New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-08
Nsb 0rleans luily Greseeut.
THURsDAY MORNING, AUGUST s, lss1.
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THE FREE MARKET HoUsE.-It ia stated to us,
that whilst this establishment at the foot of Canal
street, is ready for the reception of such supplies
as are not perishable, it will not be opened to SOL
ders' families until Tuesday next
The market will be open on Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays; the alternate days being de-
voted to the reception and arrangement of the
supplies.
Every wife, mother, Or other relative, depend
e1t upon any soldier in the Confederate service,
will be furnished by the Volunteer Relief Com
mttue with card, stating the name, residence of
family, and the number in each family. Each
holder of such card will obtain from the commit
tee sum Of money proportioned to the size of the
family, and at the market quantity of provisions
and vegetables in similar proportion.
Blank books and rolls are being printed the
whole thing has been arranged 'on plan that will
handsomely relieve all those entitled to relief and
efectuay entrap all those who may endeavor to
g come the double" with their tickets, or draw
money or supplies without having their actual sup
ports in the Confederate service. The whole ar
rangement will be published in good time, before
the money is di5bursed or the provisions dis
tributed
From all we can hear, the Free Markethou
will be literally supplied by our generous city
| merchants and country planters Yesterday
| member OF the Relief Committee jokingly
asked, by merchant, if they wanted any whisky
at the Free Market. " Certainly was the answer
" how much will you send?' "Wcll, can send
half dozen barrels" "Good," said the commit
tee-man now, instead of sending the six barrels
Of whisky sell it for what it will fetch, invest the
money in rice, beans -four bacon, or anything Of
that kind, and send the stuff TO our Market After
rejecting moment, the merchant exclaimed
D-d if don't do it.''
The same committeeman met dealer in bag
ging and rope, who offered to send down certain
quantity Of his truck, if soldiers families could
make any of it. "S Sell it," said our FRIEND
:" buy provisions, and send 'em down" The bag
ging and rope man scratched his head little
while, and then said, &C. believe I'll do ~
The Free Market, gotten up it is, without
cent Of expense to be deducted from the contrbu-
tions sent, will not only greatly benefit the families
of our absent braves, but will add impershabe
honor to the State of Louisiana and the city OF New
Orleans
A REVEREND ABOIITToNIsT AND EDIToR A GUEST
OF THE CITY.-Testerday, three boarders of a
boarding house on Baronne street informed Mayor
Monroe that another boarder at the said house had
uttered reasonable language in their hearing
such as, that Lincoln had been elected by ma
jorty of the American people, and therefore ought
to rule the whole country, and other remarks be-
traying Enthusiastically his sympathy for Lincoln and
the vandalic hordes of the North.
The special police were sent after the gentle
| man, and in short time, confronted by his ac-
| cusers, he was arraigned before the Mayor. The
Mayor, being informed that the accused was min
lister and lately from Texas, pumped him in such
manner, and so ingenously, that he told his whole
story; which was, that he had been arraigned be-
fore the Vigilance Committee of certain town in
Texas and his neck saved only by the pleadngs
of d lawyer, who was a member of the committee
but who pleaded for his life because he (the law
yer) had been subscriber to the religious paper
which the prisoner had edited in st. Louis some
time before the war broke out, or there was any
prospect of war. The committee gave him leave
to depart, and he did depart.
The Mayor obtained these statements from him
by assuming that he was well posted about him:
that it was all the same to him what sort of an
swers he gave; but that, being minister Of the
gospel, he rather expected that truthful answers
would be given. So, believing that all WAS known
his reverence told an apparently truthful story
about lis arraignment before the Texan vigilance
committee, and how he was permitted to leave
Texas unhung, through the influence of the lawyer
who had been subscriber to the paper he pub
lished in St. Louis.
The Mayor ordered him to prison, and will decide
his case to-day. The prisoner gives his name as
S. A. Hodgeman. He is a tall and stout elderly
man, dressed in black; has thick and bristng or
bushy black hair and whiskers, partially turned to
gray; long face and big nose, and large
square, clitf-like forehead, overhapging a pair of
light and very wide-awake eyes. He much re-
sembles the pictures we have of Old John Brown
His general physiognomy is that of man of intel
lect and bulldog daring combined. His only
weakness, in the midst of his Southern enemies
to have consisted in his inability to keep his
tongue still.
LETTERS FROM NIEGINIA.--Letters to the follow
ing addresses can be had by the parties applying
in person, by written order, at this Office: Miss
Fanny Able, William Banks, A. B. Blanchet, Emile
Bourges, Jas c. Clark, Mrs. r. Collins, Miss NJ
Conklin, Mime Y. E. Diver, E. D6coux, H. De-
mouee, Mrs. Donely, W. Delany, R. Deany, H.W.
Entzminger, Miss Olivia J. Elliott Miss X. Flana-
gan, Lexington, Ky; NJ. Flicker, Edward Gardner,
J. H. Hille Mrs. NJ. A. Hitzelberger, Alfred Hen
ming, J. B. jacques, Washington jackson & Co.,
| E. Knnerdy, P Il. Laresche, J. Lemon, Mrs. Annie
Minvielle, f. Mener (2), Mrs. R. Martz, Mrs. NJ P.
Myers, Miss NJ. Massey, P. Munsen, Nine c. Mon
chon C. Nesbitt, H. Ort, N. Osborne, Jos. Peirce,
Miss N. Peters, G. s. Parker, Mrs. Sarah Quirk E.
S. Rapier (2), Geo Street, Thos Savage, Il. Slvey,
Mrs. Starke, I. s. Shannon, E. Sommers, j. ".
Spears, Heinrich Schmidt, Thos. Thorn, ST., Mrs.
j. A. Trott, Mrs, G, W. White, Mrs. NJ. Waugh, c.
F. Wagner R. G. Young.
RECORDER EMERsoN's COuRT.-Janles Williams,
charged with setting fire to Dan Kane's place. on
Basin street, was yesterday dismissed there being
no satisfactory evidence against him. Mary Ann
Fahey, suspected by Denis Mahcr of stealing his
bed clothes and other things Or rather concealing
said things after some one else had stolen them,
was put under bonds to be respectable and above
suspicion for the neXtthrce months. Mrs. Lawlcr
and Bridget Lynch charged with helping them
selves to 50 worth of c. NJ Foggs lumber, were
dismissed, upon their solemnly blessing themselves
that they would let Mr.. Fogg's lumber repose in
| peace hereafter. Tom Miles, f. NJ c., for rent
ing room to Mr.. Fredlanders slave girl Priscilla
at No. 257 Dryades street, was fined $50; and Miss
Priscilla herself was fined $40. James Wilson
was held for hearing on the charge OF en-
| rolling himself in the MCCcilaud Guards, and
then, after getting go worth of clothing, backing
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