New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-26
NeD Orleans Gaaay Crestent,
# FRIDAY MORNING, JULY '2G, 1861.
&otaI SldeIItQelue.

CROWDED OI:r.-We have various local items Of
interest, which we cannot publish under the pre-
ent pressure Of war news upon our columns.
SALE OF A PI!yzE.-T wentv-one ont of the thirty
two shares in the priyateer's prize Sarah Z. Petit
grew, Che other eleven shares belonging S0utlj
were yesterday sold to Mr.. Thomas Mcclellan tor
FI3 200 The price was good one. the times con-
sdercd.
Az OpD CAsE.-A friend Of ours, few days
ago. accidentally tore il two, in equal parts, 8
five dollar bill the Canal Bank, and then had
the further misfortune to lose OF the pieces.
Yesterday being short of cLaIge. he took the re-
naming piece 10 the ban 10 see if it would be re-
| deemed. After some hesitation, the officer gave
| him two dollars and half. This is the FIRST III
| stance within our knowledge of piece of note
being redeemed according 10 its size Our friend,
holding that there was no danger Of any one ever
offering the other piece of the note for redemption,
considered this rather tinding-a decided shave.
BouSD TO EE DnowEED.-A sailor named Wm.
| Hughes, belonging to the Confederate States re-
ceiviDE SHY St. Phip, fell of on one Of the ferry
/ boats on Monday last, and would have drdwneG bu!
/ fer the manly activity of those who Eshcd him out.
| h the evening ne was On board the st. Philip,
when an extra slip from the Delta, giving JEFF. Ia
viss dispatch from Manassas 10 his vie, was re-
/ ceyed board, and read to the man. Three lusty
cheers were given and then the order was gr en- to
all hands 70 fall in and "srlice the main brace;
Whilst the grog was being got in readiness, Hughes
asked the Officer who had read the extra to let II N
4 have it, as be wished to read it over for himself.
He was standing at the heud of the gangr-ay. and
just as he began reading the slip he lost his bal
ance, and fell backward tie gangwsy into the
river. Instantaneous aud all possible efforts we're
made to rescue him. but in vain: he was seen 10
more In token Of feeling for his sudden death the
men On board put of splicing the man-brace till
next day. The body has not yet turnedun.
RECORDER ENErsoE': CouRT-l.rs. Cary and
JeyEy Sullivan, for assauting Mrs. Margaret Y ard
a: No. l3l Basin street, and Arthur Condor and
Pat Shrine for being dangerous and suspicious,
and for threatening the life Of 0Icer hcGregor.
were required to furnish peace bonds. Tie fol-
! loving cases were fixed:
Martin Fitzmorris charged by Felix Piquary with
being thief ana VaGralt Sent to prison in de
fault Of bail.
John E. Fiorance, police officer charged with
violently beating T'hos. Dolan with loaded cane,
near the corner Of Rampant and Julia streets on
Monday last. Bail given After giving bail OF
this charge, FIorance net Dolan and gave ho
another yio!"nt heating for making the fiiavit.
The Mayor, hearing Of this at once dismissed him
from the police and directed Dolan % make another
| affidavit against him.
Margaret McGinn, Nelly Gray and Mary Ann
Martin, charged with robbiag Charles Coucli,
whilst asleep on not very virtqous couch in tAeiI
crib On DYyadcs street, on Wednesday morning oi
s. in cash and his watch, worth :=j. All sent to
4 | prison in default of bail.
: Charles Hines charged with harhor;ug and con
ceatng the slaves Alfred and Charles. belonging
to VIM. Crane. Bail given.
John COueet, charged with obstructIte ,T0hi
Dolac's butcher-atal in St. Mary's market and in
!? peding his business Bail given.
Mary Brown. charged with grossly insulting AMI
{ abUsng Margaret Langhln, on Nelord street, nea!
I Magazine. Bail given.
1 RECORDER GAsTINEL'5 CoEnr. - Mrs. Widow
Queant charged with setting fire to the house slt
occupied No. l2l Exchange Alley, on the night o
the 10th inst: and Richard Auguste f. III. c..
