New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-23
VOLUME XIV.

have to do is to get a lot of card boards and an
omnibus cut, and go into the manufacture of |
tickets. What the railroad company will do is
matter of no little interest. s .s......
COMMITTED FOR TRrAL.--Hippolyte and Iturbide
Fortier committed for trial before the First
District Court by Recorder Gastinel, on Saturday, |
upon the accusation Of having assaulted and beaten
Mr. Theodule Camus. This case is said to be one |
Of those which deserves the closest attention on the
part OF the Court, as the assault is alleged to have
been both savage and unproyoked, upon man
whose age should have protected him.
ATTEMPTED MURDER. Officer Lafayette came
near losing his life on the leyee, Friday night,
while attempting to arrest man for some offence.
While he was attempting to hold his prisoner, who
offered violent resistance, another man came up
behind and stabbed him on the head, inficting an
ugly and painful wound. Before he could recover
from his astonshment at this assault both escaped
and have not since been arrested.
ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER. Yesterday after.
| noon, about 6 O'Clock, George Blakesley we'll
known carrage-maker OF Rampant street, while
laboring under the influence of liquor stabbed his
| wife in the right arm inside the elbow severing
| the arteries and inhcting very dangerous wound.
Mrs. BlakesIey says that her husband came home
|
was abusive and brutal in bis behavior towards
her. Seeing him in this condition, and fearing
| violence at his hands, she attempted to leave the
room; but he ordered her to stay, threatening to
kill her If she disobeyed. Growing more and more
| frightened, she attempted to escape by flight
| while he was standing near the door, and as she
| passed drew knife and cut at her. She threw
up her arms instinctively, and received the knife
| oh Dr bal,
sent for, and, on his arrival, began dressing the
wound Blakesley objected tohim, and but for the
timely arrival of officer Busby would have attacked
him also. The officer arrested Blakesley and locked
him up in the First District station. Mrs. BIS
wound has bsen dressed. and she is doing as well
as could be expected. Blakesley had knife con-
cealed in his sleeve when he was arrested. 1t was
the same knife he had used upon his wife.
| ASoTHEa PIGEON PLGCKED.--A man named John
| Gleason entered low den on Perdido street
yesterday, and was robbed by the inmates of $23,
| all the money he had about him. He made com
plant to the First District police, who arrested
Mag. Elliott, Mary Gail and Ellen Thompson, who
are suspected by Gleason Of having stolen his
money.
FIRST DISTRICT CouRT.-The following business
was transacted in this Court on Saturday:
L. X. Cutler, W. G. Cutler and J. H. Scott,
previously lound guilty of assault received the
following sentence r. K. Cutler, fined $40; W. G..
| Cutler, $50; and j. H. Scott, $25.
James Burns, convicted of larceny, was sent 70
the Parish Prison for one week.
Fanny smith, who was arraigned on charge OF
larceny, plead guilty, and sent to the Parish
Prison for one year.
Josephine and Joseph Rosado, Bridget McGrath
and Joseph Garcia all arraigned on the charge
of having robbed a man in brothel on Rampant
street. They plead not guilty, and were released
on bail.
James Burns was sent to the Parish Prison for
| one week
I. j. Welsh, convicted of assault and battery
was sent to the Parish Prison for ten days and
quired to furnish bonds in $500 to keep the peace
| tor one year.
! - John Frenzel, convicted of larceny, was sen
; fenced to the Parish Prison for one year.
, John Godfrey, for manslaughter, was sentenced
t to the Penitentiary for four years I
-.~-zas-+.
. Il THE TELEGRAPH.-Eyery one was expecting Il
hear further news last night from the vicinity o
E Drainesville, but were doomed to disappointment
, The telegraph, ,lfrom some at present unaccount
able cause entirely silent. Possibly, the labor
| necessary to forward such an immense amount o
| trash we have recently been afflicted with, ha:
been too great for the physique of the operators
compelling them to desst and recuperate. grea
, institution is this telegraph Chained lightning
and bottled thunder! Little truth and heaps o
bunder!
= TIE VOLUNTEERS FRiEND-The third number o
this spirited little publication and the last ont
D that will be issued, has been printed and vii
, be ready for general circulation tomorrow. We
: are glad to hear that the other issues havt
y met with ready sale, and we have no doub
the present large edition of six thousand will be
easily disposed of. The young ladies of the Fourtl
e District High School have achieved grand sue
cess in publishing this paper. Let everybody bu,
copy and send it to some friend in the army
5 that ne may see how he is remembered and earet
l. for by the schoolgirls, as well as everybody else
| LIGHT DAwSNG.-The Chicago Tribune of tn
:, llth inst, says the Memphis Appeal of the goth
= has the following paragraph
The budget of news from the South, we are ab
| to present this morning, will be found unusuhl,
$ full and interesting and from all the princpa
points of Secessia. Such news should be read, tt
give an adequate idea of the great rebellion; tina
- in these months past, while this war has been il
. progress, the South has been developing new re
o | sources and muscuarzing its powers of selt-sup
n port and resistance. 1t is stronger to-day than
n was six months ago. The Government and thu
. | people of the loyal States must understand thi
d" thing as it is, and learn that il we have any hope
of crushing out the rebellion and restoring the
q tonal boundaries, it must be by the of tn
"a means God has given US, and the rules of war a
D low, and we are fast getting over squeamishnes
u on the point.
e The confession of the South's growing strengt
'f is certainly no strange thing. 1t has been force
Il from the Tribune by the indomitable logic
e events, and betrays the corresponding growth {
g despair in the Northern mind regarding the sue
III cessful termination of this war. New lights ar
v dawning every day, aud new confessions bein
'e elected, which give absolute assurances that a
y idea OF subduing the rebellion have been abar
III doned by intelligent statesmen and Journalist
10 throughout the North. They now continue th
~ fight only in spirit of revengetul desperation.
I'd ToTAI. INDEPENpENCE.-As an instance evlden
ing the determination throughout the South to
as completely emaneipated from the Northern COZ
troll we give the following item from the Peter
ay burg (Va.) Express, of the 18th. Though the PR
en- scribed in this case was q Delaware man, and "
yet have some hopes of Delaware, we welcom
& the event as indicating healthy tone of feeling
IL The large force Of workmen at the Petersbul
" car and locomotive foundry, on Old street,, wei
TO- on strike for about two hours yesterday NOR
ss ing, because of the appointment OF James Nyer
~, a native OF Delaware as foreman OF the toundr
es 1t was the opinion of the hands, that as the Sou
s,,, Erl.s. -. fIn NTNf