New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-07-18
CITY TT E nj s.

THE SMRLsER CASE. THE following commu-
nication comes from most respectable source and
insert 1t In accordance with the request made Our
respondent lie right in his impression that mot
knowingly do injustice to any person persons We
would deeply regret unntentiona wrong done to
any human being through our columns as we wond be
prompt TO repair 1t upon proper showing But all In
telgent persons must know that absolute accuracy in
trivial matters Of detail cannot always be expected in the
hurry and dispatch with which daily paper Is made up
NEW onLEAss, July II, 1856.
Editors Crescent: As you seem DESTROYS to make the
amend honorable in all things that appertain to the
affair smeier you will please notify in your next issue
the erroneous impression that went abroad, in
quence of assertion in your number q the 18th ut.
refer to the statement which rays that Scott Is an lrsh
and that the widow smelser il an Irshwoman am
confident, that gentlemen of such upright and liberal
eliugs the editors Of public pint important
the Crescent must nca9a be- would not knowingly msrep
resent matter Of this kind Your information doubt
YVES incorrect, have it from reliable authority that
Adam Scottis scotehmap native Of Edinburg and the
widow Smelser Is an Epglishwoman, Of Cheshfe, be-
heve.
am induced to trouble you with this piece Of informa-
ton which can be Of no to the public at large
on Of the Juror which seems to exist in certain
quarters, of piliug fault upon fault and cooy putting
them to the credit 6f the low Irish who have regret
to state, mors than sufficient faults Of their As
public journalist you at least will be merciful and
are accustomed act up to the motto "saum cirque
tributon
You will thus oblige only your constant reader but
host OF others Respectfully,
HoDIEMus LgcToR GREscEErIs
The OTHER SIDE OF THE SToRY.--Some time
ego Published OF the breaking up of a
boarding house Baronne street, by the eopement Of
the landlsdy with one of the boarders together with
other things incident to the affair." which believed to
be ue from hearing them similarly detailed by different
parties We satiaGed that were imposed upon
by persons who drew upon their fancy In the belief that
the lady had gone to California and would never return
The lady however has returned and Of the first
persons visited by her oui3ef She informs that
grossly Imposed upon by malcions persons and
that there not In honorable particular
truth iii the whole story That at that time she
widow and Is the wife Of the gentlemen with whom
she away That her present husband had
shadow of dishonor upon the young lady spoken
that he never ma ed her only Of his own free viii and
inclination That she not in debt for her furniture
or any thing else doctor's bill of $25 which she
ordered her agent to pay and which he failed to do in
time to avert seizure That she only kept furnished
rooms and boarded but and his wife and tina
chase Of provisions to lest them until they should and
new residence. That much of the story reflected
upon her character and upon the intercourse between Mr.
H. and herself based In sheer malice, and that he
reputation in this city and elsewhere has always been
impeachabe. ysg
to such extent; end publish the ladys denial as h
best amende make her Tho last side Of story
apt be the true and the lady has taken thu
TREY true, And ia order to fully satisfy the public tina
such is the fact publish below her certificate of
riage:
..m M... 5a STATE OF TEXAS
County of Galveston +
This is to certify that l. l. e hump Justice of thu
Peace in and for said county, this fifteenth day
May, A. D., thousand eight buudred and fty-fve
united in the bonds of matrimony Albert Hennng ant
Mrs opheiia Talbot. in pursuance of marriage lcens
Issued this day by Oscar Parish Clerk OF the Count
Court Of Galveston county according to law and in pre-
sence OF the witnesses H. T. Fisher and L. Beissner
Witness my hand, this 10th day OF May A. D. 1856
~5.. I. 4. RUMP, Up g. @.
