New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-07
NUMBER 81.

each other but the exquisite arrangement and
finish of the whole apparrtus renders visit to it
pleasure, an astonishment and fruitful subject Of
after-refection. We are more or less used to the
clicking and buzz of the little machines which tell
ns that some one two hundred or two thousand
miles off is at that moment working at the other
end OF the wire. IT is very wonderful, but we are
used % i, because i has been going for some
time 1t annihilates time and space and one |
might think that this were enough for electricity
and human genius to achieve. Accustomed as we |
are to this, how strangely new Is ii to see this
latest lelegraphic apparatus annihiIate not only
time and distance, but the most violent manual |
labor.
Instead of dozen men laboriRg at the hammers
pulling, painting, almost Hing themselves with
their exertions, stopping for breath, calling fresh
men to their labor, and, after ALL perhaps, ringing
when there is no fire, ringing ont different stories
and setting the firemen to running useessIy, IN
different directions the work will hereafter be done
by single individual. The tinkle Of little bell
will inform him where the fire Is, there being bell
for each fire district. He will note which little
bell tinkles and then, without the trouble Of put
ting down his newspaper, Or shaking the ashes
from his cigar, he will touch certain set of ivory
keys, daintly and delicately young miss at her
piano, whereupon all the fire bells in town will tell
the story the same story and the story all at once
The little finger of an infant Is enough for this
long pull, strong pull, and pull altogether and
very wonderful is t to see all the machinery and
to see how it works.
The police branch of the city telegraph Is also
beautiful aud interesting combination of electric
machineries, which the police at the center and at
the different stations taking daily lessons in,
and in which they are making good headway.
The combined fire alarm and police telegraph Of
New Orleans is the fifth institution of the kind in
the United States, and the finest and most extens
sive on earth, there being but one other, outside
of.this country; and that is in Berlin the capital
Of Prussia. will be interesting to know that the
4 great and tremendous city of New York, the first,
and as some believe, the only city in Amer
lea, is behind New Orleans in the matter of city
telegraph. But IT seems that New York intends
to come up to the telegraphc scratch, and to make
| up for past laziness by having city telegraph
| which shall cost half million dollars, more or
less; something that viii considerably eclipse our
New Orleans arrangement in magnitude
1 Mr.. Gamewell is to leave for New York as soon
as he gets through here; and after that he ex-
poets to go to Paris, where gentleman by the
name Of L. Napoleon, Esq, thinks the arrange
ment will be something Of an improvement to his
fast little village. GameweI& & Co. have the patent
right of their invention in both Europe and Ameri-
/ ca and it must be confessed that they have on
hand a stupendous enterprise, promising both fame
4 and fortune.
/ Nor A PoLIcEMAs.--In our report of Mondays
election difficulties, we stated that voter for the
Citizens ticket had been knocked down at one Of
the polls, by John Jenkins, policeman of the
First District, without cause. We now learn that
l,orv
ing been discharged from service some two months
4 previously. We mention this in justice to the
4 police as a body, who, not being off duty at the
polls, as was necessary under the late aud now de-
funct election law, showed all possible promptl
tude in arresting offenders. as was shown by our
particular report on Tuesday morning. The
/ only offending party not arrested that we hav,
J heard of, was the unkRAwn person who stables
, the young man Watgon, at OF near the poll on 81
Joseph street and we have been assured tina
this stabbingdid not take place Immediately at th
poll, and that if it had the man who did the stab
bing could not have got off undetected as he did
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.-In the case of VIM
!, Lockwood, charged with the murder of VIM Gil
at the Pfngstfest, Recorder I..ng yesterday sent
, the papers before the First Disssict Court; the
3 Grand Jury having already examined the accused
|
before the Recorder being necessary.
Recorder Summers sent John Gorcoran before
the First District Court to be tried for carrying
concealed bowie. knife.
Charles Mills, t. m. c., charged with harborine
the girl Louisa who robbed her mistress, Mrs. Gen
Miles, of 5000 worth Of diamonds, pleaded guilty
to the charge before Recorder Summers, and wa.
sent before the First District Court. In default o
$1,000 bail, he was remanded to prison.
CASES FixED.-The following parties were yes
terday arraigned before Recorder Summers, ant
docketed for examination:
, Chr. Strange and wife. free celored, charged
; with harborng and concealing at their residence
t No. AZ villere street. James w. Rotchford's run
away slave girl Sally Bell. Sent to prison, in de
I fault of $500 bail each, to be examined on thu
!, 10th inst
2 Mrs. Margaret Farrell, charged by Xavier Simeo1
g with forging his wife's name to receipt for 81
rent due him, on the 23d of April last. Bail givel
a to appear on the 10th.
g Cornelius Murphy, charged with violently beat
t ing and kicking Daniel Heferan, at No. 20
Tchoupitoulas street, the 2sth nlt. one Fallon
!. charged also with aiding in the business Bal
given to appear on the 18th.
Mrs. Westermire, charged with foully abusin!
and threatening to kill Mary Ann Moulton, o.
!, Annunciation street, between Delord and Poey
= farre. Bail given to appear on the 10th.
! ! Margaret Morris, charged with rough treatmen
:. Of Mary Hart, at the corner Of Locust and Thali
Streets on Tuesday, striking her three times wit
her fist, once with small tub, and three times c
= the head with hammer, wounding her severely
:, Case fixed for the 10Th.
a. - Mary HART the above, charged with pulling th
:. hair Of the above Margaret Morris, at the sam
- time and place, and whackng her over til
y shoulder with bucket. Bail given to appear a
!, the same time.
l. FINED AND BouND OvER.- John Mnrtagh, fl
!. breaking down the fence of his neghbor Bridgt
a Gurley, No. 1888 Howard street, with an axe, al
nj killing six of her chickens, was required yesterda
to pay $40 fine or go to prison for month. N
having the money he went
% Betsy Dean for horribly abusing Author 0'Eea
G. and threatening to have him licked, on Religio
d, street, was fined IS. Johannah Casey. for thro
OF ing ashes and other filth from the upper story
~ her house on st. Mary street, to the particu
a. scandal of Eliza Ward, was fined s5.
lc Henry G. Oliver, for being too rough with NJ
Margaret Morton, No. lis Perdido street, was /
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