New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-17
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST II, 1860.
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on hand in very liberal quantities. The platform
was on the neutral ground, facing to Bourbon
street: the facing the brazen coattail Of the
Clay Statue.
Many had been led to believe that Mr.. Yancey,
of Alabama, the great Breckinridge champion,
would be present and give q touch of his quality.
| AL however, were anxious to see the first Breck-
! inridge and Lane demonstration; and the result
was an assemblage which must have thoroughly
\ astonished the leaders Of the meeting. The multi
tudc was very great jamnting the entire width OF
4 the street from Royal nearly to Bourbon. The
| enthusiasm Of the meeting was confined to the
/ inner circle upon and around the platform; whilst
| thes silence Of the outside masses showed plainly
/ that the friends Of Boil and Douglas on the ground
were innieasurably in tile majority.
| Mr.. VI. 9. c. Claiborne was President of the
meeting. EXAttorney General Noise was the
/ chief speaker. Whilst he spoke, ExGov. Mouton
addressed the multitude from the rear Of the
| stand. The Hon. 3Ir. McRea, of Mississippi,
followed Mr.. Noise in front, and several other
| speakers larangued the crowd from both the front
and rear Of the stand. A long string of resoIu-
| tions was read, expressive of the sense of the
meeting,'' and duly ratified by the stentorian
voices of the Custom House and the Post Office.
The Breckenridge Clubs turned out quite hand
somey which was all right after their long prepar-
/ alton. The Fourth Ward and Seventh Ward sent
| up Clubs with plenty of blank transparencies the
names of the Clubs only being painted on the
leading transparences.
1 Uptown was represented by the Young Mems
Breckinridge and Lane Club, = and Clubs from the
Third and First Wards, (First Distriet,) and from
| the Tenth and Eleventh Wards, {Fourth District
all flush with pictures and notices, showing that
they patronize the painters well an art collection
| which, if saved till after next November, would
I ensure the fortune of any one having tile means
| and tenerity to reissue them in the shape of a
comic almanac for t6l.
The assemblage was so great at the meeting that
large part Of the crowd could not get near
enough to hear the speakers at either end of the
/ stand. The consequence was the organization of
several hurrah meetings the out-squirts.' y
Some scattering hurrahs for Douglas and for Bell
brought little legion Of hurraliers for Brecknridge
after them, and the result was hurrah meeting at
| Hyde & Goodrich corner, in which the names Of
the different candidates went up in roar, full Of
sound and fury, signifying nothing" Several gen.
tlemen got mad and we believe honestly wanted
to fight; but there no room for such sport
the crowd was too dense. ....
I The Bell and Everett men (Sho were on the
| ground in great forcc) had several impromptu
meetings on Royal street, around the corner, and
| remote from the Breckinrdge meeting on Canal
| street. The CustomrHouse and Post-Offce men
attempted to break up these meetings by theil
4 yells for Breckenridge and Lane, but did not sue
| ceed. There was large Bell and Everett meet
ing in front of the Citizens Bank, corner of Gus
tomhouse street, where different speakers spoke
The efforts Of the Breckinridgers to break up thu
meeting on Royal street, (not at all interfering
with their meeting ON Canal street,) naturally
aroused some feeling, and the result was that
large part of the Bell crowd assembled around til,
y. Clay Statue, when the Breckinridge meeting ad
iolrned, and hurrahed for Bell and groaned ant
hissed most heartily as the Breckinrdgers filed BY
in torchight procession. Not a little of this wa,
owing to the fact that some recognized members
of this Breckenridge meeting were the who
bahed at and grossly insulted the Young Bell Ring
ers, during their march the night before.
After the Brckinridgers got out of Canal street
the Bell and Everett men had large and en-
| thnsiastic meeting around the Clay Statue. Wher
we left Col. Field was addressing crowd of tive
or three thousand people, the whole intersection
being crowded.
The Breckenridge procession marched through
the principal streets of the Second and First Dis
triets, not forgetting Camp street. Our neighbors
Of the Delta were handsomely cheered and blasted
with rockets and music for their valiant labors in
a hopeless cause, and the Crescent was honoyed
with some groans and Kisses.
UGLY SrABBINtf AFFRAY.--Jolnny Weaver and
Mike Allen had an atfray on Wednesday night, in {
cottoehouse at the corner of Perdido and Dryade
streets. Both drew knives, and they cut eacl
other badly. Neither was arrested, because botl
had to be sent to Charity Hospital.
SCIENCE WILL TR1L.-The notorious thief Johnny
0'Brien escaped from the Work-house on Wednes
day night.
IT WAS A SUICIDE AFTER ALL.-We yesterday
mentioned that another inquest was to be held il
| the case of ne German musician Ncolai, who at
| the first inquest, on Wednesday, was pronounced
to have come to his death by suicide; the second
investigation being in consequence of the state
ments of German woman named Mary White
! that Mrs. Nieola had murdered her husband and
| then hung him up, to make it appear that he had
killed himself. The same nry of inquest was sum-
moned yesterday, and the following testimony was
| taken:
Mary White, sworn-States that on day before
yesterday, about O'Clock in the afternoon wit
| ness went To the house of Mrs. Nlcoai The de-
| ceased was sitting on chair: he was very weak
witness asked him how he was, and he answered,
Oh, very sick!A Witness asked, !" Docs your old
woman treat you welz@ Mrs. Nicoai then re-
| marked to her, 1t is none of your business y
| Deceased was very weak and did not speak much.
| subsequently Mrs. Nicoai spoke to witness in an
under tone, so that deceased could not hear her
and told witness her husband had been sick too
long; it cost her too much money, and she was
getting tred it WAS too much trouble for her, she
wanted to get rid of him and 90 to Louisyille. She
told witness that she would kill him that night I;
| she would cut his wrist and choke him, and when
he would be dead she would hang him up by the
neck in the kitchen, SO that it would appear he had
! committed suicide.
| Witness told her she had better send the poor
man to the Charity Hospital, and she would have
more luck by it. She refused and told witness she
wOHld give her money-ten dollars now. and more
! by-and-bye--if she would not say anything about
it. Witness refused the money aud went away.
Next morning yesterday NJ o'clock, witness
went to the house and found the gate closed, and
the door also. She knocked at the door and called
| Mrs. NicOlai, who answered, but would not open
the door.
Witness asked her for the money she had prom
ised her; Mrs Nieolai answered that she had no
money She spoke without opening the door, and
positively refused to admit witness in the house.
Witness knew already OF Nicola having been
found dead a color+d woman who lives in the
neighborhood had come to her room and told her
OF it. Witness knew the deceased well they
lived together for two years. About four or five
years ago he left her and married the present Mrs.