New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-29
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THE COMPTROLLER yesterday adjudicated the con.
tract for square.blocking st. Charles street, from
Canal to Julia street. to John Coleman. This will be
most important improvement, and the job is now
in the hands Of man who will rush it through and
and rush it through well. He cannot begin however,
until the necessary formalties shall have been per-
formed by the Common Conncil and the Mayor.
At the same time eight other contracts were adju-
dica.ed for laying sidewalks and gutters-one con-
tract for the Fourth District and for the Third
District. -Four of the contracts taken by Denis
Cronan, two by Nicholson & Co., and two by Nathan
Stevens.
COMPLAINTS WE'RE ENTERED yesterday before As
sistant Recorder Monroe in reference to the shooting
and stabbing affair Of Sunday evening, on Dryades
street, Of which we made mention in yesterdays
Crescent.
The young man attacked by the crowd Of youths
and boys, and whom we reported as having emptied
bis revolver at them, is named Pierre Delbert and
resides at the corner OF Bacchus and Deord Streets
Tor Triton Wak) only square from where the ARRAY
occurred. He appeared in court yesterday morning.,
and surrendered himself voluntarily; stating that be
did not know but that he had hurt somebody iu dis
charging his revolver, and that il he had, he was
ready to answer for it. He showed his coatsleeve,
slit by pass with a knife and wound on his
head, which, with bruises in different parts Of bis
body, he said had been inflicted with stones BRICKS
etc., by the remainder of the crowd whilst the two
leaders were after him with pistol and knife.
Jean Baptiste Jeannn, residing on Dryades street,
between Deord and Caope, (the same whose family
Delbert was in the habit of visiting) also made af
davit complaining Of the manner in which his house
was invaded and searched by the infuriate crowd,
looking for Delbert after he had escaped.
Pierre Debert's affidavit was to the effect that
whilst be was passing the corner of Dryades street
and Triton Walk, he was unprovokedy assaulted by
John Leslie, Edward Keating, and large crowd of
others whose names he did not know, bnt whom be
would endeavor to point out that Keatng assaulted
and threatened him with bowieknife, and that Les.
lie fired several shots at him with revolver that
the others of the crowd assaulted him with missiles.
and wounded him in the head and about the body
and that his belief tina. the said crowd headed
by Leslie and Keating, intended to kill and murder
him.
Jean Baptiste Jeannn's affidavit was to the effect
that John Leslie, Senior, and Edward Keating with
crowd of Others unknown to him. forcbly entered bis
house, threatened him and bis family, and forcibly
searched the house, without exhibiting any legal au.
thoriy for so doing.
father of the other John Leslie complained Of by Del
bert 1t into Leslies house that the youth Mccoy
was carried after being stabbed There will probably
now be afdavits from the other side of the difficulty
THE OPENING OF claiborne STREET, a long agi-
tated project and now a well settled thing to be
done-a fixed fact'-was celebrated in "The Vii.
lage' in right handsome style on Saturday evening.
1.-the Village, we should state, is the cognomen of
thatb bap MID Jlp
in the of the Fourth District which owns Clai-
borne Market for its center.l
The celebration was both public and private, though
given by resident of that vicinity-our old friend
Col. Beecher-an old settler of "The Village" who
has for years been up to his eyes in everything relst
ing to public improvement, and who for eight or ten
years past has never abandoned the particular
idea of seeing Claiborne street extended beyond its
present upper terminus on Common street. As the
Colonel had always been most active in pushing along
this project universally sanctioned by the residents
of that part of the city, and indeed by all who 90 in
for the general improvement and establishment of
the city, he felt it appropriate on his part to give
blowout in honor of the final consummation of the
project. To be sure, Claiborne street is not yet open
above Common street but the ordinance by which
it is to be opened has been passed. adopted ratified
powers that be.''
Col. Beecher's blowout consisted Of two divisions
public and private. The public blowout consisted
of blowing out a cannon twenty-one times-one gun
for each of the twenty.one members Of the Common
Council who passed the ordinance-and blowing sew.
eral fleets of rockets skyhigh. The private blowout
(Which was the same public, everybody being
wecome) was at the Colonels residence, on Gasquet
street He had tables spread with everything that
was good to eat with abundance Of fluids to cores
pond and with his friends from afar and his neigh.
bors near he had really merry and enthusiastic
time. One other event was connected with this,
though not one of public interest When any of the
guests happened to inquire how be happened to select
the 26h of March for his fresac he obliginsy com.
mpnicated the secret that it was the birthday of his
better selfthe lady whom his children called mother
and who by making of him steady man and settler
out there, was the primary of his taking such
interest in the opening of Claiborne street. This
explanation was perfectly satisfactory, and all who
were present enjoyed themselves right royalty until
an early hour next morning.
We mention this incident no less in compliment to
our friend the Colonel than to show what a spirit
prevails out there in " The Village" which, some of
these days. the remainder of the Fisrt District does
not keep progress with it, will set up for itself, and
organize separate District of its own.
RATHER CoMICAL INCIDENT transpired yester.
day, between two one-eyed men, One, o wellknown
wholesale vegetable dealer, best known along the
evee and around the markets. wears, over his blind
and snnken eye glass eye. I'VE should add, for
the information Of those who know nothing of such
eyes, that glass eye is not gobuar, like natural
eye but is thin piece of work. shaped to agree with
the outer form or convexity, of the natural eye,
whilst its concavity is arranged to fit neatly the
sghtless ball behind.l The other oneeyed man is
cooper, also well known along the leyee. His blind
eye is sunk in his head and he has never yet thought
of his facial beauty enough to repair it with glass
eye.
Yesterday, these two gentlemen met in crowd of
people who were aboard the new steamer D. +. Ken
ner inspecting her-she being here for the first time
The one eyed men never had been more than half
acquainted, and had not seen each other for some
time, Our friend with the glass eye, seeing that the
other had no such article his, wherewth to hide
his deformity, introduced the subject of artificial
eyes, and on his subject grew eloquent. (which was
all right, his artificial eye being true to nature,
and so exact imitation of his natural eye that not
one person in thousand would ever suspect it as
such] Being used to taking out and putting in this
eye-a lob which he does with as much ease and nm.