The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-25

garments of substantial texture and novel ssyes
and shod with brogans which seemed capable Of
withstanding the wear of lifetime, looked with
curiosity upon the strange city and country In
which for the first time they found themselves,
and many doubtless saw through the smoke
curling up from their ppefuls Of CANISTER. visions
OF golden future in store for them In this west
ern land. We are informed by Messrs. Williams
Ruperti, the courteous agents of the Saxoris
that many Of them intend to settle in Texas or
other Southern States. Well, they are welcome.
There is rieh, boundless prairie land to be titled,
aud furnish homes and livelihood for all of them
and the thousands who are bound ito come after
them.
RErURNs OF REGISTRATION in the parish of DR.
leans, 43 oil. 1t may be a matter Of interest to
state that at the last election upon the State Cbn
stitution. the vote of the city and parish stoSd:
For, l4,29l against, 1853. Total, 2S,964.
A RAILROAD ACCIDENT occurred on the Jack4on
road, at Amite station, about III O'Clock on Friday
night, occasioned by the down passenger train
collidiDg with the up freight traiu No lives we're
lost, we understand but Mr.. johnson, the Ex-
press messenger, had both his legs broken, and
one OF the engineers was wounded. Mr.. VII.
liams, the superintendent OF the road, went up
yesterday 10 the scene of the disaster, and will
probably return this evening with full partic-
uars.
AT THE CLOSE OF TIE RxGIsrRxTroS oFFrDEs
last evening" in the third ward, there were 1910
voters registered. The proportion of white and
posed to be considerably in excess of the lat
ter.
The TEMPERATURE yesterday, as shown by the
observations OF A. b. Griswold Il Co., corner
Canal and Royal streets, was as follows: At
6 A. M. 6s degrees; IL NJ. 70; 3 p. n. u; 6P.
N. ~.
The temperature yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer at G. Duhamel's. Ill Canal street,
was as follows: At 8 A. n. 90 degrees II n.
65; Bpm. 20: 6P. n. SO.
YELLOW FEvER.-Charles Govani, aged 13,
born IN Germany, came to this city from New
York, during the present month, on the saip
Francis p. Sage. Last Monday he fell sick on
board vomited after drinking warm tea, but not
after drinking ice water; had heavy pain over his
eyes, dizziness, fever. and q soreness all over his
body. Captain gave him half paper of purga
tive powder from the ships medicine chest, which
purged after which he said he felt better. But he
kept on growing weaker, and was sent to the
Charity Hospital.
Friday night he had black vomit all night. and
at last accounts was fast sinking from the effects
of his disease. 1t is an unmistakable, we'll
pronounced case OF yellow fever. Doctor
James Burns, the learned and active health
officer of the First District. at tended GoEani
at the hospital, and, as soon as the symp-
toms of yellow fever declared themselves,
went Oh board the Sage, had the vessel fumigated.
whitewsshed and sprinkled with carbolic acid.
The boy is doubtless dead at the moment of pub
lication.
. Ids le lne lllru case OF yeiiOW IeVer Wnlch mas
terminated fatally this season in New Orleans.
A SAD OccURRsNcE.-Lsst night, about 10
O'Clock, two friends Mr.. Frank McElroy, grand
marshal of the Frank Blair Guards and foreman of
the Bee press room, and Mr.. Edward Egan, hear.
ing the alarm given that fighting was going ON on
Canal street, went together into Fred's eating
house on st. Charles street. just below Poydras,
to get Mr.. McElroy's pistol. The weapon was
handed to that gentleman, who proceeded to ex-
anime as to whether it was properly CAPPED,
cooking it TO do so. when the pistol went of acci-
dentslly and discharged its load into the upper
part of Eean's abdomen. The unfortunate young
man was at once conveyed TO his home, but before
be had arrived there he was corpse.
No blame at all can be attached to McElrpy In
the latter. The two men were fast friends and
o. oli these who knew him none deplore Egau's
death more than does the man who gave him his
death wound.
I'll e funeral will take place this afternoon at 80
O'Clock. From notice TO be found elsewhere II
will be seen that the Frank Blair Guards, of
which club the deceased was member, are re-
quested to attend, as are also the Seymour South.
rOns.
Mr.. Egan was but 27 years old, and Lowell and
respected by all who knew him.
Four NEGRoEs were laid out on Canal street at
midnight, last night, awaiting the coroner. Ii is
a well understood fact that the first shot was fred
from negro procession on Canal street, near
BaronDe, into Democratic procession which
chanced to come within striking distance. When
the shot was fred the Democrats stood on TIE de-
fensive. sprung out of their ranks. and each man
took his own ground. About one hundred shots
were fred from either side during term OF ten
minutes. The negroes then, who had already be-
gun to disperse, scattered in every directonl
One young white man, belonging to engine No.
6 is stated 10 have been killed, and the reporter
saw the dead bodies of four colored persons. two
of whom are fullblooded negroes, one light
mulatto, and the fourth O mulatto boy about IL
years old. whose neck or backbone was broken
or dslocated in the melee One os the negroes
was shot in the abdomen, another, whose shirt
saturated with blood, had been shot through
the head and presented CHASTITY spectacle.
The boy had no marks of violence, and no blood
upon bis person. There is rumor that white
boy, also aged fifteen, was mortally wounded aud
was found dying on the car track. There is also
q report that q white man was killed at late hour
on Congo Square, but of this there is no positive
information.
Crowds of people we're on every corner from
st. Charles street to Basin, all intensely excited
and seemingly awaiting further Developments.
Ii was publicly stated on the streets that not
white man belonging to the Radical party could
be found that they were all gone, leaving their
colored brethren in the lurch.
The city and its people were intensely excited
last night Collisions occurred 10 different po$tons.
At the late hour at which this is written there is
a report of disturbance in the Fourth District.
The cavalry passed up at q sharp srot. One white
man is reported killed in the Fourth
FOURTH DISTRICT RECoRDER's CoURT.-George
Lawton, charged with assault aud battery
Lizzie Dssher has been sent before the First DIS
trict Court for trial. and is admitted to bail in the
sum of $1,000.
The BODY OF A DROWNED BOY was found hoat-
ing in the river below Algers yesterday m3rniDg.
1t is supposed 10 be that Of q son of Mr.. william
Miller, who WAS drowned at the Canal street ferry
landing on the 10th inst
ABOUT o'onooK YESTERDAY MORNING man
named John FiDnigan, employed In painting a
house on Front street. fell from a scafolding and
sustained severe injuries in his head and back.
be was conveyed 10 his residence for medical at
tendance.
ELIZABETH COLLINS, colored, was arrested and
imprisoned last evening at the Central Station,
charged with the larceny OF a mattress, pillow,
bed spread, four dresses, and lot OF lchild's
clothing.
CHOICE FAMILY GRooEKIEs.-Messrs. l. g. Berry
& Co.. II Camp street, suggest to their friends
and the public that their stock of staple ana fancy
groceries is replete with every delicacyt in the