The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-08-21

RECORDERS CoURT,-SeeOnd Mu7,iciDalifu.
Thomas Burke was called to answer to the charge
Bowen. Virginias extreme delicacy forbade her
70 appear. None being present but Thomas, the
Recorders judgment was" discharge him."
J. X. Drummond's case of assault and battery
upon man named Alexander, last week was re-
called yesterday. Mr. Drummond appeared to
answer to Aexander's affidavit that he had cut and
wounded him with a knife but Alexander, the
wounded man, was nowhere when the case was
called. Drummond was therefore discharged.
ASSGaA and BattGry-James Irwin and Patrick
Ford were called to answer for an assault upon
Charles McKeon. Irwin appeared, Ford was
absent. Witnesses for prosecution also were alb
sent. Twins bond was continued and case set
again for Thursday.
Cruelty to a SLaUe-Owen Clarity, a plain, hon
est-looking fellow who drives good dray for an
honest living, accused of whipping and other
wise maltreating slave who was passing him on
ms dray. The evidence was pretty strong against
owen who must have had his bile in agitation at
the time: 1t was proved that he put himself 10
considerable personal inconvenience to try if a
negTo's skin could be made any warmer than the
natural beat of the dog days fred it up to- Owen
was without any other evidence than his own word
10 settle the question whether he first ran into the
negro or the negro first into him he therefore
threw himself on the mercy of the court inasmuch
as this was the first scrape of the kind he had
ever fell into" The Recorder sent him to the
Criminal Court-bonds $500.
First Lieut.. Petrie of I'd Mu,,ictpalttg Police.
Ga the affivavit made in Court on Monday morn
ing, by rather good looking, plain and plainly
dressed girl, named Corvette Dendnger, charging
the LIST Lieutenant of the Watch, Charles Petrie
with outrage while she was in prison by his ar.
rest Acting Recorder Hale held Mr.. Petrie to the
nominal bail of $780, and ordered the examination
to be held yesterday morning. When the case was
called yesterday morning, Counsellor Gaienne, who
had just that morning been employed for the pros.
eculion, cOntended that Recorder Hales act in ia
king bail on affidavit, to the commission of an
offence punishable By death, was illegal. He said
farther, that calling upon poor girl to have her
witnesses summoned and be ready to go to trial
within "a hours after she had found out il was ne
cessary to make an affidavit, and in a matter Of
such vast importance as this, was showing more
haste to dispose of quietly, than he had ever
seen in his life; and he had practced before com
nlttlng magistrates for great number of years
He moved that the bond taken Monday be set
aside as Illegal and that Charles Petre be incarce-
rated until the examination may take place.
Col Field appeared for Petrie and made very
pleasant and plausible argument to show why the
Recorder ought to admit Lieut. Petrie to bail. II
was true, (said Col. F) that the committing mag
Israte could not admit party to bail, after he was
committed to answer to an offence of this charac-
ter but pending the examination, =" the mags-
trate may take bail This, we thought at the time
strange argument for a gentleman of Col Fields
unooubttd legal experience tn use. To ask COM
mlttlng magistrate to take bail in a case pIniSk0-
DE ruth death, pending examination" when the
examination had not begun. He himself quickly
saw this difficulty and straightway directed his en-
ergles to show that simple justice to his client de-
manded that the girl, in whose name this prosecu.
ton was framed, should be sworn and make her
statement He fortified his plea for this step being
taken, with the assurance that it might be neces
sary to bring forward many witnesses--that there
was no chance OF the examination being concluded
yesterday: and thus justice might be done To Lien,
Petre, while the girl and her friends might have
more time to prepare plans and bling forwaed wit
nesses tomorrow, (to-day) Capt. Forno had pre-
vlous openly stated, on Monday he ordered sub.
pOnas to be issued for the witnesses for the State
and that the subpenas had been made OUTPUT his
orders had been negecCed-they had not been ser.
we'd until after O'clock that mornngl Colonel
Field represented that there every reason to
believe that this prosecution the result of com.
binaton OF enemies of Lieut. Petrie; and their re.
venge would be gratifed if they could only be ena-
bled to point him out as he passed along hereafter
and say; There goes the fellow who was sent to
prison for committing an outrage on a poor girl
whom he had put in prison." No doubt Charles
Petre had his enemies-even Jesus Christ while
ON earth, had his enemies There were none of us
without enemies, and in this case the many Sc
cret maneuvrings going on, showed that Lieut.
Petre had some very bitter He finally sug-
gested that the bond be set asidethat Charles Pc
trie be considered in the custody of the police
and that the examination proceed forthwith.
Mr.. Gaiennie objected at length. The girl was
entitled by both law and justice, to time to bring
her evidence forward. The law said distinctly that
the Recorder could not admit to bail, and Recorder
Hale, he was sure would not violate the law to-
day. He was astonished 10 hear Col. Field making