New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-21

robbery to negro woman in the house and re-
covered most of the property. The lady declined
prosecuting the wench.
One Delaney was yesterday arrested as a vagrant
by detectives Isard and Farrell. He was recop-
| nized az bird only few months from Baton
Rouge, where he had been doing the State some
service, and was strongly suspected of being the
very bird who on the 2lst ut. robbed stranger
| named r. Rogers of slOOO at the Alabama Hotel.
On searching him at the lookup, there was found
in his pocket letter addressed to r. Rogers. Mr..
Delaney is in fair way of doing the State still
further service.
| CoWmDISG AfTAR'-At about one O'Clock yes
terday afternoon; Camp street. in the vicinity of
| our office, was aroused and intensely excited by
| two gentlemen appearing in footrace, the hind
most gentleman accclerating the speed Of the fore
| most by vigorous applications of a cowhidc at
| every jump. They came round the corner of Gra-
vier street, and at Commercial Place the race was
stopped by policeman stopping and arresting the
| gentleman with the cowhde, and taking him to the
| lookup; where the cowhidcd gentleman, with his
| face all striped, entered complaint, and where
| his punisher was Immediately taken out under bail.
! The cOwhided gentleman, OF rather ungentle-
manly man. was portrait painter, of Nayades
| street. and had painted the portrait of young
| lady, for whom the other gentleman had christian
and poetic right to act in any manner he might see
| proper. The painter had painted the likenesses of
the young lady and her parents. All three of the
| pictures were unanimously pronounced botches
and miserable daubs, by the parties interested and
all others who saw them. Consequently, the daubs
were repudated, and left on the painters hands.
The painter, forgetting that he was in an American
city. where it is less fashionable to resent
insults in personal manner, sent note to the
father Of the family he had painted, of which note
the following is copy, the italics being the paint
ers. The young gentleman contemptuousy y
alluded to as the "son-inaw,'' is not, but may be
the son-in-law, and is the one who got after the
rascaly dauber and writer with the cowhide. The
popular verdict was that heavy cudgel should
have been used instead Of cowhde:
Mr.. ---: A it seems / will not be able to ge
my money from you as one gentleman could ex
pect from another, have to tell yon finally that j
the portraits are not paid for by Monday Q7tf
inst), shall sue you for my full price Of your:
and your wife's, which you in your superior judg
ment admitted as good likenesses. Your daughter
portrait being declared " not at all like her" BY
jullge Of art, shall have the pleasure to make
present to certain house on Perdido street, where
you are well known, and no doubt for your sak
the portrait ecM there be more highly priced thai
in my studio. The matter of the portraits is you
affair and mine, and therefore have to decline m,
affairs being arranged to suit the rhine of ilcon.pe
tent Judges and ignorant boys.
1ith October 1859. Portrait Painter.
MELPoNES1A BASE BALL CLuB.-We were in erro
Monday in saying that the Orleans Club was til
3 only one in the field on Sunday. The Melpomeni
Club not only in the field but in the field a
day. They played two games; one in the forenoo
{ { and the other in the afternoon. There was dc
gree of interest and excitement rarely to be foun
among the members of one Club; as may be il
ferred from the fact of their playing not only a
: day, but in the rain and wet and slipper
field. The following are the scores of the tw