New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-02

Sin1le,

THE NEW LAW in reference to free negroes was
put in force yesterday by the police,
The first arrests were those of Harriet and Eleonora
Robinson, free coored ladies Of Basin street. Officers
Boylan and Carr brought them in. They were
charged with being Of the class who have no right to
remain here and having nothing to show that they
were entitled to remain, Recorder Summers gave them
five days time to leave. Should they be found here
after the expiration Of the five days, they will be
arrested and made to do the State some service.
The brig Castilian, which yesterday arrived and
moored at the Third District wharves, had on board
six free colored men the cook and five sailors The
Captain, being notified, went before Justice Barnett
and made affidavit as to the number and the names
and the natvites of the crowd, showing them all to
be downeast darkeys. Under the new law, the said
darkeys were sent to prison, there to remain till
within "a hours of their vessels departure.
We heard that the articles signed by the negroes
expired upon their arrival here. Should the Captain
not see fit to reemploy them, they will be released
and allowed the legal five days in which to leave the
city and State.
A FIRE broke out at about o'clock yesterday
afternoon in one Of the three fourstory brick build
ings occupied by A. 7. Bennett, on the west side Of
Tchoupitoulas street, between Lafayette and Girod
The fremen were on hand quick enough but the
usual scarcity Of water thwarted their efforts in the
critical hour and Mr. Benefits three buildings used
for the storage of hay grain and lime, we're entirely
destroyed, together with the building next below,
occupied by NJ. Barnett, dealer in provisions and
liquors. This row Of buildings extending through to
Foucher street, the flames had their own sport bech.
ing out on both Tchoupitouas and Foucher streets,
and mocking the puny streams OF soft mud and
black water which the engines were able to send up
from the cutters. Whilst the flames could not be
directly COPIED with, the efforts Of the hook-andlad-
dermen, and the apparently reckless courage Of the
other firemen who ascended the ladders, saved the
buildings above and below, and on the opposite sides
of both Tchoupitoulas and Foucher streets. ID
Besides the destruction Of the above named four
buildings, much other damage was done. D. L. Nit.
chel h Co.'s storage warehouses, above, were con-
siderably damaged in their rear and the commission
house of Bredow Il Wushof, next below the fire, also
suffered. A fifth building was entirely destroyed
the cooperage establishment Of James Magee front.
ing on Foncher street, its rear meeting the rear of
the Mitchell warehouse, and both being overtopped
by the southernmost of Benefits warehouses.
The fire was characterized by an unusu al number
of accidents to the fremen The first and most ex.
traordinary incident was when the fremen believed
they were getting the fire UNDER n the one warehouse
Zone of Bennett's) in which it started. There was
loud noise, sounding between heavy roar and an
explosion. The roof of the warehouse was seen to
rise ttle and fall the walls fell over with all the
force that an explosion might give the outer wall ol
the south warehouse toppled over like an avalanche
on Magees cooperage "a three story BRICK consider
| ably lower than the warehouse,) and smashed tina
cooperage into miscellaneous heap of bricks ami
mortar, and empty barrels and hoop.poles. Th
| cooperage spread down like lava, and covered an
ruined large quantity of slate, In the adjoinin
slate. yard of Messrs. Brown & Co. At the same mt
ment the whole neghborhood was filled with lim
dust, which whitened Foucher street and even el
abled negroes to come out Of the excitement wit
i white faces.
Columbia No. burst some Of the machinery {
their machine, and had to get another machin,
Washington No. 20 burst their suction, and had
borrow the suction of the dsfunct No. 5. These tw
companies were alone battling the fire from the slat