New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-08
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 8, 1860

pany We'd with each other in adding to the life Of
the occasion and in looking after the comfort Of
their guests. We have been on many frolic with
the fremen, but never enjoyed ourselves more
thoroughly than on this occasion. 1t was all har-
mony, good feeling, life and merrhnent, from first
to last.
After dinner, the company received compli-
ment which rather took them by surprise. The
military company of Biloxi, the " Biloxi Rifle
Guard, Capt Howard, turned out in full uniform
with MUSIC, and appeared in front OF Richards,
and announced, through their captain, that their
object was to escort them on a march around
Biloxi. They are fine and soEdieFly looking SET
Of men: and the firemen were not 10th to accept
the proHered compliment The march was up
and down and through the principal part of Biloxi
aud the crowds that assembled to look On were
larger than we had imagined thetown was capable
OF producing. There were many pleasant Incl
dents during the afternoon, which we would detail
but lor scarcity Of room in these columns.
The NlabGna came from Ocean Springs at n de.
Gently late hour--say Just before snndown. The
ftremen were escorted to tie boat by the soldiers,
Who as the boat left the wharf fired off parting
salute Of masketry, to which the boys responded
with cheers and tigers and some of Gessner's best
music. The wharf appeared ready to sink with
the multitude which crowded it.
Tie trip back was as pleasant as the trip going
The Company landed early Monday morning and
recovered their engine and flag, whilst the Cres-
cent recovered its reporter: ard -'als well!',
SrrbES DEAYH.-An Irishwoman named Mrs
Moran was yesterday afternoon found lying ncon
yulsions on Peace street, in the Third District.
Officer Jacobs took her to the lookup in cab,
where she had no sooner arrived than She died.
She looked like a woman Of dissipated habits and
was about 50 years Of age.
DANGEROUSLY STABBED. German named
Cord hyef, was dangerously stabbed night before
last. ON Liberty street, by an Irislman named
Michael Kilroy. II is stated that Mycr was sleep
ing on bench when Kilroy came mp and shock
him roughly-a woman who was present says
cloked hiin-and M5er, jumping mp, struck
kiiroy, who drew a knife and stabbed him in the
abdomen. Mycr was taken to the hospital in a
critical condition. Kiroy was subsequently ar
rested at his house by Lieut.. Jaquess.
ReeoRpER EAKRsoS.s GorRr.-The dock was
janlned yesterday, and the Maison de Mitchell and
/ Hotel de FremauX received numerous new tenants
| OF the yagrant and disorderly class.
| Thomas Day, for assaultng and threatening Mary
Foster, on Gravier street; John Maria for abusing
! and threatening Pierre Latour at his residence on
| Lafayette street; Mike McDermott, for kicking up
the mischief on st. Thomas street: and Bridget
| Weldon for assaulting Bridget Graer and damag
| ing her furniture, on Erato street. were seyeray
overhauled and required TO furnish peace bonds or
| go to prison. z=
/ Mike kilroy, charged with dangerously stabbing
Cord Atyer particulars elsewhere) was sent to
| prison to await the result.
/ Peter and Mary Francis and Ann Riley, were
committed for trial before Judge Hunt, on the
charge of having stolen some $l0 worth Of bed
ding linen out of the City Hotel. In default Of
bail they were sent to prison.
The five coffee stand keepers of Poydras market
arrested for cooking in the market, were over
hauled and discharged.
A. Fl. Edmonson, charged with fraud, in obtain
ing SIS worth of goods from Samuel Brickell, No
rs Poydras street, upon the pretenee that he had
lot of produce coming from Cincinnati, was dis
missed at Mr.. Brickell's request.
The following parties were arraigned and booked
for examination:
i Michael Hill, charged with stabbing Henry Rich
ards with a bowie-knife and breaking his arm by a
blow with billet of wood on Monday evening. al
tile corner Of Julia and Fulton streets-the aifida
q Wit being made by Richards wife, Catherine. Sent
to prison, to be examined on the tth September.
Ann Roam, f. VI. c., Of IRENE street, charged with
enIezzling and appropriating to her own use some
six or seven hundred dollars belonging to the es
tate of Mary Powell, deceased. Bail given to APP
pear on the 10Th inst. z.r
Pat hIaginn, charged with knocking down ant
choking Edward Fitzgerald on the ad inst, nea
the corner Of Religious and Richard streets. Bal
given 10 appear on the 1ith.
Mrs. Pauline Mosier, charged BY John Weber, c
No. l52 Poydras street, with enticing away hi
= slave Jim. and hafboring him in her house, q
: Derbieny street, near Palmyra. Case fixed for tn
n Slst inst.
John Murphy, charged with thrasbins John
ell on the 3st nt at the corner of Girod and Dry
AIDES streets. Bail given to appear on the 18th.
And lot Of drunken peaee,dsturbers and fre
negroes in the State in contravention.
srRucK BY IIGmTSIN6.-On the 21st ult., durin
a thunderstorm, a stroke of lightning passed dow
the conductor attached To the residence of job
b. Briggs, in Prebe, NJ and through the groun
into the cellar, where Miss Lois Hurlburt and MI
Charles Fox were engaged in skimming and strair
ing milk. The fluid struck Miss Hurlburt on th
side, tearing herapron into slreds, passing throug
her dress and under her elothes-melting one
I her stocking on side in places from one-half
e one inch apart until it reached the heel when
y entirely destroyed that portion of her hose, an
II rent her shoe into numberless pieces. Strange t
n say, the lady escaped with comparatively little II
Il jury. She was, of course, rendered senseess, bi
g only for short time. The onlypereeptible efee
she says, is black line down the limb and sgl
:, lameness. Young Fox, standing about ten fe
e from Miss Hurlburt, was, he thinks, hit by ball
of fire on the hip, on the opposite side from wlel
d Miss Hurhurt standing. lie vas knocke
n down, but recovered in very short time.
. IHE FIRST DISCOVERY or Com IN GAIIFaRNt
al Col. Fremont recently gave testimony in a ca
I'd in California, in which he made the followil
statement:
1e The discovery Of gold in the rock was first MAJ
= in 1910, on my Mariposa tract. 1t was considers
=, that that discovery was the first of the kind
st California. That vein is now known as the o
Us Mariposa or Fremont vein, near the town Of Ma
IS posa When l left California, in 1S47, the go
- plaeers had not been discovered. heard Of
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