New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-02
NUMBER 23O.
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CONSIDERATION OF a RoMAN CaYH0tIc EtSuop
on Sunday morning at y o'clock. procession ~
all the Roman Catholic societies viii ~ formed and
proceed to the st. Louis Cathedral, from ti,. ,eai
dence of the Archbishop, At the Csthedra, t,,e
Rev. j. Quinlan, formerly Of CinciDastf. " aul
late President of st. Marys in the Wsstu f,oyle.
gIate Institute, will be consecrated Beop Of THE
Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Mobile, position
filed by the late Bishop PORTER. On this occasion
Archbishop Purcell, of Ohio, rill offciste and
preach suitable sermon to the subject Bishop
spaulding, of Kentucky, Bishop Wood Of Ph5a-
deiplfa, the Bishop of Galveston, Bishop Elder Of
Natehez, Bishop Ryan, of Little Rock, and others,
will be present.
ghe Sunday following, Bishop Quinlan will be
escorted by this body of clergymen and duly in
stalled IN his high office.
The Reverend gentleman is one of the youngest
Bishops in the Catholic church, being only 34 years
of age-
The. FUNEBAL OF W. G. CoPELAsD.-Yestertlay
the body Of w. g. Copeland was borne to Girod
street cemetery and buried with all the Masonic
honors- Dudley Lodge &C, F. A. NJ, attended the
funeral In large numbers.
THE CASE or AMERIcUs WnLrAMs-Yesterd
TINS case came up for preliminary trial before Re-
corder Wittz Evidence was given by Christian
Corneius who went on to show the participation of
the accused, Americas Williams, in the murder Of
fleury and the relation that Mary Jackson bore as
an accessory to the fact. His evidence was clear
and positive touching Americus Williams being the
principal in the murder Of Fleury. Dr.. Gustayus
Deverson testified to the character of the wound
on fieury and his medical treatment, and the hos
pltal attention TO deceased up to the time of his
death. las
The counsel for Mary J. jackson contepded that
she could not be an accessory in the case of ii
being one OF manslaughter, and that therefore
there was no charge against her. The Recorder.
however, committed the principal, Americus Will
liams, for murder, held Mary Jane Jackson as
an accessory and discharged Ellen Collins, as not
being identified with the case other than witness
and in such character she was held to appear
In the co-relatiye ease with this that of Siedensa
being wounded by Mary Jane Jackson, she was
committed for intent to kill, and Americus Will
lams and Ellen Morrison alias Collins, were bound
over as witnesses.
COUPLE OF Cool BuRGLARs-Yesterday about
IL o'clock as Sol was brightly shining, couple of
strapping fellows cody entered the house Of Mrs,
Capt. Wilson, on Benton street, between Calliope
and Clio evidently with the intention of picking m
what valnables they could find and appropriatinp
the same to themselves. Ere Mrs. W. was aware
of the object of their VISIT she found herself forc
bly, caught by the neck by one of the rascals The
other rascal, who stood guard at the door, must
have given an alarm just then, for they both left
as fast they came, without having accomplished
their purpose, Mrs. w. being too much frightened
n friv tha ole ,,pt;1 +oo lo%a
Shortly after. these daylight burglars entered an
other house, on Liberty street, between Terpsichore
and Felicity Road, and stole from thence gold
watch. The residents of the neighborhood were
up and after the rascals but did not catch them.
SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT A BABY.-Last
night, about o'clock, respectable man
was making inquiries in very excited and anxious
state of feeling relative to the loss and mysterious
disappearance Of one of his children, an infant
From what we learned it appears that the parents
while absent from their house in the First District
placed their child in charge of young Irishwo.
man, nurse, and desired her to take the infant
out for an airing. This she did, and returned with
her charge to the house, and there left it, as she
alleges, in the keeping of elder nurse also Irish
The parents return home and find their child miss
ing the young nurse states Us above regarding her
action with the baby; the old woman denies it
the parents become alarmed; the servants crimi.
nate each other as to the fate of the child and
speak in their anger mysteriousy the father seeks
the aid OF the police, and to-day, no doubt, the
mystery will be cleared up.
"W1DE AWAKE on HATs."-Yesterday no less
than four gentlemen complained to us relative to
the loss of their hats. Two had theirs stolen from
n q vriya ITO
theirs taken from the dning-room of hotel during
the dinner hour. All we can console these gentle.
men with is to keep " wide awake on hats"
RoBT. McNEIL ALIAS Bon Johnson" FOUND
GUILTY.-Yesterday morning the case of the State
VS.. Robt. Mcneil alias Bob Johnson was brought
up before Judge Hunt, in the First District Court,
The witnesses, Gen. Lewis, G. w. Helm, 7. N.
Bailey, s. N. Moody and Hudson English, appeared
and gave their evidence, which was similar to that
already published by us at the time of the prelimi.
nary examination. The case being given to the
jury verdict of guilty of assault and battery was
rendered.
INQUEST ON THE BODY OF W. G. COPELAND. -
Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock, DR.. Hart held
post m0,ten examination ON the body of w. G.
Copeland, accidentally shot the night previous by
William Eyingt0n. The ball (rom one of those pis-
tolls having several barrels and commonly called
pepper box" pistols) penetrated the left breast
between the fifth and sixth rib, passing through
The lower portion of the heart and causing almost
instant death.
The following witnesses were called:
IL and sn wss w na sitting ,ss noys ps.s1s coffee
md Eyngton engaged friendly discussion about wrest
ing They went ont then upon the banquete man named
p.1urral
# Deceased took the pistol and bet Evngon would 20
u and holding up towards the levee snapped it, Deceased
made that il would go Off nnd deceased accepting the
aner cooked his revolver and fired They went into
ook out his pistol and held TO his breast to
You bet that MY pistol won't off, that he had only
would bet and all of them deceased 10 nut IN his pistol
L. DID not put It up but repeated i not loaded Just
something effect and reaching ont plled the tri
which exploded the weapon Deceased then staggered
the chair and no thought he shot Witness
penng his vest and shirt he was really shot They all
ongh that he had been Joking Deceased died about
minutes after the shot and spoke Evngon
d great grief and CONSERVATION had
sed Copeland They had quarrel before the firing and
Ivgon remarked that he of his best friends Cannot
thinking.
F. H. Wayman, Edwin Kane, H. j. Wright, Rob-
ert Cummings and Robert Dale, corroborated the
above testimony in all material points.
r. Alexander, being recalled, said that in his
testimony he did not mean to say that he saw
Evngton pull the trigger. From the motion of
Evington, he supposed he had pulled the trigger.
He stated that he examined the pistol, and found
t to contain two more loads, with caps on.
The Carnnarsu iurv rapdara5 a yard;of &c M;