New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-03
CITY EN- 9.

ACTIVE 56ffiC5
seemed to absorb everything Saturday. AS conse.
quence we have scarcely anything usual line to
port this morning Nothing noteworthy done in any
of the District Courts and in the Recorders courts little
than the usual wearsome array drunkenness and
vagrancy ofers itself to notice. The weather. which
In the morning YVES dark and dismal. frightened up In
time Tor the great reaeD's demonstration, snd what
with that and the crowd that the lovely weather alone
drew into the streets the city had unusuay gay and
crowded appearance.
Yesterday the weather continued to be delightful Mar.
ke church. promenade and gaiety Kept the streets alive
from morning till night
STABBING MoTHER-A young man named
Patrick Carey arrested Liberty street on Saturday
at the request Of bis mother who charged him with
saulting and stabbing her with knife not however
intiictng serious wound. The model young man is in
jail awaiting hearing.
SCRgENDERED-A man named Henry Taylor
surrendered himself to the Third District police on satur.
day. charge Of having shot and killed Par.
cell bostswain Of the ship Fanny McHenry at sea-
esther accidental. He will be examined soou.
FIRST DISTRICT CoURT Sentence On Sat-
urdsy Judge Robertson sentenced Baptiste Jourdan N
c., to pay fine Of $780, go the parish prison for six
months, for insulting and assaultibg white pereon-
Nothing else was done, e.
The GALLAT1N STREET STABBNG CAsE,--Gal-
sgher and Brie the parties accused of stabbng Vim
Hays in Webes dance house in Gaatin street par.
TALLY examined before Recorder Ramos Saturday The
testimony shows that began the difficulty by striking
Weber, and that Gallagher did the stabbing The
nation will be continued to-day Hays is at the hospital
doing well.
NEGRO RoBBER ARRESTED Robert Jackson
save belonging to Mr. Hunt arrested the corner
Of Canal and Baronne streets last evening the request
Of Mrs Ieee who charged him with roboing her house
He bad an extraordinary assortment Of plumber bis
person, of which this is the inventory dirk knife
ioczpcker 2porte-monnaies cigarcase 10 keys gold
watches ring, breastpins, ! earring buckle gold
pen, and knife. He will be overhauied to-day.
SUICIDE Deputy Coroner Mitchell yesterday
held inquest the body of William j. Harris ship
Joiner found dead in his room in Algers eight O'Clock
in the morning Verdict suicide BY cutting his throat
severiug the carotid artery He heard to fall and
those who heard it, entering bis room found him lying
in his bed with bloody and open dirk knife
lying by him The act is supposed to have been caused
by dependency consequent upon the death Of his
which happened about Two months ago. He native
Of England 55 years of and leaves relations
married daughter to whom he left note Of few lines
asking her to pray for him. etc The awful act per
petrated in the house in which old Bernard the
grocer. murdered by some unknown villains
months ago.
OMN1BusIANA.-It beats all how folks crowd
into the omnibuses when the weather little soft un
der foot and damp overhesdn We ride in the omn
buses good deal and accustomed to being
up al crowds but we got into on Friday
in Of the bryades buses, exceeded anything have
experienced in q long time.
1t Of during the rain that got into the
bus It had not got far up St. Charles street before il
comfortably filed by full grown crowd of eleven
nine gentlemen and two ladies. The omnibus was full
but crowd of eleven always willing to make
for twelfth when wet gentleman the Sidewalk
shaking dripping umbrella at the driver gar
made for him The bus stopped the wet gentleman
entered but behind him oh, horror appeared damn
LADY, two moist little girls, watsry looking Niger CIR
with juicy baby and we'll soaked dog; the different
members of the train being loaded down with bundles
paper parcels etc. all less saturated with rain
We taken aoack by the general avalanche, thai
the subsequent appearance Of pots and kettles tables
bedsteads, or stove or other evidences of family
would not have astonhed in the least; but for
tunatey dogs tail the tail Of the procession
hA nm mt bqr and
lady shut out from the driver all view of what behnt
them and the driver rang for only two left t.
