New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-22
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FfREs.--a Plug punch and gutter water were in
lively demand yesterday, though, fortunately,
small quantities sufficed for each occasion There
were two false fire alarms, which we need not par
ticularize, and there were four fires within eight
hours, which we SHALL partieularize.
The first was at r. NJ, in the attic of high
brick building on Esplanade street, next to the
corner of Old Levee; servants bedroom and
part of the roof burnt /; cause, unknown; damage
small, in a comparative sense.
Second fire, an hour or so afterward, in the upper
part Of frame residence on Love street, half a
dozen squares below the Pontchartrain Railroad
put out with buckets, before it was necessary for
the firemen to unlimber. Damage triaing Had
this fire got fairly started, it would have played the
mischief, as water .s9very scarce in that combus-
tible neighborhood.
Third FIRE at about O'Clock P. NJ, in no less
place than the Masonic Hail. on st. Charles street.
A rear chimney, through which passed the smoke
and fire used in keeping McCloskeys coffee and
oyster pies warm, caught fire and burnt out; loose
| brick work allowed the end of an attic timber to
catch fire, and the attic Of the rear part of the
building was considerably damaged. 1t was
scorcled through, smoked all around, the gutter
watern went up, the plaster came down, and the
1 fire went out; damage about $1,000. The Masonic
| lodge-rooms were not injured, nor was the hall in
| which the Bible Panorama was preparing for the
| usual evening exhibition, though the exhibition
4 was squashed for the evening by tile fire, and its
painted Deiuge,' outdone by the actual deluge Of
/ the firemen.
| Fourth fire at about o'clock, in frame cot.
4 tage, the property Of Alderman i. a. Patterson
on Thalia street, between Apollo and Bacchus
House unoccupied at the time, though filed with
the furniture and effects of the tenant Mr. Shelton
he and his family being out Of town, and said fur
niture and effects under watch Of sheriffs keeper
| The fire started in bedroom, and was put out
before any serious damage was done. The Fire
Wardens called it ear case Of incendiarism
DEATH OF CORPORAL LSALvAToRy.-Co Corporal JAS.
Salvatory, of the Third District police, died yegter
day morning, Of disease of the heart. The Bene.
VIOLENT Association of the Sons of Louisiana, oi
which he was q member, will bury him to-day
He had been on the police some fifteen years, and
was characterized by his good conduct as a
; citizen, and his energy and faithfulness as an
officer.
A BAD FALL.-A drunken man named Craney,
in attempting to get away from officer Poulard, in
the Third District, Tuesday, fell and broke one
of his legs. woman declaring that Pouard
caught the man and threw him down, Ponlard sur
rendered himself at the police office, and gave bail
, to appear for examination.
ANOTHER UNKNowN.-The Mississippi continues
! to yield up its dead, with almost Astronomical
regularity. The last offering was the body of al
i unknown white man, which popped up oppost
I the U. S. Barracks; a body of six feet stature
, with black hair; wearing fancy pants, black coat
white vest black cravat colored shirt blue cotto
4 Ire MI hrnN - lno 4
a Identification Verdict, found drowned.
!. PIGEON PLuckMe.-A country gentleman, oil
Ii enough to know better, allowed himself, seyera
V days ago, to be decoyed by two sharpers ont t
the ST. Louis Cemetery, and swindled out of $40 b
means of the California ball game-the old tric
" which we have published SO often.
A few days since countryman with more cen
than sense, paid cab-driyer .tJty5ire dollars fl
taking him from the New Basin to the steambo
- landing. The driver had confederates who a
he sisted him in convincing the spooney that it WI
necessary to pay such suns AL for the ride, al
sl1 for the wharfage, as they explained it. Fin
al ing out afterward that he had been robbed, Il
green one complained to the police. Corpor
Clarke and others got after the rascals and four
?, :, them. The driver at once disgorged, all save
~ few dollars and the yerdant one was SO glad
= get his money back, that he not only refused
II prosecute the thieves, but offered half the mon,
=. as reward to the officers-an offer which was
- clined, in pity for his greenness.
- VIOLATIONS OF ORDINAScEs.-Daniel Carroll W
y before Recorder Summers yesterday, charged
= Deputy Street Commissioner DeGruy with depos
-, ing shayings in gutter of Melpomene stree
= thereby damming it and causing too great an a
'e cumulation of water. He gave bail to appear
the aSth.
- The owners of two cabs and a carriage had
40 pay SO each because the tariff Of fares was n
N posted in the vehicles, according to Law.
,r- TAKING HIS TIME AT THE GLoBE.-J. j. Cloud,
ed rested on ST. Charles street the charge of ste
a ing gold watch and chain from e. j. Phelps, "
,u Yesterday transferred from the First to the Seco
w District; the deed having been done, alegt
He in tile Globe ball room on Sunday last. Recore
nd Adams sent the Cloud to prison, to await dsso
ed ton in the thunderstorm of justice.
STEALING AND So oS.--Thomas Callahan ava
~ examination in the Fourth District, on the char
q of having stolen 80 pounds Of tobacco out Of
hs Miaudon Warehouse. He was arrested on
hs ligious street by Mr.. L. D'Apremont.
" J. J. Cloud arrested on st. Charles street
T. Officers Isard and Boyan, charged with stealin
" beth Collins, charged with Fleeing Benjamin Sh
,ao pard of $40 in her turkey trap Dryades strt
we street, night before last await examination bet
'..a Recorder Summers.
@ ose Recorder Long has the following cases to in,
.,.' . tigate: John Kolb, for having in his house,
Wv Margny street. lot of carpenters tools belong
MY T. A. Miller: out on bail. Charles Howell. char
with stealing cheese from Lacroix's grocery,
ner of Frenchmen and Victory streets. Wash
ton G. Wicks, charged with stealing book f
rs M Ennis, book store, at the Pontchartrain depot
henf TpE LATE DISASTER on THE LAKE-The bo
atR of the people lost by the burning of the stea
a5xn Judge Porter, (Which happened on Tuesday m
Mo ing, 18th inst.) on Lake Pontchartrain, with
aek. mile and q half Of the shore and within mil
" WIN the Carrolton and Jefferson Railroad wharf, WI
SIS SIS the boat was approaching, having come round
Mrs rect from Montgomery, Ala.,) commenced risin
rss = T. the surface of the water on Monday.
nsan, Coroner Beach went down, hearing that
!, St body had been found; when he reached the Ii
fs gns several other bodies had risen. He spent the
there, examining the bodies and sending then
pss for buraI some floating out on the water and
Blae ers fostering on the muddy shore. On Tuesda
1T went to the Lake again, and had more bodl'
man tend to, and yesterday three bodies more clal