New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-27

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gives every promise of future usefulness. 1t is ex-
peeted that she will be ready for her armament in
two Or three weeks, and as soon as these arei
mounted she will go Immediately into commission
and give some of those piratcal craft Of the Hes
slams in the Sound a little work. The only regret
we haveis, that there is not dozen more like her
On the stocks in the Bayou, for they would all find
work enough to do in opening our trade with No
bile and the Mississippi coast.
ARR1vAL OF TRooPs.-The steamer Era No. 4,
Capt. Kountz, arrived last eveniAA bringing down
Capt. stanly's company, the Shelby Guards, who
form portion of the Texas battalion attached to
the regiment of Planters Life Guard. We take
pleasure in noticing the arrival of such fine body
Of men, and we predict that the reputation of /
Texas will lose nothing in their hands, The regi,
ment is indebted to Col. Marshall J. Smith, of the
Crescent Regiment and Capt. Tarleton, Of the
Twiggs Guard, Of the same regiment, for the use
of their armory for quarters until proper provision
could be made. 4
: We understand they will remain until the arrival
of the Roebuck now hourly expected, with the
remainder of the battalion, when they will at
proceed to Memphis for active service. This regi-
ment under command of Col. Hy. de Veuve, is
under marching orders Of Gen. A. Sydney John
ston Tor Bowling Green, Ky. "F@
The WOODEN SWORD PREsESTATIoN.-Th danger
in practical jokes is the subject of more than one
proverh but, somehow or other, the human fam
lily seem to be particularly prone to them. We
have known them to be the cause of many se-
rious quarrel among friends-of bloodshed-and
death. The practical joke which was played off
upon Lieut.. Marshall last Monday night, in which
he was presented after great deal of speeehifying
and ceremony, with a sword made of wood, came
very near terminating seriously. Though fond
enough of joke, Mr.. Marshall could not appreciate
this one as good natured-for he had been ridculed
in the presence Of crowd of entire strangers, and
considering it also an imputaton upon his honor as
soldier, he demanded satisfaction from the origi-
nators of the affair, Messrs Michael Hahn and J.
W. Black. These gentlemen were both surprised
and panied at the unfortunate turn affairs had
taken, and were willing to make every proper re,
paration, and forwarded to him a letter disclaim-
ing any intention of wroDgng or insulting him or
his company in practcing their joke. A copy of
this letter will be found in another column, and we
trust that its publication will smother the least
spark of llfeeling engendered by the disagreeable
affair.
FIREs.-About o'clock on Saturday morning
the rear Of Mr.. a. H. Hansells saddlery store No.
"a Magazine street. caught fire, and before the
flames could be e1tinguished they commune ated
with the trunk mandatory of Mr. F. Baur, next
door below, and with the hardware store of Messrs.
&C. Gaines a. Co., next door above The store
and stock of Mr.. Hanse was almost entirely de-
stroyed. The third and fourth stories of Mr. Baur, 4
with their contents, also shared the same fate
and the upper part of Messrs. Gaines g. Co.'s store
was burned and their whole stock badly damaged
by water. The loss by this fire must exceed o.
hundred thousand dollars, most of which is cover
ed by insurance in the city Offices We noticed
during the fire large number Of bystanders look
ing on idly while the firemen were toing at their
engines with short force, and it struck US that if
all the able bodied men who were lettering about
this fire had taken hold of the breaks, the loss
might have been decreased very materially. It is
a well-known fact that the majority of our fire
companies have been much crippled by their men,
bers going off to the war, and that at this time
every citizen should make it duty to assist all in
his power at every fire. We hope that our people
will take this view of the case, and that hereafter
there will be no more idle men standing about
fires.
There was another fire about o o'clock yesterday
morning in an old pork warehouse on Commerce
street, between Girod and Julia The building
was destroyed, but as it was empty and much
dilapidated, the loss was small. There were two
other alarms of fire during the morning, but as the
bells only rang a few minutes, we presume they
were false alarms.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT ON THE Cry RAILRoAD.-As
youth of l6 years of age, named Allen Hill, whose
parents reside at the corner of Nayades' and
Seventh streets, was run over by one of the city
cars on Saturday afternoon near Calliope street,
and had one of his ankles badly crushed. He was
taken home. We understand that it was altogether
an accident. -.r o
OLEAGINoUs RoGuE.-Sam, a negro man belong
ing to Mrs. Hickman, was arrested on Saturday by
special officer Miller, for stealing cotton seed oil
from his employer, Mr.. F. NJ Fisk, the proprietor
of the cotton seed oil mandatory on New Levee
street. Sam has for some time past been in the
habit of piIfering oil from the mandatory by fill
ing his dinner bucket during the day, and at night
taking it home or disposing of it to small grocers.
| His principal customer for stolen oil was a grocer
| named Patrick Cannon, who keeps on the corner
| of Franklin and Lafayette streets, and as Sam
owned up after being arrested, and blowed on
Cannon, he was arrested also, and upon search.
ing his store, quite quantity of oil was dis
covered and identified by Mr.. Fisk. Both were
locked up for examination.
BABY Found DEAD-A dead infant was found
under the wharf opposite Clouet street, Third Dis
trict on Saturday afternoon. How it got there is
a amystery which has not yet been explained.
FIRST DISTRICT CoURr-The following business
| was done in this court on Saturday:
\ Jack, a slave of Mr.. Armstrong, was tried for
assaulting white person and drawing blood. AS
there was only one witness against the negro, and
as the evidence of that witness was not corrobo-
rated by any circumstance, he was acquitted.
| Judge Collens delivered the following sentences:
John Schnaffer, convicted of being a dangerous
and suspicious character - three months in the
| Work-hOuse.
s. Ayles, convicted of stealing $3.50 worth of
jewelry from the house of DR.. D. D'Aquin-two years
in the Penitentiary and an additional year If he
does not pay fine of $1,000.
F. Carreau, for larceny-one year in the Peni-
tentiary. ar
Mrs. Ferdinand, assault and battery-s25 fine or
Parish Prison one week.
VIM. McElvoy and his negro son and daughter
for keeping dlsorderly house-three days in the
Parish Prison, provided they afterwards remove to
q fitting locality.
i In the case Of F. Steele, new trialwas refused