New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-09
Focal AntrIEiQente.


along, with thunder mutterings. gust Of wind.
small simoom of dust and a homeopathic sort ola
rain. 1t had little.eect upon the prevailing heat.
The prickly heat, as We write is as fierce and Te-
| ientlcss as ever.
| JHE EVERETT RANGERS THE political Bell
ringing goes on merrly, and not a little relieves
the dullness of this lat presen) rather dull city.
Last evening, the Third Ward Union Club as
sembled in strong force at the tap Of the bell and
organized for business. After proper prclfmi-
naries, the following gentlemen were elected,
unanimously, permanent officers Of the Club:
l.. P6eS6h71--ieaF f. BAkcwciI. #,u. .
Tise- PEeg6fsJ,-W. q. Haes.
+ -S1cfetdty-t;. T. yefander. M.T
9fettsIer-R. Yeatman. ..
/ Hut4hat-Thomas Askew
I resolution was unanimously adopted, changing
the name OF the club to that of the Everett Rang
ers." Able and eloquent speeches were made by
Messrs. /, Madison Day and James Otis The Bell
rings the ball ros-and the town and country
will hear something of the Everett Rangers ere the
ides Of November be here! II
| BLOODY AFFRAY IN A REsTAURANT.-On Tuesday
night, MIR. Victor Gerodias was arrested on the
charge Of having dangerously stabbed Mrs. The
resa wife of Marion Billisa, in the restaurant of
the latter, on Bienville street, between Franklin
and Treme 1t appears there was a general me-
| lee, in which Gerodas came off with fair share of
bruises and bloody marks.
The statement of Gerodias is that having been
detained late at his office, and missed his dinner,
| he felt hungry. On his way home, in the faubourg
IRENE, and meeting three of his friends, he pro-
| posed to them to accompany him to some place
where they could get heefsteak They went to
Bllisas establishment and there took supper.
Outside Of the house, they Pierre LoiHee,
alias Pierrot, qnarreng with another man, whose
buggy he had uuceremoniously taken and used.
! Presently, Loizelle came into Bllisas house, and
as Gerodias and his friends were going out, they
heard the noise Of scu1ie and cries and turning
back, saw Loizelle fighting with Billisa's wife Dis
liking to see man strike woman, Gerodias rush
ed between them to stop the fight, and caught the
woman BY the arm. Thinking, probably, that he
was taking Loizelles part she struck him violent
blow the cheek, and at the same instant two
Spaniards, who came id, being probably under the
same impression that he was assailing the woman
rushed at him, caught him by the hair and knocked
him down, kicking and beating him. A general
melee ensued, and when the other young men and
people from the neighborhood succeeded in stop
ping il, was found that Blisas wife had received
cut in the abdomen. Gerodias states that the
attack of the two Spanards was so sudden that he
had not even time 10 draw his knife and defend
himself having been knocked down and trampled
upon. The names of dozen witnesses have been
given, who told, will testify to these facts.
Recorder Blache will examine the case as soon
as the wounded woman will be able to appear
Loizelle was not arrested because no one made
any complaint against him.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-Yesterday morning at about
! O'Clock, fire broke out in the rear of Messrs.
f Waterman & Co.'s planning mill and sash factory,
at the corner of Howard and Graver streets, op-
poste the walls of Charity Hospital.
The combustible material enabled the flames to
! spread rapidly, whilst, by mishap of very seri.
, Gus nature, the key to the telegraph alarm box al
. Philadelphia No. l4's house, on Common street
] could not be found. We heard that the house.
keeper was absent at breakfast, with the key in
his pocket. In consequence, it was nearly or quite
quarter of an hour from the start of the fire be-
fore the alarm was sent to the central office and
8 thence to the bells.
t The tiremen as they arrived found the flames
spreading over great part of the square, and to
make matters worse, when they got ready fol
( work there was no water. All other means to
stop the eonagration were resorted to, and after
while the tardy water came lazily from the plugs
and down the cutters. The fire was stopped at
last, but not until it had entirely destroyed Water
mans mill and factory and about two thirds of the
| block bounded by Common, Gravier, Howard ant
Liberty streets, (small frame tenements occupied
v by poor white people and negroes) and four o
a five two-story residences one of them brick o,
a the opposite side of Graver street. The bacl
buildings of Charity Hospital were at one time il
great danger and numerous properties on til,
| other side of the fire more or less scorched
The whole loss is estimated at FROM $50 600 II
$60,et0. The loss of Waterman & Co. is abou
$4,000, with only SIS 900 Insurance. Z
= After the fire there was a rumpus among some
y fremen at the corner of Gravier and Ilbert,
streets. We heard that member of No. 10 wa.
cut in the head with spanner, and that one OF
two others were slightly cut with knife OF
knives.
: FATAL AcoIDENT.-Peter Hughes, a cartman, fel
from his cart, loaded with fagstones last evening
u on Callope street, between Apollo and Bacchus
; One of the wheels passing over his body killins
him almost instantly. He leaves family; and. i
u is stated as strange coincidence, that the widow
mourns him as the second of her husbands, botl
g killed by cartwheels.
v EASY TIMEs AMONG THE GRAvEY ARDs.--We ar
} informed that D-n MErr-tt sexton of the Ride
y Cemeteries, was down at Dan Hckok's the othe
y night. He did his duty at table like man; the
70 joined merry party in the bath. He was missin
!, in the water and being searched for, was foun
n wading out for the light of schooner, at anchor
y mile off which light he had mistaken for that G
the lighthouse, at the end of the bank Begnnin
g to dress, in the bath house. he got the clothes
u the party mixed up, and put on Major C-v.n-h
ut double e-breasted vest for an undershirt. Wills
sc trying to fit it on him, and expressing his opino
N about the darned shirt, he apprised of his mi
50 take upon which he exclaimed If that d.
rs reporter of the Crescent here, he'd have il a
be in his paper One of the party yesterday told
a all about it so it's all the same if We were n
n with that gallorious party. When DIN MAKE
such mistakes the above, it's certain sign TIL
there are dull times among the grayeyards.
of RECORDER EMERsoN's CouRr.--The usual larg
=. batch of drunkards and street-seepers comhe
ii outyesterday, the Work-house getting the wors
n specimens
n. james Haley, for trouncing his better half o
"a Grod street, was fined so and put under peac
~ bonds. John Finnegan and John Joice were di
- missed from charge of highway robbery, an
# Luke Mahoney, the prosecutor, fined s.. Day