The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-08


he Southern cause. and that he raised numerous
orgapization on Bayou Lafourche, called the
johnson Intelligent Colored Rangers" We trust
Mr.. johnson, who is apparently an honest and 10.
telligent person, will obtain employment in this
city. - .f lra
cary cIuelty and brutality exercised By police
men. Eye witnesses state that the young woman
accidentally killed yesterday, on Dauphin street,
near Orleans, was carried in wood cart TO the
station house, and that her dying head was sup.
ported ty plank. She died twenty minutes
after reaching the station from loss of blood.
TIE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DEMocRArIc CLUB
held q regular meeting last evening. there being
present q goody number of members. reso-
luton appointing committee OF five to propose,
at special meeting TO be held on next Wednes
day evening, plan for the permanent reorgani
zation Of the club was adopted, and COL j. B.
Darling, Capt. G. 8. Rice. Msjor Crickmore. Capt.
Stanford and Lieut.. Emdon were appointed as said
committee, to which was also subsequently added
the name of the vice president Col. John A. Grow.
The CHASTIcLEER CLUB. whose activity and
esprit du corps during the campaign it would be
sOperfiuous for rs to speak, will bold at their head.
quarters tomorrow evening at O'Clock special
meeting, for the purpose OF permanently reorgan'
izDg. ~ .rssofl fn % f4s- tusrQ
A REPoRrER's RoUEDs.--To the initiated. 1t
would doubtless be both novel and interesting to
accompany q newspaper local reporter on his
daily jourDeying about the city. and for those sc-
customed TO sedentary pursuits the trip would
possess nothing of that fstigung monotony which
il gradually assumes for him who, day in day out,
In rain or shine cold or sultriness, must foot II
back and forth, picking up here little, there
great deal, but In many cases nothing at all
worthy of paragraph In print. 1t Is so discour-
aging, after walking ten squares, to enter some
public Office, zee the incumbent just where you
have seen him q hundred times before at precisely
the same hour Of day. ask him what there is new
40 nd fha ord a.
for your pains. But, on the other hand. there is,
it must be confessed, world of satisfaction for
you it, In reply to your question, ne produces
some quaint and curious looking document, writ
ten upon all over, and, throwing it down on the
table before you, says, Yes, here Is something
worth publishing :" whereupon you find your
self instantly scribbng away for dear life to get
it copied, eyeipg the doorway askance the while,
for the chance arrival of some equally enter
But. If you like it, reader, undertake some day
TO make the round, and see how material Is OBJ
tanned for your pefusa while over your coffee cup
in the morning. Let us first 60 to the police sta
for intelligence. e., police intelligence. Enter
first by the side door, Lafayette street. the lit
tie room used as station Office. With the liberty
of one privileged, push open the gate in the rail-
ing, which cuts off the Office proper inside OF
which are the clerk and turnkey. The formers
duty 10 to record the arrests in volume so large
that strong man would find it no fun TO carry it.
He also keeps account Of the property taken from
the persons OF prisoners and consigned TO him Tor
safe keeping. The turnkey is be who gently
relieves each unfortunate new arrival Of whatever
weapons or valoabes he has about him, aud then
dictates as his IeiIceT dur to the dingy dungeon
within. We look on the book and see what arrests
have been made, what casualties reported. 0rdi.
nary drunks or larcenies or assaults are passed
| by unnoticed, for they are as numerous as mos
quitoes after sun-down.
But If there is afforded by glance at the book
tr,Et lin pf mat mo IN
squeezing out by inquiry all that the two officials
know about IT, let us hasten out along the hall to
| the front corner room, the ante-room to the
superinte ndent's Office. Here you may see seated
half dozen special officers, aids or detectives,
| all waiting orders. Ir corner upon desk is
| paper file. and toward IL the reporter incont-
nentiy rusbes, for there are to be found the dis
| patches received from about town over the police
| telegraph wires. Having given this all due atten-
ton. We pass in through the green lattice door to
| the Office of Capt Cain, who seated ID comfort
able arm chair behind table In the center OF the
rcom informs you that the city isreported quiet,
and gives you further, very obligiugly, any little
| matters Of interest that may have come to his
| knowledge. Back Of him an open door cOmmuni-
| Gates wi little dark room, in which, II you are
anything of a physiognomist, you may amuse
| yourself by study Of the faces and heads In the
rogues' gallery.
But the Recorders Court is in session up stairs.
We mount two flights and enter the sacred pre-
| cincis. "Take of your hat, says an officer at
| the door. A crOWQ OF people. Dlack, yelOW duu
white, fill the lobby. Inside the bar are the law
yers the witnesses the clerks and the court Off
| GERS. At the other end of the room. within a
fenced incosure called the dock, are all the pri-
soners awaiting examination. Whew! there are
| some seedy specimens among them; and there are
| others who look as If they had no business to be
there at ell. But our business Is not with them
but with the clerk, who allows us to look over the
afdavits and CLEAN from them any facts ofinteresi
| they may contain.
Leaving the court room and taking brief look
In at the police commissioners Office, located IN
the third story front of the building. we pass ou'
again on Lafayette street, and crossing its cooole
stones, painful to thin s0les, enter the City Hal
basement. On either side are the offices of the
treasurer and controller. and to the left, on the
cross corridor beyond, is the street commissioner
business babitation. Turning to the right one see;
the Fire Alarm Telegraph Office, with its rows o.
KEYS, network of wires and elaborate mechanism
of gopgs and plates and dials, all kept as brigh
as q new dollar. The operator sits close by, ready
at signal to set the bells ringing in any part o.
the city. " Ting ling-s -s.ling" is heardZiti is
| FIRE alarm from some remote quarter. Quick al
thought he jumps 10 his feet, and runs to the ap
psraius. If you will listen at the open window
you may hear the strokes in some distant beifry
as the bell hammer swings back and forth at th'
bidding Of him who was just now so quietly
seated beside you.
Now, of we 20 again unless you wish TO step II
for a ncment TO the little adjoining room wher'
are a table and chairs, devoted to the use OF thos
| OF lHe TepcTtOIidl CIhb WIN uoy o'oi
themselves of the facility of meetin
there at night and writing up thei
notes. But in the day time the room is SCI
dom occupied, so we will go up stairs. First W
come to the mayors office, where may be obtaine
from time to time Information Of whatever ne'
matters Of public interest in regard 70 city affair
are usnspiring. Opposite is the City Library
where Mr.. Ducros. the librarian. is always courtt
ously ready TO afford any necessary information
and fun ther back on the main corridor we find TIA
Office of the clerk of the assistant board, where
on Tuesdays especially, tits well for reporter
call. Up stairs, on the second floor, again we ma
visit the finance and streets and landings commi
tee rooms and the surveyors Office, and havin
done thus, have pretty thoroughly completed ou
duties in municipal quarters.
whittier shall we 20 next, To headquarters
Well il ie only two squares away. at the corner
! Juiia and ST. Charles. The sentry marches u
! and down before the door, but does not sto
visitors Pass mp the stone stairway and ent,
The spacious hall. All news allowable for pui
lication relative 10 movements OF troops, and m
iisry matters generally. may be obtained in q
left hand rear room, where Gen. Neili and Cap
| Burbank always extend a pleasant welcome. tt
| private Office of the major general commandin
E is directly overhead and adjoining it is that
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