The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-06
Sural SntelIi9ente.

REPoRToRIAL BREvITIEs.-Dr. Bradford, the
| coroner has appointed Mr.. Fl. Collier his deputy
AT the meeting of the Democrats Central Com
mittee. last night the mass meeting appointed to
| be held on Saturday next, the Sth inst, was de.
| ferred to Saturday, the 10Th.
| ID. W. Cummings, Frank F. sick and Frank
Ansley, all professional thieves, sentenced to the
| Workbouse as vagrants, have been released by
order of Recorder Gastinel before their sentences
had expired. They are DOW at large, free to prey
| upon the people of the city. The chief of police
| says Cummings is one Of the most expert " river
| thieves in the country.
About o'clock yesterday, a wood cart broke
| down across the City Railroad track, at the cor
| ner of st. Ann and Rampant streets and detained
! fourteen of the cars for fully twenty minutes.
| Although large crowd had gathered in the
neiRhboThood, no one seemed willing to lend
| hand to remove the obstruction.
| IL is said that the late Bernard de Maripny
had written his own epitaph but that il has un-
| fortunately been misaid.
| One OF the pODderOus steam engines, part of
| one Of the steam pows exhibited at the late Fair,
| has not yet reached its destination from the Fair
| Grounds. 1t now lies against the curb of Espls-
| made street, near the corner of Dauphin, and
| looks as though 1t would require several locomo.
| tves to extrcate it from its present position.
The requiem mass for the souls of those who
fell defending the pope against Garbsldi takes
place this morning at the Jesuts' Church, on Ba-
rome street. Rossini's Requiem" and the
"stabat Mater" are rarely to be heard together,
duu are etlUOm rendered so eUScllVely thew
will be rendered on this occasion by the choir
The proceedings of the School Board fzsr nrguu,
reported elsewhere, were OF general interest.
The temperature. yesterday. as shown by the
thermometer at G. Duhamels, corner Benville and
Chartres streets was as follows At A. NJ, 45
degrees at II NJ, 46; at M, 453; at
P. NJ, 455.
LETTER TO MAYOR HEATH.-The following let.
ter was received by Mayor Heath yesterday after
noon:
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH MILITARY DISTRICT, J
OFFICE SECRETARY FOR CIVIL AFFAIRS,
New Orleans, La, Feb. 5, 1868.
Hon. E. Heath, Mayor of New Orleans La:
Sd-The major general commanding requests
that you forward TO this Office official copy of
the proceedings of the City Council, held last
evening, relative to the election of a recorder for
the Second District of the city Of New Orleans.
Also a copy Of your message communication
upon this subject, sent by you to the council.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant
ROBERT CHANDLER,
Captain, Assistant Secretary for Civil Affairs
THE New DAILY GERMAN NEwsPAPER.-Al large
meeting of our German fellow. citizens, held last
night in the Fourth District adopted the following
preamble and resolutions:
WHEREAS, The DAILY German Gazette - In
| its issue of the first of February, contained an
| article headed Another New Undertaking"
| which, it seems, was calculated and tends to mis-
represent the objects and character of the move
| ment for starting new daily German paper in
this city by trying to make the public believe that
this new German paper would be a Catholic
journal, founded by the Catholic clergy in the in
| teTest of Catholicism; and,
| "WHERFAS, Such erroneous ideas concerning
| the purposes, character and tendency of the new
German paper would, If they be not cOntr addicted.
| induce some OF our German fellOw-ctizens of
other religious denominations not TO participate in
| the undertaking, which aims to provide for bet
ter and truer representative and exponent of the
| interests and views of the whole German element
! in this city ard State therefore, be it
/ HaNN o. aaesv, 1a.aIn arI H..
| do hereby declare as follows: The new daily
| German newspaper about TO be started in ths
! city shall be purely political and literary jour
nal, of conservative tendency it shall not rep
resent the interests of any particular religious de-
! nomination, society, corporation or party, but
the general political and social interests of all con-
| servstiye Germans residing in the South and
! especially in this city and State friends of con-
stiiutions law and order. The article in the Ger
man Gazette, above referred to, is therefore
rOneOus in every respect, and the founders Of the
| new daily German newspaper, amongst whom
| nominations a. q representatives of different po-
! liiical views, herewith invite all those of their
German fellow citizens, who. are aware OF the
| usefulness and necessity Of another German news
| paper, which shall better represent their views
and interests, TO join us and participate In the new
| enterprise.
| " "Resolred further, That copy Of these resolu-
| tions signed by the president and secretary OF
this meeting, be presented to the publisher OF the
| Daily German Gazette, and that he be asked 70
| cause the same 10 De publsheu 10 the next issue
! Of that paper"
BOARD or SCHOoL DIRECTORs.-At the monthly
! meeting of the board last evening designations as
! members Of the board were received from Messrs.
| ]. J. Z. Massicot and d. Stickney and accepted,
| and Messrs. John Psisy and Francis MIchenard
! were elected to fill the vacancies.
Mr. Ellison, from the committee on text books
| reported that the proposition to supply TIE
! schools with the Maury books had been Withdrawn.
| The special committee on colOred schools were
| discharged, by their own request, with the view
Of throwing upon the standing committees OF the
| board the supervisory duties that have hitherto
beer performed by the special committee.
Mr.. Kelly. from the committee on the cousOlida-
| ton of the Girls High Schools, requestedstO be
/ discharged from the further consideration Of the
proposition. Mr.. Kelly observed that although it
would be still advantageous TO consolidate yet IS
since the idea was suggested, the school TOR the
| Second and Third Districts had been removed TO
| more suitable building, and there had been con-
siderable accession of pnpils in the class lately
| admitted, and as il was probable that IN eonse-
| quence Of the insdequscy OF the appropriauon
! made by the council for the support OF the school
system this year, the high schools will have 10 be
closed, the committee had abandoned the project
| Of consolidation. On motion, the request OF Mr..
| Kelly Was complied with, and the committee was
discharged.
Mr. Baker moved reconsideration of the vote by
| which resolution was adopted at the last meet
ing, to discontinue the teaching Of French, in the
primary schools Of the First and Fourth Districts