The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-03
gural SntelIiaenre.

REPORToRIAL BREvITIEs-The military were
under aims sgain yesterday. Infantry were sta.
toned In ana about Mechanics Institute and there
we're company of cavalry and a section of a
battery In Lafayette Square. The crowd of look.
ers-on in the vicinity OF the State House was less
than on any previous day since the Assembly met
and peace and order reigned supreme.
rev mosquitoes, hot weather, but now and
then a delightful breeze. The river is falling
slowly. Fruits are abundant and of excellent
quality and catfish, judging from the carloads
carried of every evening from the wharf near
The First District ferry landing, bite in schools.
Mississippi cat is the favOTite food of the gentry
that frequented the Mechanics Institute I'D 10 the
demonstration " so-called " of Mr.. Sambola's
witnesses, and the arrival of the bayonet and the
cabaeros in blue.
We are exceedingly happy to state that our gal.
liant friend Major TOer. has been appointed keeper
of the City Hall. The major is a gallant and hon.
ored man, a cripple from wounds received in the
front Of battle and in one of the deadliest of all
the bloody fights OF the late war. We are glad of
his good fortune in this bis latest venture
The. steamship Ella Morse last evening brought
up company of infantry from the barracks De-
low the city, to relieve the company which was
on duty at Mechanics Institute on Wednesday,
Wednesday night, and yesterday. The company
relieved went aboard and returned about dusk to
the barracks.
The company of United States infantry that
made their appearance Wednesday forenoon on
Dryades street, near Mechanics Institute.
empty lot was near, and the gallant boys in blue
built big fire of stray pine plank and shingles,
and cooked their pork and beans over 1t. Yes.
terday they all seemed to be in excellent humor
apparently rehshing the return to campaigning
which radical outrage had superintendent and no
doubt anxious to redeem themselves from the
iatuitous insinuston of the radicals in Congress-
that the cOored troops had conquered the rebels
by The Vlgor and courage of their onset unsus.
tanned.
Mr.. Eugene Desdunes, secretary of the Board
OF School Directors, informs Us that the teachers
Of the public schools will be paid to-day, at
the tTeasurers office, the balance due on their ac-
counts for Nay.
Tventy-seven hundred watermelons were shin.
ped hence TO 81. Louis. on the last trip of the
Ruth. by a wellknoWn grocery house on Camp
street.
There is to be grand regatta at Bay St. Louis
on the 18th and l4th inst. Eight OF ten
yachts are expected from Mobile, whilst New Or.
leans, Point Clear, Biloxi and it's Back Bay and
several other towns along the sound, are to be
represented. With fresh breeze and a flowing
sea, hne sport may be anticipated. Great efforts
VIII be made 10 beat the Mobile yachts but all in
sbsolnte and perfect fairness and chivalry; il il
only generous rivalry between Scuthern-built
yachts and the Mobile boats, ordered and built in
New York.
I'm pitch you into the river" cried dyarGsb
African on the levee, last evening. to q stalwart
brother ward Of the nation. &" lou're too near
the ground, my son, TO do dat" was the careless
dnu nuulOtOus reply. Inc quarrel ended there,
hike the quarrel in the State House when tae
giant people rose in their might.
The reporter Of the CRESCENT visited the court
houses yesterday, in order 10 observe how the
TWO sheIifs OF the parish, the one civil the other
criminal, would discriminate 10 their lines aud
their functions. The result of his observation is:
Mr.. Maxwell, the civil sheriff, takes exclusive
possession OF the old sbeTif's Office, under the
Fifth District Court, entrance on Orleans street.
whilst the criminal sheriff, Mr.. Wurtzberger, has
placed his Office in The building in which the
Criminal Court holds its sessions. The change is
Tor the best, and everybody connected with the
courts will rejoice az the distribution.
The temperature yesterday, as shown By the
thermometer at q. Duhamels, removed to Ill
Camel street, was as follows: At An. 76 de-
grees IL N. 81; Pm. 81 6 P. N. IS.
An inquest was held 'erday, at the corner of
Tonti street where il mIersects the New Canal,
upon the body Of man unknown, apparently
twenty-five years old, who drowned himself in.
teptionally in the New Canal. He was seen to
take of his psntaloons aud otherwise strip him
self, by persons going down the new shell road in
a cab but as the cab approached and attracted |
MS attention, he put his garments on again aud /
waited until it passed. The occupants of the cab
noticed the unusual conduct Of the individual, |
who, we believe was a colored man, and watched |
him until they got oct Of sight After that, be /
must have sought an unsayory, watery grave, for /
when his body was taken out Of the canal Il was |
nearly in Tlfris ndtiT0libls, and entirely dead |
Verdict, suicide by drowning.
In the First District Recorders Court and in the
Lookup station, nothing occurred yesterday
worthy of public mention. Jack Wagner, eolored |
a rose by any other name, etc., was 6ned $40 /
for disturbing the peace.
DIR. Ava. the new coroner for the Second and i
Third Districts, has appointed Mr.. P. Espinols his
deputy and Mr.. Roche, eofoner for the First aud |