New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-06
NEWS OF THE CITY.

NEWS OF THE CITY.
| CEIBBRATIoN OF THE FIRRmEN's ANNIvERsARY.
/ The seventeenth anniversary OF the organlzation
| of the Fire Department of our city was celebrated
on Saturday last with the usual display and
enthusiasm. II was surprising to see such an
universal turn out, under the circumstances
| the threatening indications of the weather up
| to the hour of assembling and the condition of
| the streets in consequence Of the previous heavy
| rains The procession formed in Canal street,
| and SO soon as the sky began to give promise Of
4 fair day, thousands of our population crowded
| to the point, whence it departed upon the route
laid down in the programme
MIR. J. E. Caldwell, Grand Marshal, accom-
panied by his aids and followed by large body
of exempt fremen and long list Of notables,
preceded the immense procession, and, together
with the marshals and other officers of the
various companies, preserved an order and me-
thod of arrangement which made the affair go
off tremendously. The greater number of the
companies were disposed in numerical order,
including organizations from Milneburg and AL
giers., We should be glad to speak of each COM
pany separately-tog give each its due in the mat
tiers of numerical force, decorum and manly bear
ing, decorations and generalappearanee- hutlack
of space forbids, and the fact that the morning
papers of yesterday have preceded us with full
and accurate accounts, renders it unnecessary.
In point of numbers, jackson Company No. IL
stood first and No. next and so far as fine
muscular men, and neatness and beauty of uni
form were concerned, we thought Perseverance
No. 10 could not be excelled. lady at the corner
of Custombouse and Chartres streets, presented
this company with the most rich and costly
decorations for their machine, and received in
return from their hands an immense bouquet,
which had been presented by Miss Edgar, at the
corner of Carondelet and Poydras. A banner
was presented ny number of ladies to Hook
and Ladder Commander No. 2, when opposite
the City Hall
After accomplishing their march through
most Of the principal streets of the city, the
companies left their engines in Canal street, and
visited Placide's Theatre, where Professor Dimi-
try delivered an appropriate and of course
eloquent address. I5r5 la A#. a5Ff@t
This celebration may not have been quite SO
grand an affair as some that have preceded it,
but the excellent manner in which it was ar
ranged and executed, and the good order which
prevailed, must challenge the admiration of
everybody.
The following is the report, so far as heard
from, of the interments in the cemeteries of the
city for theiweek ending at 6 o'clock A. NJ. on
Sunday, the 9Th of March Protestant, Girod
street, IL; Hebrew, Metairie Ridge, 1 st. Pat
rick's, 49, Catholic No. 1, Second District, O.;
Catholic No. 2, Second District, 10; Lafayette,
Fourth District, 49, Total, Sc.
S,ticide.--A respectable looking German,
named o. II. Mergel, aged about q years, was
arrested on Saturday afternoon in the Second
District, under charge of breach Of trust.
He seemed deeply affected by the circumstance
of his arrest and his inability to procure imme-
date bail. AT about 6 o'clock, a gentleman
arrived at epolice office to procure his release,
and on proceeding to his cell, Merged was found
suspended to the CRATES of his window by his
neck-handkerchief, black silk one; life was
not quite extinct, and he was Immediately cut
down, but died before medical assistance could
be procured. He had taken off his hat and
shoes and performed the fatal work coolly and
deliberately, but with the utmost dispatch. An
inquest was held upon the body and an appro-
pirate verdict rendered.
y FutaiFaH.-A man named j. NJ Crawford,
aged 26 years, killed himself early on Saturday
morning, by jumping from window in the
third story of the Arcade Hotel He was a
wealthy planter, we are told, and had just ARR
we'd from Alabama. An inquest was held upon
the body and verdict rendered attributing the
cause Of the rash act to temporary insanity.
Shooting and Cutting-Capt. Thos H
Newall and Christopher Smith were arrested on
Saturday, the former for shooting one Pat. Con-
way in the leg, and the latter for attempting to
kill Louis Schrider with knife. They were
required to give surety for their appearance.
A4 :
-hurder.-A man named Patrick Mcnamara
was killed night before last at the corner of st.
Joseph and New Levee streets, between the
Railway Hotel and the Washington Coffee house
Three persons, named las. Moriarty, John Cav
anaugh and Jas Curreu, are under arrest in
the First District Police jail charged with hay-
ing participated in the murder. Cavanaugh
states that man named Dunn and another per-
son whom he did not know were standing on the
hanquette in front of the Railway Hotel, or
coffee house, at about o'clock, in conversation,
and that Dunn was about to cross the street
when Mcnamara approached and overlook him,
giving him blow or slap when he came within
reach Dunn turned and demanded the cause
of the attack; Mcnamara replied that be had
struck him because he {McN had been beaten
on the previous morning by a crowd of persons
with whom Dunn was in company, or something
tothat effect. Some words ensued land through the
interference of mutual friends, the parties were
apparently pacifed. Cavanaugh then entered
the coffee house, and coming out shortly after
he found Dunn and Mcnamara again in angry
alteration; and, finally, saw the latter receive
blow from the former, who then walked ra-
pidly away. The wounded man staggered from
the middle of the street, with his arms casped
across his breast, into the Washington coffee
house, then out upon the pavement, where he
fell, and died in few minutes. An open knife,
with q slender blade, about four inches in
length, was found in his hand, or upon the ban
quette where he fell; and it was supposed he
had plucked it from the wound which cores 4
pended with the blade. b The cash was in the
base of the throat, and the knife had pene
trated downward to fatal depth into the
stomach. Dunn had not been arrested last
night, Mcnamara was an Irishman, and
about 30 years of age.
Ole Bull gave concert at Memphis on the
evening Of the 9th ult
PROFESSOR HENRY De MARsAN-The method