New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-04-17
NUMBER 81.
gotaI SnteILiatnts.

Its predecessors of the last two or three weeks
The clouds, however, were little thicker ant
darker than usual, and held out some little promise
OF the lcng-expectcd and mucli.needed rain The
drought Is singular for the usually wet month Of
April.
The BoAED OF HEALTH reports 1874 as the total
number Of :nterments in the city cemeteries Iasi
week.
The OLD MsN IS GoNg.-In yesterdays Cres
cent we mentioned that Daniel Busby, the veteran
policeman, anGslate guardian OF Lafayette Square
was going, being abed of a debility from which he
was not expected to recover. Ere that notice
reached our readers eyes, the old man had gone
He died at three o'clock yesterday morning-fhs
grim tyrant claiming him much sooner than wa,
expected.
The energy, faithfulness and punctuality O.
Busby, which had kept him on the police, through
all administrations, fer period Of twenty years
won for him all proper respect and good feeliDa
in his later days.
4 His funeral, last evening, was very large one
Nearly the whole of the First District police turned
out, in body; Brahmin Lodge No. /, ]. o. s. NJ,
4 Of which he had been member, also turned out
in handsome number, wearing their regalia; and a
large crowd of citizens beside added themselves to
the funeral cortege, and followed the remains to
their last rest, in Cypress Grove Cemetery.
The children in Lafayette Square romped and
| rolled in the grass, and laughed and screamed as
merrily as ever, not knowing that good old Grand
| pa Busby, who had hired the hand organs for them
So often, was just then on his way out tile shell
road, to the solemn airs of brass band which his
friends had engaged, that they might escort him
! with the more honor to that dark gate beyond
which he was to receive his first summons to roll
call in the invisible world.
4 When the old man, early last week, had to take
to his bed, he said he knew it was goodbye to the
world, and that he only regretted one thing-and
that was, that he could not be permitted to stay
out few days longer, in order to see the inaugu-
ration of the Clay Statue. man never gets SO
old or feeble but that the bright and exciting
scenes of outdoor life have still left some charm
to him; but Time is stern and uncharitable, and
Death, when he comes near, is cruel and grants no
| repreve.
Peace to the ashes of the good old man. and the
resolate and faithful officer Daniel Busby.
JACKSON RAILROAD ELEcT1oN-The election of
Directors for the N. O., and G. N. R. r. Company
was matter of much interest and some excite
ment about town yesterday The financial editor
Of the Crescent reports the particulars Of tile cleo
tion.
DUEL.-Messrs F. Claiborne and W. Foley, of
the Second District yesterday had meeting at
the Metarie, with pistols at ten PAGES. After the
first fire, which was harmless, though Mr. Cla-
borne's bullet passed through Nj. Foleys coat the
difficulty was adjusted.
We will mention, as a singularly long drawn-out
coincidence, that this the fifteenth duel CON
secutiyely in which DIR. Canter was ON the field as
surgeon without his man being hit, cut or hurt in
the slightest degree. DR.. Berthelot, who was the
other surgeon on the field yesterday, is almost as
lucky with his men. He has had several Of his
patrons badly winged, but has always put them Oh
their pins again as good as new, and has yet tt
lose his man in the duelistie way.
IT WASN'T RIcKER.-We regret that our state
ment yesterday in regard to the contribution Of
twenty-five cents by moneyed policeman to the
fund for the relief of Dan Busby, should have
caused many persons to fix upon Officer Kicker as
the parsimonious individual alluded to this misap
prehenson arising from the known fact that Kicker,
like the officer we alluded to, has money and puts
it out on interest. Kicker headed one of the lists
with the liberal subscription of SO, and is known
to be generous enough where charity is actually
called for. Neither is it Wendoyer, who does a
small brokerage business, and didn't subscribe
anything, the officer we alluded to. We would
give the name of the donor of the two bits, in
order to set matters right, but for this the country
is free one, people have constitutional right to
be as stingy they please, and were we to UNDER
take to rate all the stingy people that exist, we
would not have time to write about anything else.
DEATH OF CAPT. NIcKERsoN.-Some four months
ago we mentioned sad accident which happened
to Capt Joseph J. Nckerson, on board his boat
the towboat VIM. H. Webb, whilst off the Passes
he being caught in the machinery and badly
crushed. Ever since them he has been lying bed
fast at his residence on Casacalvo street, in the
Third District, under the best surgical attendance,
and suffering in manner which no tongue or pen
can tell. Last night, at halfpast O'Clock, death
ended his suffering. His body will be taken to
Boston fer interment Funeral services will be had
this afternoon at o'clock, at his late residence
Mrs. Marcy's, No. 43s Casacalvo Tor RoyaD street
CAPTURE OF WILD MAN OF THE WooDs.-AI
unknown man, of stout body, florid complexion
and light bushy hair, was yesterday Afternoon
brought to the Third District lookup, tied han,
and foot, and tied down in plantation wagon.
He was captured in the woods near Michaud'
Plantation, thirteen miles below-the city. Pierr
Thiebaud resident of that neighborhood ha
previously come to the city for police aid, repre-
sentng that man had been staying in the wood
for several days. close to the public road, and ha.
; been acting in the most dangerous and aarmin,
manner; springing out into the road wheneve
anybody came along, leveling revolver, and or
dering the traveller, whichever way he came, to &C
back Of die; frightening most into obedience, ani
shooting at several who paid no attention to his
r order. z
Officer Roth went down with Thebaud, and they
found the at his usual place, cooked and prmed
to dispute their passage. They parleyed with him
till they got near enough to spring upon him. Ont
seized him by the from behind, and the othel
wrested the revolver from him. The wild man was
strong, and the struggle desperate; and in th,
struggle for the pistol it went off, but luckily hit n,
} one The man was finally oyerpowered and tied
as above mentioned, and brought up to town.
The man speaks French but refuses to give hi
name or any account of himself. He is evidentl
insane.
STEAMBOAT RoBBERY.-John Moran, barkeepe
J of the steamer E. NJ Bicknell, yesterday had OF
Thomas Dunn up before Recorder Summers, Q
the charge of having kicked open the bar-roo
door whilst the boat was lying at Shreveport, an
helped himself to S67 in silver coin. The Recordt
! ! fixed the examination for the 4th proximo, whe
! it will be whether Mr.. Dunn will be set fre
+ | or sent IN to the Dunn Brown in Caddo parish.