The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-19
T0ral Sntelllaenre.

Apollo and Clio streets, only missing few inches
OF sniveting pane, and seriously injuring one or
more. Of the passengers.
paragraph which appeared in this column
yesterday, In relation to the views of the keeper
OF the WoTkhOuse, on the question of employing
the inmates Of that institution as lab0rers pub
hely on the streets, was inserted without being
submitted to the supervision, delegated by the
editor-in-chief Of the CRESCENT, in this depart
ment OF his paper, and is disspproved.
From among the collections taken up for the re.
leI OF the needy, throughout the State at Trinity
Church on sunday evening, there was taken out
gold ring, bearing marks whereby to identify the
giver. Ihatring must be embemstic of a blessed
eternity.
The members of Christ Church Benevolent Asso-
citation have pledged the sum of $500 to Bishop
Wilmer, in behalf Of the suffering and needy.
The private markets recently SO numerously
opened throughout the city, will not be apt to
suffer much from the appeal made to Gen. Han.
cock for their discontinuance.
The grand German opera troupe will leave to-
that city has been completed, they should be able
10 return bither for another season, a liberal pat
rOnage would ait them.
The second annual ball of the Dry Goods and
GereTal Mercantile Clerks Association takes place
morrow evening at the National Theater and
promises TO equal if not TO eclipse any social en-
tertainment OF the kind given this season. All the
preimirarits have been arranged with scrupalous
attentions, and guests may consider their enjoy
ment Of the occasion a moral certainty.
The temperature, yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer Mt c. Duhamels, corner Bienville
and Chartres streets. was as follows: At 6 A.
M, 45 degrees; at IL NJ, 60; at P. NJ, Sc;
a. T. NJ, GA.
Creole fire company No. gives a grand fire.
mems bali on the 4th of March, at the New Lus
tsnos Hall, corner of Eysian Fields and Great.
men streets. The " Creolesn could Lot have Sc
lected better opportunity.
spring has so far progressed that the trees in
Lafayette Square are budding and the green
grass is sprouting in patches everywhere in the
city.
grand sacred oratorio will take place at
Christ Church on Monday next. Mrs. Annie Nc
lain Roach, Messrs. Netaye, Wheeler and other
smateurs have volunteered their services for the
occasion. The oratoriO is given for the benefit Of
the Mount Ohvet Church Of Algiers.
The $500, 600 large city notes will be burned to-
day at the city Gas Works, if the finance commit
the OF the council can accomplish the task Of
counting the bills during the day.
The employees of the surveyors and street CON-
missone!'s department will probably be paid this
week for their wages of the past month.
The alarm OF fire on Monday night was given by
some maliciously disposed individual, who, if
caught, should be meted with the full penalty of
the law.
A decsnter, two wine glasses, children slips, and
other articles, stolen from the residence of Mr..
Ben. Toledano, No. III Gsienne street, few
days ago. have been found by officer Mccarthy,
of the First District police.
The sergeant alarms of the City Council ex.
cepted, there was not single person of African
race OF descent, present at the meeting of the
sisfant board last evening.
Mr.. Ste phen d. Mcneil is no longer the sssis-
tsnt secretary Of the Board of Assistant Aldermen.
We hope that the new appOintee, Hr. Jos. 8.
Moore, son Of Assistant Aldermsn ]. q. Moore,
will prove as efficient as Mr.. Mcneil did
TIE CONvENTIoN.-Itis is becoming question of
serious importance whether the reconstruction
convention, which has been in session for sixty
seven days, at Mechanics Institute ever me ans
10 complete its labors and adjourn. II did seem
in the beginning of the affair, that should its
sions be protracted over thirty days, it would
only be an event too mOnstrous for cOntempla-
tiOD. Yet here we are now toward the close Of
February (the convention met Nov. 2lst and
u ere are no better prospects Of adjournment
than there were q month since.
The situation is this. A week or ten days since
The articles Of constitution, one by one adopted,
were handed over to committee of seven. enti-
tied committee on style, for grammatical revi
sion and numerical arrangement. Yesterday,
Mr.. Wickiifie, the chairman of this committee,
offered a report, accompanied by printed copies
of a document headed Constitution" which
was offered for adoption as a whole. In the re-
port, which was lengthy one. numerous stera-
tions, amendments. and additional articles were
recommended. and in the accompanying printed
Constitution" some Of these articles had been
actually intrOduced-One of them, for instance,
excluding for ever from Office any one who has
fought or abetted in duel. or sent or accepted
a challenge.
As soon as this report was read, FIVE members
OF the committee, to the surprise of every one
sent in a written protest stating that the report
offered by Mr.. wicklife, the chairman, had never
even been seen by them until placed in print upon
their desks that morning. After much discussion
the report was recommitted. 1t is very probable
that in this way the entire subject will be again
opened for discussion, and the sessions thus be
protracted indefinitely.
TEE FINCH HABEAs CORPUs CAsE.-Judge En-.
eIson, Of the Third District Court, has given his
judgment in this case. VIM. L. Finch, the relator
was arrested q charge of embeZzling letters
from the mail bags in his charge, while he was
route agent for the postal DEPARTMENT. on the Ope-
lousss and Great Western Railroad, and United
States Commissioner Urban committed him to the
Parish Prison. writ of habeas corpus was
taken out, on the ground that the mittmus was
defective in not stating that an offense had been
committed against the laws Of the United States,
and in failing to set forth the of the arrest
or the object and duration of the commitment
Judge EmersOn has dismissed the writ because he
has no jurisdiction in case which he discovers is
in charge Of Federal authorities and, although the
keeper Of the Parish Prison is an officer of the
parish under State laws in becoming a custodian
of person committed by Federal tribunal to
that extent he is Federal officer.
IMPORTANT DgCIsION.-The discovery OF petro.
leum in the Western part Of the State. shortly
after the close of the war, gave to lands in that
section, previously thought little Of, vslue that
rendered the possession Of them very desirable,
and the consequence was that such lands as be-
lOnged TO the State at the time the ordinance OF
secession was passed-allhOugh the greater part
OF them were entered during the War-Were
eagerly sought for and entered again. One case
Of such second entry came before the Fourth Dis
trict Court, and Judge Thesrd yesterday rendered
bis judgment, which, as the question involved is
very important, is given in full below
1TuXtOn Lowell VS.. Auguste Bohn, ct al.-Thisis
a controversy with respect to certain lands, stu-
ate in the parish OF Calcaseu, OF this state, ada
cent t. the oil springs of that region. supposed TO
be Of great prospective value for the production
Of petroleum, which has recently become an arti-
Gle OF considerable commercial importance.
These lands are known as the swamp or over
flowed lands of the State of Louisiana. They
originally belonged to the United States, but we're
donated to the State of Louisiana for purposes of
internal Improvement, by acts of Congress of
date I'd March, ls49, and 25th OF September,
1850, which donation confirmed BY a subse
quent act Of Sd March 1857, and the fee simple
title invested in the State Of Louisiana subject to
the disposal Of the legislature Of the State.
(Bnehney's Digest, vol. l, sec. 20l-204.)
Plaintiff entered these lands in June, 1861, and
patents were issued to him in June, 1862. he
held possession until Ja0uary 1866, when the same
lands were reenered by the defendant. Auguste
Bohn, with a view TO obtain q second patent for
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