New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-03

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! Peter Burns. charged win larceny, was ssIs.
misse5 BY nolle prosequi, a the witnesses having
| fea thg country. The larceny was shat of Miss
I ciari,s po. idle dog Of thu ship Cambria
/ EInel1e parry and Sarah Arm Trepler we're
Jointly tried for Isseeny and acquitted. John Nc
Laughlin and X SIM ssfl, charged g accessoFies to
this larceny, were dish issed cn mation 0f The Dis
trict Attorney there helm, no snch ofsnse provied
| for BY the statutee
LATE AND IsrEEEaT1ss FRna ALGfEEss The
golden glow of yesterday sunny evening tempted
d " play truant for hour b. VI; md our tru-
ancy Was such as to lsad VI away rom our eh
sad woa gu-eut item-hunEng track. We deserted TIE
narrow anss crowded stre ets which constitute aHr
daily tramp and atoIs ous upcn the levss, " look
upcnand drink hy The grand and glorious spectacle
which the leves Gnd the ris ~ adord on sunny
evening during tie fush, ina hs and crush of ths
winter commerce II tisis grsst and teeming metro
polls oS the Sunny ss0ush.
We vsswsd the spestacle h8w its very center
that is, 9s'm the ferry laadIng n 1posIte Jachsoh
sauare- Below, consave forest shipping. m
loading from and loading for all Dan o. ne mara
Time worih, Along the middle, d d nck horde of
smoking steamboats,, faF&ful messsA Eers to ana
from ell sorssof countr xhoss huada dtributary
rlyers offer tses turbid nrsay atseasa II hich edys
Dv, as merely sae aggregate offering sT e'r thirty
y iorty thousaAd miles 81 aseamboasn nss vigatson
floating hither As wealth of ~ greatssta alley II
&c world, the uaat Masissipg valley II boye, 4
convex forest 81 os'ahipping, dwtHaIing aSHy II TIE
distance. Ships asid steamers aasae hsuak u ~
te seven mile hcat VI the cfty nss i'd bcnslns ders
O blockaders, hataa snpplanta DR. i'll fsodL ma
feral Of raiment zsd other tseaMssea wkiuIs IN
fourth ceaselesaIy y and ont u aTa Stam tMgx II
mouth Of the great and Heaven -bIkssed val6p 4
The Western Hemispnsre. Over tleriver, ,shc psefs i
land spires of Aigiersg with the IAE limo gf dtr-
docks, and ships and steamers laid sr ID oramasFs
vessels building, vesseis repairing dock md
ssls tied up awaiting repair White Eullkpo
up and down and skmnaing about o,ssr Tie rnuddy
rushing river, as independently as Ii NsY were III
sea. Over all this, hazss half smek u half vapeF
through which the settingsHH CLOVIS aaisthat mel
low ruddness, and that hlas and goIde anixture cE
the distance which fhe painters adore but which
they have never yet succesaed in faith llE trans
ferrng to their canvas.
Vile beauty Of the seems lnred us tcs steu oras
board the Baltic one of the little snorfin gTsppei
lers, Legitimate business, harbor tawase, but
hired now for ferriage, the regular fer7yh ~ hE
ing got smashed one night and now unGsrgsing
repaig) in order to set better view cf thssiver.
The little craft whistled, and screamed and mort
ed, and whrled ont On the Ester, and boIted over
TO the other side with all the grace and auiekhess
of belle in crnoline at bali, ferrying her part-
ner from one end Of Odd FsIloWss Hail ID sthe,
other.
Among the passengers on this boat were two
bright and handsome looking boys about thirteen.
and eleven years old, respectively; and a pretty,
little girl Of eight or nine in hlue hood (tha girl
one Of those bright and sweet IftIa creatures gon
can't see without wanting to kias,) an with their
satchels and books evidently resarning 10 Agisrss
l e.. - eIaG
in the young ones was not in the least abAted
when we heard that they were TIL children of the
late Sergeant 9. Prentiss. It seems that wherever
these children 60 the of their father hangs
| about them, and people look npon and admire them
with q feeling which may be eaestyundarstood by
| all who know what the father wass
The little propeller landing safely ii Algiers.
we started after tema and found the following.
| Capt. Jim Martins new dry-doek, the Allan
4 tcN fbut at Pearl river, and lately toHedaEonnd,l
was going through last course af nitch and dsoals
i nm and promised to be ready foFs business id d
4 very short time. Capt Jim was well, III fast, sa-
i lnbrious.
Col. Jim Anderson was well. and doing weH,
though little paler than usual, ID consequence of
the fatigue forced upon him by the rushing. bust
ness Of the Crescent dry-dock.
i Major Tom Reese, we found, had gone exsen-
! sivey into the oakum business. Having haughsups
all available oakum, and that not being enough, he
was looking around for oakum seed inordhr to in
vest il plantation and go into the raising Of oak
UNI, on his own hook. We heard that three dinsr-
ent samples Of the seed were Oh the way to him
from Texas, Florida and Cuba, and that hia enter
prise in the oakum culture promised to- nesnlt mag
nfcently.
/ Admiral John Mahony was WE'LL ana his shop
full of fast and beautiful water-splistars of differ
ent sizes and models, in their different stages DC
creation. The greatest yacht-budsr IN the South,
John never has his shop empty or bis warkman idle
4 Commodore Holmes and coffeehsase anas family
were getting on admirably. The Commodore
gave ms some account of the grand blowout be-
| tween the Algiers Fire Companies, last Sunday.
Pelican No. and Brooklyn Mo- had q friendly
trial Of water -throWing prowess, for lunch and
punch.n The machines proved to he smarter than
the b'hoys. for they both went on q bustn long
before the lunch and punch came on. AL the FIRST
trial, No beat No. six feet at the second trial
both exploded their air-vessels and were hauled
home, and left in their misery. The boys, how
ever had their lunch and punch at Holiness for
which Pelican No. had to stand the damage
This = bustn of the machines win operate badly
for Algiers, should fire break ont before they get
sober.
1 AfoNASty
celebration yesterday. They paraded The streets
to the music of Gessner's hand. tof this side) had
an oration at one Of the churches, and were TO-
have dance at night at the st. Charles ball ROOM
This society has done much good in AIgiers. and III
applauded by all. even those who cannot subscribe
to their cold water principles.
Somebody yesterday morning fell dawn hatcI
way of ship over there, and though badly hns
was fortunately not killed.
A desperate fghttook place yesterday morn
on the green near the Seoons. District ferry y &
ing. Judge Fortief Witnessed it. and did not Il,
fere; for which there Is some talk Of impea eh;
him. One of the combatants, after long ~ 4 i
perate struggle snccesded in laying out tho othe
but he was 40 much exhausted, that when b 8 aft,
J ward tried to Zap his wings and crow hs
neither, but fell over in swoon. Az no nan s
in sight it was impossihle TO tell what y j rant
man chickens, or roostera, had come to a;sn,
, about.
. The Fremen'a Charitable Assoclatio 4 of A,s;e
. are to give grand ball on Mardigras fnr the IL
i eft Of their charitable fund, as th st charI
f Ball Room. Commodore Holmes d onr stan,
Il