: charged with setting fire to aulin Durel's house
i No. l97 Rampant street. on the l4th of April last
y were yesterday examined, and both discharged
the evidence in neither case substantating tht
charge. The hardest efforts OF justice are thost
which seek to convict for the crime Of arson.
John Se!iies, who on Wednesday was acquitted
I for want Of evidence, Of the charge Of breach
q | trust preferred against him by his employer
, Claude Pouly. ice dealer, No. 10 Ursines street
| was now art4lgned on another affidavit by Pouiy
| charging him with larceny ard embezZleGent
: PGuly declared that he had watched him and de
tected him in the act Of stealing money from tbs
! till and embezZing moneys paid to him by Gus
, toners: that he had kept up this stealing somt
three or four months, and also failed to account fo
moneys collected whilst driving an iCe-caIt aboc
town. Sellies furnished bail for his appealan e.
VIM. Kaiser. charged BY his landlord, lacoi
NtWllDuSe, VIII LICS>Ss. IL breaking 0OWtl tlt
. fence between his and the adjoining tenement, a
/ the corner OF Orleans ard Johnson streets, ant
using and wasting the water from the cistern there
: to attached, all in violation Of Newhouses wishes
Gave bail to appear when notified.
Vim. Schmidt was sent before the First Distric
; Court for slappinE the face of Mary SHAW, o.
d IRENE street, between s.. ann and hIai2. B'!.
: was given.
Joseph Ruentz, charged with beating Jean La
sere, at the IRENE market, yesterday morning: anl
NJ. l.. Guilder, charged with assaulting Louis Craig
III. c.. with bTiCkb2t. Custom house street
between Claiborne and Derbignv. Gave bail t.
,s | appear.
It It REcoRDER LoSG's Corpr.-John roach was sen
before the FIRST District Court ior violent assaui
= and battery upon Henry Patterson, on the lGtl
r inst, on Elysian Fields near ictory
S, The following fresh offenders were complained
T. of and sent after:
Nineau, f. m. c., charged with assauItinr ant
| threatening Maria kinsmaH, wni1e woman. yes
} terday morning, on Union street, between Gleat
| men and Craps.
! Louis Tricou charged by his wife with threaten
- ing to make himself & wdower at the once happ,
dVnici on the pOntCLGrtlain RaiToad near tn
GENTLY Station.
John Faren, charged with giving Eoman Heck
rap across the legs with wliI.-handle, at the co,
:. ncr of Esplanade and Claiborne streets.
\ person or persons unknown Charged wit
breaking into the house No. 252 Elysian Field
street, and carrying Off e clock and other article
= and 81 so i'll cash, belonging to Mr.. l.ochi.
: Mrs, Haywood, charged with talking Mrs JUL
!, Wilkinson nearly to death, Love street, bt
j. tween Vaudeville and Margny streets,
RECORDER ADAMS CotRT.-John Williams an
John Mcdonald await examination. being charge
by !. Fisher, who arrested them, with stealing h
SOW and six pigs, valued at $50; the pNrkers Len
at found in d furniture cart in Jefferson City.
Stephen \. Marshall, for utteung language shop
" ing him to be an Abolitionist was sent to tt
Workhouse for six months.
:, DARING FEAT OF LoUIsIANlASs.-TAe petershur
Express of the 22d inst. recounts the subjoine
f. heroic adventure of party Of Louisiana boys WI
We're determined to revenge the death Of the Il
: mented Dreux
g. We have heard from a source entitled to Il
=, fullest confidence that Of the most daring ea
- of the age was Consummated near Newport New
o. on Friday last by Confederate soldiers. Ever snt
the killing of the much lamented Lieut. Col Cha
/, DreuN, four of his men have resolved to avenge
taking OF. With this view, they obtained perni
sion to leave their camp, and providing theTllselv
with several days rations, proceeded stealth
through forests until almost within sight Of IL
camp at Newport News.