New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-12-05
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

~APHJ' uio uTlNer OF car NO. l3l, OF the
Levee street line, with shooting at him
while driving his car, on the evening of
November 81, 1868, on Peters street, between
Crossman and Levee. The case having been
completely made out by respectable citi-
zens, passengers then in the car, the Recor-
der committed the accused before the First
District Court. The prisoner furnished the
required bond for his appearance b. fore the
First District Court.
Joseph Clairville was committed before
the First District Court for having brutally
assaulted, beaten and struck colored
woman named Kitty on the evening of
November %, on st. Ann street, between
Dorgenois and Broad. The prisoner fur.
nished bond of $3.50 to appear before the
First District Court.
Felicie Washington and Jenny Douglas
were sent before the First District Court,
for having assaulted, beaten and struck
police officer named E. O'Neile, on the after.
noon of November 26, 1868, on Burgundy
street, between Bienville and Cont.
MIR. Stewart was committed before the
First District Court for assault and battery
upon the person of his colored servant girl,
Juliette, on the morning of November 2S,
1868, in his house, in Bayou street, between
Miro and Tonti. He furnished bond of
$3.50 for his appearance before the court.
How THE VERDANT ARE FLEECED.-James
H. Budd, who halls from Red River county.
Texas, called on the Superintendent of Po-
lice yesterday. He had but few days ago
arrived in this city, on the Shreveport pack.
ct Judge Fletcher, and came provided with
seven bales of cotton and few hundred
dollars in United States currency. 1t seems,
says the Bee, that he considered himself a
No. poker player in the country, and that
consequently nobody could poker him in
the city. Alas, for his Verdancy! All his
knowledge and science in poker did not
avail him against the cunning with which
the hocus pocus contrivances known in all
places of metropolitan pretensions like New
Orleans, as the ''little jokern is used, and al.
most before he was aware, one of them,
which TO all appearance was simply to-
Dacco box, was artfully enough Unanswered
by means Of double lids and bottoms and
expert hands, to lessen his funds to the
amount of SIS, which he foolishly ventured
on a wager, as to his ability to work it opt
of the mysterious box.
So far bad enough, but, alas, for Buddy,
after he had sold his cotton and had some.
thing like thousand or two dollars in his
pockets, he sought other adventures in the
hope, doubtless, of making back the money
he had lost = He came upon the identical
genius of the box, professedly one Ebony
Wright, who of course could afford to sym.
pathize with him, and treated and retreated
him till Buddy, adopting him as his chape-
rome, was handed around by him in the
usual style. He was taken 10 see the
" tiger - not the ferocious, but really less
harmless importation from Bengal at
Ames's Museum and Menagerie on st. Char
les street-but the voracious one, which al.
most anywhere prefers eating up mans
money to eating up the man himself. The
" tiger" eat up for him S760, when Ebony "
was kind enough to reappear, and tell him
he was being cheated. OF course this was
done-to make the least virtue of the inter
position possible-about the time it was ap-
prrent Buddy would bet but a dollar or two
MORE if anything.
Still such apparent disinterestedness had
its effect, and Buddy believed Tony" to be
his friend. Why not? TONY" hadn't swindled
him out of the S7GO. and so far from doing
it, had advised him of the fact that he was
being cheated. OF course, then, he would
60 with Tony" and he did. They went
together to a grand mansion on -
street-a young ladies' boarding school, as
Tony called it-where Tony said he would
him to some of the beautiful
young ladies of New Orleans" Buddy found
them both pretty and clever, till one of them
swore he had insulted her, and, by precon.
cert, of course, a row ensued. This Buddy
had to settle in the usual approved style,
which he did, by compromising with the
of the socalled school," by
paying her round $3.50.
His object in visiting the Superintendent
Of Police, Captain Cain, was to get his money
back. What he had paid at the "school"
thouse of i'll famel was fortunately recov.
cred, but the rest was, of course, irrecov-
cradle.
FIRST DISTRICT CoURT.-Yesterday. Will
liam Schultz convicted of stealing fourteen