New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-06-18
NUMBER 90.

nai VI sac testanonallsIS IN the napPieSt manner.
Mr. stth responded in fitting terms, and then was
uncovered a gigantic bowl, brimrniBg with the
nectar worthy of such an accession; to which the
amplest justice was done by all present. The sill
| yer ware was returned to Hyde & Goodrich's,
where for ashort time IT will remain on exhibition.
IaE Cry TELEGRAPH. Daily the apparatus
thfonghout the city becomes better adjusted to the
harmony and correct correspondence with the
grand apparatus at the center. The police are
constantly receiving and transmitting business
messages, and getting better used to the adisss.
laeh's and the manipuiations whilst the fremen
are progressing in their lessons, in listening 10
tneir telegraphic gongs and studying the formula
~ 'ne alarm ringing. We have already published,
lot the dement, q the public, list Of the fire dis
trlcls ana the method of sending an alarm from
each signal station in each ERE district. Fun and
explicit instructions, printed, are posted in every
police station and engine house, SO that all who
may have the occasion so to do, may run and
/ read" E
We are satisfied that the telegraph works admi
rably. On Saturday night, being at the Third
District police station, we were, by courtesy, per.
mitted to communicate with friend who was al
the central office, and who had opened a eommr,.
| nication with the officers where we were. The
4 ANttoWth6 correspondence tUOh pldCG
Third Dissria. The Crescent Reporter is shot
| in the neck.
Center.-Under what circumstances
| z. D.-Too drunk to tell.
/ G-Pat him in a cell, hold wake over him. and
send for the Coroner in the morning early 80 that
he may be taken away before he smells badly
z. D.-That is very good for you. Go over to
Marble Hall and get drink on my account
| n-y0nr cradit n Marhla uaIl u ,,Iax,ad rxt s
4. D.-If this reporter was up there, he would
show you to the contrary.
Here business message interrupted, and the
colloquy stopped. Wewere charmed with the cor
rect and beautiful manner in which the telegraph
operated, and went home satisfied. Yesterday,
casually dropping in at Marble Hall, (Which is op.
posite the, City Hail. where the central tel egrapb
office is) we were quietly informed by the bar.
keeper that the night before on the authority of
telegraphic dispatch just received, seven gentle,
men from the telegraph Office had come over and
taken drinks at our expense-the barkeeper will
ingly taking their word for the Dispatch and chalk
ing us on his slate for seventy cents.
OF course this was all right; but it showed ii
! that the telegraph worked much better than VI
thought it did at the time of our manipulations
We had no idea that the drinks would be applie
for or obtained upon the jocuar message we sent
THAT ANGELIC BoY, John HENRY.-Because tn
cab driver John Henry killed Bob Forbes, larg,
part of the community looked upon him as grea
deliverer, little less than saint. He received no
only wordy, but solid and remuneratve fattery
for his achievement. Finding himself acquitted b,
court of law, and applauded by large class 0
people, he, naturally enough, as any thoughtles
boy would do under similar circumstances fanciet
himself public hero, with a carte blanche to d,
just whatever he pleased forever afterward.
But for his speedy manifestation of this feelin,
g we would never have given him second notice
n He at once set up for bully, (though he is to-
+ young and trihing, physically and in every othe
0 respect, to ever become real bully, in the CON
:, mon sense of the term) and, with Discriminate
y which has % saved his bacon >, SO far has sauce
n and clustered great many men who ought to b
d ashamed of being afraid of him has drawn hi
J. everready revolver several times, when there wa
n no occasion and, on one occasion, drew his /,
y volver and fired ~ a drayman who was not quic
+ enough in getting out of the way of his cab. Ft
this offense he was arrested but, no prosecute
T. appearing, he was committed for carrying cor
l. cealed weapons, and from that charge he was sui
d sequently dismissed. We have nothing PERSONAL
h against John Henry; but looking upon him til
e victim of false public sentiment, and seeing ho'
II he behaved with this false sentiment at his bael
+. we promised to look after him. We have done st
Y and shall continue to do SO. We have some pit
for the boy every time we hear of his boist eror
o misdoings.
II II there are murderers and assassins at larg
the city, it is the duty Of the law to arrest all
v convict them, and of the Sheriff to hang them. W
are unable to recognize the young cab.driv er as
a legitimate public exeeutioner, though he had Il
sanction of law in his first affair, by showing th
ia he acted in self-defense nor can we tolerat th
fanatcal feeling which has fostered and encourage
s, his later acts of rowdyism, by either affecting
o dsbeeve them Or covering those acts with Il
" white mantle of innocence and justification.
N The fact that Henry was shot at lately, and a
,e other man killed instead of him. and the fact
as his accusation that the who shot at him was
ID relative of the man he killed, have made great
D; lion of him than ever. The man accused, Loc
IN wood is in prison and will this week have his trit
r. As have said before, we do not set up to defer
,e him or any other person who may be under ARE
to or conviction for wrongs done, or alleged to ha
i been done, but we do oppose that spirit which
lit dnces men to say operly on the streets -" Ha
he them ALL anyhow and to foster and encoura
n in young and hitherto quiet boy, feeli
its which is Transforming him by degrees into dt
,r, perado, and leading him probably to bloo'
lit death of his own. If Henry had proper sense,
ed would say to himself, Save me from my friends
8; Henrys latest manifestation that of attemptil
nd to scare witness for the defense in the Lockwo
c- case, we published on Saturday, upon the stat
v, ment of the witness, which we heard him make
"a the office OF the Chief Of Police, where he went
A. make sworn statement. We find that this hont
ar and true statement of ours has thrown the Hem
of ties and their newspaper organ into fresh spa
p. of tender soicitude for their pet; and they ha
.p- accused us of disposition to impeach his ere
bility, in order to weaken his testimony. The |
lid has said to his worshppers thath did not threat
,h the witness Willis and upon this, Willis stateme
nd as reported by us, is scattered to the winds, q
he we share his disgrace. Whether we wish to
we peach Henrys credibility neither here nor the
ful For reasons above given, we have made him p
rs. ticular object Of our attention, and shall rep
whatever he does out of the way, whether it be
,cb fore or after trial in which he is a Witness
the pass in charitable silence the impotent abuse Of
of worshippers.
~ Willis wished to make his affidavit of Saint
her Henrys threat to him. before the Chief Of Pol
lid to whom he made the statement we have publish
rd, The Chief referred him to the Recorder, as
~ proper person before whom to make his atfida