New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-07-16


SUDDEN DEATHS, suSsrRoKE ETo.-James Kirk
was sent to the Charity Hospital on Saturday, suf
feriDg from the effects Of snnstroke.
A man named n. Isclard died at his residence,
corner Of Carondelet Walk and Johnson streets,
of sufstrO1e.
A ditch-contractor, supposed to be Lawrence
kilduif, died ON saturday Of sunstrokc. while pro
ceeding to his abode on Gentilly Road. Mr. Kill
duH had been absent from home one day and
night, hence the supposition that it is lie that is
dead.
John Saunders was snnstruck on Saturday while
standing III front Of tie Second District guard
house He was taken TO the Charity Hospital by
officer Johnson
The man who died at Lake Pontchartrain on
Friday evening turns ont to be an old FfeneAnlan
named Joseph --. lie died from iutempslanee
ana exposure 10 the heat.
NICE EXERCISE THIS Hot WEArHER.-Wc learn
that on Saturday evening man offered to bet $50
that lie would walk out from the Aihambra coffee
house to Dan Hickok and back within three hours.
The bet being taken, he started at 6 O'Clock and
got back at two and one-hait minutes past q; Of
course losing the bet by the fraction OF time
named. He would not have lost had he not
stopped a little too long at Dan Hickoks, and had
net the rough road and the darkness mpeded his
walking from the first toli-gate on his return. The
distance from the Alhambra lat the New Basn) to
Dan Hicloks (at tile lake, is about five miles; so
the walker, who is book-keeper in one of our
big business houses, walked ten very fast miles for
nothing. The feat was an extraordinary one for
any man to undertake, during the present excess
sivcly hot weather.
FIREs.-The alarm of fire on Saturday afternoon
originated from the corner of Goodchdren and
Portstreets, where an old shantY belonging to Mr..
J. r. Bright was burnt, but not to any serious
extent. 1t was a case of incendiarism.
A fire broke out ats O'Clock on Saturday evening,
on board the pile-driying scow at the foot of st.
Peter street. 1t was put out before much damage
was done. A trunk found on board was left at the
police office.
H ForND DRowNED.-The body of Daniel Duffy, an
orphan boy IL years old, was found yesterday af-
ternoon in the river, opposite the Louisiana Sugar
Refinery. He was drowned whilst bathing.
WHOSE " WATcH ?-Lieut. Creyon and special off
Ger Bonosa on Saturday found in the possession
of man named Bruning, an old-fashioned and
heavy and valuable gold watch, No. 1880, which is
held as stolen property Whose is it!
THE LAKE BoRGSE AFFAIR.-We mentioned on
Saturday that a Chinaman, who left Proctorvile on
Wednesday night with a skift-load of provisions,
was missing, his skf being found ashore next
morning, with all the provisions in, stained with
blood.
Our latest Information is, that the body of the
man has been found, foully murdered. The body
found SINK in the lake, not far from the shore,
pierced with numerous stabs and held under water
by an iron weight, or piece Of iron, tied to it. We
have nothing further in the way of hostility to
record, save that on Saturday two Cinnamon came
to ProctorVille, with two guns in their skiff, and
that several Spanards went in the skiff and appro.
priated the guns the spoils of war, without hay
ing fight or anything like a difficulty.
Joseph Madore, arrested in this city, and an.
other Spaniard alleged actors in the original
tragedy, were examined before Justice Toca, in
St. Bernard, on Saturday. Two gentlemen of this
city, who saw the scene on the wharf and in the
lake, were present in court as witnesses. They
failed to identity the accused as the principal ao-
tors on the Spanish side. \ Chinamap was exam
ned his testimony was, that the difficulty began
in cohee=house: that three OF them took drinks:
L, Al.
fifteen drinks that they denied this that they
quarreed, and the barkeeper slapped the face of
Of them; that this led to fight, in which
chairs and other rough missiles were used that
the Chinese, being in the minority, fled for their
boat pursued by The Spaniar6is and that the fight
and bloody tragedy, already described, then took
place.
The testimony was such, in the main, that Judge
Toca committed the two accused for trial 1t was
believed he would admit them to bail. From all
we can learn there is no very great disposition in
St. Bernard to punish the parties arrested, or to
take steps to prevent further bloodshed; the whole
being looked upon as sort of dog. .eat-dog affair."
We sorry TO hear of state of affairs like this
We learn that the way the Cinnamon escaped
injury was this: that the spaniards, after taking
their guns, required them totall their knees and
pray for their lives and that at this iuncture, a
Spanish coffeehouse keeper down there, named
Ramon, interfered in behalf of the Chinese declar
ing that he would make trouble with any who
harmed them. We did not hear whether the Chi
Proctorville simply 10 send skiHload of fish up
to the city.
RoBRER1Es, ETc-Louis eastman a native of
Germany. was arrested on Friday night on the
charge of having entered by means of false keys
The room OF one Pauline seyerin, on Dauphlne
street, and then and there appropriated sundry
articles Of which two gold brooches, five gold
rings, one bracelet, one locket and one gold chain,
are the principal. He was locked up in the Second
District. and will be duly tried.
John Seholkoif was on Friday arrested on board
the steamer Florida, on q charge of stealing
something;'' but what that something is, can be
imagined only from the fact that ], S. had in his
possession, under very suspicious circumstances,
the sum Of $3.50 3d.. He was taken to the Third
District lookup, and will be duly examined.
Lieut.. Jaquess, of the First District police, ar
rested john Frazier, slave of -, who was
caught in the act OF stealing gold watch valued
at $50. This John entered the room of Mr.. Ber-
nard Wheelahan, Oh Cont street, and perpetrated
the above bold act at IL O'Clock on Saturday
morning.
HAULING N THE CYPRIASs. by order of Mayor
Monroe. Chief McGlelland and Lieut.. Jaquess and
their specials started out on Saturday night and
visited the different low dens of inquity which
abound on GraVier. Dryades, Perdido and Basin
streets, and brought in thirty or more of the
females who have so long been the pests Of those
streets. The thing was done at the instance of
respectable citizens living in the vicinity Of the
dens. The wretched females converted the lookup
into a perfect pandcmonum during the night, and
yesterday not a few of their dise0nsolate naseu-
lines lowered around the lookup, anxious 70 go
bail for them.
ANOTHER DEED 0F BEoon.--0n Saturday morn
ing, at about o'clock, officers Nenant and
Rousseau, of the Second District police, were ont
cunning in the region of the City Park, they came
across, On their way home, near the end oil Ben-
vile street, the dead body OF man.
On examination they found it to be penetrated
by some six Oh seven wounds-one in the forehead
aDB one letE iNy n Il
large, old and rusty stiIetto, some lsinehes long
the handle Of which was stained with fresh blood
Leaving the body, the officers Immediately sent
word for the Coroner
| As they were returning home it occurred to them
! that they had seen, some ten minutes before theil
discovery OF the dead body, man in very excl
ted state, running off very fast, his clothes torn
and his general appearance indicative Of some dis
aster. The appearance of this man was shortant
thick set, q small bank goatee, and the general ali
of a Sieilian or Snaniagd.
i As there was famor that two Siciliaus had gont
out to fight duel, it il believed that tIls i; tht