New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-18
Death Of an Old Citizen.

The Baton Rouge Gazette and Comet announces
the death Of Mfr. Etienne DeGrandpre Of that city,
wAich took place or the i4th inst. speaking Of
the venerable gentleman, the Gazette and Comet
says: r-1
The deceased was the only surviving son of Don
Carlos DeGrandpre, Governor Of West Florida in
1910, when this portion Of Louisiana was colony
of His Catholic Majesty Ferdinand VII of Spain.
Etienne was born in Baton Rouge a. D. 1892, and
was eighteen years of age when the colony; ripe
for revolution, with the aid Of party OF fliousters
under the command Of Cen Phil Thomas, from
the Felcianas, regolutionZed; deposed Don Car
los, threw off the Spanish yoke, and hoisted the
stars and stripes of the late U. S. Government.
We were not Included in the purchase of Louisiana.
but gained our liberty in the legitimate way
fighting. In this way we mean to maintain it.
1t ia proper to revert to this fact often, that the
future historian may not commit error. The ter
ritory embra ced in dominion covers an area OF
46jJ square miles and is bounded on the east by
the river Mississippi and south by the Manchac and
Amite rivers, lake Maurepas and Pontcharuain
| This was called West Florida. This, the dominion
| of Don Carlos, who galantiy defended it in the
name of his sovereign, with all the resources at his
command: few and weak enough, because by CON
tact with the people OF the great republic just then
founded, the people could 10 longer submit to the
rule of q foreign master, and only awaited the
signal to strike as they did. though hardly yet
arrived at the age Of manhood, Edenne took part
in the revolution. and remembered to the hour OF
his death the incidents of that early time. shortly
after the change Of government Etienne put oil the
aristocratc De- attachment to his family name
and came at once into republican ways.
| He married early, and had the consolation and
attention of and daughters ct his bedside in
| the hour of sickness and the hour Of death which
, followed. Mr.. Grandp1? was a quiet, unob.
! trusive and exemplary citizen-gener0us and in
dulgent to such degree that he was loved and re-
spected by all who knew him, and now having
| drawn his cloak about him,
He lies down q pleasant dreaus.'' .---
1 As singular circumstance connected with the
GraildprG family and Baton Rouge, we will state
that among the gallant men who wrested the bar
racks and arsenal of the town from the United
States last winter, was q grandson Of old Dot
Carlos Young GrandprG is now with the Wash
ington Artillery in Virginia, where, true to the in
stincts of his race ls vii, ,hraTely 10 his duty.
~s---
Gleansngs from th% ,soSEaepu Dispatches
From the dispatches in the New York News 0
the 10th inst, under date Of Washington, July 9t
we extract the following:
i \ BLOW Cp-As the right section of the Secon
Rhode Island Light Battery was drilling on tn
| grounds near the encampment OF the Mozar
t Regiment of New York early this morning, tn
cartridges Of the timber chest Of the second pec
exploded. killing Corporal n. T. Morse, Jr., an
private Wm. E. Bourn: seriously wounding e. /
Freeman, and slightly wounding Richard Thornle
and Edward Z. Weeks. The remains of the dea
will be sent to Providence this afternoon.
The cause of the ignition Of the powder is III
g, known report prevails that it was in cons
Queuce Of the explosion Of shell, but this is di
, proved by the examination of several men a.
! qnainted with prrotechny, no fragments bein
found Their theory is that the explosion was b
tie agency of friction matches either thrown int
Il the limber chest by some enemy or dropped nt
n or near it by carelessness.
MurlNorS SoLDIER@.-The disafected soldiers
, the First German New I orlz Regiment, who ye
terday were jailed for refusing the arms allottt
them by the Government, have repented Of the
n folly. and are now willing to render obedience.
= The revolving Garbaldians are still under arres