New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-26
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THE WEATHER comes along in all shapes, to fill
up the measure Of April's latterday caprciousness
The temperature grew right chilly on Tuesday
night, and yesterday was cool day, the sun
breaking but seldom through the leaden pail which
oyerspread tor underspread) the armament.
EMPIRE BASE BALL CLuB.-This large and popu-
lar club, the champion in New Orleans, will have
friendly match of mines among themselves at
o'clock to-day, at the Delachaise Ground, Louisi-
ana Avenue. There will be fine playing, ice-cream
and lemonade in abundance, and large tent to
shield from the rays of the all ladies who wish
to see the sport.
THE BROOKLYN WAREHOUSES; DESTROYED BY
FIRE.-The Brooklyn Warehouses, a long iron
sheeted range standing on the river bank at AL
giers, near the Opelousas Railroad Depot, were
almost entirely destroyed by fire yesterday morn
ing-the fire starting between IL and ! o'clock.
The fire broke out amid some damaged cotton,
(saved from the lately burnt ship Independence,)
which was lying along in front Of the warehouse !;
supposed to have ignited by sparks from the
steamer Maria Denning, which had lately been
| there taking in salt. The high wind prevailing,
| and which blew from the river, soon enabled the
blaze of the cotton to communicate to the ware
| houses, which were mere wooden frames, covered
with sheet iron. For while the confagration was
| immense, and lighted up the river and the sur
rounding country in the most splendid manner.
About 800 feet front of the warehouses, including
twelve or fifteen separate compartments, 120 feet
| deep and one story high, were destroyed. They
| were mostly filled with salt in sacks, amounting to
over 1O9 900 sacks, with some little sugar and edds
| and ends of other freight The salt was but little
damaged, the top sacks being merely crusted over
and the under sacks sustaining no damage; salt
| being an ugly material for fire to cope with.
| The Algiers fremen, consisting Of two compa-
MES were utterly unable to fight such fire, though
4 they did all they could. The fire went down Of
| itself, there not being much wood in the ware
houses, and no infammable property on the oppo
| site side of the street, to which the wind blowed
| The large brick warehouse of the Brooklyn Com
pany across the street, and containing cotton and
sugar, was in the midst of the smoke and sparks
all the time, but luckily did not take fire.
| The damaged cotton of the ship independence,
in which cotton the fire started, amounted to 142
bales, and had been sold few days previously at
$27 to SIS per bale. The rigging of the ship lnde.
| pendence, in one of the warehouses, was also de-
| stroyed. Had the wind been the other way, the
| ships and other water craft in front of the ware
houses would have Jared badly.
The Brooklyn Warehouses belonged to Messrs.
r. Geddes ]. w. Stanton & Co., and Carver 4
| Drum. The salt damaged is not injured more than
4 fifteen per cent. The sugar ruined amounted to
about 200 hogsheads, $50 hhds. stored by Messrs.
Moore IL Vaneulin for Mr.. Williams, of Baton
4 Rouge, and 90 hlds. stored by Mr.. w. g. Hewes
total value about $40 900, and partly insured The
entire loss of warehouses, salt sugar and all, may
| be set down at about s60 900.
| CowHIDEs AND SMALL SwoRDs.-Several days
ago, o business difficulty between two gentlemen
in the Second District, one an elderly merchant
and the other young book-keeper, and some talk
which followed the difficulty, caused the young
man to send challenge to the other. The chal-
lenge was scorned; not accepted, OF even consid-
4 cred.
| The young gentleman then armed himself with a
cowhide, and meeting his enemy on Bourbon street.
castigated him severely, and was following up his
punishment, when other gentlemen interfered. and
took the parties away in different directions. The
elderly gentleman after this concluded to fight
and sent the young one a challenge. The chal
4 lenge was accepted, and small swords named.
/ - yesterday tue paftieS Ttpuifeu Will tueiE Wea
pons and friends to Metairie Ridge Owing to some
misunderstanding among the seconds, the two par
ties did not go to the same spot. The two parties
H after waiting at different places each expecting
the other, started on their return when they came
together on the road. The young man and hi.
party proposed to have it out right there, but ths
seconds Of the other gentleman declined the pro
position, though their principal was willing, an.
F.o, 4hair&n nlo in,
sequence of which there was no fight and all par
ties returned to town.
At any rate, this was the best information W,
could get about the matter.
STRANGE GHOSTS IN THE HAUNTED HousE.-0
course everybody in town has seen the ruined ant
isolated old Spanish mansion, which stands by it
self in the midst Of large square Of ground at thu
corner of Tchoupitonlas and Washington streets
and everybody, more or less has read some Of thu
various sketches and novelettes, which the appear
ance and history of the old ruin have evoked from
the brains and pens of some of our local poets ant
fanciful sketeh-wrters. The building has for year.
done earthly service enough in afording shelte
, to cows and Irish washerwomen in its lower part
and to bats and drunken vagrants in its uppe
part. All sorts of an institution is this haunte,
house, to begin with.
On Saturday night last, the house was haunte
!, by several ghosts in the most extraordinary mar
, ner. Whether the two principal ghosts had fol
merly inhabited the place, and knew more of
than the common Gun Of ghosts, or whether the
had been drawn to the spot by the reading
a "The Haunted House, by Charles Howard z is
7 question which must forever remain unsettled
The third, or insignificant ghost, was the first
appear in the haunted house on Saturday mig
5 last. He is well known, in the flesh, TO mo
e people in the Fourth District; ghost very fol
I of the coffee houses; somewhat addicted to takil
0 too many flies in his Lemonade and very fond
4 sleeping off his liquor in the old haunted hous
because it Is quiet, well ventilated, and rent free
e Toward midnight this ghost had snofed on
I'll much of his alcohol, that subdued sort OF nois