New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-26
Aew raa daily Crescent aNsuaay oraing September &C. 1859

| floor of the hotel, to subserve the purposes of an
extra dinng-room. The pillars have been ruthlessly
perforated to support josts and beams as we'll as to
support wooden patchwork and windows between,
all the way round. When finished, we have no doubt
it will be handsome enough but the pillars will he
disfgured plasters and their large capitals and
the frescoing of the dome, which looked so beautiful
from the ground floor, will have squat and gro
tesque look to all on the floor Of the new dining ROOM
circular opening in the center of the new floor,
some eight or ten feet in diameter will enable people
on the pavement below to get an abbreviated glimpse
Of the dome.
The next great alteration is thorough reduction
of the superfuous SPACE throughout the building or
in those parts where much space is not wanted. This
has resulted in the addition of less than lbs
rooms to the hotel all for boarders and all comforta
BILE and airy. The bathrooms the different floors
have been fitted up in most elegant style; and be.
sides these there are to be baths on the ground floor
for the use of the public The kitchen has been en-
larged and provided with new ranges and better ven
tiation For the accommodation of those who pre-
| fer it, there is to be large and wellappointed
| restaurant.
| Alleys, running straight through from Royal to
Charres street, will facilitate public entrance to the
exchange, or barroom, in the lower part of the ro-
tunda Fering cisterns, like that at the st. Charles
only reversed in principle, the water descending in
stead of ascending, and supplying every part of the
hotel at all times with abundance of clean water
hot and cold. In the furniture, carpet, upholstery,
and paper.hangng and painting departments, exten.
sive works are going on. Everything will be finished
and the hotel ready for the public about the LIST of
| November.
The combination Of two such hotels as the st.
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| one and Hall l. Co. the other, and each being the
others partners feature in bookkeeping unri-
vailed in this country, and perhaps in the world.
Together, the two hotels will accommodate, comforta-
bly, and luxurously, at time, about two thousand
guests and each hotel will stand as reserve to the
other Being five squares apart intercourse between
them is to be facilitated by telegraph Mr. Gamewell,
who is to erect the city telegraph has contracted to
connect the hotels by the magnetic wires for $1,000.
So if one be full and there are calls for still more
ROOM the clerk seated at his desk, will have only to
touch the keys, and in moment will receive click.
ing response as to the state of affairs at the other
hotel.
The energy and enterprise of Messrs. Hall & Hill
dreth may be still better understood when we state
that the above mentioned improvements in the two
hotels will cost near $4,000. #
TIE JEFFERSON JOURNAL of Saturday furnishes
the following items:
a NarTo,o Escape.-An old man about 60 years
Il Of age whose we were unable fully to ascer.
tain but that be called Pierre living in this city,
was out on the Mississippi in skiff, on Wednesday
afternoon last, fishing. when steamer coming along
was about to run him down, and he, being unable 10
get his skiff out of the way made dive into the
river to escape destruction when be came up be still
had his hat on, but seeing he was yet in danger of
being struck by the wheel Of the boat he made an.
other dive, but this time lost his hat while his skf
was mashed to pieces. When he came up he sung
out for these the boat to save his hat instead Of
of doing that they sent out the yawl and saved him.
and let the hat go. He was very wrathy about the
loss Of his hat and we are told took down the name
of the boat, and went home and whipped his wife !!
Guess would have been about well il those in the
!, yawl, of the two had chosen the hat.
The McNamaras.-These worthy gentry of the
great city of New Orleans, were examined before
Justice Hamper, Of Carroltown, on Thursday last,
for the robbery of the contents Of house in Green
vile, nearly year ago. They were found in posses
sion OF many of the article stolen and besides. it
was proven by the furnture.car that Pat. McNat
mara was seen lowering about the besieged premises
the very evening before the outrage was committed,
The only person in the house at the time was slave
woman, and her statement (Which is unfortunately
there were some four of them, who pushed her into
one Of the and threatened to aker life il she
gave the slightest ALARM while they plundered the
house of all that was in it, valued by the aiant at
McNamaras to the District Court, but released the
! woman who was arrested along with them.
Inquests.-Coroner Dan Young held an inquest on
. the body of an unknown white man. found dead in
the yard of Mr.. J. Mickey, Louisiana avenue, in
this city. We did not learn what was the cause of
/ his death or the verdict Of the jury.
! Another inquest was held by Coroner Young, at
Lake Ponchartrain in this parish, the body of the
slave boy Toussant, belonging to Mr.. Dan Hickok.
The deceased was about % years of age and came to
his death by pistol shot, accidentally discharged by
himself while loading pistols in the shooting gallery
Of his master; the ball entering bis body just one
inch above the left nipple Verdict of the Jury in &C
cordance with the above facts
! FELIX DoNoHUE, PETER HERMAN, AND THOMAS
EAGAN the latter notorious rascal were arrested by
officer Dixon Saturday night, on Gaiennie street
n They were charged with breaking into the house Of
Mrs. Frances Zug, smashing her furniture assaultine
her with an iron weight and resisting and striking
the officer who arrested them. Eagan was charged
also with being dangerous and suspicious character
VI AN UNKNOWN MAN was found lying on st. Jane!
street at haEpast IL o'clock Saturday night, hav
ing been badly wounded in the head with some SHARP
It instrument. Officer Barron, who found him, sen
8 him to Charity Hospital. He was at the time sup
|. posed to be in dying condition
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Freeson Press In Slave States.
No phase Of the growth of Black Republicanisn
is more alarmngly significant than the establishment
of newspapers advocating freesoil principles in say
= = commonwealth. A few years since such attempt
~ would have been regarded as dangerous and incen
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