New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-04-07
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ton above every body else in that section of the city,
for he had an aristoeratic SOUL in an uncolnmony
plebeian body. He claimed to be Of noble descent;
yet never wore clean shirt. He affected the most
unmitigated scorn for his greasy, republican neigh
bors, yet was himself SO systematically hostile to
Isoap and water, that use the expressive vernacu
lar Of the republicans thereanent, !" you might ha
planted pertaters on his NECK" ;4
Cyrot Gentes would have got along very well with
the republicans but for one unlucky circumstance.
He had little daughter named Ceina. Celna had
decidedly republican proclivties; that is to sy she
relished association with the various specimens of
Young America, Young Ireland, Young Germany,
and Young Africa that made up the juvenile society
of the neighborhood and this was gall to the aris
tocratic blood Of CyrotGe ntes. He placed a ban
upon all such intercourse, and whenever the little
Celina forgot the stern mandate she had to pay for
it, in that only currency with which children liqui
date the claims Of offended parents The surround
ing republicans being aware of this, very naturally
| pitied the child and hated the parent.
Cyrot Gentes, however, never suffered positive mo-
Hesitation, until the boys who always keptaE eye upon
him, discovered horrible The old man affected
great reverence forrecs Of mortality; and one day,
in lit of morbid enthusiasm, he collected several
range of vaults that had been just demolished in one
of the odtme cemeteries in the lower end of the city,
He slowed them carefully away in his backyard and
fancied himself immensely rich. AS as they be-
came aware Of the existence of this treasure, the
boys voted the old man lawful game. They held a
mass.meeting; stormed and captured the backyard
trundled the barrels out and scattered Cyrot Gentes
old bones all over the street. Cyrot-Gentes made
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were too much for him they carried the bones off,
and gave them decent burial Ever after that, and
particularly when the screams of the young Celina
ran through the neighborhood, the boys prosecuted
CyrotGentes and their action was approved by some
of the adults in tile vicinity.
In the memorable year of 1850, Cyrot-Gentes
undertook the thery task of teaching Celna to read
Probably intending her for princess, something
Of the sort he would not contaminate herby sending
her to any of the vile public schools of the republi
cans. Unlucky, again, Celna had no genius for Ii
terature she wouldn't, or couldn't, learn to read.
In that emergency, CyrotGentes adopted the disci-
plne of the New Anlsterdammers, who, according to
Diedrich Knickerbocker, got knowledge into the
heads of their children by hammering it into their
bottoms. He spanked her daily, and most unmerci-
fully causing her to scream in such MANNER, that
the neighbors finally concluded they would stand it
no longer What followed, will more clearly appear
from the subjoned afdayits written by CyrotGentes
himself and deposited in Recorder Seuzeneau's Of
flee. The property which the old man claimed to
have been robbed is said to have existed only in his
brain; Fitzpatrick and Hagan, however, were sad
realities. AS the afidavits betray a legal turn of
mind and some little grammatical eccentricity we
give them verbatim: tr-
duly sworn doth dspose and that about four
clothing ,ooe groceries nc aud particularly of about
other red wine by chay fitzpatrick, that lepo.
has great reasons to believe that said tznatricl was
the house No 45 Craps street 1eSt to the house dconet
tie peace guarrellg with lis wife who
that on the 6 MONTH said deponent to get
I'D q said tsptrick who most dreadful Loaer who did
and So ~ H @ ali
@ re G md na rsfr M nfrn 9 not s %
break the door as he usually do to steal but passed through the
s aPd In
house By the back doors found within tho deponen and prayed
that e, the h about said De- nf good father
poSeeut 81 the mind Of his daughter was trying induce her
to 1 o WsR i ba anvil wG o rs sh had h oZ
find and tS for linn a s a s s DE- 2on I 1s@
epone and that eponen having oer great reasons to be-
sf s 5 s ia ssP % @ s os
rot mS sl the mob would hd sene the fence which fact
that in the evening dcpoent having sent his daughter bed
proceeding ought to his businesses when
he been assaulted beaten and dragged, by
drunkenness, when two watch distinctly seeing
deponen positively assaulted beaten and dragged by haga
nevertheless the hand him the solicitation some
ruien unknoun depuneut and dragged him the house.
the captain has been positively Informed by the delinquent
hagan and the watch that dep0nent had assaulted
beaten and dragged ordered dcpoent free, when
ruien probably Of the Of hHga, begged the captain
pyed with the request deponen been locked up prison
among the other prisoner when probably the pten who did
accompany haun bail for him. and then sNd
aey proceeded in the house of deponeHt then locked up
where he did found his accomplish fitzpatrick the oaf who
of the house OF deponet yeti had taken
possession of it by the medium of hagan that hagan
and said fitzpatrick in possession of the epOnent
locked up the prison, took the daughter of dcponent
her bed brought her abroad ransacked the house. pundered
that they liked and took the daughter Of deponent in the house
No. Craps street, of the lowest condition
of the most despicable character.
that by these facts they did to the dougter deponent
damages for infinitely than twenty thousand dollars,
taking from her probably for the affection of
and to said father damages for infinitely than twenty
dollars by deprrng him of the consolation sasfnc-
ton offered TO him by his good, beloved and well brought up
daughter
said agan wully perjure himself by declaring under
oath that said deponent did abuse and cruelty
daughter
said fitzpatrick the lpaer and keepn occupation be
rested ind that it be dc with them according
u CYRoT-GENTEs.
Sworn and subscribed before 22d March, 1880
T. SEUzESEAU,
Recorder Municipality No. g.
Cyrot- Gentes duly depoe and saws that
his neghborhood is composed of the kind
imagination may conceive. that Mr. WHO according to
the old colonial fashion has been brought owing mixture