New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-04

that the stock was probably worth about $500
at the time of the fire
Count Celso G Ferino testified that accused
bore bad reputation here and in Havana that
he had been convicted of arson in Havana and
sentenced to the garote, but had made his es
cape, and that, in fact, he had never heard any
one speak well Of him,
Septiena was committed to prison to await
his trial before the First District Court, and
Bosque, although discharged from the accusa-
| ton, was also locked up, to be retained as
witness.
Robbery---A complaint was made yesterday
at the Second District police station, by Mr.. Il.
| C. Bowman, against an individual named Ben
Griffin and another person unknown to him,
charging them with having robbed him of thirty
FIVE dollars. Warrants were issued for their
arrest
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.--This Board met last
evening in special session, MIR. Lugenbuh in the
| chair and q bare quorum present.
The reading of the minutes was dispensed
with, and message from the Mayor was read
vetoing a resolution passed by the two Boards
which placed certain carts and laborers which
| belonged to the Street Commissioners Depart
ment under the authority of the Surveyor.
| The consideration of the matter was deferred
| A petition from the New Orleans and Ope-
lousas Railroad Company, asking permission to
establish ferry opposite Canal street and erect
a carhouse and ticket-office, was referred to the
Committee on Streets and Landings.
resolution came up providing that hero
after no officer Of the city except the Mayor,
Comptroller, Surveyor Secretary, Treasurer
and Secretary of the City Council, shall be fur
any newspapers except the official journal.
Much discussion arose upon this important
question, several members contending that all
the information necessary to city Alderman
could not be derived from the aforesaid official
| journal, end that it was preposterous to suppose
this Board particularly could bethorcughly post
ed up without the aid Of the papers Mr. Lugen-
buhl abdicated the chair and delivered himself
most rhetorically, declaring among other things,
that no mans education could be considered fin
ished Che meant probably nobody then present.
that, IN fact no man was pertect--that he did not
| consider himSeL finfallible, and was not ashamed
to learn something occasionally from q news
paper, declaring that he was a subscriber to
no less than nine Before Young America had
| finished his speech, an old fogy arose and de-
sired to know whether any thing was actually
in course Of debate, and if so, what, in fact, it
| was Mr.. Burke, from the chair, replied, that
if the gentleman had been oblivious it was not
the fault of the chairman, and the gentleman
must find ears for himself. The speech was
then finished.
Mr.. Burke left the chair, and taking the
Llools ppI4Sd w Viz VI VI SGuuuuAy WHICH
had been raised, by an energetic denunciaton
of the present City Council, their reckless ex-
penditures of money, their whine of '' ec-o-n-o-
my while making the most lavish, extraya-
giant, and useless appropriations, and declared
that he did not believe their 30 cents would last
them four months of the current year. He took
his seat, saying that he had given them piece
of his mind and felt better. -.
Mr.. Yancey, who proposed the resolution, Of
fered an amendment SO as to include the Chief
of Police and Recorders of the city, and the
resolution as amended was passed.
A report was read from the Committee on
Streets and Landings, recommending that a
contract be sold for furnishing stone to finish
paving Clio street; also, recommending the sale
Of the contract for lighting all the oil lamps of
the city. Resolutions were passed in accordance
with the above.
A trihing report was then read from the Po-
lice Committee, and accepted
And the Board soon after adjourned.