New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-19
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1866.

and against absolute total loss" The ship was
wrecked off Key West, the deck blown up by
wreckers, who saved a portion of the cargo,
and Iibeled the property reserved for sal
wage. After paying salvage there wac sum
left TO be distributed among the under
writers or others interested, and defendant
receiving some two hundred dollars on account Of
plaintiffs shipment rendered the sum to plaintths,
refusing to pay insurance, on the ground that the
shipment was not an " absolute total loss"
There was no proof that any of the goods anipped
by plaintiffs were saved. The argument was
lengthy and abstruse on the question as to what
constituted an "absoute total loss" Nor was
the charge Of the judge less recondite in law.
Absolute annihilation of anything, he remarked,
was an impossibility; and, as we understood him,
that was in law, an absolute total loss, )" when
the articles insured were lost beyond recovery.
This, we believe, the gist of his instructions.
RECORDER AHERN's CouRT.-ThomasC CahflI, who
laid rreligious and alleged felonious hands lum
ber belonging to Messrs, Hassam & Pooley, at the
New Basin will have 10 expiate his presumed
wrong doing by thirty days sojourn in the work
| house.
| Joe Williams, a freedman, colored of courge, as
there are no white men " radically" freed yet in
thissecon Of country, accused of stealing watch,
will have to serve the city for the next three
1
John Russell, colored carrying out the irresist-
| able inclination of colored nature, STOLE as
/ charged, three chickens, and will have, IN conse-
| quense thereof to take three months incarcera-
ton in that useful institution, the city workhOusa
Jim Phillips, an alleged coloTed depredator, was
committed for trial to the criminal court on a
charge Of flarceny, preferred against him by Rich
ard Jordan. 1t was charged that he entered the
house of the prosecutor, No. 1872 Erato street,
and stole therefrom clothing and other articles,
valued at $50. The same fellow was prosecuted by
Mr. J. 0'Nei, on charge of stealing mule, etc,
from lf2 Erato street. The same decision was
given in this as in the former case committal for
trial before the criminal court. Jim appears to
be successful candidate for position in the
penitentiary.
A number of other cases unnecessary to notice
were appropriately disposed of by the recorder.
f RECORDER GAsTINEL's CoURT.-E P. Charles,
colored individual who disturbed the peace ant
threatened lady, was appropriately punished By
having imposed upon him fine of $40. In de
fault ofpayment he will have to spend thirty day
in prison.
John Rice was arraigned on charges of assault
and battery and robbery preferred against hin
8 by Thos. Flood. The accused was remanded t.
1 prison to await examination.
. J. W. Kirkpatrick, charged by John Watso
with assaulhng him with intent to kill was re
, manded to await further examination
n. Fidel and A. T. Walls, accused of breach o
h trust and embezzement by L. Moulor, of Chartre
street, were arrraigned, and were remanded t
:. said that Fidel was suspected of Wrongdong, an
that Walls was instructed to keep an eye upo
+ him. but Instead of doing so, it is said that he keI
Z an eye upon number one-that is, that he, a
d charged, defrauded his employers out of abou
Il $500 worth Of property. Fidels presumed deliG
e quency involves a much larger amount. Recorde
~ Gastfne will duly investigate the circumstances
y the transaction.
g RECORDER LETFEN's CoURT.-The charge
IS assault and battery against Michael Ford was di
re missed.
If Louis Vale. colored charged with entering IL
a house of J, Mclaughlin with felonious intent, WI
~ sent to the workhouse for thirty days.
Philip Willis and Moses Pleasant, both colore
and both on the vagrant lay, were committed
as the workhouse for three months.
re- George Wilson, John Wallace and J: Mile
w. charged with having stolen hawser in their pt
of session, we're sentenced to the workhouse for
VI next sixty days.
- RECORDER VENNARD's CoURT.-The Garden
u trct was serene yesterday, so far as police matt
were concerned. There was only single CT
he before the recorder, and that was not worthy
III mention.