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

| ing IniS CITY, and ald 30.
| The old black woman said that she had had her
free papers with her all the time that when Chase
| bought her she told him before God she and her
boy were free; but that she never let him or any
Of those who sold her know she had the papers, ior
fear they would take them away from her and burn
them, they having taken her by force in the first
place. and beaten her badly, and It being her insen
ton to show the papers and to claim protection
from the first men she got among that she thought
| were honest.
| Dr. Chase's story was that he bought the negroes
in good faith as slaves, and believed the bill Of sale
| to be genuine. That he had been coa5tng along
the Upper Mississippi with q store boat, which
he had sold for $2000 and had invested the amount
| in the two negroes. The Doctor Is rather NICE
i looking man, and explained his case with the
| greatest GOODNESS and address. When he was
4 turned into one Of the lower cells, where other
i prisoners were confined, and after bis distressed
wife and children had been taken away from the
bars, Of the other prisoners stepped up to him
and said: Hello, Doctor, how are you2" This
4 was g. W. Dean the cofdence man, whose opera
tons we detailed some days ago, and the same who
led the special police the 0pelousas swamp hunt
after murderers the other day. The Doctor looked
stiff1y at Dean, and said 8 don't know you,
sir :; aud turning to the officer, who stood outside
he asked "Who Is this mangn The officer showed
a his cigar and said nothing. what Doctortn ex-
claimed Dean, you mean to say you don't know
me?n "I never saw You in all my life, sir
tartly replied the Doctor. Weil, Doctor" replied
Dean, if you don't know me, know d-d well
my dogs in Missouri knew You mighty well once.''
4 Approaching the officer with wink, Dean added,
soto voce, q He's one of 'emi"
As the police all swear that Dean is I" one of
'em' it folio VS. that Dean and Chase together must
be two of 'em. Chase's case and that of the two
negroes will be officially looked into to-day.
MORE CoNF1DENoE GAMEs.--The shaksperian ad-
1nonition, put money in thy purse" was never
more piously observed i'll New Orleans than during
| this present season; not only by legitimate and
honest money-makers, but by spectators of that
| kind who are neither merchants nor highway rob
| bers. We have two fresh confidence g cases to
report.
Couldn't Sell Moody.-Though he sells great
deal, mostly in the shirt line, there are few who
| can sell him. An infatuated sharper undertook
the thing yesterday. He was a genteel, business
looking young man, who entered the store in a
great hurry with his fist full Of cards of business
| men about town, which he was looking over, as if
no time was to be lost in getting up steamboat
| load of assorted goods for some country store.
He gave G. Fl, Henderson as his name, and his
status as that of agent clerk for the commission
house of Huntington & Co., on Magazine street,
and filling up country order. He hastily selected
shirts part cotton and part linen to the amount of
! s66. He politely offered to carry tile bundle him
4 self; but Moody still more politely insisted upon
| sending the bundle. He then told Moody to send
the shirts to certain shoe house on Customhouse
street, where he was having a lot of shoes packed
up; he wishing to put the shirts in of the boxes
| with tile shoes; and directing Moody to send the
bill to Huntington Il Co., by o'clock next day,
this day.l
Moody smelt rat, and didn't send the bundle;
! but he occupied his earliest leisure in walking up
to Huntington 6 Co.'s. His questions about MIR.
| Henderson were answered with shout of laugh
ter and this was the reason: Moody was the
fourth or fifth customer that had called there for
account of Mr.. Henderson, whom Messrs. Hunting
ton q Co. had never seen or heard of. There
Moody found that several persons had really been
yictimzed by Mr.. Henderson. The completest
victim, it appeared was a matchmaker OF Chartres
street. Henderson purchased a spanking gold
watch and chain, value s175, and requested the
proprietor to send some one with him to get the
money. A young man went with him, and carried
the watch himself, to make sure of things.
On the way Henderson stopped at a tobacco
warehouse, where, as it appeared, he had formerly
made purchases in good faith. He commenced
examining the tobacco, and speaking of the large
lot he wanted; but happening to notice that the
young man behind him was waiting for him to pay
for and take his watch he stopped his tobacco in
spection, and said to one of the clerks hurriedly,
"oh Mr.. -, just fill me out check on the --
Bank for $l75.f The check was politely filed out
Mr.. Henderson signed it with the name OF Hunting
ton & Co., per pro-, etc., handed it to the young
man, received the watch, and returned to his to-
bacco sampling whilst the young man sped back
to his store Chartres street, doubtless thinking
Mr.. Henderson a very splendid fellow and good
business man. The worhessness of the check at the
bank resulted in a call upon Huntington Co., and
the discovery Of the above beautiful swindle. We
did not hear how Henderson finished things at the
tobacco store.
Mr.. Meeks FIRST Fisa.-Elisha NJ. Meeks, of
Caldwell Parish, La, arrived in New Orleans yes
terday on the steamer MeRae for the first time in
his iife He had draft oa Fellowes & Co., for $780,
which he got cashed; then he went around to see
the sights of Orleans town. He wore country
clothes. As he was lounging along, looking at the
houses and people and other sights, another coun-
tryman came running up to him, and said Hello,
stranger, you look like countryman, and I'm one,
and conntrymen ought to know one another in a
town like this. You'll excuse me, but you must
know something about horses, and I've got a hoss
at stable out here, a real valuable animal, and
he's sick I'd take it great favor if you'd come
and look at him, and see what you can do for
f him. Mr.. Meeks was flattered; he allowed he
knew good deal about horses and he went.
On the road, the owner of the sick horse proved
very taikatiye and agreeable man, and com.
pletey won the heart of the unsophisticated Mr..
Meeks. 1t was about midday; the sun was warm
and the walk long; they got tired and thirsty sew
eral times and the Of the sick horse treated
in the most gentlemanly manner, at the several
coffeehouses. At last the man of the sick horse
complained OF being excessively tired. He pro-
posed TO Mr.. Meeks that they should sit down and
rest on an inviting doorstep which offered itself.
They sat and rested. As they did so, he OF the
sick horse pulled from his pocket bunch of loose
twine, with which, to pass the time, he proceeded
to execute divers and sundry string puzzles with
the fingers Of his two hands.
q Whilst he was explaining one of the simplest Of
a the puzzles to Mr.. Meeks as the chef d'auure Of
h the string science, starehy looking gentleman
i came round the corner, recognized the man o
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