An account

To-day a party called at the Picayune office, and made the following statement : ' My name is J. L. Hall. I was a striker on the steamer Red River at the time she ran into the Alice, John Collyer, master, at a point about 20 miles above New Orleans. The accident occurred at 10 o'clock at night, in January, 1856. The day of the month I do not remember. The Red River was bound up stream, and the Alice bound down. The collision broke the starboard engine of the Alice and stove in her upper guards and boiler deck. As soon as possible the Red River went to the assistance of the Alice, when one of the crew of the disabled boat remarked that the captain had been killed. On investigation, Captain Collyer was found lying on his back on the starboard side of the boiler deck of his boat, with a severe wound in the head and life extinct. The crew of the Alice, all of whom were negroes, stated that Captain Collyer had been killed by the collision, but the officers of the Red River thought otherwise, as the wound in his (Captain Collyer 's) head appeared to have been made before the two boats met, and the blood on the deck was coagulated. Probably not more than 10 minutes elapsed from the time the collision took place until the body of Captain Collyer was viewed by the officers of the