The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-01
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informed mat, previous 10 his departure, a ban
quet will be rendered him by the members Of the
Grand Coz sistory.
Dan Bryant, the Irish comedian, arrived here
on Thursday evening.
Col. Orvle E. Babcock, of Gen. Grants staff
reached this city from Mexico on Wednesday,
and passed through en- route for Washington.
some thirty boxes and packages OF books and
pamphlets, sent TO the Louisiana State govern.
ment by the authorities of other States remain
in the hands of the express company, awaiting
payment of the transportation charges due upon
them. The State treasury being empty, the books
remain uDcalled for.
Mayor Heath has directed the city surveyor to
attend TO the leVees in the Third District imme.
dately.
The Academy of Husic's latest street posters
are models of beauty and patriotism. They an.
nounce the adjournment Of the convention, and
the safety of the country.
Ii Is said of Mr.. Fred. Shaw, the gifted vocalist
late of the Olympic, that ali the flowers thrown
TO him upon the stage were sacredly preserved
and deposited each Sunday upon the tomb Of his
departed wife. such tsuder-ard st0tsrsias deyos
new German daily newspaper for this city is
talked of. Prominent parties have the matter in
hand, and meeting has been called.
The Chicago Tribune of the 2Sth ult. contains
dispatch from Nashville, as follows: "a gentle.
man who arrived in this city this morning by
railroad from New Orleans, reports that sixty
persons died in that city from cholera last week,
aHd that the disease is on the Increase There
was but one death from ehoerla reported last
week. Does this show the disease to be on the
increase!
The temperature. yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer NJ G. Duhamel's, corner Bienve and
Charities streets, was a. follows: At 6 A. NJ, IS
degrees at IL NJ, 40; at P. M, Al; at
p. M, As.
A colored delegate in the convention, few
days since, seriously quoted IS coming from scrip
ture, the expression, Let every tub stand on its
own bottom
The colored pages in the convention in distribut-
irg copies of the evening papers evince a ma
Jestic oblvlousness Of the reporters, who help to
make those papers.
Jefferson will play all through the coming week
at the Varieties.
One of two horses attached to a carriage. fell
upon the pavement of st. Charles street, near
Union, last evening, and collected crowd around
him in twnking. IL was some time before the
animal was set upon his pins again.
The evils of split tickets are no longer con.
fined to election days. Beware of the split car
tickets On which some ingenious knaves have
beenTealiZiDg one hundred per cent. profit.
Mr.. @. S. hattesOn, proprietor Of the bonded
wsrshouse recently destroyed by fire on New
Levee street, offers reward Of one thousand
dollars for the detection and conviction Of the in
ceUdiary.
Hattie Hartman the orphan girl who was an in.
mate of the Jewish Widows and Orphans Home,
and who was burned so badly on Thursday, by her
clothes taking fire from a stove, died yesterday
morning of the injuries she received.
Foucher and St. Joseph streets, on swaking yes
terday morning. found her infant child. five months
old, dead beside her in the bed, having been
smothered by over covering.
The German Catholics of the city are consider
ing project for the establishment of daily Ger.
man paper.
The council having failed to meet last Tuesday
night and do anything in regard to the levee in
the Third District, Mayor Heath has assumed the
responsibility of directing the surveyor to make
the repairs
Stokes. whose evidence has been so pointed
against Baker and the mayor, again before
the investigating committee of the Board of Al
deTmen last evening. While in the City Hall,
waiting TO be called. a revolver was taken from
him by police officer Grey. Stokes said he had
armed himself because he had heard he was to be
handled roughly for his evidence. The officer had
Instructions from the mayor TO arrest Stokes for
carrying concealed weapons as soon as he had
concluded his evidence, and he was accordingly
arrested and put in the lookup.
The motto of the street commissioners goat.
catching gang:
"Nannie, wilt thou gang with met"
THE broken LEvEEs.-We accompanied Mayor
Heath on his visit TO the broken levees of the
Third District yesterday, and found that the re.
port Of the city surveyor, communicated TO the
Common Council few weeks since, was not in
the least exaggerated. At post Sc the break is
fully two hundred feet long, all the bulwarks are
swept away, and the river now runs within few
feet of the outer curb Of the street; further
down, and couple of hundred yards this side of
the Ursulines Convent, break Of over 600 feet
exists and still another not quite so long, is fast
encroaching upon the land opposite the Asy-
lum Plantation" The lower board OF the council
has already passed a resolution authorizing the
controller to take immediate steps to prevent any
disaster that might occur from these cavings,
but the upper board has not met since its pas
cage. Mayor Heath has, however, judciouSly
concluded TO order that the work Of reconstruct
ing these levees be commenced at once.
BURGLARY.-The grocery store of Mrs. Adams,
at the corner Of Franklin and Jackson streets
was broken into about 9 o'clock on Thursday
night and the cash box robbed Of thirty dollars.
No clue TO the perpetrator has been found.
ACCIDENT BY RASH DRrvING.-Edward Sheehsn
was arrested yesterday on Magazine street for
being drunk and rashy driving his dray into street
railroad car No. q, and severely wOunding.a boy
named Patrick Kenny in the head. Officer Brown,
who made the arrest, states that the car being
driven at an unusual rate.
The CIVIL CoURTs.-In the case OF Robert s.
Lakey vs. the steamship Sherman, for twenty-five
thOusandidollars, for damage done by The steamer
TO the ship Theodore KnOop, by running into her,
on the bar at the mouth Of the Mississippi, which
case has been on trial before the Third District
Court, Judge Emerson presiding, the jury "a
unable TO agree upon verdict and was dis.
charged.
In the Fifth District Court, c. s. Matte on &
Co. have entered suit against l.. p. Seeleye as
agent of the Western PhGnix Irslrance Company
of Chicago, for ten thousand dollars. amount Of
insurance which plaintiffs aver defen ant had
verbally bound himself TO take on whisky and ad.
vances on whisky stored in their bonded ware.
house, on Fulton street, which was destroyed by
fire on the tight OF the 24ih ult. Plaintiffs say in
their petition that defendant refuses to pay more
than sixteen hundred dollars, denying that they
had agreed to insure any more.
THE BAKER INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE.-This
committee met again last evening; Mr.. JOubert in
the chair, and Messrs. Sterry, Straight and Mary
present.
Crosse examination Of r. j. .Sokes resumed
Witness was in the habit, within the last two or
three weeks Of his time in the street commission.
department of receiving proceeds of sales st
the pouud. Previous 10 that time the pound
keeper received the money. The pound keeper
keeps the records Of the sales. McGinn paid him
$50 for cleaning CUTTERS which he did by order of
X. ". Stanley. II was the duty Of Mr.. McGinn to
clean the cutters, $50 Mr.. Baker and Mr.. Brown
informed me-" The corporation is cleaning them
still. When witness said that he had signed no
pay rolls within the past two or three months, he
referred TO pay rolls Of carts. Witness signed the
pay rolls Of laborers. Saw a carriage house for
the mayor and stable for the street commission