New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-26
COURTS.

chester, England aged II years.
THE COURTS.
FIRsSF DsTRrcT 8ouRT - JEstsge Hunt. FizS!!s1
Sary charged with the crime of murder, was arr
ragneG! On motoa of his counsel, the case 5ie5
continuSl and the accused rsT.sanded to prison.
In the~case of Edward Israel charged with mar
der the prisoner was brought TO. the bar On Bsse
ton OF tie Attorney General ii was ordered thst
the De continued, and, on motion of counsel
for defeEdant, the Attorney General consentins5g
the prisoner was adnittsdto balm the sum Of fiy
thousand dollars. .s5tt.s
John Scott was tried upon the charge Of larceny
The jury returned verdict of sssaty, but espe-
cially recommended to mercy. 80
In the cases of Frank B5by, Theodore Davis and
Ann Gillen, charged with larceny, motion of 4
the District attorney, nolle proseGai was entered,
and the prisoners accordingly discharged.
Alfred Lowell, Henry Wilson, E.. B. Eastman
John Flago and Lester B. Woodruff, charged with 4
trespass, were arragned and, after due hearing,
discharged.
In the cases of Francois Lefeprs charged with
obtaining goods under false pretences; Geo. Al
len, charged with larceny; Daune Bartholemi,
charged with obtaining money under false pre-;
tences; the charges were severaily dismissed and
the prisoners discharged
RECORDER EMgRsoN's CouRF- A ssissst,at Recorder
Bake,reH IfesiG5sige ge--Owng to that most sad and
severe OF all domestic atfictions-tlse death Of a
wife--Recorder Emerson did not preside yester-
day, and Assistant Recorder BakeWeA acted in his
stead.
The following parties were required to pay the
sums named or spend proportionate periods in
prison:
VIM. Sharkey, fer using obscene language in the
presence of ladies on Market stteet,, on Sunday
night, $25 or thirty days.
Henry Miller, for taking on board tso much Gin
einnat whisky, in view of the approaching tariff
on that article, and spelling for a fight on Perddo
street, SIS or thirty days.
Thomas Garrison, for druaken fsncy that he
was warrior enough to garrison all Dryades street,
$25 or thirty days.
| B. Glenan for 1ambasting and threatening to
kill the lady for whom he almost died of love,
at the now uncelestial domcii on Celeste street,
$25 or sixty days.
]. D. Freitas, charged by w. West with being d
little too fast in the race of life for the peace and
comfort of Race street, SO or 80 days; Mrs.
Fretas, though arrested for backing her hubby,
but discharged.
James Collins for considering himself the best
man on board the steamer T.. L. Mefsill, particu-
lary in the combatiRe sense, SO or 10 days; his
friend. NJ. Hines, arrested with him. was dis
| charged.
George Arneta for finding that wide street,
| Rampant, two narrow for the proper development
of his lingua and fistic prowess, SIS or 80 days.
His friend Jopanni Wittetish (who is cross be-
| tween an Italian and an Indian( was fined only
| S.; ; lucky Wittetishs i5
| Fred Slodeneldt, for considering himself better
| Dutchman than Peter Seibert and better Ameri
can than Officer G. Washington Hardin, (indulging
in the liberty of this fancy Liberty street) so
| or 20 days.
i Mike Falvey, for rnaung Ellen Mack and pro-
Plantagenet McGregor, ali on Tehoppitoulas street,
$40 or thirty days.
Dave, slave Of Barrett, for being out without a
pass aud stealing like black sarpint' into the
premises of Mrs. Sweet on Gasquet street, $40 or
twenty-five draohus of hickory oil.
[Mem.--Dr. Cartwright says the nigger is natu.
rally under the influence or magnetic spell of the
snake; Lawyer NAPLES saysits no sneh thing; and
we hear that both gentlemen intend to continue the
snake e.and-nigger controversy before the Academy
of Sciences. We hope one the other of these
gentlemen will enlighten us upon one point which
neither of them has yet touched; and that is why
| nigger in the dark steals about so much like q
snake, when there are no actual snakes about, and
| nobody knows that the niger ever saw arg snake
or a,y snake the niger. In this singular trait of
| the nigger, W thing there is something challenging
| the profoundest Investigation of either the phfos.
| opher or the lawyer, or perhaps both.
j. Callahan and John O'Conner, tor atfrouting the
majesty of the law by trying to eat each other on
| Front street, $40 each or thirty days.
| Henry Freder and Gustave Salkerhaus, for mis-
| taking the green grass of Lafayette Square for o
| sweat-cloth and gaming thereon. with very
greasy deck of cards, jai-tees to scrub out the
| lookup.
