New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-26

rendered for taxss the amount Il Che taxes with conn.,
bs Or. an = that may b. dus on
resolution was passed prohibiting persons from LAYING
thsir b.nquettss with round stones 2
The Finance Committee reported favorsbiy on nuno
bsr Of bills and offered resolution their payment
which was adopted '
Ths Committee on Claims reported the following rsso
resolution topay Gobst an old claim Of s27ys for
bndog bridge across the new canal at Magnolia street
The Judiciary COMMITTEES reported that although tba
fees charged by the Sheriff for the aintenace Of y;so
e. were sery ssofbtsnt still they were strictly legal
The shera's bil amounting to over 100000 was then
The committee offered an ordinance regulating liz r..
o. the sheriff for the of prisoners It allows
twenty cents per day for the maintenance Of each prs
oner confined In the Police Jsilbens . reductton of
seyrntsen aad-ahsf cents The ordinance was adouted
The Comnittee the House OF Refuge reported tbat
examination Of their condition The Girls, R.fpus e.
found in good condition. The Boys, Refuge however,
was IN bad condition and sadly ia want Of repair
resolution was offered and adopted authorizing lie
ssTy repairs
Leave Of absence for thirty days was to
Tracy. N's't -
Tne resolution passed last meeting paving Harry
Dawes $500 the erection Of the
fro engine wAs on motion Of Mr. Eager rsoonsdsred and
The Special Committee appointed some time ago to In
vestgate the stampede Of the boys from the House Of
Refuge reported thai blame attached to any Of the
cficers Of that institution. The report was adopted
The Board then adjourned TIL Friday evening
A MURDER COMPLETED. Mr.. VIM. Fox, the
man who was shot At the OF Claiborne and Clio
Streets on Saturday evening by John Mitchell died Of
his wound at his residence yesterday forenoon Al .ysn
O'Clock He was native Of Ireland forty three yesrs Of
an inquest upon body and gave sbe following y,dt
" Came to bis death from gunshot wound IN ths IN
side penetrating the intessines and producing perto
ntis the said wound having been inflicted by double.
barrel shotgun 10 tbs hands of John MITCHELL, eto
The testimony upon which the Corone jury based their
verdict entirely corroborated statement in Mondays
ma for
but without success thus far.
THE EJECTAENT AFFAIR--Mrs. Lorinda Jones
yesterday made sdavt before Recorder Bright to the
effect that Saturday last she her two daughters
peed to leave her premises at the corner Of
Canal and Bsronns streets by Alex Perers - Pascal
and policeman Caleb penue who did by force and yio
ienca Seize shove and drive her and her two daueber
into ths street.; wherefore she charges the said per-
With beeao of the public peace and q riot ete
The accused parties surrendered hemssiyes in cnst @
furnished bail for their appearance tho 18th. !
CUTTING Affair. .- A shoemaker named
Jacques Deprez residing on Frencbmen street. between
Greatmen and Craps in the Third District was cut with
pocket knife by Joseph Hernandez employee OF the
Street Commissioner, on Monday evening at haly-psst
six O'clock. It about learn In ths way A fag
days previously while Mrs Deprez was in an sdsosnt
grocery Hernandez made obscens psntomims 10 her
On Monday evening, while Hernsndtz was passing De
press, Mrs d. came out and commenced abusing him
for the insult he had put upon her. He retaated with
foul epthets and finally struck her in the mouth with
bis fist. At that Deprez came out and attacked him
upon which Hernandez drew bis knife and cut
him in three places In the left breast in the
throat near tine luguiar and once in the right
prez's wounds are not dangerous Hernandez had not
been arrested up to yesterday afternoon.
STABBING ALL AROUND.-There were no less
than three of stahbiDg yesterday different par
of the city two Of which IL Is believed will prove fatal
The first occurred In the boarding house of Thomas
Hawthorne, at the Of Hospital Leyes streets
between eight and nine O'Clock, in which man named
Richard Donneiy was struck on the head with stick
and stabbed several times by the aforesaid Thomas Haw
thorne aided by several others We informed that
Hawthorne alleged ths proyooaton which melted hin
ba act rho
recently arrived from Boston, had beating one Of his
boarders who sick besides which he paid his
board. The stab was inflicted in the thigh with jack
knife Donnely taken to tina Charity Hospital
where his wound though bad pronounced TO be not
dangerous. Hawthorne was Immediately arrested end
lodged In prison.
