Biloxi. Ocean Springs and Pascagoula. There
but little effort being made at any of these place
Ii toward the repairing OF the damaged snstaine
9 The people seem almost paralyzed and so diiticu
has it been to obtain information from neighbo
ing places that the first inquiry from such boats
. come of, is in regard to the news.
Z THE ISLANDS, ETc.--The st. Joseph l.ight.Hous
!. . is badly damage, and so is the Cat Island Ligh
= House. besides being undermined. The Bio.
i Light-Hou is badly undermined and leaning
T Merritts Lighthouse is also damaged.
r On Tuesday, the 18th, passed between Missi
!. sippi City and Biloxi a schooner with her mas
gone and abandoned; also sail boat, whit
yellow bow, watcr.logged and abandoned.
+ = large number of cattle, about three hundre
c head, were swept away from Cat Island.
: Capt. Hodge, of the schooner A. j. Hodge, r.
{ ports having left Biloxi on Friday evening. Whe
:, about twenty mics east oil PtSean0ula, ran int
= West trand Lay lof hafb0r. During the night W;
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