New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-04
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY A, 1860.
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YESTERDAY was another gloriously beautiful
day, somewhat warmer than lis predecessors.
AcRosrIc AL.-Our machine poets little effasion
In reference to the close Of the Varieties Thea
ter, published yesterday, contained an accidental
error, which to-day correct by republishing the
lines in corrected form
John Owens, John, my jolly John,
Oh, why leave soon
How tear yourself away, John
Meier waiting for oHr Junes
Would had spell to stop fiicc, John
Or that other John Of thine,
On whom falls parting love, John,
Delicious, dear, divine !
The EXPLOSION AT ALGIERs.-We alluded briefly
yesterday to the blowing up of steam holster on
Wednesday morning, on the wharf opposite the
Brooklyn Warehouses at Algiers.
We now have some of the particulars, showing
that the explosion was the result Of leaving the
machine in charge Of youths or boys Of an age en-
tirely too young to be left with trust 50 rezpon
sibe.
The steam.hoister was the property Of Messrs.
Porter & Thomas, Of the Brooklyn Warehouses;,
and had been brisky at work, hosting freight for
the ship near which, the wharf it was stationed.
The engineer was Basty Hooper, a youth Of is,
and his assistant was still younger boy named
Barney. There being stoppage in the hosting of
freight the machine was left with steam full on,
the boys expecting to put it to work again in few
minutes. Boy-like they left the machine, and went
loaing and playing about the wharf, awaiting the
signal from the ship to go to work again. Some
men near by noticed that the steam was very high
and told the boys they had better see to it. The
boys paid no attention to the warning. A few min
utes afterward they were warned again, upon
which they approached the machine to let off the
steam.
Before they got very near to 1t, it blew up with
a report which on this side of the river was taken
as a most unaccountable cannon-shot. Hooper
was badly scalded the younger boy Barney had
his shoulder broken, and was otherwise hurt by
the flying fragments. One man was badly hurt in
the head, and another had one of his legs broken.
These men were subsequently brought over the
river and left at Charity Hospital. Several other
persons were slightly wounded by the fragments
as they flew.
The top part Of the machine, heavy mass Of
jagged iron, flew up angularly and cut off the miz
zen gallant brace Of the ship, then descended and
went through the deck, breaking beam, and
lodging on the deck below.
Though four persons were badly wounded, it
may be deemed fortunate that no one was killed
outright.
FATAL ACeIDENTs.-H Hioman Kaled.-A German
woman about So years of age, Of vagrant ap-
pearance and evidently insane, was arrested on
Wednesday evening for sitting in the dark on the
Pontchartran railroad track, at Urquhart street.
She was let go, and after that again found on the
track, just as the train was coming up. She was
then put in cell at the Lookup, refusing or being
unable to give her name or any account Of herself
her insanity was plain enough. At half-past two
o'clock yesterday morning, she was found lying
dead in her cell, her head being badly fractured.
There was no such wound on her when brought
in, nor was there any noise heard in her solitary
cell afterward. Yesterday, the Coroner hell his in
quest DR.. Delery made the post-mortem exami-
nation, and found death to have resulted from a
violent blow or confusion in the head, the brain
being softened and coated with coagulation Of
blood. A verdict was rendered that deceased
came to her death by blow in the head inflicted
by herself, either Intentionally by butting, or b,
accidentally falling on the floor with violence.
Han KiLled.-An Irishman named Peter Kelley
accidentally fell from the second story of New
mans feed stsre, on Levee street, between Port
and st. Ferdinand, at half past four o'clock yester
day afternoon. He was so badly injured, that, be-
ing put into cab to go to Charity Hospital, he
died on the way. The body was brought back and
left with the family of the deceased at their resi-
dence on Poet street.
DEATH OF JAMES FoLK.-James Folk, or James
Peterson, or James Peterson Folk Gas the name is
variously giTen) died at Charity Hospital, night
| before last, from the effects of the pistol shot
wounds he received from ]. G. Murphy on Common
street on Tuesday evening, the particulars Of which
we have already given.
The post n,o,1ee examination showed that the
bullets in the abdomen had rddled the small intes
tines and caused an internal hemorrhage which
resulted in DEATH
The Coroner postponed his investigation, in
order to obtain the attendance of all the witnesses
possible.
BoDY FoUND.-Coroner Beach went up to the
Fourth District last evening to hold an inquest on
| the body of an unknown man, found in the river
The result had not been reported when we were
| last Mt the office.
| SAD MIsrAKE.-A valuable and most excellent
slave girl, belonging to Mrs. Widow Hays, Of Pla
| quemines parish, was shot and dangerously wound
| ed ON board the lower coast packet steamer Ran
ger, on Sunday night last, by young man nanet
Fister, said to be an officer of the United State
revenue cutter Lewis Cass stationed at and aroun,
| the Balize.
| The account Of the affair is, that the girl wa
| going to service in the family of Dir. Westerfeld
near the Quarantine Station. She had been mott
| fed not to go to bed as the boat would reach th
! landing in a few hours So she sat aft, and whel
| the boat stopped to wood, before reaching tn
1 landing where she was to get off, she started for
ward, on the guard, and in going through the pass
age between the wheelhouse and the gentlemen
state-rooms, her hoops scraped the sides, and mad
a rustic which aroused Mr.. Fister in his room. II
called to know who was there. Receiving no al
swer, he fancied it was some robber who had bee
feeling at his door; SO he caught up his pistol
fired at the retreating figure through the glas
door of his room.
The girl received the bullet, and if she does no
die, win be crippled for life. She said she hear
/ some one speak MS she passed the state-room, bn
not supposing she was addressed passed on, whe
she received the bullet The young man was no
arrested, no one thinking it worth while, as it wa
evident enough that he had shot the poor girl purel
through mistake.
A NIeGER WILL STEAL There is an old comi
saying that j" white mans mighty uncertain, bu
nigga will steal ~ The latter clause has bee