presume that the girls Niger baby dog and bundles al
travelled on that particular occasion as dead beads.n
The original eleven, or rather the eight gentlemen be
sidge ourfe 1t was plain TO see, were considerably dis
pleased at such wet and bulky accession to the crowd
but they said nothing only qurmed and wrig
ged until all were wedged down on the seats The two
adies on the contrary seemed TO relish the thing fol-
There this difference between ladies and gentlemen thai
Just in the proportion that gentlemen get worried
and vexed by being crowded, ladies get pleased and
tickIed-always providing that the crowders nc,
greasy. do not smell of tocacco brandy. The 'bu
fairly under way again, the passengers counted each
other sill around and arrived at the following result
adults, Is minors, 2; niggers, i babies / dogs,
bundles etc indefinite Total deviliso tight squeeze
Go ahead driver you're full - shouted of the
tleman, This recognized good, considering the
weather, and little good humor began to CLEAN in the
previous bilious faces. iof course in good
humor all the time for we were making the prefent
Of it ALL
No matter how tightly crowd may be jammed ther.
is always satisfaction left 10 the thought that il
can't be any tighter. So getting along with
parative comfort and getting beyond fear Of further
crowdiDg approached Lake Julia But, alas the
bus stepped sgaia--ths door jerked open and In
plunged two great greasy Irish women who would hav.
been wet but for their grease No room ~ No room y
shouted several angry voices but the Bddss deaf
Don't you there's mB'sm 2? but the Bddies
were likewise blind They had an instinct, however, al
TO paving their fare and handad mp two pcayunes whct
they had in their mouths They then turned to look
seats but only awful gances and determined elbows
The starting of the bus pitched the largest Bddy the
gentleman. with QesperaLe the
gaze her send into the lap OF his neighbor who
her on with equal energy to his neighbor the othei
Biddy meanwhile standing up and holding by the hole
in the top.
Finally, the big Biddy was passed to u.s. Under ordi
nary circumstances lay claim to little galantry
but we are not fond Of notoriety and reflected
that it would do for the story get abroad thai
the ''local' of the Daily Thug had been holding
Bidly in his lap. we passed her on Our neighbor
gave her hoist and then she stood mp muttered
thing and began look around for somebody to impose
upon urch of the bus staggered her the
which the Niger was holding the baby. Her unwield,
form threatened to ehgulph them the Niger scream
ed-"oh Lord. don't kill dis baby! git away from d
baby Biddy recovered herself made another stagger
and trod on the soaked dog The dog yeped fearfuly
and then Biddy got wrathy She singled out quiet re-
spectableooking man and deliberately sat down in hi
lap by main force This gentleman showed himself to b,
the hero of the crowd To the surprise Of every
permitted her to keep her seat He was much admired
for it, but had be proper to throw her out Of h
omnibus, he would not thereby have suffered any in th
general estimation.
The other Biddy last got tired of holding herself
by the hole in the top especially the rain was
Ing down her ehe planted her back against thu
thief catching machine in the front end and grinnet
good -humoredly. But the attitude uncomfortable
the bus shook her good deal aud by degrees she
tied until she became seated fat the floor Of the bns
the gentlemen politely drawing up their heels to max
room for her.
Altogether it was supremacy ludcrous affair Ever,
body was cked but couldn't laugh for being squeezed
SO tight the two ladies tried to keep straight faces bu
couldn't, and were in dreadful way. The only draw
back to the general hiary the presumption of tn
wet gentleman who headed the crowd in being Of
Tended at the Biddss when they first in and in be
ing amused with them afterwards He was looked upoI
nteropsr who had right to be- vexed or ticket
in at the Inconvenience to which he 10 large,
contributed Those who have by their priority
their seats always feel themselves the only rghfu arbi
tiers OF whatever trouble merriment may arise. 0
course that eventful ride had end and the Bid
dies got out with strong impression that American gen
temen we're not so ALFRED polite people try t.
make them
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