The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-21
gural yntelliaente.

are thriving. At one of them, on the corner OF
Camp and Julia, nine fat deer were received on
Saturday evening about dusk, and Iige Of these
were sold of. piece by piece, within couple of
hours. People are sure to find out such conve-
nences as this.
While extending our heartfelt pity to all per.
sons afflicted with severe colds and loud cough.
ing we must at the same time confess that tn cir
sympathy tenfold. For the peanut eaters, we
swear a deadly and eternal hate.
The session Of the convention at Mechanics In-
stitute yesterday was unusually uproarious and
disorderly, inducing the belief that that body will
come TO a speedy termination of its deliberations
The extent of the confusion may be imagined from
the fact that the chair was compelled TO remind
some of the delegates that they were mot in
circus or thesier." One colored member was
indignant at another for Infringing on his per-
soDalites."
The temperature. yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer at @. Duhsmel's, corner Benville
and Chartres streets, was as follows: At At6A.M,
5S degrees; at IL NJ, 60; at P. NJ, 6l; at 6
2. M, SO. q
At the auction sale Of city property yesterday,
Armory Hall on Girod street, which was used be.
fore the war by the Washington Artillery, sold
for s7ooo, and the large three story building on
the corner Of st. Charles and Lafayette streets,
now used as Police Station and First District
Recorders Court, and appraised at $45 900, was
bid in by the city at s34 900. 1t cost the city s32
600, eleven years since.
La Senorita Jcsephina Fiomeno, young
Chilian musical genius, will shortly be introduced
TO the puphc.
Our LOUISVILLE VIsTToRs.-Quite party came
down from Louisville, as eXcursionists on the
bran new steamer Belle Lee. Capt. A. NJ. McGill,
which arrived here yesterday. Accompanying
them are ten members of the Louisville Eagle
Cornet Band, all amateur performers, who during
the trip have been furnishing music for many a
merry dance. They gave the CRESCENT the com
pliment OF a serenade last evening, and tempo
Tarily Eghtened our lsbors by their melodies.
The whole party will return with the Belle Lee,
carrying with them, we trust, none but pleas ant
memories OF the Crescent City.
MEETING OF CoFFEEHoUsE KEEPERs-The
License Question: The cofeehouse keepers had
another meeting last night, which was held at the
National Hall, Poydras street, to take measures
to procure a reduction of the license tax on the
business.
sfter seven, and about two hundred were pa esent,
Mr.. William Conway, chairman, and Mr.. John
McPhelin, secretary of the previous meeting, on
tiBuing to fill those offices.
The memorial to the Common Council to reduce
the license tax and adopt classification of coffee
houses, so that there may be an approximation il
the proportion of taxation to income, was read
and unanimously adopted
The meeting then proceeded to permanent
organization Of a coheehouse keepers associa-
tion, and the following officers were unanimously
elected:
President, H. F. sturcken; Vice President, s.
Dolini; Secretary, John McPhelin; Treasurer,
VIM. Conway.
Mr.. Sturcken, on taking the chair, thanked the
meeting for the compliment paid to him in elect.
ing him president. He did not desire the position,
and wished that eoheehouse keeper had been
selected, but as he had been chosen, he would do
the best he could to promote the objects of the
association. He was not q coffeehouse keeper,
but his interests and their interests IDENTICAL
for unless cotfeehouses prospered the brewer
could not prosper. The question was discussed
as TO what reduction should be asked, and
although no formal vote was taken, 1t seemed to
be the unanimous opinion of the meeting that the
license ought to be reduced to what it was before
the war, $3.50.
In this connection q speaker, whose name we
could not learn, complained that while the tax
and license of a coffeehouse amounted to about
four hundred dollars a year, grocer did not pay
over forty, and yet most of them retailed liquor
by the glass. 1t was in the estimation of the
sneaker, as important to the coffeehouse keepers
interests 10 have TINS cIanuesune lquor-sellng by
grocers stopped, as it was TO have the license re-
duced.
The president thought it would be impolitic to
have anything to say about the grocers. There
was an ordinance in existence against liquor
being sold by the glass, under grocer's license,
or any license but coffeehouse keepers license,
yet many grocers had their back room where
they sold by the glass, and it could not be stopped.
Mr.. McPhelin impressed upon the meeting the
advantages that were to be had from thorough
organization of the cofeehouse keepers
Of the city. There are, he said. two
thousand in the city. If litigation was
necessary to protect their interests, a contri.
button of five dollars from each one would make
q fund Of ten thousand dollars, which would be
sufficient TO carry their cause before the Supreme
Court OF the United States. 1t would be best,
however, first to appeal TO the council for justice.
Before the war, whisky could be bought for Is
cents gallon which, allowing sixty drinks to
gallon at FIVE cents q drink, there would be
profit Of eleven hundred per cent. Now whisky
costs 50 a gallon, and, at ten cents drink, the
profit is only one hundred per cent. II these facts
were properly placed before the coancil, they
certainly must see the injustice of fixing the
license at $500.
On motion, the chair was authorized to appoint
a committee of four to procure additional sigma
lures 10 the memorial, and present it at the next
meeting of the council. On this committee the
following members were appointed: S. G. john
son, First District, chairman; Rudolph Gessler,
Second District; Christian Woelrich, Third Dis
trict II. Hamerling, Fourth District.
II was nearly IL O'Clock when the meeting
adjourned. About one hundred handed their
names in as members of the association.
A,FEsTIvE GArHERING.-The passengers on the
Inflated steamer Homeyer, which was burned
recently on the Ouachita river. had a meeting on
Sunday evening, at Johnny HaUkins's Club
Rooms, for the purpose of expressing their high
sense of the kindness extended to them by Capt.
r. S. Livingston, of the steamer W. B. Dance, on
the passage from Monroe TO New Orleans. The
meeting was called to order by Col. Tisdale, who
offered a resolution Of thanks to Capts. Livings-
ton and Boyd, and to Nr. A. d. Clark, which was
unanimously adopted.
After the usual fOrmsties, sumptuous repast
was INDUCED IN. The following are the resolu-
tons:
/. ResOlred, That we tender our thanks to
Capt. r. Livingston, Capt. Boyd and W. b. Clark,
for their kind attention to while the passage
from Monroe 10 New Orleans.
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requested to publish the above resolutions.
TRIAL FOR RAPE.-In the First District Court
yesterday Judge Howe presiding, Ammey Bru-
ington was tried for rape. The prisoner is dark
mulatto, about thirty years of age, and the per-
son upon whom the outrage was committed,
Elizabeth Killian, is white girl of German de-
scent and good character. who bad attained her
fourteenth year the day before she violated,
but in the opinion of Dr. Nichols, who examined
her afterwards, had not yet arrived at the period
of puberty.
The case not submitted to the jury, until 5
O'Clock in the afternoon. Although several hours
were consumed in the examination of the wit
nesses, the salient facts may be very briefly re-
lated.