New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-20
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render thick clothing necessary to comfort out |
doors, and to set the coal fires blazing in doors.
Everybody seemed to be out frsking about and Ell |
1oying the bracing atmosphere the ladies in par
ucular beautifying the streets anl focking around
the dry goods stores in unusual numbers. Such /
weather s particularly valuable to the street /
PAYERS; and for the sake of the PAYERS and the OBJ
structed public, we hope it may long continue it
was yesterday.
lHE GOVERNMENT BEGINS TO SHOW IT'S GREAT
SEss.-Ihe great and gouty government of this
great country, which is afflicted with a sssneIl of
eternal rats " at home, but has no nose for Nor
mons, Indians, Nexicans, or other frontier or for
egn rascals who plunder and assassinate its citi-
zens is in great glee just now. Yesterday i. found
nest in the hold Of the steamship Philadelphia, |
with great and very fresh smell of rats ubout it,
Over this nest it will doubtless, like good terrier
snuff and bark long time, thereby proving itself |
to be solely terrier with mission for rat-hoes
only, and not mastif cur, to bark at or bite
the better game that banters him on every side. |
Read the report Of yesterdays proceedings in the
u ). commissioners Court, and if you are loyal
subject you cannot refrain from throwing up your
nat and shouting, g God save the Queen, and long
live his Royal Hghness, James the FOURTH"
Coop FOR THE School BoYs!-A few days since.
Mr.. George W. Hardy, Principal Of the Paulding
School, in the First District, reached the sixty-thir
anniversary of his birth. Having spent thirty
years of his life in this city an English and cas-
sical teacher, and having always won the lasting
regard of his pupils by the humanity and kindness
with which he softened the sternness of his duty
teacher, it was deemed by his present pupils not
to be out of place to make him birthday present.
So the boys out of their own pockets stimulated,
no doubt, by appreciatiye parents and riends) had
large and sumptuous cushioned mahogany arm
chair made, and on the old mans birthday formally
presented it to him. There are few in this commtl-
ty who will not feel pleased with the action of the
school boys and applaud the taste of their present
to the faithful old teacher, who was already old
when they were babies. Mr. Hardy is still hale,
hearty and vigorous We hope he will live till his
new armchair shall be his loved and cherished
| old armchair" and long after that.
AN EXCITEMENT IN THE FRENCH MARKEr-The
farmer of the Vegetable and Fruit Markets, in the
Second District has for some time allowed huxters
and others to place tables and stands along the
| sides of the markets, the same being an obstruc-
ton to the public and in contravention of the mar
ket ordinances. The different hints and notifica-
tions of the Street Commissioner and his deputies
having been uniformly treated with contempt, the
Street Commissioner, Mr.. Fleschier, Mr.. Deputy
| Guyo and posse of the other officers Of the Be-
| partment yesterday afternoon visited the markets
and themselves proceeded to remove the stands.
| They began at halfpast one O'Clock, and got
| through at about five. The proceeding created
! prodigious excitement among the denizens of the
market Some looked upon it as military charge,
and stampeded; others remained, and consented
to move their stands themselves; if they did not
set about it instanter, they saved the trouble
| No resistance was offered by any of the huxters,
| for it would have been useless, and would have
resulted in their being carted off with their furni-
ture. No less than twenty cart loads of taqes and
| boxes were trotted off to the pound; and some
four or five tuns of stones and ballast were taken
out of the boxes, in which they had been placed
to give them weight, and to prevent them from be-
ing easily upset or moved out of place. This part
of the spoils was appropriated by the Street Com
missioner to fill holes in the streets with. Atoge-
ther, it was big and lively afternoons job.
FIRE AT MILNEBURG.-A gentleman connected
with the Crescent office went down the Pontchar-
train railroad on Tuesday evening, for the purpose
of visiting yacht which anchored off the end of
the long wharf at Mneburg. A strong wind was
blowing in from the lake, and our mans shouts to
the yacht to send boat off for him, could not be
made heard on board the yacht. Some person
standing by, and sympathzing with our man in his
quandary, commenced ringing the bell at the end
of the wharf. This had the desired effect; the
yachtmen aroused, sent boat in, and our man at
last got off,
The ringing of the bell, however, was mistaken
in Milneburg for alarm of fire. At once the bell
in front of Washington Hotel sounded an alarm of
fire, and in double quick time the Milneburg Fire
Company Gncluding, we believe, every voter and
freeholder in the place, with the boys for lag,,-
iappe,) got out their "gallus !" little machine,
and went laundering out on the wharf; an alarm
of fire on the wharf always being responded to
with break-neck alacrty.
The fire company, finding that the wharf was not
on fire, were properly pleased; but as they re.
turned they found one of the amable Dagoes OF
that locality, "a young man bred fisherman
about forty-seven years DID," cooking his supper
in the marsh by the side of the wharf. His fire
was blazing brightly, and his fish frying sweetly
Concluding that this the origin of the alarm
and swearing that there had lately been too many
false alarms on the wharf, they unlimbered theil
machine, laid length or two of hose, and washed
out not only the tisherman's fire, but the fisher
mans supper and the poor old fisherman's self
At any rate, said fisherman had not turned up
when our man, lne unfortunate ana innocent cause
of his misfortune, returned from the yacht
IF the Crescent Office cannot send one of its
quietest attaches to Milneburg without kicking up
such a wholesale dscomboberation as the
above, the Crescent's men will hereafter, in deli
cacy, go to the lake by some other road, and take
the boats for Mineburg.
EXAMINATION OF THE FISHING PARITY. s.
Commissioners C0u,t.-This case was resumed al
II o'clock yesterday, the accused and all parties
being present:
p f. Eacly s,ro,m.--I was employed rs firs
officer on the steamship Philadelphia. She came
from New York; left there on the 10Th was tolG
by the Captain that we were going to Aspnwal
on or about the Sd of October. Know the defend
! ants never saw them board the Philadelphia
never saw any of the men said to have been takeI
away on the Panther. Was never told the purpose
of the Philadelphia in going TO Aspinwall; neve
asked the Captain about it, not being in the habi
of asking such questions. There were arms an,
munitions of war board the Philadelphia OF
Monday, the Sd October; they were taken OIL
board at New York, to be brought to New Or
leans. They were in boxes in the fore-hold. Wa
on board the Saturday night following Monda
! the Sd. There was an Inspector of Customs j
charge that night. l turned out two or thre
times; heavy gale was blowing that nigh
Witness objects to tell how he was empoye
that night, having no wish to implicate himsel
[The question on this point was not pressed
The second and third officers, John Bacon an
Chas. Pitman, were on board that night. The CaI
tain gave witness no instructions about the arms