New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-28
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BLooD.-A cloud of horror hangs darkly owe,
our doomed and blooatrodden city The startling Dol
OF lhe pistol comes to our hourly with the shrek
ana groans OF dying victims, while the bowie knife CLEAN
al every corner and descend fierce and ipds
crminste az erotes from the mysterious void above
n insurance companies no longer take policies lves
aha now, when peaceable citizens leave home In the
morning, they bid contingent farewell to their families
ana upon returning at night have grand jubilee ia
the atmosphere smells Of murder bunch Of hair nv
teeth or cot of blood brains the sidewalk xctes
no in the scared crowds they pass Every
thing Is olood-bloody murder, everywhere!
The above good reader is about the substance of thu
-sndcry that is raised by some papers in our idst
a because few foreigners Of the cass get drunk
on worse whisky and to cutting each other to pieces
the parties who do the cutting foreigners the Asr
can police are mathematical for not being on the spot
and arrestDg them before the quarrel begins If the
cutters make their escape OH then Americans did the
bloody deed then look out for all sorts Of howlnzs
Americans no longer have fists or f-sh and blood
knuckles II knocked down. it is Of course with
shot II be goes into fight and comes out well
licked q course brass knnckles were used upon him
Ihis is the way the cry is kept up.
oh, dear Mr. Clerk Of the Weather you are doing all
sorts OF cool things just but goodness sake
ha,l If you can help it, If you do the horror moDgers
exclusively upon the Dutch and Irish population
The COURTS. There is, of course, next tn
nothing going on in the Courts during the present holt
DAYS Yesterday in the Fourth District Court the tax
ipg OF testimony relative to the November election was
still going on over hundred dispositions being taken
far. s '"AsA
lNoUEsTs ON THE BODIES OF JOIN COLLINS
AND WILLIAM BuRKE-The Coroner yesterday held in
quests upon the bodies Of the above named men who
with Michael McKennary, stabbed in or near Pow
dras market, on Monday night. The testimony was
such as to exonerate Loomis the man enoned bv ID
yesterday being suspected by the Coroner Of having
Perpetrated the murders He proved that he was not n
or near PoydraB market the night in uueson that
he got sungshotted Grod street lie was thereupop
oecnarged and the jury OF inquest rendered verdict
in each that the stabbing done by some
OF persons unknown. Collins 80 years of age and
burke ~ Both vera unmarried McKennary was still
alive last evening He is cut in the liver and his doctor
says he cannot recover
The New LEvEE STREET STABBISG AFFAIR.
James Welsh and James Drooney the men stabbed
in Nestor's cofee.hcuse Wednesday evening walsh
~ the hospital Droouey is at his boarding house and
hoth are said TO be dangerously wounded Nestor the
keeper OF the coffee and the other parties
were partially examined before Recorder Bright yester
gay IN regard TO the matter 1t appears there was free
fight, in which every took a hand with whatever
weapon he could get Nestor was seen with pistol in
nis nana MIS- Nestor with hammer in hers one
else had hstchet whilst James Mahoney used or in q
cused OF having used the knife from which Welsh and
Drooney suffered All the parties in the scrimmage were
more or less hurt What it was all about ala inf annaar
though bad brandy have had good deal to do
with it. hahoney, Nestor, and few others were de.
tanned FOR further examination while the great part of
those arrested as accessories discharged Nsstor
awaits examination also chsrge of keeping disor.
derby house.
SAcRILEGrous ATTEMPT. - Some midnight
proWer endeavored to effect into St. Josephs
IL,
yesterday morning ladder had been placed against
OF the windows but proved short for the
oesigned and knob broken from door OF the
In the effort to get it open Not succeeding with
Inc church. the rascal tried get into the priests
residence adjoining and succeeded by cutting through
pare OF glass in the door and unlocking on the inside
ins dressDgroom was ransacked aud the yesepts and
other articles turned but nothing taken for
me reason that nothing valuable Immediately REDUCE
Die to rhino could be found The wine. was also
INVADED and there were signs that the rascal took ioy
wig Of the drnkables before leaving the night being
bitter cold. A
RECORDER BRIGHT's COURT. Five youths. |
famed Abrams Hand, Yost Williams and Savage were
xamined on charge on robbing Thomas L. Jones of |
5l5o at the boarding house No. So Poydrss street on
sunday last. and discharged They were all engaged in
vent out leaving bis trunk unlocked aud when he re-
urned and looked into it, the money therein deposited
vac gone Ihls was the very reasonable ground upon
7hich he had the crowd arrested ~fN"
george Smith and James Perry Drake arrested unon
uspcton Of having been concerned in the burglary at
ne Uncle sam Coeehouse, discharged for want of
violence John Brown arrested on suspicion of being
n accessory to the murder of Joseph Steiner at the
,eits in October last discharged for
iuilar reason.
Louis Arando who thought it but honest labor to car
crippled boy about the streets that the boy might beg
'as sent to the Workhouse for sixty days
uozen or Two amateur gutter ROSTERS were let of
nth reprlmand and payment Of Jail fees
James keenan, policeman, was arragned on a charge
having Knocked out three of the teeth of L. Ferriers
ave boy jesse in Poydras Market on Christmas eva
he case was fixed for investigation the 18th proxmo
Down Town. There was nothing note Worthy /
eore either OF the downtown Recorders Yesterday
he sending OF Seian before the First District Coprt
IT carrying concealed weapons