New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-13
NEWS or THE CITY.

The following is the report of the interments
in the cemeteries of the city for the week end
ing at o'clock, 4, NJ, on Sunday, the l. 9th inst:
Protestant, Girod street, 4; Cypress Grove, 8
Potters Field, IA; Charity Hospital, 16 St.
Patricks, IA; Catholic No |, Second District.
4 Catholic No, 2, Second District, IL St Vim
cent de Paul, Third District 10; Lafayette,
Fourth District, II. Total, 81.
DRowNED.--An inquest was held last Satur-
day on the body of an unknown man, found
floating in the river at Post 40, First District
Deceased was Of medium stature and plainly
dressed. Verdict, GO Drowned y
SUICIDE.-A man named Daniel Postal, who
had been sent to the Insane Asylum some time
ago, committed suicide on Saturday last by
hanging himself with a blanket to one of the
bars of his cell, An inquest was held upon the
body and an appropriate verdict rendered.
Deceased was o native of New York and about
80 years Of age.
ROBBERY John McNerr and Joseph Brown
were arrested night before last, the former for
attempting to rob man, and the latter under
u charge of having robbed one VIM Parody of
twenty dollars. They await examination.
JUVENILE RAsCALITY "A bit of boy, named
Thos, Visart, concealed himself in the ware
house Of Mr.. Henry Speikman yesterday, and
would no doubt have succeeded in committing
some depredatons in small way had he not
been discovered He was taken to the Gala
boose of the First District and locked up.
STEALMG.-A complaint was made at the
police-otfice of the First District on Saturday
last, by l.. Sanford, against man named Hen
derson, charging him with having stolen about
5000. Sanford states that himself and Hender-
son were intimate friends, and that when one
went out at night to have spree he always de-
posted his money in the hands of the other, and
that on Friday night he left the sum above men,
toned in the hands of his companion, at the
Crescent City Hotel, who Immediately decamped
with the same and has not since been heard
from. Sanford has left at the police office
description of his friends person, and hopes
thereby to obtain his arrest.
SUSPICIOUS CoLoRED LADY--Mr Mergau, who
lives at No. 80 Ursulne street, detected a slave
woman named Celestine skulking about through
his house just at daylight the other morning,
for the purpose, probably, of helping herself to
whatever she might happen to fancy. She was
taken to the Second District police office and
locked up
Henry Fitgsimmons and William Made are
under arrest in the Second District, charged
with robbery. They were nabbed in an eX-
tremely suspicious quarter of the city-Gallatin
street,
FIRST DISTRICT COURT. Sentences On Sa-
turday last Judge Robertson pronounced the
following sentences
Andrew Melville and William johnson, con-
victed of manslaughter, in causing the death of
Christian Netting on the 18th of July, 1858,
were sentenced to Is years imprisonment and
hard labor in the Penitentiary
Evi Nixon one month to the Parish Prison
and costs, for assault and battery.
Thomas Murray, for committing an assault
and battery with a dangerous weapon on John
Roach, was sentenced to two weeks in the Parish
Prison, and to pay fine of $40 and costs.
Patrick Coyle was sentenced to two months in
the Parish Prison and costs of Court, convicted
of committing an assault and battery with in
tent to kill upon James ?. 0'Hara, on the 25th
of December last