New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-08
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riously beautiful day. The sunshine would have
been too summerlike, but for the delicious breeze
which prevailed. The moon, being at the full at
night, rendered the last half taiend Of the day
more POLITICALLY glorious than the sunny part. We
need never expect more perfectly lovely weather
than we have had for several days past.
A CALM AFTER sroRa.-We have been for a
! week or two past run down, and almost played
out, with the flush of local items which has kept
dancing, and filled this local department of the
Crescent almost to bursting. Yesterday, there was
a change; the town pursued the even tenor of its
\ way; and items Of the kind we usually look for
were few and far between. We wanted little
| rest, and were glad of it; indeed were we! ~
! MEsTER's CONCERT To-NIGHr.-The last oppor-
| tunity of hearing the famous Cincinnati Cornet
Band offers itself at Odd Fellows Hall tonight.
The multitudes who straszed point to hear them
during the fremen's parade, when they were play
| ing for Creole No. 8, can now hear them at ease,
and hear them go through one Of the choicest and
most varied programmes of instrumental music
| ever offered by any band.
The final piece of the list, the Anvil Chorus y
| will alone render more than dollars worth of
satisfaction. This is positively the last chance to
hear Menter and his men; they leave for home on
| Saturday.
/ COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.-Joe Smith, f. m. c.. was
examined yesterday before Assistant Recorder
Monroe, on the charge of having murdered the
slave woman 0mer Taggart, at her residence, on
st. Joseph street. on the evening Of the 22d ult.
The testimony was the same as that given before
the Coroner, and published at the time and Smith
was remanded to prison to await his trial for mur-
der. W. G. Randolph and - Highgate, both free
| colored, accused of being accessories after the
fact to the murder, in aiding Smith in his evasion
Of arrest, (they being found concealed on board
the steamer John Walsh, after they had found sthe
| game was up,') had their examination postponed
to the 10th. Joe Smith did not go to prison with
out asking little pair play in regard to JOSHUA
| Green, +. m. c., whom he charged with stealing
| from him his pocket-book, containing $780, at the
| time he was arrested on the evening of the 2sth
nt. Joshua, in default Of $1,000 bail, was sent to
prison, to await examination on the 18th inst.
| c. W. Dean, the confidence man, who obtained
! from the cotton house of A. J. Hugely & Co., No.
95 Gravier street, slss upon false representations
that he had a lot of cotton on board the steamer
r. W. Powell, and an order for said fictitious cot
ton, was overhauled, found properly guilty, and
remanded to prison to await the tender mercies of
| Judge Hunt and jury.
NJ. Marks, who obtained sl1O0 from A. seres.
upon the pleasant pretense that he would take
him partner in a lucrative fancy and dry goods
business, and then forgot Seres after getting his
money, was satisfactorily shown to have betrayed
the most distressing moral delinquency. He too
was remanded to prison to await solemn inter
view with Judge Hunt, District Attorney Bradford,
and " twelve good men and true, who are the
country" in such cases made and provided
| To AWAIT REsULTs.-Bernard Fox was yester-
| day before Assistant Recorder Monroe, on the
charge Of having cut and seriously wounded some
unknown man at st. Mary's Market, at O'Clock
| yesterday morning; the wounded man being now
| at Charity Hospital. The Fox was sent to prison
| to await results.
George Simmons, charged with seriously injuring
| j. E. Guillotte's slave boy Joe, on board the
| steamer Uncle Sam, by throwing heavy coil of
rope on his back, was also sent to prison to await
| results.
| DARKEY CAsEs.-The first is watch case. Ed
| ward Ford, not being properly on the watch, was
on Saturday last deprived of his watch, whereupon
he called for the watch, and had Mr.. Rices slave
| VIM. Coleman, arrested as the purloiner of the
| second watch above-named; said watch disappear
| ing at said Fords residence, No. 235 Rampant
| street. VIM. Coleman was locked up, to be ex-
| amined on the 10th inst.
| Stephen, slave of Paxton, was locked np to
await examination on the charge of having stolen
lot of clothing from Mary Jane Morgan.
| Vic, slave of Susan Moore, was fined SO for
| abusing white ladies on Perdido street.
| CHARGE Observation-Disclosures Monroe yester-
day dismissed Jas, Sandford, charged with stealing
| from Robert Mcnamara white bull slut, valued
| at $50; R. M. appearing and requesting the dis
| charge.
| The "CRAwFIsH CLuB.,'-Haying nothing else
to do yesterday, we Joined the :. Crawfsh Club"
in the Third District This Club is one of the nsti-
tutions. It was founded by some of the venerable
crawfshes of the Old Third; not for crawtishes ex-
clusiyely, but for all other respectable members of
the aqueous and amphibious families. This re-
porter was introduced as a polIywog; and finding
himself in a right genial crowd of crawfishes,
shrimps, sardines, crabs nullets, and other plea
SAINT inhabitants Of the swamp and lake regions,
denied the pollywog at once and announced him
self a scalliwag. Founders and stngarees are not
admitted into the Club. The Crawfish Club is
"pum sumpkins;" long may it wiggle!
"LlBERTY REDIvIvus ~ Yesterday, for the first
time since the locomotive Liberty got co9red off
the Pontchartrain Railroad at the Gentilly crossing
and landed upside down with a smash and splash
| in puddle by the roadside fon the 24th of last
Junel, said Liberty made its appearance on the
rails and went to hard work, looking as natural as
ever, but little brighter than before. We learn
| that the machine has been fixed off with a bran
set of Intervals, and is just good as new. If
| /" Freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell' the
| Pontchartrain Company screamed right out when
Liberty fell; but Liberty being on her wheels again,
the Pontchartrain Company laugh now as heartily
| as once they screamed
| FIRST DISTRICT CouRr. Nothing was done in
| this Court yesterday.
From jamaica.
| Advices from Kingston to the 9th ult. Local
| papers were discussing the prospects of cotton
cultivation in the islanda branch of agriculture
| that the English Manchester men' are seeking
greatly to encourage. It seems, however, to be
generally conceded that to give the scheme an Or
binary chance Of success, the population must
first be doubled by immigration, for there is now