New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-14
XntaI SnteIIiaerrte.


In our sanctum in the afternoon, the mercury was
up to 98; last night at 10 o'clock it had only sub
sided to 90. soda water sold immensely; most Of
the ladies on the streets carried sun umbrellas in
stead of parasols and men went about carrying
fans with perfect impunty 1t is some comfort to
think that we cannot have much if any hotter
weather than we have had lately. There are
grateful gusts of breeze at intervals which refresh
only to add to the torment of the succeeding lus.
Oh, for the rain-the blessed rain.
SUS-SrEoEE.-Thc intense heat Of the weather
tells now and then upon some unwary one who
exposes himself too much to the solstitial rays.
We have the following cases
Thomas Hughes native Of Delaware, aged 3S
years, fell dead on Tuesday on the sidewalk in
Thalia street, between Magazine and Constance
streets The body was brought to the First Dis
| trict lookup where Coro4sr Beach held an inquest
last evening. Verdict, died Of sun stroke.
Louis Koenig, German aged 40 years, was
found dead at the Lesseps plantation, in the Third
District, and taken to the lookup. The inquest
showed that his death was the result of apopexy,
| the probable result of exposure to the sun.
| An unknown man was picked up on Tuesday
afternoon, on Washington street, near Magazine.
Fourth District, where he had fallen senseless it is
| supposed, from the effects of sun-stroke. He was
| sent to the Charity Hospital.
| CoTroN Press FIRE-Tuo thousand Bales De-
| stroyed.-At about quarter past two o'clock yes
terday afternoon fire broke out in yard No. of
| the Orleans Cotton Press at the corner of Roffg
| nae and Front streets. The fire spread with the
most terrific rapidity, and though the remen were
early on hand, it was impossible to prevent the
destruction which followed.
The cotton shed, worth $4,000 the new hydrau-
| lie machinery for COMPRISING cotton, (iately
| finished at Leeds foundry and belonging to R. d.
Shepherd) worth SIS 600 and about 1000 bales Of
cotton, worth 100000, were swallowed up in the
gale of fire. and lucky it that the efforts of the
| fremen prevented the destruction from extending
| farther The cotton belonged to Rotchford, Brown
& Co.. though, as we heard about half of it had the
| day before been sold to some Liverpool buyers.
| As to insurance, we have not the particulars
| The workmen of the yard were absent at dinner
when the fire broke out; nobody being left but the
| engineer. The fire may have been accidental, but
some believe that it was of incendiary origin. The
afternoon was awfully hot, and the firemen had an
awful hot time of it. combating fire and sunshine
! together.
Orr FOR MEx1co.-It was rumored yesterday
1 that Valeor Nallot (whose escape from the tolls of
law, through illegal arrest, defective papers, etc.,
we have chronicledl had taken his departure for
Mexico.
| SrABB1se.-Wm. II. Howard was arrested on
Tuesday night at IL o'clock for dangerously stab
| bing man named Robert Turner, on Thaia street.
Turner was sent to the Charity Hospital. Howard
was arraigned this morning before Recorder Sum-
4 mers, and remanded to await the result.
nv. A
in Ursulnes street for assaultng s. Olbeda and B.
Hernandez with cottonhook and cutting them
1 severely. Recorder Benit will examine the case in
good time. 5,4sa-5...
i BREACH OF TRUST Philip Perranin, sub con
tractor in the employ Of A. Jensen, was yesterday
i arraigned before Recorder Long, on the charge oi
having embezzled or appropriated to his own use
and benefit some Sl75, which Jensen entrusted te
him to pay to carpenters at work on the new
Methodist Church on Craps street. The accused
gave bail to appear for examination.
FIRST DISTRICT CoURr-Jadge Huat.-Gol. Field
yesterday moved for a new trial for Antoine Cam
bre, and the Attorney General was notified te
show cause why said trial should not be granted
The rule will be argued next Monday. The follow
ing are Col. Fields objections to the conviction:
1st The verdict of the jury is contrary to tht
law and the evidence.
I'd. The said verdict is contrary to the evidence
Sd. The evidence in the case proved case o
manslaughter.
4th. Tie Court erred in permitting the evidence
of kataner to be given to the jury, inasmueh as j
established facts wholly unconnected with thu
homicide Of Frey and was calculated to prejudice
the jury against the prisoner.
5th. The Court erred in not charging the jury il
regard to the different verdicts they could bring in
and particularly in not charging them on the law
in relation to qualifying their yerdicts in capita
cases.
The case of Hannah S. Flynne, charged witt
arson, was continued to the 22d inst, on aceoun
of the absence of the only important State witness
1t is hardly probable that this witness will b.
found.
The case of Joseph Smith, f. m. c., charged wit
the murder of the slave woman Omer Taggart
was continued to the 26th.
THE WIFE MURDER IN LEEDS Row.-This case
! of which we have made some mention was inves
tgated last evening by Coroner Beach. The fol
J lowing testimony was taken:
Il Margaret Aiaoaan1ara, sworn-on Sunday night
i June 10th, after supper, was performing my dc
niestic duties, preparatory to going to bed. jus
about the time was getting into bed, heard
noise up stairs over my head. Patrick Eagan an
wife lived in the rooms above. The noise was a
if two persons were rushing about and throug
the rooms. / listened for some time and the nois
continued for some time a rush, and then lik
j. two persons struggling. After the scutf1ing ha
! been going on some time, heard a person get Il
and 90 to them, and talk as il he wished to max
peace between them; then heard, as 1T seemed
three persons coming down the steps. l don
: know where they went. While they were comin
down, heard Mrs. Eagan say, Oh, am deal !.
d Some one then came to my room and caile
5 me, and told me to come up stairs to see Mr.
. Eagan, as she was very i'll. ] asked him wls
had happened to her; he said he did not know
!. l then put on a garment and went up stairs.
i found Mrs. Eagan lying on the trundle bed, with
woman holding her. She was struggling and
great distress, and retching, as if trying TO vomi
n / asked her what was the matter, and she sal
: Oh my back She called for water, and as soc
as she got it, she poured it on her stomach instea
$ of drinking it. Eagan was at the doorof the roo
# when went up; he afterwards came TO the sic
of the bed. We asked him to help us lift her in
the other bed, and he said he would not. I The
. asked another man to help us lift her on the be
: : and he did so. As she lay on the trunde bed, b
: fore we lifted her on the other bed. she threw az
= = tore off all her clothes. Eagan told her to kee
= herself covered and at the same time hit her twit
on the abdomen with the fiat of his hand. | sa
Q to him, don't hit her any more, she is dying.
said, mo, she is not, she il only fainting, bnt
she does die, will bury her deeently.n thif
o she lived about half an hour after went up stair
it Cross .eXamined-I looked, but did not see al
J. marks but one on her forehead. The scuffiir
heard sounded as one person was rushing again
another, as like push or stroke against soft su
q stance Eagan and his wife were the only persol
IN stairs at the time heard the noise.