The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-27
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REPORTORIAL BREvITIKs.-0n Monday after
noon, a horse attached to a buggy ran away on
Josephine street, near Magazine, upsetting the
vehicle and dragging the occupant, Mr. Gustave
Troy, some distance, bruisiDg and otherwise in
juriDg him seriously, though, it is believed, not
fatally.
Columns may be written and the air may be
resonant with speech on the subject of govern
ment and what is called reconstruction, bat the
simple fact that Grand Jury representing the in-
quisitoral authority of great city, such as New
Orleans is, has two members who cau neither read
nor write, and who signifed their approval of the
presentment made to the First District Court, in
relation to the misconduct of the chief of police
by putting their mark under the document, is to
mankind the most instructive lesson as to the ben.
efts that are to accrue to society from class Of
people called intellectual men" whose lives are
spent in grating changes IN politics, in religion
and in morals, and who, in country where a
sound public sentiment prevailed, would be con-
signed either TO the lunatic asylum or the peniten.
tary.
MesfrSIJesse X. Bell, David C. McCann, Frank
Seymour, J. NJ. G. Parker and f. F. Dewing have
furnished the requisite security for the appear
snee OF Mr.. A. S. Mansfield, when called upon,
Early yesterday morning man named Henry
Hynson, said TO have been in liquor sustained
serious injuries by falling from sn upper window
Of the house No. Ill Rampant street to the pave
ment. BE was conveyed to the Charity Hospital.
The temperature yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer at G. Duhamefs, corner Benville
and Chdrtres streets, was as IOuOW5: Al b 4. n.
u degrees; II NJ. 81; 3 Pm. 81 ; 6P NJ. 50.
The WINE CAsEs.-The first three or four Of
some seventy suits brought by the United States
IN 1866, against Bordeaux and New Orleans mer-
chants, came up for trial before his honor Judge
Durell in the United States District Court, yes.
terdsy morning. Previous TO the calling up of
the cases Mr.. District Attorney Torrey introduced
to the court Mr.. Judd, Of Illinois, special solicitor
Of the treasury department, who appeared on
behalf Of the government in these causes. Hon.
| Randel Hunt and E. C. Billings, Esq, were also
| in attendance for the United States. The proc
tors for claimants in the cases called yesterday
were Messrs Schmdt& Tissot and Mr.. Casters. An
unusually large number OF the legal fraternity
were present, and exhibited the greatest int.
rest in the proceedings,
Messrs. Schmidt & Tissot asked for a contnu-
| ance on the grounds that five new and additional
articles TO the libels Of the government we're filed
eI pdTte, on the 22d; that the proctors were not
notified thereof until the Esd that time had not
been given to answer, or in any other way to meet
| the new averments OF the hbellant; that ne "
matter had been brought into the lbels to the sur
/ prise Of the claimants, and justice demanded q
/ continuance for reasonable time.
Special solicitor Judd responded that the bssi;
/ for the amendments appeared upon the face oi
/ the papers in the case; that the government
would take no advantage Of the fact that tbs
claimants had not answered to the new alega