New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-30
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A FIRE broke out last evening, at z o'clock, In a
small frame tenement on Prytania street. betweeen
Conery and Sixth, Fourth District. That and two
other frame tenements were reduced to ashes the
6remen being on hand but powerless from the usual
cause, scarcity, if not total absence OF water
The loss WAS about $4,000 or Is, 900.
THE REPAIRING Of Canal street is commenced.
The immense quantity Of building stuff on the
neutral ground opposite the New Customhouse has
been removed and slowed away within the building
and we observe that the cobbe-stones on the north
side of the street, between Chartres and Old Levee
are rapidly being torn up. The sight of this much
needed work pleases all.
THE CONTRACTOR fer filling the batture Of the
Second District steamboat landing assures we were
mistaken in our surmise that the job would not be
finished by the set-in of the winter business. He
states that be will have the work done in ample time
The steamboating interest will be rejoced at this
assurance.
DANIEL BERRY, who was cut and shot on Wednes.
day by Lockwood and Forbes was getting along very
well yesterday. 1t is supposed that he will soon
recover.
TRAVELLING VAGRANr was before Recorder
Long yesterday. It was Mrs. Mary Sullivan, q
wretched specimen of used up and broken down
female, about forty years of age, whom officer
Lopez had arrested aboard the Mobile malboat on
the arrival OF the boat at the lake end in the
ing, and upon information derived from the officers
Of the boat.
Recorder Long questioned her at length as to her
antecedents. She said she was poor washerwoman
who had lived some time in Mobile, and had been
before the Mayor of that city once or twice for for
getting herself and taking a wee drap too much
and that the last time the Mayor had sent her to New
Orleans, one of his officers putting her on board the
boat and paying her passage.
The Recorder remarked that he always felt fiat
tered at the visits Of Mobians and duly appreciated
the kindness of Mayor Wthers of that city, in pay
ing the passage over Of such customers as Mrs Mary
Sullivan his Honor having previously shipped over
at different times, some five or six such customers
he therefore thought it about time to make some
acknowledgment of these favors and to protect
himself from any suspicion Of impoliteness, by mani
Testing that spirit of reciprocity which should ever
exist between Recorder and Mayor of two such
great sister cities as New Orleans and Mobile.
Madam" said the Recorder, addressing Mrs
Sullivan, II shall have to send you right back
When you next get before the Mayor of Mobile tell
him Pm well, and give him my best respects.'
Yis, sur, l will,'' said Mrs. Sullivan, curtseying
thankfully. The Recorder ordered Lopez to see the
lady safely aboard the twelve o'clock boat, and
ordered Mr.. Larose to hand out two dollars and a
half to pay the expenses. Mr.. Larose reported the
locker empty, no fines having been collected in two
days The Recorder then furnished the money ou.
Of his own pocket; and to-day, probably, Mrs
Sullivan will again be in the awful presence of the
Mayor of Mobile.
THE LIGHTER OF OIL LAMPS in the Fourth Dis
trict met with an accident on Wednesday night
which disabled him in his duty, and left great part
Of the District in darkness. He fell from his ladder
whilst lighting lamp, and the fall dislocated one
his legs.
S. MELLo was yesterday sent before the Firs,
District Court by Recorder Witz for beating Manuel
Lopez over the head and arm with his club, in the
Treme Market, on the morning Of the 25th inst, he
(Mello) being on duty as policeman at the time
He gave bail. For this sameI offence Mello was
several days since dismissed from the police by the
Mayor.
Mary Hickey, Jenny McNaff, Ann Donohue, ant
Dutch Kitty, were sent before the same court fol
violently beating Kate Baker, on Gallatin street,
the Goth! All gave bail.
The CORONER yesterday held an inquest on thu
body of Susan McDermott an Irshwoman 40 year.
Of age in house on Religious street, near St. Mary
Verdict, dysentery.
Also, an inquest on the body of David R. Stewart
an Irishman 60 years of age, in house on Poydra
! street near Locust. Verdict, consumption.
third inquest was held Oh the body of bab,
somewhere Verdict teething.
PIERRE CAPDEvILLE AND EDWARD SAMERoN wa
up before Recorder Wiltz yesterday on charge o
having stolen showcase, containing fancy article
and lottery tickets the whole valued at $4O from tht
| front of Henry Dudoussat's shop at the corner o
Hospital and Villere streets, on Wednesday. Boil
were sent to prison. Capdeyille was also charged
with stealing gold hunting watch from the fob o
Pierre Carrere whilst be was sleeping in the Vegetable
Market the night of the Sth inst, the charge il
this case being made by Edward Bourquin, pawn
broker, of No. 100 Bourbon street, to whom he hal
sold the watch for SIS.
Anatole, f. M c., was sent to prison on charge o
having stolen from Louisiana No. los engine house
on Main street, saddle worth S., the property of
Sambola, Jr, foreman of the company.
JAMES BAKER was yesterday up before Recorder
Summers, on n charge Of having beaten Louis Fas
nacht at his brewery, corner Of Annunciation ant
Poeyfarre Streets He gave bail to appear for exam
nation.
CHARLES STARKEs, f. m. c., grocer at the corner o
Customhouse and Derbigny streets, was examined
before Recorder Summers yesterday, on charge o.
forgery. His certificate of freedom was found tc
have been altered from some other darkey's certi-
cate by the chemical extraction of dates and names
and substitution of dates and names to suit himself
He brought up another colored man who swore tha,
Starkes did not do the thing himself, having given
another party $50 for the document, already pre-
pared to hand. The Recorder reserved his decision
The man who sold the forgery to Sarkes was said to
be one Miguel, residing on Bienvile street.
HARRY STRONG, implicated as an accessory with
Robert Forbes and VIM. Lockwood in shooting and
stabbing Daniel Berry, mate Of the ship Mary Ham
mond, on Wednesday was arrested yesterday morn
ing by Sergeant Ducoing. 1t was in proof tha,
Strong had not attempted to escape that after the
affair on Wednesday, be went to base ball game il
the rear of the Third District where he played all the
afternoon and that at night he moved about on hs
usual tracks, without happening to meet any of the
police who were looking for him.
When Strong was arraigued before Recorder Long
VIM. H. Smith, sailor, who had been arrested as {
he did not know Strong, but stated that he had hat
nothing to do with the fight He said there were bu
three persons in the crowd who attacked Berry an(
that the man in Court did not do anything. Stront
was sent to prison to await examination, and Smitl
also was locked up, to make of his testimony.
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