New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-04

on the previous Sunday. The three throws of each
company were added together, and the total
showed No. to be the winner by 10 feet and 81
inches. The following are the official figures,
given by the judges:
sseond is H. IS ~ H.
Third throw, aoati ~ IN ls2f ~ in
Total 6y1 r. 81 IN sa5 n 81. in
Gus Richards, foreman of No. 49,, handed over |
the stakes to the vctors and all hands repaired to
Gus house on st. Charles street, where champagne
and enthusiasm at high tide for an hour Or two
The whole contest was begun and ended in spirit I
Of harmony and good-feeling quite honorable to |
the contesting companies. No, I's engine il q ma
chine different from any other in the city, having I
been constructed solely upon plan devised by |
MFR. John T. Plattsmeier. Mr.. P. was present at |
the trial, and the victory Of His machine brought
him many cheer and beaker of foaming cham
pagne during the triumphal celebration which fol-
lowed. Z
RARE DoIsGs BY THE LIGHT OF THE MooH.-On |
Saturday night, as is always the case when the
weather Is warm and the moon at the full, great
numbers Of the fast boys went down to the lake,
with fast girls as eyprians for their companions.
And, as usual, they bathed and feasted, and many
Of them got drunk. We learn that between IL and
8 o'clock, when most Of the drunken ones were
on the return to town, there were six or eight
pitched battles, Or fist fights, between drunken
Amazons, who were put at it by their brutal com
panions, just for sport; the men making up q fight
among themselves, and setting the women ons the
same as they would dogs or game chickens. In
two cases the females stripped to their waists,
fought as far as possible, according to the rules
Of the prize ring, and battered and bruised each
other considerably their shrl curses and screams,
and their foul language, and the laughter and yes
and shouts Of the men, forming a disgusting and
helish concert, such as, with the accompanying
scenes, ought to have made the moon hide her
face for very shame. What stories, if they could
but talk, would the shell roads and the stable
horses not be able to tell
WHO LOADED THAT PIsToL?-A singularly fool
ish piece of smartness, or smart piece Of foolish
| ness, was done last week by some friend of officer
| Sary who killed John Paul Schander ON Burgundy
street. The revolver used by Sary was handed in
at the lookup, and Chief Adams, Lieut.. Gastinel,
Sergeant Arroys, and night officer Rapp, are wit
nesses to the fact that four barrels OF the pistol
I were empty, and the fifth loaded. Next morning,
| when Deputy Coroner Soraparu called for and re-
1 ceived the pistol, all the barrels were loaded He
explained the singuarity of the circumstance to
his jurors and they all went to gunsmith to have
the pistol unloaded and examined. The balls and
/ powder were extracted and examined and the
punner's report was that one load was an old one,
but that the other four were fresh, and badly put
in, as if done in great haste. The question as to
who loaded the pistol is yet a mystery, though
there has been much inquiry about it. Sergeant
/ Arroyo and officer Rapp, who stay at the lookup
all night, on Saturday made oath before Recorder
BENT that the pistol was not loaded during the
night, and Rapp further declared that when he
retired from duty in the morning, the pistol was
still unloaded. The question is, who loaded that
pistol? ,F ii
1 The YoLKsFEsT AND PFINGsTFEsT MURDERS
Coroner Beach has taken some further testimony
in the case of John L. Conrad, killed at the Volks
1 fest but we have concluded not to publish it anti
the inquest is concluded, which will be sometime
this week. NJ
On Saturday we stated that the Grand Jury
had reported true bill for murder against some
person who was not named, and whose name, by
the Grand Jury's order, was not given to any one
1t turns out that the true bill was against three
persons to wit Bill Coson, Billy Demo- and Billy
Donnel, who were named by Bill Carley in his tes
timony before the Coroner, as having been in com
pany with Bill Lockwood, when, as the same wit
ness and John Henry testified, the latter shot and
killed the carriage driver Bill Gill; at the P6ngstfest
Colson was arrested on Friday evening, in thu
Third District. Demo and Donnell have not We
been arrested.
MURDER AT Pass MANcHAC.-Samuel Solon,
, fisherman, was last evening brought down on IL
J jackson cars from Pass Manchac, charged wit
t the murder of Charles Wickhart, a German lahore
} employed on the Jackson Railroad. He stables
Wickhart on Saturday evening, and the latter die'
early yesterday morning. He was captured, no
without resistance, and brought down to the CT,
3 by Mr. II. u. Jones, road.master Of the jackson
e Railroad, Mr. Thos. L. Wiburn, constable of Liy
: ingston parish, and Mr.. A. G. Tucker.
= AT the depot he was delivered to officer Penuel
I who lodged him in the First District lookup
: Though the case does not belong to the parish Q
Orleans, it was BEST safest and quickest, to brin
the prisoner to the city, there being no police 9
/. police jail anywhere near Pass Manchac. Solo
WILL of COURSE be kept here in safety until the al
thortes around Pass Manchac shall be ready 7
= . receive and attend to him.
:, :, STRIKE AMONG THE GAuLKERs IN .ALGIERs-W
! learn that about fifty of the canlkers in Agien
have struck against all the proprietors Of DIR,
docks except those of two dry.doeks. Their pa
= is two dollars and half day they strike not fs
higher wages, but against free negroes, who al
5 employed in preference to them on most of Il
d docks, they being only employed on said docl
e when there is more work than the negroes can
J. In striking, they have issued a manifesto, sett
: forth their reasons They do not ask more wage
l. that has nothing to do with 1t. They state tl
/. they have objection to working with slaves,
n longing to the dry-dock proprietors but that th
do object to free negroes, some of whom have |
i legal right fresidence in Louisiana, being emplo
edin preference to them.
10 They also state that Messrs. Hyde Il Maekey an
Ii Capt. Jas Martin are the only dock proprietor
II who deal fairly with them and will not give ire
N negroes the preference. They have struck agains
all the docks except those Of the gentlemen ias
s named and being nearly all men with families
n. and homes in Algiers, they will be able to loaf
K. long time, if not all the time on the strength Q
al their strike. The free negro oankers are abou
le as good workmen as the white caulkers, but "
i'd believe that the latter right being old aud per
z mauent residents, in refusing to be ousled an
ruined by the free negroes.