New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-03-10
gutaI SntelIiqente.

LIBERALITY.--We have heard of an instance
of berality which deserves It's among Thousand
acts Of the day. manesting enthusiastic interest in
brave soldiers and devotion the the South The
Crescent Bues who to have gone off with the right wing
Of The Crescent regiment but disappointed in getting th
uniforms in time found tho train gone when they reached M
depot they consequently marched back and proceeded the
City Hotel where they ordered supper The supper furnished
not precisely limited 10 the style Of soldiers atlons bu
handsome affair." we are told Not only the whole
company officers and but invited guests parook
the entertainment When Mr. r. S, Morse. tbs proprietor
aed for his b he refused TO receive aud invited tht
whole company around bcakfas in the morning This,
hear is but Of piece with many of Mr. Morses acts OF kind
to soldiers. nr. -s
THE ORLEANS BATTERY OF ARTILLERY. This
splendid battery sustained by l3 will into active
SERVICE The following gentlemen, all Of them scass
and soldiers have at their request been transferred from
the First Regiment of ChasseursaP this battery
from the First company Capt Escapon A. Roux j. Gynn
A. Wiltz, T. A. Bonnafon Q. Tremoue j. Mioton, A. L.
Percy, a. Devoe, Yet G. r. Conad A. Willoz, f. A. Gui
bet A. b. Wicks T. Iausaugnsn, A. A. Rucb, F. Marquee
Jr, L. o. Desfo ges N. Wioz A. Bosonisr L. Msubsrret
Fnne - Ca anova, T. s. Kennedy. From the Second
pauy; f. C. Barnet A. Peschar H. Bent f. Augony. Fron
Fifth company: l.. Setback, A. Gallot, H. souat The
of many representatives of test known Geos fam
les will be found in the above list We predict that Con Beau
regard will be proud Of this handsome and effective addition
the army Of the West. :.l =
TIE POWDER MILL ExpLos1oS-FIvE LIVES
Losr.A minutes before o'clock P. NJ, yesterday,
community startled by successive reports sounding
like the explosion Of heavy ordnance The first impression
most persons probably that san,es being fred in homo
Of great victory achieved but in short time
certaned that Of the powder mills the river hao
blown up. .'E .'
On repairing the Of disaster found every evidence
of complete wreck. The engine which supplied the mill
with power located three hundred yards In the
ruins wch mark the locality of the explosion that oc
months since Some forty yards above the engine
was situated grinding MILL and still above that about th
distance, the coning and glazing MILL It wns fh's
which exploded aad Is thought that the flame was
communicated from 1t to the grinding Eiil
Both mills working at the ne there were ot course, EN-
poyes BOTH Mr. NJ S. Curtis Of the propreols, had
inst one of them that there not the least suspicion Of
III the The cause however Ct the first
plosou entirely unk As to the second the wind
setting fresh directly from The conins to the grinding MILL
we were assured gentleman that Witnessed the
the body Of flame from the former borne Immediately
upon the latter.
Five workmen Instantly killed. and SO dreadfully
ged that 1t impossible 10 identify them except by
peculiar mark Not Of them had particle of clothing
not shoes, his Heaas blown off anu
limbs scattered about in various directions Mr. Curtis WI
told saw two of the bodies passing through the air so
distance head One body thrown with such violence
to the distance Of about 800 feet that made quite an hdena
on in the earh which very hard there then rebonde
and struck full against picket ence at distance OF soms
| twenty feet further. --t
The Of the mon killed are: David Farrier Jane
Freeman John Holden David cradducks ana chafles nee
soldier of Mississippi company, sitting near by WAS SC
badly injured as to be to the Charity Hospital.
The less in pon of property principally in machinery
as there were but 1900 pounds OF powder in each m and the
| buildings were temporary plank shsnes ,s-
| A SAD CAsE.-7A woman named Catherine Per
ao 80 years old wat found dead in house OF ba
repue on Perdido street. night two since. Coroner
| inquest found that she died of insmperance.
In PR1soN.-W. D. Foster, the engineer of th
las Tuesday TIE Jackson Railroad, with ch fatal results
has eed the charge Of mnnsaughter He assert
his entire innocence in the affair and claims to have come
the city for the purpose Of awaiting Investigation.
WouNDEp.-A man named John Wagner ha
hsen arrested and Imprisoned the cnrge Of having badly Gu
and wounded one Gayara on Dryades Street. -
| DIsLoyAL.--Wm. Hays is to be examined by tn
Mayor to-day the charge of having used language Of
I incendisry character. - -