The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-19
AOraI SnteIliaenre.

REPoRTORIAL BREvITIEs.-The grand jury 10 the
United States Circuit Court have found true bill
| sgaiOst Charles Cavanac, Esq, late register OF
voters, fourth ward, ninth precinct poll one for
| false imprsoDmento of negroes who desired TO vote
often and early, without the shadow of au.
| tbority. The duty Mr. Cavansc performed was
| a conscientious and an arduous one. He CON-
piled with the strict letter of the law far be
| could judge; bat United States grand jury com.
posed in part, perhaps in the majority of negroes
has found true bill against him. He cansed ne
groes TO be arrested that had no right whatever to
vote under the reconstruction laws, even as an
swered and interpreted by themselves, sim.
| ply because they insisted on voting; aud because
there was no peace or any further voting at his
polls until they were removed. The bail required
was $1,000. which was promptly furnished.
Two newsboys, about ten years Of age, en-.
gagged in fsIicUf, yesterday near the Clay statue.
They were separated by persons passing along the
street, but agreed to settle their differences in the
Merchants and Auctoneers' Exchange-it being
then the hour when everybody but the fat host
that sells pork and beans beef aud cabbage, fat
puddngs and succuent custards, had aband oned
the banquet hall. The boys pummeled each
other heartily, but, when one finally Knocked un
der, it was found that neither was in the slightest
degree injured. II was not altogether cOmpli
mentary To the men who formed the ring which
encouraged the youngsters TO miniature Heenan
and Sayers affair, but we believe they only did so
with the certainty that the boys were too feeble
and unskilled to do each other any injury. They
none the worsefO the set to.
1t is a strange fact, but an undoubted one, that
the mosquitoes which have lately invaded us 10
in myEiads have within day or two slackened in
their toTments. A gentlemen at our elbow, who
has closely investigated nature and all her works
tells US that when water, whether rain or river
water, is allowed to remain stagnant, mosquitoes
breed 10 an extraVagant extent; but that when
heavy shower or succession of Shove fall, the
water is troubled thereby the progress of the in.
sect from incubation to development interrupted.
aud the "skeetern falls & ll-bOr0 into tie next
world. The daily showers we have recently been
blessed with may probably account for the dearth
OF mosquitoes. --.
Negroes athletic and healthy, are to be seen in
sll the outskirts of the city, wherever there is a
shade to cover them from the noOntde sun. They
are to be found in groups, and when white man
approaches, no matter how vehement their con.
veTsatlOn may be, they pause until he passes out
of esrshot. The night of the Rant Gratfcation
on Lafayett square, the writer was going up
town alter the cars had ceased running. Two
nigs were standing al the corner of CalOpe and
Frytsnia streets, in earnest eoloquY. one of them
with Furnished white revolver in his hand. The
other hand contained the waste paper which
served as an envelope. On the approach of the
writer the colOred man hastily concealed his
weapon.
The case of McCubbin, tutor, etc., against
Samuel Hastings, druggist, before a jury In the
Fifth District Court, has been going on for
twenty-One calendar days. Five negroes are on
that Jury. There may be a msiority of those
negroes who, by the labor of their hands, could
have made two dollars day at hard work, in un-
loading steamboat, comprising the cotton in
the hold of foreign bound ship, or doing odd
jobs about the city. In q civil case one dollar
per juryman is allowed for a verdict, no matter
whether the trial lasts five minutes or six months
twenty one days-and God knows how much
lopgeI-before the nations ward receives his
beggsrly stipend of one dollar! And then there
is another contingency suppose the jury should
be unable 10 agree? They will be discharged
from custody; but ne'er dollar will be put into
the band Of any one of them. The negroes
should peTpend. A freeman has so-called inaen.
able rights, but until the freedman approaches
the level whereon his aid as citizen, juror, or
voter, makes him the equal 10 point of intelli.
gence with his white eoadjutor, he can never
reap cry good from his forced, hothouse posi-
tion. Sambo will always find it to his interes. to
have " conscientious scruples" when summoned
as yman. He can make more money outside
at hard work; unless, like the carpet. bagger. he
makes conscience and honesty matter of bar.
gain and sale; but, for all his ignorance. can
hot believe him to be so low, or SO groveling, as
that.
Two inquests were held by the coroner yester-
day, both upon colored infants that had died from
natural causes.
The temperature yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer at @. Duhamel's, corner Bienvile
and Chartres streets, was as follows: At A. N.
73 degrees: IL NJ. IS; Pm. Sc; 6P. NJ 50.
We are glad to find the Piesyune indorsng
our article in favor of cross culverts to conduct
the floods from heavy rains over to the neutral
ground from the lower side of that great thorough.
fare, Canal street. We understand that the cul-
vert at the junction of Exchange Alley and Canal
street was made simply as an experiment. Dur.
ing the last heavy rains it showed triumphsntly
that it is q success, aud that every corner on
Canal street, from Front Levee to Claiborne,
should be furnished in a similar way. The Coun.
Gil should pass resolution to that effect.
One hundred dollars worth of clothing was
stolen on Wednesday night by an unknown colored
nan from the house of Mrs. Guenon, No. 422
TchOuptoulas street. .
The thunder clouds of yesterday sent down a
bolt which struck the house of Mr.. VIM. Wright,
corner Of Sixth and Chestnut streets, and made
cad havoc IN the bath room, pantries, and among
the gas and water pipes. Fortunately no one
was injured.
Harvey Gibbs, charged with murder, on fat.
boat, in this city, in 1866, will be srragned to-
dsy before the First District Court for the second
. time.
A charcoal dealer named Jean Meunier, living
on ST. Peter street, between Marais aud IRENE
has been missing since Monday last. Yesterday
morning number of his neighbOrs informed Re-
cOrder Gastinel, who happened to be passing of
the circumstance, whereupon an entrance was ef-
fected by forcing the door, and there, 10 and be-
hold the missing mans mule was discovered
tethered in the front parlor. The poor brute was
nearly famished, and upon being united made a
Decline for the nearest water. cistern-maker
of the neighborhood kindly took him ia charge.
there was nothing to indicate where Mr.. Meunier
had gone TO.
Mary Dugan, for larceny Of thirty-fve pic.
lures from Mr. Dieter's house, on Terpsichore
street, has been sent for six months to the Work
house, where her love for the fine arts may be
made useful to the city.
The installation of the officers elect of Ionia
Conclave No. IL, s. W. NJ, takes place at Perse-
verance Hall, corner of st. Claude and Dumaine
streets. this evening, at y O'Clock. We ac-
knowledge the compliment of an invitation to be
present.
A humorous sketch, carieaturing the principal
characters in the recent Wooley investigation at
Washington is to be produced at the Academy
this evening upon the occasion of Dick Parker's
farewell benefit.
Gen. L. P. Graham of the fourth cavalry, re-
ceved intelligence by telegraph. yesterday of the
DEATH In Washington, of his son, Lieut.. Jos. Dun
can Graham, aid to Gen. Hancock. He departed
for Washington Immediately.
ARRESTS UPON CHARGES OF FORGERY.-C. W.
Thing and B. F. Belden were arrested about half.