New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-07

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yellow Fsvsr. othorDh Total.
Lafayette 40 "a bs
Charity Hospital go. So ...... l2 ......... %
Protestant Z II ....r.... ~
Cypress Grove, No. L.. l ........-. ..........
No 60. IL .......... .......... IL
Odd Fellows Rest. .......... 8 .......... 4
81. Vincent de Paul... "a ......... 10 ........ 90
catholic No. l.......... ......-... .'........
No. 2.......... l .......-.- .........
st. Joseph's Asylum 49,. 10 ......... IL go ...... "a
Hebrew, Fourth District. .......... :........ 9
st. Patricks. "a .....,,... Ia SS
Total 222 ia 1856
Though the above shows increase over the previous
week. there was considerable decrease In the latter part
Of the week.
NOVEL CRAFT--Enterprise of an Engineey
We yesterday visited the steamer Champagnoe,
lying at the foot Of Washington street. In the Fourth Dis
square at each has no decks or covering Of any
kind and is entirely innocent Of paint has solitary
boiler one little engine and little stern wheel the
machinery being secondhand, with few fittings
Briefly she Is common uncovered hatboat purchased
and rugged up with steam power by Mr. A. Wilcox,
steamboat engineer, who having been thrown out Of
poyment by the protacted asstude Of the Red and Qua
chta rvers has concluded honest penny and
relieve the planters the Ouachita by going iuto the
shipping business himself in the absence Of all steamboat
ing operations The craft draws six inches light and will
draw twelve inches with oAd Of three hundred bales of
cotton any quantity Of which piled the banks the
0uachitg begging shipment the city at dollars bale
As Mr. Wilcozs outlay will be about 81 300 he will make
handsome speculaton should the river not rise pretty
has the offer Of freight than he wants to take
up with him, at his price He expects to leave in
few days and that his craft will breast the muddy Mag
sssip at the rate of about five miles an hour He will
himself be captain, clerk and engineer and will have
Of sx subcrdnates to assist him The Champsgnoe
through most drolookpg craft excites much admi-
ration with those who her and she will
certainly create sensation up ouachita We commend
the enterprise of Mr. Wilcox and that he will meet
with the success he merits.
BAD ARRANGEMENT. 1t was on board the
on n echo hat
Lecassin the cattle trader escaped city on Sun
day morning. with $4,000 Of other peoples money in
his possession The Chief of Police sending dispatch
the Bslize Telegraph office, to have the inter
cepted at the Balze informed that that line never
worked after eight O'Clock, A Sundays-whch ia the
hour OF the seasteamers departure BY this arrange
ment 1t is impossible to intercept any rogue who may
passage on sunday morning steamer should it be dis
covered that he had taken passage 1t Is probable that
Lecassin will step ashore at Havana If not dispatch
will intercept him at New York. 1t is now ascerained
that he took s3100-S2600 belonging to Mr. Dupre
planter for whom he agent and $500 of Mr. Ferdi
nand Commissary of the Second District Beef Market
aud others how much more he may have taken is not
yet known.
DRowNED.-Deputy Coroner Mitchell held on
inquest last evening the body of ishman named
john Kenney found in the river at the foot of Canal
street. 1t appeared that he was hand on board the
steamer Jeanette, from Cincinnati and that while in
toxcated Saturday evening he went into the wheel
house to do come work, and fell overheard Verdict
cdental drowning.
A NEGRO STABBED.-At the Jackson Railroad
Depot last evening negro named Martin belonging
to Mr. David Side, dangerously stabbed by white
laborer named Thomas johnson. johnson stad around
the place for time afterward and when he left the
police notified Of the occurrence The police did
not ind him but they arrested five other
laborers named Conkin, KEENAN,, Martin, Phean and
Matthews We did not hear how the thing came about
1T WAS THE OTHER ONE.-A few days since a
named Louis Powers arrested in the Fourth Dis
trct for getting drunk and beating somebody With gun
Some people have supposed this to be Sergeant Louis
Power Of the police; but they mistaken Our Louis
whose name Is Power and not Powers is not addicted to
such ebullitions as that.
