New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-14
WEI SNEsDAY MORNING, MARCH H. 1sso-.5 ==7

District Court, by Recorder Monroe, for acting Ike
Delilah toward one Homer Alexander. on Mon
day night-easing him, not Of his hair, bus Of hi
hard.earned cash, amounting to ss5.
Two hawks and buzzard, named Ellen Cash
man, Mary Cazzo, and George Fraiey, were arrest
ed last evening, on Perdido street, charged witt
taking in the unsophisticated Mike Kelley, and re
leving him Of fifteen dollars and six bits.
THE SNATCH GAME. John OF Pat Waters.
| cab.driyer, got himself into trouble yesterday
He was arrested by the special police, on til.
charge of having attempted to snatch from thu
hand of Mr. =. II. Hudson, pnrser of the steamship
Arizona as he was passing along the street, bae
containing $500 in gold. Pat will probably FIND
to his sorrow that such attempts at extortion as
this will not pay.
The BLND MORO BoY ToM.--We are of opinion
that the blind negro boy Tom, the musical prodigy
now on exhibition at Spaldng & Rogers Meseum
is the most extraordinary African that ever turned
up in this country. Though Ms head ard face have
an idiotic look and though he issimpe-1ainded and
almost idiotic in general respects, his Dsain is a
perfect cabinet OF sweetest m.sic to which his
clear and faithful eaTs cater contfsuay and which,
and distinctness whish utterly baaies and dsmb-
Pounds all the previous ideas in regard to the
faculty Of memory which the auditors may hzye
entertained. The boy'a power in this respect
seems to be one Of those natural gifts sr proyiden-
tial compensatons whiclaa.one for Deficiencies in,
the other organisms, at tie same time that they
battle the closest researches of psychological science
for clear solution of the mystery
We have visited this boy several times, and have
seen him excite the greatest wonder and a4onish-
ment among crowds of ladies and gentlemen of
thorough musical culture, and accomplished IN the
difficult uses Of the piano; not only from the readi-
with which he furnishes, from his brain reper
toie any popular piece that may be called for, or
the remarkable correctness, vigor, and sweetness
with which he performs, but by his truly wonderful
faculty of hearing new piece of music only once,
and then playing himself as correctly as if he had
known it all his life. .
few nights since, we we're present when a
crowd Of musical ladies' and gentlemen were lux
uriating in the surprise and pleasure Of first visit
to Tom. The manager, or conductor of Toms con-
certs, requested that if there was any one present
who would sit down at the piano and play some
piece Of music which was not common or popular,
and not likely to be known to Tom, the boy would
listen to it. and afterward play it himself.
One lady present accepted the challenge. She
took the stool, and played Spanish piece of some
length and difficulty; one of those heavy chefs
d'oeuures in which sweet and delicate melody
rings its way through hurricane of heavy accom-
panments and variations. A severer test could
not possibly have been offered to the boy. Az
he listened, he leaned his elbows on the end OF
In
over his ears, his sightless eyes rolling upward,
and his whole body writhing and twisting as if in
pain When the lady finished, be took the stool
and repeated the piece in manner which aston
ished everybody. But the lady detected o few
faults, and mentioned the same. The manager
politely asked her to play the piece again. As she
eatedherself he said to the boy, Now, Tom, listen
we'll" He listened with all his former intensity !;
and when the lady finished, he seated himself, and
this time played the piece perfectly, The lady
and he friends departed, perfectly satisfied and
thoroughly astonished.
Yesterday we went to see Tom again. He was
delighting and astonishing another fashionable and
critical crowd Of ladies and gentlemen. His per
formance of martial air, in which he initiated
the fife and drum of the g Anvil Chorus" with
the anvil accompaniment; of Yankee Doodle Y
with one hand and q Fishers Hornpipe y with the
other at the same time; and of numerous
popular pieces which combine laundering heavi
ness and lightning rapidity, were all astonishing
enough; but we were not satisfied. We asked the
manager for the piece which the Spanish lady
taught him on Sunday night. Tom was asked il
he remembered it, He rolled his eyes and scratched
his head awhile; then answering that he did re-
member it, he played the piece as foreibly and
beautifully as on Sunday night; the manager as
surfing US that he had not practised it, and had moi
been called upon to repeat it since. "a
TOMS brain is rs wonderful upon his tongue as
it is upon his ears and fingers. You may recte a
passage of Latin or French to him, and he will re-
peat it perfectly, following your emphasis and pro-
nunciation exactly; if there is any fault it was
yours in giving it, he knows nothing of the Ian
euages He sings "Gentle Annie u and other
songs with voice SO sweet and clear, and pro-
nunciation SO pure, that if you were to shut your
ewes you might fancy some white and cultivated
school girl was singing instead of little woolly
headed monkey of an Ethiopian.
This blind negro boy Tom, we assert, is won,
der of the first magnitude, and should be seen
and listened to by everybody in New Orleans.
UDD CASE.-a youHt5 iiidHt VIM Sos ilto tloupio
on Monday and was arrested, represented to the
police that he had neither money, home, nor means
of living. This constituting vagrancy he was held
as avagrant. Yesterday, before Recorder Monroe
it turned out that he was anything but yagrant
and he was fined S. for making himself falsely ap
pear to be such person.
LARcEN1Es. Renan was arrested on Poy
dras street yesterday, charged with stealing Q
watch and other valuables from Messrs. Hughes
Anderson. .,i5z==
Edward OMalley was arrested on the charge Q
stealing goods from the cargo Of the steamer Err
No. 8.
FIRsr DISTRICT CouRr.-Nothing is going on in
this court just now, Judge Hunt being absent from
the city. Qs5 #l" =zz7l., @=se.
| SIXTH DISTRICT CouRT. Judge HoareH. Th
suit of P. Remendo against the city, for reparato
! of damage done to his cofeehouse, corner Of Dry
AIDES and Perddo streets, by a mob. on the nigh
of the oath October last, has been tried and de
cided in this Court Judgment for plaintiff in tn
sum of s2s5, with costs.
4 SINGULAR CAsUALTY.--A singular casualty oc
CURED at Elzabethport, N. J., on the Sd inst, i
consequence of which Mr.. VIM. Allen lost his life
and Mr.. Geo. Gee was seriously injured. There
at Elizabethport an establishment for the mani
facture of paper from fibrous roots The wood