GREAT TIMES IN THE OLD THIRD.---A Liz,
fitch CaughA few days since, rumofs spread that tw
| or three German gipsies, generally known wood
pilferer5 and blackberry Pckers and vino occupied
miserable little hanty the Gentilly Road thu
nfI harm in ttp of
Third Disret-Were neither less than witches
Of sataus choicest brand Wonderful and thrilling
the stories circulated Of their mysterious dongs though
evil had yet been traced to them. Numerous per
declared that they the hays brewing inferno
decoctons in hole in the ground back Of their shanty
aLo that they saw them engaged in witch danee-al
hopping round foot, and making extraordinar,
leaps in the air. gardener living in ths negh5orhooi
solemny d. cared that he the chief witch-an OLE
bedame named Elizabeth Sutheraud-come flying out D
her chimney heels foremost and that she snorted flame
of living FIRE from her nostrs
We would have believed that stories Ike thAs
could obtain credence with any body hut it actua
and melancholy fact that hundreds Of people comprising
representatives of the varied colors nationass
peope in the Old Third believed them so far as to trudg
all the way out to the Ridge to for themselves Til
was Friday and Saturday last. It curious sigh
to these people collecting around the my terou
shanty at respectful distance, climbing into trees ami
upon fences and every other available eminence /,
watch with suppressed breath and straining eyes thu
movements of the whom they verify believed tt
| be daughters of the devil The women gratifed tn
curiosity these visitors by cutting up various seuees
didoes which interpreted into living proofs of tn
demonae presence and as the superstious always en-
large upon what they see the stories they told on the
return cauFed still larger crowds go on Sunday
The fences became crowded with spectators that the
broke down IN several places and 80 allsbsorbiHg
| the desire to see without going near, that number
climbed upon house in the vicinity, and remained there
| some going and others coming, throughout the day
always in spite Of the owners reonsrance and the dan
ger of the roof breaking in. The unueky rurajst fo
| his premises invaded by swarm Of human locugts
whom he found 1t impossible either cox OF drive off
| On Monday the furore increased. The fences, tree
hoU5p nf tha nlckv piubb
crowd tbae could not have consisted Of ess thou
sand people The old women kept up their antics gon
in and out of their shanty and cooking as was
ali sorts OF unnatural things in the hole in the ground
How long this excitement would have continued ther.
no telling; for the owner of the beseged house fcaru
that the roof would give way beneath the crowd AM
losing all patience, in to the police office and praye
/ for the arrest of the socaled witches.
Sergeant johnson accordingly sailed cut and CAPTURE
the chief witch Elizabeth Sutherland much to the aston
| ishment and admiration of the crowd there assembled
The crowd of course followed to the guard house an
after the old woman was locked up, continued to han
about tae place. under the supersttious spell whic
had urtd them out to the Ridge and detained them
The officers at the station found the crowd nusapc,
and made repeated andeavors to drive them away, bu
without success AT midnight of the officers it'll
more waggsh than the rest went out and gravey toll
the crowd that the witch had escaped by changing into
cat and eapng through the window of her cell lea,
ing her human skin behind In proof of which he held
something which in the dark might as well have bee
such article not. This had the effect of sendin
part of the crowd away but considerable numbers VIII
wouldn't believe such oockand-bull that, RENAME
|
ing Then the crowd reassembled and so great an
bothersome that Recorder Seuzeneau had to post
about the building to keep the sidewalks clear the court
room being as crowded as potpe. The Recorder afte
questioning the old for q while concluded tina
she was only human and had got little crazy from pick
ing blaekberres in the he gave her to som
charitable people Of the Second District who took an in
terest In her from the strange stories which she
the heroine The old woman, it seems processes to be
fortuneteer and told several fortunes good and bad
the officers Of the court by reading the lines in the
hands. Taking the hand of Sergeant Johnson who ha
arrested her. she scanned it closely for while thet
looking at him with wild eye and holding up a Skim
finger, she said solemnly, Young man. you Will not y
long ~ at this shudder through the crowd: John
son ia said to have turned pale but this we don't believe
and several ders home for the purpose as was sus
pected of writing petitions to the Police Board for tn
expected vacancy After the old left the crow
| gradually dispersed When down there, at te
O'clock there still supestitious faces lingering abou
the building and we We're not little surprised an
amused by the tall darkey who stays at Recorder Ramos
ohce-a real Intelligent sensible fellow, thought
asking us to find out and let him know for good and
nest If the skin of the witch still in the cell!
knew long ago that there all of people in til
Third District but suspected that superstito
regned SO largely among them
VIOLENT. ID. q. Mandell was arraigned be
fore Recorder Bright yesterday charge of hayin
knocked down and badly bruised John Mccormick at th
corner OF Carondeet and Deord streas on the night
the 9Th inst To be examined the 2lst Bail require
500.
RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY. Peter Yokel]
the keeper of grocery and liquor the corner