New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-15
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| III sedfch OF the faults OF the metropolis 0i tne
South but actually shedding and bringing out
beauty everywhere, and enabling all living things
to rejoice.
prEL ITEMS. The young gentlemen who re-
| Gently had the pstoloric rencoutcr at the corner
of Chartres and CustomhoUse streets, (Messrs.
| Clark and irwin) have had a formal settlement at
Pascagoula. Weapons, navy revolvcrs; distance,
twenty-five PAGES conditions, to stand back to
back, wheel at the word, and advance and fire 0d
| tttteoA. Irwins first shot took effect in Clark's
| hip, naicting painful but not fatal wound and
the fight was stopped. m-
There were rumors yesterday that cotton
| broker of Carondelet street and an Alabaniau
had it out with pistols near Carrollton, and that
the cotton man dangerously wounded. We
heard names, and did not hear anything to
satisfy us that the duel actually took place.
BELL AND EVERETT MEETING IN TIE Third Dis
| TRGCT.--A meeting of the patriotic Old ThIders
was held last evening at Valencias Third District
| Exchange, corner of Greutmen and Ely sian Fields
| streets. Mr.. G. W. Culbertson was called to the
| Chair, and Mr.. l.. Power called to act Secretary.
| The meeting showed itself to be enthusiastic for
the Union, for the Constitution, the laws and for
| Bell and Everett, and other wholesome things
| thereto appertaning. A committee was appointed
| to select and nominate officers for the club, and
| the meeting adjourned to meet to-right on Wash
ington Square in particular, and to meet at their
quarters in general, every Tuesday evening until
| the election.
| ESTHusIAsN-A crowd of enthusiasts passed
our Office last night, singing out, shouting, yelling
| screaming, shriekng, and fixing up and flzling
! down. and exploding generally, in vocal way,
for Breckenridge and Lane. They had no music
| no banners, no lights no "fier wurX.f They num-
bered thirty-nine and they Travelled and Travelled
merely ou the muscle of their wind-pipes, and dis
appeared with all their noise in the darkness, Just
as frogs do, 'ba-urp! ca-chug!" when they dis
cover the duek-hunters approaching. A Breckin-
ridge and Lane meeting is advertised to be at
| tempted tomorrow night. 1t is TO be hoped that
the frogs who croaked and plunged along last
night will be able to scare up crabs, shrimps and
sarfines enough to form respectable gathering
tomorrow night. His Satanic Majesty should have
one Of his imps with casthet present.
DEATH OF Mr.. DEssEIST.-0ur readers will re-.
member our statement about two weeks ago, that
Mfr. Francis Descent merchant Of this city, was
stabbed by some unknown man whom he struck
for insulting his wife, in front of their residence on
Royal street, between st. Peter and Toulouse
ner set about holding his inquest, and Dr.. Delery
i held the post-mortem examination. The wound
was on the left side, between some of the lower
ribs grazing the stomach, but not penetrating it.
The wound was not necessarily mortal, but il
caused tetanus and that was the cause of death.
The Coroner win proceed with his investigation
to-day. The unknown man who did the stabbine
has not been heard Of since.
DARING AND DETERMINED INGENDIsRIsN--Stofe;
and clearinghouse Destroyed, and a Hona,
Burnt TO Deddt.-The alarm of fire shortly aftel
midnight, night before last, was caused by fire ii
the stable s. B. Smith & Co.'s ice-house, VIII
runs through from New Leyee street to Commerce
Immediately in the rear of the row of five three
story brick buildings which fronts on Poydra.
, street, upper side, between the other streets
, | named
The stable of the ice house is at the rear end
, Commerce street. The walls of the building a
that end are old and cracked; the wood work in
side is old dry, and the two floors above broker
through in different places The fire was started
in lot of hay, with combustibie wood on every
. side and above it. II would be hard to find bet
ter spot for the operations of an incendiaTy. But
fortunately, the timely arrival of the fremeI
enabled them to quench the blaze before it haG
time to get through the broken floor above, OIL
more than seorch the DOORS 1t was a clear cast
r Of incendiarism.
At about 6 O'Clock yesterday morning, fir
f broke out beneath the lower stairway of the Ar
t cade clearinghouse, kept by Mrs. Wilson. Thi
4 boarding house occupied the second and thir
I stories of the row Poydras street, between Ney
q Levee and Commerce. from corner to corner, wit
a the exception of few rooms in the second stor
!, at the Commerce street corner. The basement q
d this row was occupied as follows: The Orienta
coffee. house, at the corner of New Levee; the ell
4 trance hall Of Mrs. Wilson's boarding house; til
r depot of the Mechanical Steam Bakery Georg
Ii Ie's shoe stores and Mr.. Braun's Bruins clotl
+. ing store.
Il The fire, from its starting point beneath til
!. lower stairway quickly ascended to the uppe
a stories and in short time the whole row was in
a blaze of roaring flame. The fremen on th
N spot in good time, but their best endeavors faiie
to save the upper stories occupied the boarding
a house. Not a thing was saved from the boarding
II house. The boarders lost everything except til
clothes they wore. Among these, we regret t
know, was our friend Mr.. James Risk, late Pres
dent of the Typographical Union and Foreman
the Courier printing office, who lost his entir
y wardrobe, papers, and everything except tt
j. clothes he had on.
le lut tuiu-Slui4 sletpelS Ilol siA v Glu5h
Is the morning most people are still asleep ju
H. had time to escape with their lives. Mrs. Wilso
Mt narrowly escaped with her life. servant W
'g man, with her baby, got out at third story wi
II dow, and descended to the second story gallery
" the risk of her neck, hut it was her only chant
II of escape. This woman, ior all she had a bal
ry to take care of, might have escaped easily and
R. good time but for her heroic endoavor to save Il
life of an old lady who slept in the third story
es seamstress in the employ of Mrs. Wilson.
lie When the fire was first discovered, this serya
re woman first secured her baby then ran and arous
ng the old lady. Thelatter being very sleepy, yawnc
la said there was fire. and returned to her slumb(
he The servant ran down stairs; finding the Il
he worse, she ran up again, and asked young man
nv hold her child whilst she went to arouse the c
lly lady again. She did so; but when she returnt
hit the stairs were ilffames and she had to esea
from the window, as above narrated
an Very soon after this, every other person havi
rs. escaped from the building, piercing screams VIC
,nt heard inside the building and then all was sile
ads save the roar of the fire and the noise of the fl
md men. When the fire was quenehed, at last, tht
in was found amid the rubbish, just inside the h