New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-01
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water. The town got very wet. 1t was storm
at about O'Clock in the morning, and this storm
was very lively one. The water fell just like all
creation had broke loose, and Noah's ark was
coming another time. There was some thunder
and lightning. Each clap wis followed by a flash,
and each flash was followed by clap. The noise
| was so great that body could not hear himself
think, and the light was SD bright that body
| could see everything all at once and still could
not see which way morning was coming. great
many people got afraid. Them in the streets were
| scared of getting wet and them who had gone to
bed early were woke up. They were scared, for
| fear the house would blow down. or get thunder
struck. Them who were not scared thought il
was sight worth staying up all night to see.
| There was no more rain yesterday, because the
sky give out the night before. The moon was out
last night, and it was pretty everywhere. [Com-
position, q Ia schoolboy of tender years--just to
| vary the endless subject Of the weather. which
calls for endless succession of reportoral allu-
| sions.
| THE CASE OF JOE sMlTH.+-Joe Smith, f. m. c.,
the murderer Of Omer Taggart, whose arrest on
Tuesday evening we mentioned yesterday, was
| yesterday arraigned before Recorder Summers,
and sent to prison to await His examination. Two
other free negroes, w. q. Randolph and Highgate,
arrested by the same officers for aiding Smith in
his concealment and ATTEMPTS to escape, were sent
to prison as accessories to murder after the fact.
Lieut.. Dryden did not, al we supposed yester-
day, get from the detective police the information
which enabled him and his posse to find and cap
ture Smith. Neither was tile trip Of the detective
police to the swamps down the Opelousas Railroad
for the sole purpose of hunting Smith, though they
had what they considered reliable information that
Smith was camping out in the swamp with another
murderer, white man, who is wanted in this city.
Their informer went with Them, and guided them
to little dismal old hut in one Of the darkest and
most inaccessible recesses of the swamp; but the
hut was found nailed up, and inhabited only by a
frying pan, few potatoes and piece Of bacon.
The officers found out from the nearest people
around that the hut had been but verYrecently in
habited, and that its occupants had fed into the
swamp upon the hut being visited by party in
search Of rnnaways belonging in that vicinity.
The Chief and his specials had an awful time Of
it. After getting off at tho Boute Station, twenty
four miles from Algiers, they had to walk three
miles along the track, stepping wide upon the wet
and slippery cross-ties, and sometimes slipping in
the soft mud between. After leaving the track,
they had still worse timt in the swamp; soaked
with rain, often up to their thighs in mud and water
and fatigued and disgusted generally.
The hut, when found, was encompassed, and
approached with cooked guns, in regular military
style. During this interval Of suspense, Mike Far
rels gun accidentally went off; the load lifting a
portion Of the roof of the hut, and lacking only a
few feet of lifting the whole Of the roof off of Ton,
| Boylan's head. The negro boy who was trudging
on behind with the sandwiches and the o-be-joyful
screamed when he heard the shot, and came neal
fainting. The blood-hounhs got along very well
and raised the very mischief in the swamp but
| found nary nigger or nary murderer.
The party built a fire in the hut; dried them.
Selves and, as birds were plenty, went out to
shoot. Smith Isard bagged fine lot of robins. Il
was with great difficulty that Isard could be kept
from shooting at the buzzards, which he swore
were black birds. They all had good swamp
dinner and rested; but the trouble and fatigue OF
coming back was worse than that of going. They
got back to town in the evening utterly worn out
and went to bed early. The hunt was in some re-
spects equal to the famous hunt of Pickwick and
his friends.
DrsCHARGEp.- Barney Mcclure, charged with
stabbing John Glenn, was yesterday dismissed by
Recorder Summers Glenn having got well at Char
ity Hospital, and put out for parts unknown.
SAD AGcIDEST.-A little girl about four years
old, child of Mr.. Hines, was crushed and instantly
killed last evening, BY pile Of slaves falling over
upon her whilst she was az play with other children
at Leddas staVe yard, corner OF st. James and
LeYee streets. some Wofkmen were asserting
slaves, or cuillhg good from pad ana throwing the
stases loosely On le pie winch 1eii over they not
that{ {ba babi lr;lo
Knowing tiia' Tue cilu was oehhu 'he plie at the
'i'tle'
CoAL.BoATs evening, coal-boat, full
laden, and moored OUTSIDE OF the vessels at Post
10, FIRST plstrlct suaaehiI SUNK. Inc SINKING was
not the result 81 any coliision' or cohinouon Of
tle Waters' l. litisa nave oeeh the result
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gun" aies' Y laise siue eiiiiuels' having broken
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COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. John Williams and Jno.
Mcdonald, who stole from its quiet resting place on
Front Levee street an iron pulley-shaft weighing