The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-13

- Bernard Market.. 51U0
lie Breton Market. lilo 500
sorspsru Marker. -................-.. $3.50 1901
hintn street hsket-................. IL so 900
On account of the suit instituted by the Livau-
Gale heirs, the DTyades Market was rented only
| by the month. and the Claiborne Street was also
| rented monthly. because the city has granted the
| light of way through the site OF that market to
the Chattanooga Railroad.
The authorizations for the coming year show q
large and fsrteriDg increase over those OF the
year now expiring. The three markets in the
Fourth District alone show increase of SIS 800
over this year.
THERE Is A LIPB SIZE picture of the daughter of
one OF our prominent citizens exhibition at the
roous of Mr.. Wagner, on Camp street, which
shows rare talent in the uneducsted artist who
hmned it. That artist ia young man who is q
native of New Orleans, Mr.. Hortaire Guenard
foreman of the Pontchsrirsin Railroad Compsny's
paint shop. be Is the same gentleman who exc
cuted the admirable portrait of Isaac N. Marks,
president of the FiIemens Charitable Assoc iation
which vas Isffleo for year or 80 ago, and won
by Hope Hook and Ladder No. 3. The untu
tOred young artiet has evinced talent and an aU
biuon which, with better facilities, might place
him at the head of his profession.
FoUEp DEAD.-Lswrence Lyon a tinman, who
lived iD bis shop at 349 Common street, found
dead yesterday morning on Common street. near
the Gavez canal, where the body remained with
the face pressed into the mud, exposed and
ternOon. From the conversation of a number Of
people gathered about the body, IL appears that
The deceased was seen Friday night, about .
o'clock, near the corner of Common and Claiborne
streets, in state OF partial intoxcation. Yester.
| Gay morning, between and o'clock, he was
seen by coioTed man barely alive, on the spot
where bis Iifeless remeins were aiterward found.
but DO aid was extended to him from cowsrdy
| apprehension on the part OF the negro that he
| might be accused Of having committed an as
sault. The deceased was quite young man, and
well spoken OF by his acqu1intsDces de was in
III health, and was probably victim of sickness.
| intoxicatoD and cold combined. His shop was
found open and closed by policeman at hali-past
III Friday night. IL Is also said that the deceased
was seen intoxicated in his shop the same night,
and that lie Vas to fall into the water by the
side OF the road near the spot where he died.
CHANGE OF TINE AT TIE OPERA.--On and after
MOndsy, We are reques'e ed to say by Mr.. Gala
bresi, the performances at the Opera House will
commence At Z O'Clock precisely, thus avoiding
the Inconvenience of closing too late in the even
ing.
MILE. LAMBELB. it was rumored on the streets,
WAS expected TO arrive IN this city yesterday. The
rumor Is incorrect, Mile. Lambeles engagement
10 tie North will not close before spring, at which
time che "a expected to sing at the opera.
The DESKS AND CHAIRS of some of the gentle
men who. on Thursday, vacated POSITIONS in the
Custom House were on that day tes tefully be-
decsed in The most approved style of modern
obsequy. On oue of them two rulers were
erected In q ciucfOrm position, and ornamented
with the most dusky of gsrlands. Folds ana fes-
toons of black muslin were drsped over the desk
ard chairs, and TO crown all elegiacs were written
and reac to give the occasion its proper doleful.
ness. These pleasantries, we are assured, went
very far toward doing away with the regrets ns.
lursly incident to the occasion.
CLEVER RoBBERY.-It may not be generally
known that one of the glasses to the side of tue
show window of Pifets fancy store. on Caual
street, IL hung on hinges, and is kept fastened by
a brass catch on the inside. Some intellectual
absorber, who was entirely ignorant of the dis
tDeuoD, abstract and practical, between IneIGn
and tuUn', on Friday perceived this state of af-
fairs and determined 10 profit thereby. So he
quietly fell TO work. and by drumming on the out
side Of the glass with his fingers, succeeded in
getting The catch. which was loose, to drop down
and leave the way open. Then he slyly pushed
back the glass door appropriated two meerschaum
pipes, one worth sI5 and The other SIS, and theo
folded bis tent like frstclass Arab OF the desert
and as silently took himself of. The thief was
gentleman, for be kindly left behind him the two
cases, probably desiring that Mr.. Piffet should
have something remaining TO him 10 make him re-
member his pipes uniimeiy disappearance.
IT WAS RUMoRED LAST EVENING that trouble
had occurred on board the steamship Havana, re-
Gently arrived from New York 9 convoy TO one
OF the Peruvian iToDcleds, and now lying opposite
The foot OF Julia street. Our reporter visited
police headquarters. and making inquiry, learned
that some difficulty had been reported az existing
on board the vessel, the alleged cause being that
he crew, which enlisted 10 New York, evOwed
that it had been TO serve under the AMERICAN flag
ard that when the Peruvian flag hois.ed they
hsd refused to do duty. Special OH 'er Cunning
ham was, We learn, sent on bosrd to investi.
gaze the matter. His report we could Dot OBTAIN,
but appearances are that TumOr must have greatly
exaggerated the difficulty, il any at all there
were. Tie ironclsds themselves are at anchor at
Southwest Pass.
DISASTROUS ExPLosIoN-T Tsrelue Men In.
J1yred -lbe burning OF the steamship Crescent at
the loot of -. Joseph st eet on Friday night, was
accompanied by calamity which even over
shadows the confsgratiOn itself We stated ia
our report OF yesterday that slight explosion
was reported. But it turns out hat, far from be-
iuR slight ii resulted in ide- pTead iujuTies among
the tremen who were CALAMITY lsbOring to save
the vessel.
ltWas shortly before eleven O'Clock. the flames
burning hercely at tue time, that of a sudden the
explosion occurred IN the magazine, located 10
Soor Which RSoeIed m Mr. % Oh me
of tie chief engineer, and member of
Mechanics Fire Company No. 8, senseless, in
it's pssssge, and landed on the levee. At the
same instant sheet of flame burst from the
forward port and hstch horribly burning Mr..
JSmes Comfort. first assistant OF The same com
pshy, and other members standing near. Mr.
heCabes injuries i'll, 1t IA feared, prove fatal.
the iron oOeT having struck him the forehead
tpO fractured Dis Skull. Inc hludest care was
given him at the Louisiana Hotel by Robert
DismODc, foreman OF the company and be was
subsequently removed TO his residence. on La
fayttte street, near Cara. or Mr.. Comforts re-
coveTy, regret to learn, also, very little hope
Is eBtertsiIed.
The other members Of the company injured are
James VsuRhie, william Plu0ket, (slightty)
Thomas BOmau, (slightly) Patrick Gallagher
Thomas Mccormick, Hamilton, Daniel Hurley and
Thomas Psrtons.
1he cODasgrati0n continued throughout the
light, another alarm being Tung at 4 Al Be-
tween two and three hours ls.er, there was a
crash, q hiss as the flames met the waves, and
down stern foremost sank all that remained of
the good ship Crescent.
NIGILANT's BOYS KEEP YIGIL.-ILe Bal last
ni9ht-As this reporter was tTaVersng Lafayette
Square last night, he almost forgot the piercing
cold when be caasht sight OF the majestic front Of
Odd Fellows' hall. The cleaning lights, the
pesling strains OF music, the glmpses revealed
through the lofty windows of the merry maskers
recalled the sounding lines OF Tennyson. Bat
this reporter did not wait at the gate alone,-
but taking advantage Of the gap in the railing
(kindly left, we suppose, by the city fathers. to
snord convenient short-cut). promptly present
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