Mike MCGOWAN (poor shivery deviD for stealing
wood on Julia street, one month in the Workhouse.
| The lucky ones were Jacob Redman, charged
| with knocking down some white man on Gravier
| street Thomas Murray, charged with furnishing
| Ann Mullen, of Deiord street, as if he were a
schoolboy singing: We marched upon the hill
| side, We charged the bayonet; And woe unto the
Mullen stalk, That in our course we met" and r.
Gayer, charged with stabbng his wife in the breast,
on st. Thomas street, a place where fighting and
murder are gay, but Wite-training gayer. They
were lucky, because they had the good luck to be
| discharged. s=-s=-r-=z.
i The one solitary candidate for admission into the
| peace society Dan Morse, who got rampant on
Rampant street, and remorselessly laeerated the
tender sensibties of his onceloved Mrs. Morse.
RECORDER BLAcHE's CouRT. Gelpit was
charged by affidavit of Sergeant V. Leclere, with
stabbing with intent to kill, the act being perpe-
trated by the accused upon the person of Juan
Ferrell at about l0a O'Clock P. NJ 24th inst at the
corner of CharreS and st. Ann streets. Mr.. Gel
pit was arrested and duly committed TO the Parish
Prison to await his arraignment.
Mary Damn, charged with larceny; Chas Adams,
charged with enteringa house in the night time
with intent to commit felony Geo. Williams
Geo. O'Ee fhos Ring and Kate Baker, charged
with assault and battery, were accommodated with
lodgings in the Parish Prison until their several
cases could be inquired into
RECORDER LoNG's CoulT-Recorder adams act
ing-Catherine Buckley filed an affidavit charging
Wm. Backley with assault and battery, by striking
her several times with his hands, on the evening Of
| the 2Sth inst.
VIM Kennedy was charged by affidavit of Michae
} Joyce with assault and battery, in striking him
several times with his fist on the head and body
and with threatening to take his life with an axe
Arrest and due proceedings were prayed for.
Julia Voisn made an affidavit charging Mr.. and
i Mrs. Williams with insulting, abusing and threaten
B ing her. .7.u.
, Louis Vatter, by affidavit, charged lhos Glars
Il with breach of the peace in outrageousy insult
; ing and abusing him. Proper proceedings were
t prayed for
Patrick Knne made affidavit, charging James
Quinn and Michael Flanagan with breach of thu
1 peace by disturbing the peace and quiet of hi
g house on Marigny street, Arrest and due proceed
ings were asked for.
l. RECORDER ADAMS COURT T. Hatch, charge
# by Mrs. Regan with stealing silver watch and gol
chain from her, was yesterday examined and sen
before the First District Court, under bonds in tn
sum of $500.
James Doran has charged Ernest Saubershwart
with assault and stabbing with intent to murder
5 The accused was examined and sent before tn
3 First District Court. Bail, $500.
I'll Gustave Won Hope was arrested on Friday night
by Lieut Costley, on Richard, between Constanc
and Magazine streets, on the charge received trgL
information, OF setting fire to the variety store, o.
c Magazine street, between Felicity Road and ST
Mary street.. Heswas femanded to prison To lwa
examination
Ii William Woods was charged by Christian Kerga
4. with stealing 4 pilot cloth jacket and . pair
s boots valued at about IS. Case liked ksr the 2St
q inst. Ball TO apnehr, 500.
= Cornelius o. panneiiWlls arrested tAst Sunday
- the corner Of Jackson and R0uss&;sa streets, /.
y being drunk and dlstlghing the peaea sastd asas
I, ng u dirk knife. The Recorder sined Ainl 81 lp
2 fifteen days IN the eatisll RElaph.
y Give the devil his ne - his mag answer
II an apotheghn, hut eraetieally, it would carry