VICTOR DuPRAr.-The Chief of Police informs
that he has positive information that this renowned
scamp and fugitive from justice is in St Louis New York
and CALIFORNIA; in all those places at the latest ad
vices. We however give st. Lous the preference for
that they and oonversed with the redoubtabe
Victor in that city TITS small matter however where he
is will be- So long the city makes liberal proyi
sion for the arrest Of ugves they safe whether they
take refuge across the river or across the ocean.
DEATH AMONG THE DoGs.-There has already
been than defamation of the vagrant canine popu
laon since the police commenced dropping the fatal
seges. Though the Street Commissioners officers do
their best to the created they
miss sometimes for we frequently encounter abona-
BILE smells and the fountains Of those smells lying
at late hours Of the day Sons residents of the upper
part of the city have petoned the Chief of Police to
hold up with his sausaRes for few days or at least until
the bodies now lying about removed Sergeant Simon
of the Second District yesterday reported the sausages
themselves as becoming putrid and unfit for use 1t
effects cannot be removed before they become nauseaHg
In CoNTRAvENTIoN.--Wm Taylor. m e
who notified by Recorder Bright in February last to
leave the city in sixty days arrested in the Fourth
District on Sunday for having outstayed his time nearly
four months He was lodged in Jail to await an examna.
ton.
THAT BASIN STREET Den Hon. Pierre SouIe
yesterday made another complaint against the negro den
Basin street in the Of his residence His afdayt
written by himself reads follows That the house
in Trht ha Rnu
Of Kentons Row. is house of prostitution kept by
coored women where whites and blacks meet indiscrim
the great annoyance of the neghbors That the people
the same most dsorderly and many of
them addicted to gambling and making the night the ac
compice of their vices and the time for their hellish
warrant was Issued.
TRACKED -John Walster Yesterday made af
ddavt bsore Recorder Ramos that the evening of the
list inst he permitted a. SWAN a shoemaker at No
10 Customhouse street. to finger roll of bills Amounting
$3.50 belonging to him and that afterwards the same
money was similarly handled by Frank Ribbon and
that last of ALL when he to examine the handker
chief in which he had rolled the money the said money
was gone. He therefore suspected Swan and Ribbon
collision in the matter and prayed for their arrest
Warrants were Issued.
STEALING MoNEY.-Prudence Barron, f. W.
yesterday sworebefore Recorder Ramos that Me-
linda Jones, W o. whom she once had in her employ,
at No 167 Royal street returned her house several
days and took from her press pocketb contain
ing $50. warrant was issued.
lNDECENT,---W VIM. Hannyman, driver of one of
the Bayou omnibuses arrested Sunday for COM
hitting nuisance in front Of Recorder Ramos residence
at the Bayou Bridge Yesterday the Recorder sent him
to prison for his indecency,
BIG DARKEY THE slave woman Madeline,
belonging to Mr. Stey arraigned before Recorder
Ramos yesterday for raising disturbance Burgundy
street Madeline is the biggest Niger and
could Barnum her. he would have her sure 1t gave
the spectators tins pricky heat look her. aud the next
feeling to the establishment created by her size was one of
commisseration for her master badly sWindled man
there being meat enough in her for half dozen good
slaves and she not being valuable to him than one
The police unable squeeze her up stairs
police jail and it only by hard examining that they
got her into the Red Maria In order to send her to the
ita presentto Horace Greedy any of those Northern
phanthropiss who are always whining the mseres
of the Southern slave,
ASSAULTS, ETC -Afidavits lodged before Re-
corder Ramos yesterday
Louisa KumpG vs.. her husband Joseph Kumpf "a
Toulouse street--drunkenness, general rowdyism and
beating Bound to keep the peace
Francois Julien, NJ VS. yalsin Erasme LIE Coaster
Officer Patron John Johnson-drunkenness and
violent resistance in jackson Square Warrant issued
DoDGING THE RENT. III. Gilly accuses Au-
guste Chean of larceny in having vacated his house on
st. Anne street. and carried off the keys while he
debt for two months rent which keys he afterwards
fused to surrender. sent out yesterday,
on the above complaint being made.
STEALING PEAs.---John Laribeau yesterday
accused Sampson, slave of Mr.. Delachase, of having
n bsq Of meas worth IN from