New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-05-28

selves comfortable and merry at the Hopkins
plantations, where the dancing, beerdrinking, and
other exhiarations of the 4Volksfest' of the prev
| GUS week, were revived in full force. Not only
| the German population, but the American, was
| largely represented, and all would have gone OFF
| happily, but for the presence of two or three
drunken and bloodthirsty rowdies, who succeeded
| in shedding some blood, and committing murder
as night fell. We give the particulars under an
other heading. None Of the Germans on the
ground, or any Of the parties connected with the
entertainment had anything to do with any of the
| difficulties.
| FouND DRowSED.-Tle Coroner held an inquest
on Saturday evening, the body of German,
about 30 years of age, found in the river opposite
Girod street. At about o'clock on Saturday
morning, man, speaking in German to himself,
and gesticulating emphatically, if abstracted
insane, was seen to walk ont the wharf and
jump into the river at the place named. The body
recovered was supposed to be that Of the man thus
seen, and from papers found in the pockets, the
name of the deceased was believed to be Theodore
Mueller. He had red hair and long red goatee (;
and was clad in black coat, cottonade pants,
black velvet vest with blue figures, black cravat.
white linen shirt, white flannel undershirt, and
brogans. The body was accidentally caught by
two fishermen with their hooks, and drawn in, they
| supposing at the moment that they had hooked a
| gigantic catfish.
4 An inquest was held on the body Of Caleb Was
SER a German, ~ years of age, found in the river
| opposite Poland street, Third District. Verdict
accidentally drowned
| Rows AT THE PFISGsrFEsT.-Th were several
breezes among drunken men at the Pfngstfest,
4 each creating prodgious excitement amongst
4 the multitudes on the ground. The most serious
| disturbance was created by drunken young man
named Oscar Blasco, who, after insulting numer-
Gus persons who forgave him because they saw he
4 was drunk, met man who resented his drunken
insults. Blasco drew his dagger; the other man
| drew his cane sword ; after some passes, Blasco
4 got stuck in the arm, and valiant peace-maker
4 who could have cracked the heads of the beige-
rents together, had he felt like it, rushed in, de-
prved Blasco Of his dagger, and put an end to the
difficulty. G--~-~.--
MURDER AT THE "PFINGsTFEsr.''-La evening,
at about dark, at the German festival at the Hop.
kins plantation, lot Of cab and carriage drivers
were amusing themselves by riding around the
outer part Of the green, in carriage No. Z, from
Wilbur & Arnot's stables on st. Louis street. The
driver was William Gill, better known as Bill Gill
a Wei DGHAVcu anu HlOSb cACGneuG WHO Has
within the last four or five years been well known
as driver of the hotel carriages for the St. Charles
and City Hotels. AS we have said, the carriage
was driving around on the green.
y John Henry, the young cab-driver who killed
Bob Forbes, was one of those in the carriage. Al
the carriage was passing along, ESQ we have it from
one of the men who was sitting with Henry in thu
carriage at the tme) man who was on the green
l.I4
get out Of that carriage!" Henry called to Gill
the driver 60 ahead; Gill turned the horses L
go in an opposite direction; as he did so, the MAJ
on the green fred with pistol twice Gill fel
from his seat; the horses went on; and one of TIN
men in the carriage, not knowing that Gill wa
shot and believing that he had fallen accidentally
rom his seat, got out mounted the seat, gathere
the reins and checked the horses. Going back Il
where Gill was lying, twas found that he was sho
through the head, and dead
His body was taken up and brought in to TIL
Third District Court lookup, where it was left
) subject to the Coroners orders. There was NJ
doubt that Gill was the innocent victim of bullets
aimed at John Henry. Henry at once came to tn
city, in the carriage in which he was shot at. N
one could tell, or even guess wis the man va
l that did the shooting. Though Gill was accident
aly kiileu tHe hilliS uhueE tHe circumstances We
p, murder; and we hope the murderer may be caugf
and made to swing.
MURDER ON A STEAMBoAT.-Goroner Beach yes
terday held an inquest on tha body Of Charles Nj
Hugh, an Irishman, 27 years Of age, found dead o
, board the steamboat Moro. He was dead of
CHASTITY chop in the skull, through which the brain
, had exuded. The testimony showed that th
wound was inflicted with hatchet by Den
O'Brien, at 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning, %
inst, whilst the boat was at Carolina Bluffs, Bo
! sier parish; McHugh dying three days afterwart
O'Brien who was on board some time after th
affair occurred, admitted having inflicted the fat
= wound. verdict was rendered in accordane
with the facts and charging Brien with the Grim
: of murder.
STABBEp.-0ficer McGregor reports that Hem
:. Stephens was stabbed in the left nipple by job
strick, on Saturday night, Adele street, Four
i District. The wound was not considered DANCE
t Gus.
y DIsoRpERLy HousEs.-Caroline Benito and Smit
Shriga. keepers of the houses Nos Sc and IS 5
. Philip street, between Royal and Bourbon, WEI
k before Recorder Benit, on Friday, with lot
y their nymphs, charged by all their respectful
! | neighbors with keeping disordery and obscene r
sorts of the worst imaginable character. All gay
K bail to appear for examination on the 29th.
y NEW BooKs.-We are indebted to Messrs. ].
!, Morgan g. Co. for the following publications:
!. Htppers' Series of School and Family Readers.
i Marcus Wilson, author of history Of the Unit
= States and several other histories, published
a Harpers Brothers, New York.
it This series commences with the primer, al
IS includes four Readers, progressing in Difficult
y from the first to the fourth. This seri
n strikes as being arranged on a very e
e cellent plan. Instead of being devoted to st
!; ries it affords an excellent course of instruct
y. upon an infinty of important subjects. Tho
(: embraced in the first and second Readers are t
to mention, but of just the sort to int
e est children, while the third and fourth voum
; contain zoology, physiology, ornithology, bota
1t and natural philosophy. These subjects are int
e mingled with others Of less scientific nature, a
~ the whole seem to be presented in the most
q tractive form. In word, we should presume t
" not only the children of family, but the paren
y too, in most cases, could read them with BIO
pleasure and profit.
"a El Freidis By the author of the g LamplighteT
~ etc. Ticknor & Co.: Boston.
y This is romance of the East Its location
III principally on Mount Lebanon and its charactf