The New Orleans crescent., 1868-11-22

act or does It not leave II discretionary with the
said city, or any other portion of said district, tn
employ the said police or not, as 1t may deem
Necessary
A SPECIAL COMMITTEE from the Board of Public
works, consisting OF Messrs. Flood, sawyer and
Van Winckle, appo nted on Friday for the purp Sc
of examining into and deciding upon he solvsncy
OF the suIeties Of the lesee coniractors, sat yes
terday.
The next meeting Of the Board Of Public Works
will lie held on the 7th December next. Bids for
the construction Of Grand Levee will then be
opened.
THE TEMPERATURES yesterday, as shown By the
thermometer st G. Duhamel's, Ill Canal street,
lately corner Bienville and Chartres streets. was
az follows: At a. NJ. 40 degrees IL N. AS;
Pm. So: 6P. N. 81.
The New ORLEANS LITERARY AND DEBATING
SOCIETY.-Ihe friends of literature aud advance
meat OF moral calture will be pleased to know
that the young men OF this association have
sumed their regular weekly meetings every Fri
day evening, commencing at O'clock 10 the lee
tuTe-room Of the Felicity Street Church. All per-
sons interested in literary matters cordially in
s to ss Pssssns 81 HAT as the
ia pog somewhat smaller than it should be to
carry out all its purposes. applications for mem
bership from young men Of good standing would
be gladly received and probably favorably con-
sideTtd.
The subject for DEBATE next Friday will be
81 Resolved, That be who believes he has bee
once in love has never loved at ALL"
TIE YoUSG Men of the city have taken to the
Alpine hat with unanimity almost incredible.
At least one hundred must have been sold by hat.
teTs yesterday. Soon every other head will be
covered by one of them.
THIEVES ARE AS Thick as carpet-baggers in the
Crescent City. We have all sorts Of thieves
thieves who legislate all the money out Of a mans
pocket, and the land from under his feet, which
had been inherited from bis ancestors; thieves
hn uuil 10 " he faan nut Ofa Ia
ct. thieves who will call with message begging
the loan of an TX or a shovel; thieves who di-
vest ben-roost of ell its denizens; thieves who
will stop man on the highway at night, aud bid
him stand and deliver; thieves who will dog
drunken man and snatch his watch and his pocket
book; end the worst Of all thieves who will flch
from the Southern people our good name. rob
bng us OF that which not enriches them, but
makes rs poor indeed.
printer on the CRESCENT who was standing
in front of the CRESCENT building, last evening
counting his bard got earnings, had five dollar
bill jerked out Of bis hand by STRIPPING of sixteen
years, who made off with the speed Of a
horse for parts unknown. II was not exactly he
metropolitan hour for retiring" but not one Of
that redoubtable force was nesr, and the printer
could follow, because he had lost leg in Lhe
Confederate cause.
A HARD CAsE-An alligator's skin.
Two LIGHT FINGERED INDIVIDUALS were arrest
ed and imprisoned in the Second District last
evening, charged with being dangerous and sus
picious characters. Each had an instrument like
a Rlszier's glass cutter, tipped with diamond
New Or cans is going to have lively winter
with thieves and gsrroters from st. Louis, Chi.
cago, Cincinnati. Louisville. New York, and those
already here in high positions from various points,
High carnival is TO be held, and il is hard to sap
pose that the metropolitan police will be able to
keep order in the ranks.
DEPUTY CORONER EsPINOLA held an inquest yes
teTdsy about quarter past P. NJ, at the corner
Of Toulouse and Royal Streets over the body Of a
suicide, P. f. Dietrich, aged forty-hree years, q
native of Nancy, France. Deceased kept va
rlety store at the corner Of St. Louis and Royal
streets, but had rooms corner Toulouse and Royal
streets. Cause. domestic trouble. Deceased
csme here in 1859 with dramatic troupe from
France, and has performed with them at the
French 1beater year after year.
he shot himself about halfpsst in the after
noon with a small Eve chamber Remington pistol,
only one shot being discharged. The ball entered
his mouth and lodged in his BRAIN 1t must have
happened whilst he was standing up, { II be was
found lying on bis back, with the pistol firmly
grasped in his right hand, and the foreanger on
the trigger. The floor near his head was fnll of
blood. Deceased bad an excellent reputation
among those who knew him.
To DR.. Espnols, the ever-obl iging and efficient
deputy coroner for the Second and Third Dis
tTict, under great obligations for his kind
ness in waiting for the reporter of the CRESCENT
at so late aDvhour as ii O'Clock, and on so cold
night as the last one.
We understand deceased has sister, who keeps
a store on the Rue Marie Stuart in Paris and
that he has left a written memorandum In which
he acknowledged an indeb tedness to her on the
pa oi his firm in this city.
II. ceased was a married man. and had had some
elscuiy with his wife, who left The room occu-
Ii,d by them, on Friday evening, and went to
her mothers. After she heard of the suicide she
attempted TO return, but was dissuaded by her
friends and relatives.
The following note, in French, was left by de-
ceased:
unable to bear dishonor quit life.
"P. +. DIETRICH.
New Orleans, Nov. 81, 1865.
=" wish to be buried by the Free Masons."
THE ALARM of fire at hall. past eleven last night,
came from the corner Of Glrod and ST. Charles
trg fire 10 some wood in the yard in the rear Of
the premises on the southwest corner Of those
Streets No damage was done.
CoRNELIUs GLEASON reported at the station,
last night, that at 81 P. N. his brother was shot
and mortslly wounded, on st. Thomas street, by
Sergeant Whittier, Of the second precinct police
force. Half su hour previous 10 the report Ser
supefDtendents office.
A RESPECTABLE looking &c rmsn woman giving
her name as Anna Veins, and living at No. l8S
St. Joseph street, entered the Office of the super
intendeDt of police at about seven O'Clock last
evening, and sobbiDg. began at once narration
which, though partially uDnelligible at first, yet
by the aid of an interpreter was found TO be Of
suicie at importance to attract the closest atten-
tiOn OF all present She stated that yesterday
afternoon she hsd gone TO visit her sister, the wife
Of q nan named MOlzeberger. baker living at
the corner Of Dryades and Washington streets,
but on srrivIng there. found to her unspeaksble
surprise and grief that her sister, whom she had
seen only the day before, had been buried that
very afternoon. She demonstrated with the hus-
band for having with such indecent haste hurried
her siaters (his wife's) body to the grave. Where
upOn. by her statement, he turned upon her aud
beat her.
1be poor woman was much sgitated during the
naT ration. She stated thattwo Gays ago ner sister
had been bearen by Motzeberger, aud that she
suspected that death had resulted In conse
qu-uco- sf- isjaFiss Esesissd-s This snsaicion she
said was heightened by the short period Of tine
elapsiDg between the death and the burial. She
further ssid that some time since her sister had
eaut.Cned her, in case she should die suddenly,
rot 10 allow the iDtermeDt OF her body until It
should have been examined by physician.
Acting upon these statements, Commissioner Nc
Duf snd Superintendent Cain az once dispatched
two officers TO spprehend Motzeberger and bring
bin to the station. They did so, and he was
brought down in q cab by Specials Marks and
Trosdick. and locked up for examination. The
coroner has heen notiipd of the affair and the