New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-14

slDle Dut stIll looking rather pale around the gs.
His friends, astonished, followed along, manfcsting
| much sympathetic concern. He admitted having
lodged jury duty as long as possible, and remark
ed. As COON as saw him In the hall, / knew It
was an officer. To think" abiding to the young
man who sent the officer to his boarding-h house,
" that that id fool had no better sense than to
tell where lived; he might have known it was an
oficerr
As the party came to the Age coneehouse the
Deputy Sheriff remarked that II was an ugly thing
for man to be torn away from his business and
locked up nearly two days and nights and pro-
posed, in order TO show that he had made The
arrest in as gentiemanly manner as possible, and
had some gentlemanly feeling, that all hands stop
at the Age and take drink. The prisoner touched
by this mark Of good feeling insisted upon paying
for the drinks himself, and-was permitted to do so.
As the prisoner talked with his sympathzers,
the officer said, II believe air, you are gentle
man, and win not leave IL leave you with your
friends for few minutes must go out back, and
viii return in minute or two.'' With which, he
disappeared, and never returned. He was no Off
Ger at all, merely another wag, whom our collector
had employed to aid him in getting even with Wag
number one; and the attachment he had was SIM
ply blank bit of paper. H 49, gs5,t 5
The prisoner remained, talking with his friends
and awaiting the return of the officer. Finally the
friends began dropping off, upon one excuse or
another. One ofthese was our collector, who also
had some pressing business engagement, and re-
Marked as he left, with feeling, that but for
the fact of his being married man, be would &C.
company him to prison, and keep him company
till he got out The prisoner was finally left with
but one friend and this one at last said to him.
You're id fool to stay waiting here Why
don't yon travel and hide You can 70 to Carroll
ton, where they won't dare to arrest you, and
stay there till we get it fixed up with the Judge.
The prisoner, thinking, perhaps, he had waited
long enough, holted, and went to his office on Camp
street TO close up his business, preparatory to a
hasty departure, and residence Of indefinite du-
ration in Garrollton. Whilst still at the office his
friend, upon whose advice he had cut Dirt dropped
in upon him, and told him not to trouble himself:
that the officer had returned, and finding the pa.
role broken, flew into greatrage. and threatened
all sorts of things but that he the friend meeting
two other friends, got them to Join with him in
signing bond of $1,000 for his appearance before
Court on Monday, and had succeeded in inducing
the Sheriff to accept this bond-he the prisoner,
to surrender to the officer on Monday morning, be-
fore Court opened, so that the officer might pre-
I
sent him to the Judge as brought in under attach
| ment. The prisoner was overjoyed at this kind
action of his friends, and postponed his trip to
Carrollton. 5 n
Yesterday, still believing the arrest was genuine,
| he was about, telling with some glee how mar
| rowly he escaped imprisonment for a contempt OF
court He will probably not know, till he reads this
true account of the business that it was all hoax
gotten up in revenge by our collector, who was
aided and abetted in the trick BY all those gentle
| men who befriended him so much when they found
4 him under arrest. ~, ss,s
/ BASE BALL MArcH.-The Empire Club, the
| Champion baseball clab of New Orleans, yester.
| day had friendly match with the Magnolia Club,
at the Delachaise Gound in Jefferson City. The
Third District boys seemed to have their dander''
| up, for they succeeded in beating the champion
/ boys Of the First by one run Mr.. Stage was UNI
| pire, and Mr.. Toby Hart scorer; Messrs. NJ. Gun.
bingham, J. Chandler and Powers acting as snbs.
| The following was the score made: