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

that city, over 300 miles. When they begin clear.
ing this little tract of 600 square miles, will en-.
deayor to let you know about it. People must
have something to talk about
SPEAKING OF CHAPPARAL,
This production of nature seems to have been
expressly designed as a refuge and home for rob
beers and helhounds generally. ! will state to my
uniformed readers that chapparaI consists of
growth of scraggy musquit, ebony and other
small trees, ranging in height from eight to fifteen
feet In some places it is short in others taller.
1t does not grow in a continuous, unbroken grove,
but in punches, like the bristles in brush There
are few or no tanging vines other foot obstruc-
tons between the clumps, but clear, open, hard
roads, ready made for man or beast winding
tortuousy around and ramifying the level country
by ten thousand different routes. man might as
well dive after an alligatorgar as to take after
robber in jungle like this. The only good the
chapparal does to decent people is in its furnish.
ing them an inexhaustible supply of excellent fire.
wood.
THE TEATRo DE LA REFoRMA
Does well, consoling the Matamorians with excel
lent Spanish acting and singing three Or four
nights in the week. do not go, because ! don't
understand the lingo, and because my room faces
the side windows of the theater at only forty
yards distance, and, " freegratis-
get all the music and singing, which is all 1 care
about. I only know the nights the theater will be
open by seeing greasers passing the doors with
loads of chairs on their heads. Those who rent
boxes in the dress circle for night have to fur
nsh their own chairs, and take them away next
morning. The theater doesn't patronze or notice
the newspapers, nor do the newspapers notice the
theater. Whether these things are owing to the
poverty or meanness of the theater, or are merely
Mexican wrinkles, cannot say. The theater is
owned half by stock company, and half by the
corporation, represented by the municipal pre-
feet. Last year, all for grandeur, and to show
the fourshing condition of the empire, $50 900 of
public money was expended in giving balls at this
theater. The people, though they now go there
at their own expense, remember all this, and can.
not help computing how far the money thus
frivolously spent might have gone in stavng off
the forced loans since, or in repairing and cleans
ing the streets of the city, which are at present in
an insutferaby dapidated and filthy condition
Butt is all in Mexico, you know.
DUEL WAS FOUGHT
Last Monday afternoon, by Lieuts. Ryder and
Duiey (Americans,) of the contra guerrilla bat.
talon, with pistols at ten PAGES. Duffey was seri-
ously wounded, his adYersary's bullet entering in
front Of his right shoulder, and coming out in the
left part of his back. Dufey is from New Or
leans; and it is said he will get well There being
different reports as to the cause of the row, !
mention none.
must now revert to
MATTERS ON THE BROWNSVILLE SIDE,
Which have not been of much Importance of late
The town, by day. is dull enough, in consequence
of the thinning down of the United States troops,
but seems to be about as full as ever of the ele-
ments of nocturnal rapine and mischief The
country around is full of robbers, as usual as on
the Mexican side. lot of sentences were last
week passed before
TIE MILITAF,y TRIBUNALS,
By whom the cases weg- cried Robert Rodgers,
private Co, B, nth Ohio veteran volunteers, for
the murder of DR.. VIM. A. Garden some time ago,
was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, the 9th
inst. Charles Wright, citizen, sentenced to two
years Imprisonment for attempted violation of a
woman, was pardoned by the commanding gen
eral -Four negro soldiers belonging to the Seth
u S. G. T., for rObbing from a store $500 in spe-
Gle belonging to the Adams Express, were SEN
fenced to the penitentiary in terms of FIVE four,
three and two years. The other cases, mostly
misdemeanors hv cofora5 +roo, -
portant
a "AN"Ni FHAoAs
came Oh lew days since, between party of
Mexican greasers and the Brownsville police.
Shots were fired Init nobodv t,iIIed ana tho ,oI;oo
5id NOT ooroo of ,itt r,of, wv pVAAo0
~ eI- ". "''H ''7inA"Cu creuI' 0uOse-
queutAy tue ElngeaueF OF the greaSerS was
arrested. He is said to be identified as the muir
derer of different persons His name 1 forget .
but it makes no difference, as the Mexican names
are so much alike. The Mexicans themselves all
look to me as much alike as a lot of rod heors
o,rto W '0''As
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HE STITCH made by the Wilcox Il Gibbs, sa1v
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lHS hlaonlues Is uleAceptOnahle, and superior
~ '"ino' NeinS sIonser ana more
beautiful. Can be seen at No, 5 St Charles strna+
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DiABoLlCAL CONDUCT THE City Fired Into
lnSugated by the spirit of demons some oF tba
negro soldiers of the Nth regin,en+ fraa n ,,S N
nf Innslyatrv Into tho oit,, - e. gu Voliey
M L9oheuy iuIo Ihe CITY as the train moved off on
tuesday night last. number of balls nassed
over tha Duhlic snuere and sorTo,I n .i PttoSeu
trees in the courtyard FortnpateI - gu s uch
ana oot rev P persons on the streets or no doubt
Mr. Williams who was pgfn%p tb ned
barkation of the troops, came near losing his life
by the discharge, and his escape was truly mirac
uloqs, as the burning wads of the gun struck him
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