New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-15

The following extracts from ii communication re-
ceiyed recently by the Mayor of this city with sundry
resolutions purportng to have been passed meeting
| Of keepers of Coffee houses Csbarets etc:
If the General Council not wish repetition of
the of riot and disorder that disgraced city
the night the 21st August last let them repeal the
obnoxious law.
AT that period the property of few citizens de-
troyed by sedtious the exaction the present
high license, oppressive and unjust will be injurious,
and the property not only of him who pays the license
but the property and may say the lives of those who
imposed the tax will be in jeopardy As it is these gen
lemen who i'll the General Council imposed by their vote
this odious and oppressive law ought look their
personal safety.
las the majority determined resist by force
the collection of the license have used and will CONT
prevent such occurrence
TIE SSow.-The seighing. which for some time past
has been good in streets is getting better very
fast The rays. and cabs and other wheeled nuisanccs
cut up the snow in such fashion in many places to
present almost bare surface of the pavement to the
sleigh runners The negroes. too so numerous and
the boys industrious in the manufacture and appca-
ton Of balls. that the depth Of the in some
places is reduced to barely six inches.
While this subject will observe that the science
of sleghrdng has not been properly cultivated in this
to that branch of education in future well az reform
in the art of sleigh building
INquEsrs.-A coroners inquest was yesterday held at
house Levee street between Union and Bagaelle on
the body of free colored named 1onorc Dutilhet
who had come to his death from nhalng carbonic acid
gas produced by coal in his bed room Verdict
accordingly.
second inquest was held the body of a male child
found preserved in brandy in glass jar in house the
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only the evidence of two Germans who knew nothing
the matter that they swearing about and brought in
verdict of inanticide, naming the supposed to
be the mother and the murderess She soon after az
rested and her statements which do proper to
give correspondent precisely with the appearances of the
There had been infanticde If there had been
Of brandy would have been the last depository that
the guilty mother would have selected for the remains OF
the little victim
RoBRERY-,John Harmon was robbed of $50 at his
boarding house in Foucher street. Sunday night and
suspects fellow boarder named Richard Beahany of the
| robbery Beahany was yesterday arraigned before
Recorder Caldwell and pleaded guilty The case wa,
set for examination on Saturday next.
RECORDER GEsoIs CouRr-Numerous assault and hat.
terry yesterday up for adjudication before Re-
corder Geno and disposed of in the usual mastery
| manner of that distinguished magistrate.
+. Moore was strongly suspected of having swindcd
somebody and there was also suspicion that he
ceaed in house under house behind house OIL
about house in Robertson street near jackson street
| A warrant, to search him out, was issued
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| LAFAYETTE ORPHAN AsYLuM.-We have received the
9th annual report of the Board Directors Of the Male
Orphan Asylum in Lafayette The report contains brie
history of this excellent institution which was founded
association of benevolent citizens in 1924 and nm
account of the operations of the Board during the mast
The results Of this whole charity thus far
of just pride citizens we trust that the
bcrlity of the community will never allow the bcney
client work Of tho Directors to become circumscribed
We make the following extracts from the report before
The Directors have the happiness to know that there
have been boys from this Asylum who reached the
most honorable positions in society We have one re-
spectacle Minister of the Gospel Two have become dis
tnguished naygatorsonc being the Commander of enc
largest packets between this city France the
other younger but bids equally fair to become an orn
ment to his profession, and is the second officer OF
fine vessel Another is lawyer and lately by the conf
dencc of his fellow citizens, has been elected by very
Gathering vote member of the State Legislature and has
the happiness to be of the present Directors Of This
Board Others respectable merchants clerks md
many adjoining, by their industry and sagaeity variety
of the mechanical trades in city while others have
been placed with honest farmers in the West and from
whom We have agreeable accounts
There have been 81 admissions during the mast yea,
and aS orphans now remain in the Asylum
The receipts from all during the year have
been Sl2.113,2i and the disbursements sl17ss84