New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-07
Our Mobile friends again say


Sworn to and subscribed before me- this fifth day Of
June, A. D. 1854. A, RICHARDSON,
Sd Justice OF the Peace.
Our Mobile friends again say;
After this unexpected denonent some thirty or forty
having congregated in the barroom of the City Hotel it
then being about O'Clock apprised by Mr. Quig
ley the Chief Engineer of our department that the New
Orleans department had at that unreasonable hour chart
ayinved US to supper which those presentndignant
ly refused"
The above sentence, your Committee free to &C.
knowledge contains the positive and frank aVowa that
your hospitalties Indignantly reassdn But, we
leave you account for the paradox contained the
preceding quotations How thirty forty persons
who occupying piece The ho.els, at ceLve
o'clock, could about oclock' Indignantly refuse
at that unreasonable hour, your supper, chaitaby" ten
dered is enigma unable to decipher The fact
however, stated, it is acknowledged by your
Mobile guests and proves that your Committee at least
rendered Hospitality, which they egotistical enough
to believe will bear humane and CuistiG.hke compar
SON with that of oid aai=es Of Patagonia" The re-
fusa of your rendered kindness responsible
for.
The Mobile Committee next proceed to date upon the
incidents which TRANSFERRED at the trial. and with which
your Committee have connection; but believe it is
in the hands of the Committee of No. yeur city who
doubtless will give it due attention.
They next state
1T is true that Mr. Risk the next day at II o'clock,
1--WE other members of the Connttee) rendered
collation. to take place ut O'Clock when 1t was
nolpn that to leave for Mobile at tVo o'clock"
In reply to this have to sincerely regret that our
Mobile friends could much deYiate from their own
text. The members who waited Mr. B. Sosgaman were
Messrs s, Risk t @. Poole Alfred Beapger and J. G.
Kathman who stood around him, and were by Mr.
A. a. Sossaman the Chairman of the Mobile Committee
In regard to your guests leaving for Mobile at tys
oelock' knopnh to your Committee, nor waa
any other of their movements it ten o'clock A. NJ
when rendered the collation. and had then been
limited to us that t,co ocock' their klown' hour
for departure your Committee would have altered the
hour of collation. to uit their convenience you are
already advised how received and we need not
recapitulate it.
1t seems however that tho above Misrepresentation
were not sufficiently pungent to appease the justly tdg-
feeling Of disgust" entertained by Mobile friends
for you-hey proceed in the following complimentary
strain to reerate them We copy verbatim from their
report and would state that the itaics their own
Besides that was no hour for collation. tenedred az
it almost the of departure The fact was sig
nicant enough because it exhibited to minds pre-
meditated covert and systematic plan the part of
Committee which informed that arrangements had been
made reception and comfort 1oe,l no arrangements
cqterr had been effected to abuse the confidence we had
placed in the department and to heap insult upon injury
under meritrcious and transparent show of kindness
hospitality and tairness.2
Tie fact significant" your Committee have
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teHtatic plan adopted by make arang e,aents
for your guests comfort and that those a,Tag eiae
had been cfecd without any desire to "heap insult upon
injury by strdnspaen SHOW Of kindness - for
not of having in the most indirect manner either
nsulted injured any of your guests Your Committee
| again compelled to regret that Mobile friend
should far suffer their former good judgments b,
warped by petty feeling of chagrin for imputatnns
unkind uugenerous and proved to be untrue could only
emanate from dsordered brain, which we hope may b
to you, it is to u.s. sufficient apology for our Mobile
| friends rash assertions.
| In their statement also find the following:
1.-The Committee refrain from seiziug this coca
sion to return the thanks of the Company Mr. O. Hop
kins for providing band of music escort them to thu
\ Lake on their return."
The thanks above rendered fully endorse and submit
the following receipt evidence of of the Jls'
| paid by us; = g.
| Committee Of New Orleans Fire Department
| May 90, 1854 To Jordans Band, DR.
| For Band of Music to escort Washington Fire Co
| Nos, Of Mobile, to the Lake ......,....... s25 OF
| Received payment JORDAN.
The Mobile Committee conclude their report as fol
lows
All other bills contracted in New Orleans have beer
paid and recepted for aud the Department of that
have settled any bills for should be happy to learn
what they We have carefully avoided giving that
Department the slightest pecunary trouble on our &c
| COUNT
To this we only state that the following are tn,
"bisn alluded to by u.s., in our previous report re
marking that it is not fault if they are not more
| numerous:
Geo " culum, Lake House ..,......... $500 90
| Ilty Helelt,.. Observation-Disclosures. 80 90
| Moreaus Restaurant .................. 81 so
| Jordan's Band Observation-Disclosures. % 90
Having thus gentlemen clearly substantiated by posi-