The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-18
Tural Sntellisente.

REPoRToRIAL BREvIrIEs.-An unknown friend
has sent us q number of the "Southern Police
Gazette and New Orleans Firemen's Journal"
edited by Casey & Boehler, August II, 1853 1t
has an engraving of Vigilant Fire Company No.
3, and good many items of local interest at the
time of publication.
The very Interesting case of McCubbin, tutor
of his minor children, against Samuel Hastings
the well known druggist at the corner of Felicity
and Magazine streets, is still undergoing the te-
dious process of the law 10 the Fifth District
Court. There are Eve negroes on the jury and
we ere curious to learn the verdict. The incest
technicalities, both in law and in medicine. well
as all the moral responsibilities for which the
ablest legal acumen has been exercised to find
the proper restraints and penalties, are to be sub
mltted to-day or TO morrow to the arbitration of
personsges who really know naught above the
heft of an axe or the guidance Of plowshsre.
The damages are fixed at $35 600. The idea of
able and educated at Orneys pleading upon such
questions before a july partly composed of ne
groes, unfortunately selected from the mass Of
voters, whether able to read or write, to under.
stand the value of an oath, or the difference be-
tween two and four, but simply because they are
voters, is as absurd as that OF a msdmau deliver.
ing an address 10 a wild animal in a menagerie.
1t Is just as congruous. We should like TO hear
Judge LeaumOnt's charge to that jury. He Is q
man Of excellent judgment aud OF ready wit, but
he will have to descend to the childish platitudes
Of Thomas Jefferson Durant, at Mechanics To-
sttute, Tuesday evening, if he doesn't want TO be
incomprehensibls to portion of his jurymen.
One day last week, q gander was on duty y
near the New Canal Basin, in keeping guard over
a flock of goslings. which led to a rencounter be
tween his gaudeTshp and a rooster. The contest
however, was of short duration, for the gsnder
seized the cock by the neck aud straightway few
into the canal, where he thrust his antagonist
under water, and there held him until he was
dead.
An unsophsticated youth yesterday made the
memorable remark that there never ID much rain
in very dry times.
The rain fell in torrents yesterday from one
O'Clock TIL after two. The cutters overlooked
and nobody could pass along any of the thorough
fares without wading. Heavens artillery
thundeTed in the skies, and sent its bolts 80 near
the house roofs as 20 stsrte our citizens out of
their equanimity. The alarm bells were rung at
short intervals by the fTsky lightning, and created
considerable stir among our gallant fire boys. IL
seems TO Us that the many lines Of telegraph be-
longing TO the hre alarm concern must serve very
efficiently as non-cOnductors during a thunder
storm.
Gov. Baker has appointed Messrs. Wesley Con.
ner, of Concordia, and j. Q. a. Fellows, of JEFF
feTson, members of the Levee Board, vice Messrs.
FOrstali and Smith resigned.
Our estima5le friend Mingle is q candida ate for
reelection to his old place of superintendent of
the fire alarm telegraph. Mr.. Mingle is one of
the readiest and most scientific operators ia the
country; is an excellent fellow socially and
morally; and it is in great measure due TO his
efforts and intelligence that the New Orleans fire
telegraph has been made the best in the country.
Among the radical candidates for driver of the
Black Maria under the new regime, "0mnbus
Bill " is said to lead the van.
A great many Of our readers have never seen
Il curious stores on Chartres street, below st.
Louis, full of strange birds and little quadrupeds.
Rabbits, guinea pigs, golden pheasans, kittens of
rare varieties, all sorts of Chinese, Japanese,
English and Spanish fowls parrots from every
quarter, owls, are to be found there on the floors
a. liberty, or confined in cages; canaries, bull
inches, jack.daws, nightingaes-in fact, every
bird, almost, whose picture is to be found in
book on ornihology. There is q continuous
chirping and squesking in these strange recspts.
cles-aDimal life in all its restless vivacity The
odor from all these furred and feathered crea-
lures, though not OF the most pleasant descrip.
ton, is nevertheless not insupportable, being
something like the smell experienced in tue mena-
gerie on st. Charles street, opposite the great
hotel. There are, besides, all sorts of Mediterra-
mean and East Indian sea shells, and other marine
curiosiiies. II our lady readers desire to get
Glove of a bird,n rabbit or any other similar
pet, they should go, in the morning, particularly
Of Sunday morning, when great many people
visit the French Market and call in at one or other
Of these three bird and pet stores. They are all
on Charires street-two opposite each other, just
below the st. Louis Hotel, and the third near st.
Peter street.
That was an excellent idea to make transverse
culvert at the corner of Canal street and Elk.
change Alley, to carry the surplus water, which
oyerhows the street at that point over from the
lower side of Canal street into the gutter next to
the neutral ground. This culvert was made as an
experiment +; and its working yesterday was of
such character as to prove cOnelusively that
every corner on our principal boulevard, from the
levee to Rampant, or even to Claiborne street,
should be provided with culvert. The corner of
Exchange Alley was entirely above water whilst
Moody's corner was impossible for upwards of an
hour.
John Labe was arrested on st. Charles street,
yesterday, as fugitive from the Insane Asylum.
Messrs. WarmOth and Dunn, governor and
lieutenant governor elect, are said to have quail
fed themselves on Monday before one of the JUS
tees of the Supreme Court of the State, by TAX.
ing the necessary oaths.
Buffalo Annie," a gentle female who dis
turbed the peace, has commenced a half. year
visit at the WorkhOuse.
cage containing mocking bird, supposed to
have been stolen, was found on Triton Walk
yesterday morning by the officer On the beat, and
can be reclaimed at l43 Magnolia street.
The temperature yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer at O.. DuhamePs, corner Bisnvile
and Chartres streets, was as follows At A. NJ.
a degrees; II Il. 81; Pm. 80; 6P.M II. a.
We learn that the Isrsetes of this State have
commenced moving in the presidential campaign,
and will shortly circulate for signatures an
address to the Louisiana delegation 10 the Demo-
cratic convention which is to meet in New York
on the 4th of July next. The address will be
scathing in its denunciation of the general
commanding our armies" and urgent upon the
nomination Of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock for
the presidency.
Paul Zambelli had an affidavit made against
him at The Second District police station yester
dsy, by H. +. HozeD, for malicious mischief
Coored KATE Lee, and her dusky competitor,
Anne Brown, we're arrested on Bourbon street for
fighting and disturbing the peace.
A gentleman, Of respectable appearance, was
run over, yesterday forenoon. at the corner of
Rampant and Canal streets, and seriously injured.
Two hOrsemen were racing at full speed up Ram
part street, as the gentleman in question was
crossing, at the corner mentioned, when ne was
stricken down under the horses hoofs, his fore
head dreadfully gashed, and his front teeth
knocked down his throat. Although the horses
we're checked for a moment by the unfortunate
obstruction, the riders pushed on in their up
Cana. street, altogether careless whether their vic
tim was killed or not. We are told that, though
they we're not in uniform, there were certain pc
culisrities in their dress which showed that they
were not civilians. We hope the matter will be
investigated.
Some of the silverware contributed temporarilG
for at the Brsine festival has been taken away