New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-26


paying sundry small bills. and Resolutions were
passed agreeahly thereto. Mr. Place stated
tisnt the Committee had found o. great deal
of unfinished business and q great many
Illegal bills, specimen Of which he pre-
'ented IN the bill of Mr.. Carberry for the pay:
ment of q large number Of extra carts and
y sa horers employed BY him. A letter. from the
City Surveyor was also read, declaring that said
lab0fefs had been employed without proper au-
thority and he believed for electioneering pur-
posese Mr.. Place further stated that rumors
we're current in the Fourth District that Mr..
Jolls, late Street Commissioner, Elk Recorder
Vaught and one of his deputies, Mr. Fitch, were
defaulters to the city and he moved that COM
mittee be appointed to examine the 4books and
accounts Of said officers. The motion was car
ried by o vote of IL to IL.
An ordinance was introduced providing for
che subscription by the city Of 81, 500, 600 to the
stock Of the Pontchartrain Railroad Company,
10 aid in the construction of Railroad from
New Orleans to Mobile Referred to the FL
nance Committee after an immense deal Of Bun
lolnbe debate
The Board soon after adjourned.
REeofsnER's CouRT OF THE SECOND DISTRICT
Antonio Geoanny made affidavit in this court
yesterday charging man named Jicka with
having entered his house on Sunday night last
and stolen the sum of $l5 therefrom. Accused
has been arrested and awaits examination.
Charge of III. Treatment affidavit has
been filedin this court by Mr.. D, Oatkenagainst,
a Mr.. Bergen and wife, residing sin Bienvile
street, charging them with having frequently
abused and cruelty i'll treated colored woman
and her child Warrants were issued for their
arrest. t4
AN UNSUCCESSFUL DoDGE--A fellow named
Brown, who was under arrest in the First Dig
trict charged with some trivial offence, when
about to be depositedin his cell yesterday, took
a dislike to the accommodations; and as the
jailor was engaged in writing his name upon the
books, he darted suddenly into the street and
took to fight. A considerable number Of police
men and others were scattered about the vicin-
ity, here and there, and with q great cutlery,
like pack Of hounds when the game breaks
cover. they started In pursuit, as much probably
\ for the fun of the race as anything, and the
painting fugitive, finding great crowd at his
heels shouting and hallooing like madmen, gave
out apparently from sheer fright at the uproar
he had created He was brought back and de-
elared that he had only started to look for bail.
RIOTERS. Officers De Courseys and Rutter
arrested and brought to the calaboose of the
First District yesterday afternoon quite crowd
of persons who gave their names as John Harper,
Michael Sheehan, Edward Duffy, John Welsh,
Hugh McGovern and M. BoyloR,s fors shaving
armed themselves with guns, pistols axes etc,
and kicked up grand row to the great dan
ger and CONSERVATION of every body in their
lneighborhood. They all gave security for their
appearance to answer 2
DESCENT UPON NEGRO NEsT-Just before
daylight yesterday morning, officer Nolan en-
| tered house on Old Levee street, between Hos
pital and Ursuline, and arrested three colored
| persons named Richard, james and Sarah, sup
| posed to be runaway slaves. A silver watch
and a lorge ouQ of proauaa an1
were found in the house and seized as stolen
property
STOLEN SUGAR.-Policeman Sweeney yester-
day morning at about o'clock, found, in skiff
moored to the wharf near the Vegetable Market,
fifteen sacks of fine first rate quality sugar, sup
posed to be stolen from somebody's steamboat.
| The property is at the Second District police
office awaiting the demand of its owner. 4.9
CHARGE, OF THEFT.-Adolph Hammer is under
| arrest, in the Third District on charge Of
| having entered and robbed the office Of Mr.
| George Pandely.
/ SUPREME Court DECISIONS. Luigi Bestaso,
| appellee, Us. q. s. Mail Steamship Company of
New York, appellants. ...Appeal from Fifth
District Court of New Orleans. Judgment at
sfrmed.
David Edwards, appellant, Us. Ann Green,
his wife, appellee. Appeal from Fifth Dis
| trict Court of New Orleans. Motion discharged
Leggett 4 Brothers, appellants, es. H L.
Potter, appellee. Appeal from Fourth Big
trict Court of New Orleans. Judgment of Dis
trict Court reversed and Judgment rendered in
favor Of appellant, discharging the rule and re-
Installing the execution. Costs of both courts
TO be paid by appellee.
Edward Armorer, administrator, appellant,
Us. Margaret Casey ct ais, appellees. -. Appeal
! from Ninth District Court of Concordia Ad-
judged that the case of Armorer, tutor, as
Case, administrator, be reversed Also that Pc
titioner Edward Armorer recover in his capacity
as administrator Of the succession Of Thomas D
Purnell and Margaret Case administrators, the
sum OF $4,000 with interest at 8 per cent. on
$1,000 theoeof from January l., 1S47, and like
interest on the like remaining sums from Janu-
airy /, 1913, 1S49 and 1856, and that for the
payment of said sum and interest, petitioners
mortgage and vendors privilege be allowed and
recognized. Further ordered that petitioner re-
cover from the succession Of Purnell and his adj
ministratrix the sum of $s1126 1900 with G
per cent interest on $1089 $500 from Febru-
airy 10, l849. The costs of both courts to be
paid by defendants and appellees.
Catherine Knight, appellant, as New Orleans
and Carrollton Railroad Company, appellee
Arabella and G. w Gross ,intervenors appellants.
....Appeal from Fifth District Court Of New
| Orleans. Judgment affirmed
William Stephens, appellant, os W. G. Graves,
appellee. =. Appeal from the Sixth District
Court of East Baton Rouge. Judgment affirmed
with costs.
Mary Ann Wattles, appellee, Us. Jane L. B.
| Conner, appellant-Wm. B. Freeman ct ux,
warrantors. >. Appeal from the Ninth District
Court ofConcordia, Judgment of District Court
| reversed and case remanded for new trial. The
costs Of the appeal to be paid by the plaintiff
| and appellee.
| Homer Kellogg, appellee, Us. S. P. McMillen
and Rosabella b. Mill, his wife, appellants. 4. :.
| Appeal from Third District Court Of Jefferson
| Judgment of District Court affirmed with costs.
City of New Orleans, appellee, os. R, D. Shep-
herd, appellant. -. Appeal from Third District
Court of New Orleans. Appeal dismissed.
/ Jean Bite Jeannin, appellee u.s. Laurent Mil
laudon and Alexander Lesseps, appellants.
| Appeal from the Fifth District Court Of New
| Orleans. Judgment of District Court reversed
--adjudged that plaintiff recover from defen-
dants the lot of ground claimed in his petition
with costs in the Lower Court, those of this ap-
peal to be paid by plaintiffs and appel1ees.
| David Adams, appellee, rs. Duncan N Hen
men and las. G, Tanning, Sheriff, appellants
Appeal from Sixth District of New Orleans
| Judgment of the Lower Court reversed, injunc-
| ton dissolved and suit dismissed
Mrs. Charlotte Frelinghuysen, wife of Hon.