New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-05
VOLUME XIV.
Noral yntelligente.

Josenh W. williams Justice of the Peace for
~, Word nar;sb of Madison. 4
Josenb Nolan, Justice of the Peace for 4th
Ward. parish of Madison.
G.. n. Moore, Notary Public for the parish of
Madison.
G. Provost, Assessor for parish of st. Martin
THOMAS Renefe, Constable for 9Th Judicial Dis
tr;ct narisb of Orleans right bank.
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| Capt Smith was thrown into the river and was
rescued but found to be dreadfully injured He
died very soon afterwards. The engineer, George
| Chayineay, was severely injured in the head. Mr..
Burke the bar-keeper of the steamer Cotile was
severely injured. Peter August, the steeraman,
| was killed. Christian Weling, fireman, is missing
and it is supposed he went down with the wreck.
John Lincock, the cook, colored man, was
slightly injured and taken to hospital. A colored
nan named Philip, who was the wharf, was
struck on the breast by piece of timber and in
! stantly killed. Louis Perrit cabin boy of the
| Lille Martin that was lying alongside the Cham
pion, was so alarmed by the explosion that he
Jumped to the lower deck and was somewhat Sc
verely injured. He was removed to the Charity
Hospital Others were slightly injured but we did
not learn their names.
A piece of timber was driven through the state
| room of the Cantain of the Cha,npion, the Cotile
received one of the steampipes of the Baltic
through her hurricane, and some slight evidences
of the explosion were to be seen on the boats
nearest the i-fated vessel
The bodies of Captain Smith and the colored
| man Philip, were viewed by the Coroner and jury
ofinquest, and regular investigation will be com
meaced this evening.
| Er,rn,, on Cor Fopro Tho ramains of tb q
1amon+ed and ,.llont Co, Harry Forno wore es.
corted to their last resting place in the Girod
street Cemeterv on Saturday evening. bv the
members of Mount Moriah Lodge F. and A. NJ. by
tba officers a,d man of the h-ave reoiinent which
ba commanded during the late(war bv the officers
and mo, who had ceryad in the army of Northern
Virginia with him, and by host of the friends the
,on bod ,no5e in Now orleans and of the ad.
mirers which the soldier. above fear, had obtained
5ntr tho ,oot favs9,orions vaare of bis life fo,
he had spent them in what he believed to be 9
cansa that none shou1d refuse to sustain And
the writer of this knows that Col Forno. wht
facad the hattie and the breeze like true souled
man accented the issues fairly, for he fought tn,
good fpbt nobly. and having lost it, had no ill-wi
loft. and had they but known his genial nature an(
his soIderly qualities we are sure his corpse woult
have been followed to the grave by many gallan
officer of the army of the United States now sta
toned in New Orleans
THE interment was conducted in accordance
with the imnressiye rights Of the Masonic fra
ternlty.
THIRD LECTURE OF THE READING Room COURSE
) We are requested to announce that the grand con
cert and Grafton given on Friday evening will bt
, repeated next Friday evening for the benefit o
the widow and daughter of Stonewall Jackson
The concert will be conducted by popular anna
teurs, who merit the applause they have receive,
on former occasions The orator of the evening
4 John W. Overall, ESQ.,, will portray the life an,
character of the immortal jackson, whose hero
deeds and Christian fortitude exacts the love AM
veneraton of all men possessing true and soldierl
qualities.
We learn from Mr.. Edwin Z. Overall, unde
whose auspices the Reading Room Lecture Cours
has been inaugurated that the concert and oratio
last Friday evening, very gratifying in results
1t is the intention of the proprietor of the Readn
, Rooms to extend the present lecture cours
y through the months of February and March, fo
charitable purposes. The regular Reading Roor
Course of Lectures will commence in April an
!, continue until the 1st of July. The Autumn lee
- lures will commence in September.
1t will be seen that the proprietor of the Readin
y Room is engaged in the laudable work of inaugu
- rating Spring and Autumn lectures in our city
which cannot fail to be an attractive place Of resol
. to the cultivated of both sexes.
n THE WORK PUSHING Os.-One of the most i'm
portart and useful of what we NAV call the Dte,
, nal improvements of New Orleans is what we ca
4 stvle the downtown levee CITY Railroad. The ol
n and staunch City Railroad Comrany who investe