The second occurred at about eleven O'Clock in gro
oery at the Annuncation and Thslis Streets
which young Irishman named Thomas Baxter dam
gerousiy stabbed in the breast with chise by ENGLISH
man named Henry B. Meredith. From the best infor-
nation could obtain Meredith had been informing
Mr. Mclaughlin, who Baxtsr's employer Of the
shortcomings of the latter in getting drunk etc. for
which he bad several times vengeance. Meet
nAyesterday at the time and place Baxter
attacked Meredith when the latter seized chise and
drove 1t into his breast Baxter taken hosp
tai, and Meredith arrested and lodged In prison.
The third affair occurred at about o'clock in a
eoeehouse the of Front LeYee and arod streets
discharged from the Work house last Saturday WAS
observed, by Irishman named Patrick Mullen, be
hanging around some unsuspeeng person, with, Mu
len believed feonious intentions Mullen without
mony warned tbs stranger to beware Of Fitzsmmons
whom the latter In great evaporation
tbs hospital bissing saruly from which was supposed
that the smors artery had been severed and that his
case was very dangerous one. Fitzsimmons was i'm
mediately arrested and locked up.
SpITFIREs The case of Mrs. Catherine Roo
ney OF No 81 st. Paul street, Moses 8. Hyams and
Philip Gibare, sias Giberd which dismissed In
On the 18Th mat was rssnrrso1sa ysssrday All the par
psarance the 28th Mrs. Rooney accusing the
attempting TO strike her and albare of splitting in her
Fa,a ard lhnrA zfa
him and splitting in his fsosa on the evening Of the
l4th iast F
INSANE. Terence Brady, found on Thalia
street on Monday night naked and suffering the horrors
Of potu yesterday sent to the Insane Asy
um by Recorder Bright
JOHN SWAN AGAIN-Mary Spatd, a German
fraty who got low down in the world to put up
that notorious jumping Oft place in Eysium Fields street
the Staat Amsterdam yesterday complained to Re.
eorder ssuzeneau that the keeper Of said denthe
brated John swan, who also keeps umpngof place in
Galiatn strsethad given her violent beating for no
other reason than that she had got tired of the place
wished to esye warrant issued for swans arrest
LARcENY.--Philip Murphy, residing on Nay
ades street. between Washington and sixth Streets
Fourth District yesterday asked Recorder Ramos
warrant wherswith TO from the coffee house of
P Dalton In the Second District mattress three coats
cotton hook, and hammock which were stolen from
the Steamboat q Jr, during the Previous night and
ton refused to give to him when he claimed them The
warrant was granted
ASSAULT AND BATTERY ii ohm LETTERS yester-
day complained to Recorder Ramos on
Where street. between st. Louis and Toulouse he
knocked down and Kicked in the face by Dennis Buckley
Awarrant was sent out after Buckley
SELLING LIQUOR TO SLAyEs.-Capt Moynan
yesterday had Herman Lee before Recorder Bright
charse Of having sold bottle Of brandy Mr. Fowera
slave Jackson in his grocery Bsronne
Grod, the 18th inst Lee gave bail to appear the
18th.
Sergeant Morrill, had Thomss Owens up for selling
bottle Of whisky to Mr. Lssda slave man Robert Moore
In h. aroc.ry = the Of Prytanis and Tsrsehors
HGf,ff ,aJQ haIlS
tne 18th. He il also to be examined charge of
snpy aud thfsatenng officer De druy when he went to
stfsst Asa De Gruy meds affidavit that Owen raised
e.e. On him snd threatened to cut him wide open ii
.s TO arrsst him, after daring him to the
ne turnishsd bail also 70 snswer this charge.
Ass4eLF WITH DEADLY WEAPoNs.-LiEs Fos-
Issidne 81 she corner Of Burgundy and roulosss
Mondsy ss n. ION Recorder R.mo.
Dow I'd Js,smish onoked BY two men named Michasl
psto and cleaning knife Dow Vas srr.,tsd ssd
w on upon giving ball 10 appear When uOsnsa. 'A