New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-23

sspensary OF the New Ufleans 1caoos y
D Common street, opposite tne Chensy hceprs
sisn's treated Saturday, April s lst
Wednesdsy,.. aoh-
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rsated previously -
Total 49,
Tss Ix4ExDxp TRIAL os speed between tw0 sse1ss
,aies or rather 70 ascertain whether oae voa5
Nd the other wo1ld mot, which was y hsvs tslso
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The PRoraIEros OF rHk Nox5a cfAs -
House., at the corner OF Baronne and fefosdoa
has gone to law, to obtain its support " daee vnae
be has done frequently II not regularly, for 9
lime past, towit keeping his codeehouss open sess
midnight, in violation Of the city ordinances
His bar-keeper beng arrested ana taksa selSss !!
Recorder summers ior sne conuasentaon. = vsas g
Court TO see about H. wnen ne aiso - aageee -
put under bonds TO sppesr icf exsminasaca g ~
charge q contrayenns We coneenos1 oEaleaaess
He applied 70 the lniFd Distf'ct Ceoss tos an
ton to stay the proceeo'ngs, ana 9 ~ - ~
instituted suit against the Recorder ~ 80
Tor an alleged false ana lilegal affess. Sssl
The injunction was ISSUED ana served opoe - u
Recorder, and the rule y y p afS1ed -
The coheehouse-keepers eroand ot comptaans, 2sl
which he obtained inc inlnncsion, was snAt -
only violating city ordinance, e Mas De'ae -
ceeded against n tne name g tne S.a'e, ~ -
the ordinance iorniddng coneenousea p GO Dee 8
aiter mianisnt y NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s
4 MURDER was perpetrated on board IN ssfean
boat Telegram, Oh Thursday, whilst TIE bost ~ ~
her downward trip from Shreveport TO this city,
Wesley Harris, the free colorsd steward d the boa1
killed white man employed % wsiter By besftn9
him over the head with piece Of board. fhs boat g
reached the city yesterday morning at O'Clock ana
Harris was delivered to the Second District police
not by the officers Of the boat but BY some of the
passengers who had taken him II, charge.
From the investigation by the Coroner, It appears
that Harris wanting the deceased and learning that
he was on the hurricane roof went up after hin
cursing, aud ordered him to come down deceased
said he would, directly; Harris again ordered lii.
more peremptorily than before, and struck him IN
his fist; he retaliated by throwing haFre9haad Is
Harris, striking him, and then ran be stumbled ~
fell over the hogchain, and Harris catching up Win
him, gave him the beating with the board ffcm the
| effects Of which he died that night.
The Captain Of tile boat, a. D. Denslow, teutidea
that he witnessed the difficulty and ordered III tNo
to stop, and separated them The thing was over u
half minute he did not think the waiter ~
seriously wounded. The steward went about Tie
boat as usual; but in the evening he gave him up
| to the passengers in the social hall. s
The testimony Of j. Miller, pilot corrob0rated thAt
Of the Captain as far as il went.
| Mr.. B. A. Baker, q passenger, testified that he
heard the steward swearing and threatening 10 bEeak
somebody's head; afterwards. hearing . fun On The
hurricane deck be went up In time to zee the seward
coming away from the deceased, with ! pisa of
board in his hand, and the deceased his hands and
knees with blood streaming from bis head and neck
The captain was standing BY, apparently unconcsfn
ed The first one to attend to the wounded man wss
the porter. In the evening he was carried down b
looked dangerously ILL Meantime the steward went
about the boat as usual. Witness and other psalen-
gers spoke to the captain about it. and asked 70 have
the steward confined. The captain said me @exar6
was safe enough. and that his arrest wa noe neces
sary The request was repeated several ties aiter-
ward, but not attended to BY the captain The hcat
having landed several times, offering the steward the
opportunity Of escape, and the wounded man getting
worse, the passengers began 70 manifest some excite
ment; and after supper by advice of me mate, tne
captain surrendered the steward nto tneiF cossooy
stating at the same time, snat ne od MOI Nans ing
se"a'u " 70 uu' = a.u ,uAs = '..'
teoted. Witness ana otnef paaseneem keps watcn
over the steward till the boat reached the city, when
thew handed him over to a policeman Meantime tho
,ro;tar ,;a5 ~ HE wonnds. 81; s
wafer uieu y " 3 n's 1ouuss. 80,
olner eess,ouy M S uAe1 'AAe . - Ps.-
,ot.or Ths oost ,no,fep, clearly azs oned sa.Hl ID
~. :, X. haad rhs 1,o,ons,,s ~, u.
the blows on tne mead Inc Cotonet IVY eAss ~
man about Is wears old. his nationality unknown.
II and bis only 1,nown name John came "a Nj de.fk
ana us oay hno"n na'' s.A.o 4
by the said blows on the nead innicsed ~ tne aad
Wesley Harris (. m. c.. with Capt. Denslow e an 10
csssorv after the fact.
M roronsr !, o,cs ~, tha f,on..n h,,t
lhe eorone' az onee nau sue W.
be was soon released, under Dali OF $lb0o. ~. -.
ker and the other passengers on the Telegram de-
serve uch credit for fbe energy thev disulayed II
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the part of the Captain.
II 4 H.s4wAY RoBBsRY was perpetrsted mon Dr,
c,,,,o, pauno,ds ~ Wodnesdav n;obt Wh;t.t N
o@hl'eA hoynoauSt on ''S~1~S A-'e"ss 'ssssss ~