The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-05
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| President Buchanan.
The temperature yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer at @. Duhsmers, corner Bienville
and Chartres streets, was follows At A. NJ.
76 degrees: IL NJ. IS; 8 Pm. SO 6P. M. So.
| Eighteen candidates for the hospitslities of the
| state Penitentiary "went up" on Saturday to
| Baton Rouge.
Daniel Webster was arrested yesterday on Pow.
drss street for stealing pistol. Mr.. Webster be-
longs TO that class of our citizens who have within
| the last year been admitted to the elective fran
| chise. This second Daniel came to Judgment be.
fore Recorder Neville and was sent for thirty
days to the Work'us.
The contract for repairing the stable attached
| to engine house No. l has been adjudicated to
| John Page for $1,000.
1t is expected that Gen. Buchanan's order rela-
tive TO municipal candidates elect will be issued
| on Saturday. Every one is on the qui vive.
| COL Eugene Iisdale and Col. Morrison, of Mon
roe. arrived in town last evening by the steamer
| Vicksburg.
| We are indebted to Mr. VIM. o. Rogers, super
iLtendent. for a copy of the annual report of the
Board of Directors Of the Public Schools, for the
year closing March 3lst, 1868. We defer syn.
opss OF its contents until our edition of Sunday.
The pelican feeding her young is at this time
| ft emblem for the coat of arms of louisiana
| he poor old bird has been so much exhausted,
during and since the war, as to have been reduced
10 the mecest skeleton. The State treasury is de-
| pleted, and warrants upon it are at a very great
| discount. The cOrmorant. or carpet bigger, has
forced himself into community of interests with
the legitimate brood, and who ever heard of sating
| q cormoTantg
1t is due to Capt. H. F.. Sturcken, the prosper
Ous and popular manufacturer of New Orleans
lager beer, corner of Marais and Benville Streets
! TO state that it was not one of his wagons which
ran over and injured little boy at the corner of
| Orleans and Claiborne streets. Sturckeu's wagons
| are numbered l6 and II. and no charge has been
preferred against the driver of either.
house at the corner Of Canal and Galvez
| streets was entered by burglars on Wednesday
night, and quantity of jewelry aud wearing ap
| paTel stolen, valued at nearly fifteen hundred dol
| lars. The scoundrels opened the door by means
of an outsider. No clue has yet been obtained to
identify them by. The house is occupied by Mrs
| Goodrich.
1t is strange how many people, who have no
business in the recorders courts, will frequent the
| purleus of those offices. There seems TO be a
| haukerng In human nature to hear the worst side
| of every story, and satisfaction in Witnessing
depravity in all its stages.
The Republican clubhouse is on Dryades
/ street, near Canal. There is always a crowd
of black and tans within and without the premises
and STILL the proprietor has large tin sign hang
| ing from the balcony, with the words Rooms TO
rent" "And smeIt so, pa?"
| Several of the theatrical characters that have
| won great deal of admiration in the city, and
| have broken not few hearts, whilst performing
| as fairies. etc., are now in the habit of promena
ding the boulevard Canal. The garish light OF day
! gilds but TO fiout the paint and powder upon their
| salOw cheeks.
L
in the Fifth District Court. Eight darkies to four
| of the "Nhite trash " must have been a strongly
scented majority, this hot weather-not to say
| aught OF common sense.
A man named Boyce, who took passage on the
steamer j. ID. Backford, Wednesday evening.
| for Achafalaya river, died a short while after
| leaving port. The boat stopped at the stock
| landing, and waited until the friends of deceased
| were informed of the fact and a coffin was pro.
cured. The cause of Mr.. Boyce's death is sup
| posed to have been cholera mOrbus. He was suf-
ferlng at the time he went aboard, but neither he
nor his friends anticipated the speedy and fatal
| result.
A good many OF the officials about our District
Courts seem TO ignore the fact that these temples of
justice are courts of record, and that nobody has
a special order Oh the judge, given in open
session and entered on the minutes. The clerk or
| his deputy should consider himself simply as a
| custodisn of the records, which he is bound dur
ng his term to guard with the strictest care, and
should never allow them to be removed from his
office. 1t is also for the pecunisry interest of the
clerks TO observe this rule, as a certified trans.
cript will not only answer, every purpose required
but add considerably to the emoluments of the
position.
A youthful friend of ours whose time is not
wholly occupied, has figured up that each party
| in q set of "Lancers " extends his hands one
hundred and four times. and in the Imperial
\ one hundred and twelve times. Gentlemen of q
statistical turn of mind will please make note
| of this.
| yesterday,
struck with the singular fluctuations in the value
of property, and the turns from point to point to
| which business and commerce take in this city.
| This magnificent building is now closed and DESC
late. 1t looks like marble hall deserted.
| Twelve or fifteen years ago, st. Louis street was
/ the central point below Canal street. The har-
room and the rotunda of the hotel were daily and
| piRhtly crowded, not only with men of leisure
and wealth, but by merchants, traders and CAPT.
| talists. Canal street and Carondelet now enjoy q
monopoly, so far as business and throngs OF peo-
| pie are concerned, but q few years may see
them as forlorn and as little frequented as st.
Louis and Toulouse streets are now.
Four dodgers were accommodated, at their swn
| request with bunk and blanket, in the Second
| District station house, on Wednesday night.
| white man, name unknown, was picked up
late on Wednesday night, on Canal street, in a
| sick and destitute condition. He was transported
TO the Charity Hospital.
Coroner Bradford held an inquest yesterday, at
| the lake end, Bayou st. John, on the body of
| female infant that had died Of general debility.
Also on Willow street, near Julia on the body of
| colored male infant, six days old; general de-
biliiy. Also, on that of stillborn child, Poland
| street, Third District. Also on the body Of q
| male child, colored, corner of Prieur and 0bree
streets; cholera morbus.
HORRIBLE = The dead body of a child about six
months old was found by q negro privy cleaner,
| before daylight yesterday, in the sink No. Port
street. Third District and the fact reported to the
| police. Four women, inmates of the ho1se,
! named respectively Annie Ledwidge, and her
| daughter Annie Ledwidge, Johanna Dahorny and
| Ellen Murphy, were arrested. charged with being
| concerned in the murder of the child. The younger
Ledwi6ge ia stated be the mother, and il is sup
| posed that the little unfortunate was made away
with for being an incumbrance upon her unholy
and vicious practices.
DISTINGUISHED ARBrv AL. - Yesterday, about
noon, the Threshold Of our sanctum was darkened
by the shadow of tall, lank figure, dressed in
| blue cneck coat and pants, who stood there
speechless and motioness for several minutes,
smiling and casting occasional glance at one or
the other of the editorial corps.
His whole countenance was radiant with salts
faction, and at every moment his lips appeared
about to part in expression of some delighted Ut
tersDce, but an uDaccountabe cause kept them
tightly sealed and bis feet nailed. as it were, to
the sill of the door.
Finally, however, revolution was noticed in
his whole system; his facial nerves became
greatly contracted his neck sank far into his
shoulders. With a sudden jerk his arms were
stifened and brought to his sides, his fists