New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-15
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

| LITTLE PARAGRAPHs.-The report of DR..
| George W. Dirmeyer, Secretary of the Board
of Health, informs us that the whole num-
Der of interments for the week ending Sun
day morning was ninety-four. Eight died
! of consumption and seven were stilIborn.
William Dunn tried to part fighting
crowd of white men at cotfeehouse, 55e
Magazine street, Sunday morning. they
turned on Dunn, who, in self.deiense drew
pistol and shot Jacob Heigle in the right
arm, the ball entering near the wrist and
| coming out near the elbow, rendering am
p1tation necessary.
Louis Sebert's warehouse, on New Levee
street, between Sorapuru and First, was
robbed Saturday night of twenty hams, ten
sides of bacon, a barrel of sugar and keg
of gunpowder. All but the gunpowder was
carried off in skitf
Leon Desdunes, a colored man, was, after
the procession had passed up Saturday night,
stabbed and cut on Dauphine street by some
person not known. The wounds were over
the right hip in the small Of the back and in
the right arm near the wrist. He was taken
by the police to his residence on Burgundy
street, between Dumaine and st. Philip.
An enlisted musician. attached to the
military command at New Iberia, was ar.
rested on Sunday at the jackson railroad
depot on the charge of forgery.
The Jefferson Journal says the school
teachers of that city are paid in cash war.
rants on which only fifty per cent can be
realized, and city officers are paid i'll the
same manner.
Special Deputy A. Victor Ward yesterday
arrested A. NJ. Levy, charged with violating
the internal revenue laws and assaulting
Revenue Officer H. Warner while in the dis
charge of his duty, at No. 65 Common
street. Levy was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Warren and released
on bonds to appear for examination.
Edward Watts, 81 Orange street, suggests
that the party who notified one of mis- friends
that he, Watts, had only two days longer to
live, is not inundated by threats, tor he
recollects that it has always proved true
that ''the blood of the martyrs is the seed
OF the church." and that men who commit
outrages on individuals are sometimes pun
ished sooner than they anticipate. The
tnreateners may become the victims them
selves.
The wounds of Leon Desdunes, who was
mysteriously cut and stabbed Saturday
night, on Dauphine street, are not serious,
and he is recovering. There is no doubt
that the intention was to assassinate him
because he had been in the Republican pro-
cession.
The Crescent learns that the rectorship OF
Trinity Church has been offered to Rev. Mr..
Plat.
The popcorn man and hack-driver, in
whose carriage Recorder Becker and other
gentlemen rode in the Republican process
sion, Saturday evening, pay their money for
the insertion of cards IN the Times declaring
that they are not Republicans. The party
can get along without them.
Some two hundred passengers from the
North came in on the Jackson Railroad yes
terday, among them General Rousseau, the
new military commander who succeeds
General Buchanan,
w. C. Gray, who was sent out by the
Treasury Department to reorganize the New
Orleans Customhouse after the war, arrived
here yesterday, and it is supposed he will be
the Chief Deputy Collector under Mr.. Fuller
the new Collector.
The Robert Z. Lee brought down 1855
bales of cotton yesterday.
The residence of Captain W. B. Arm
strong, No. oil Camp street, was illuminated
Saturday evening in honor of the CRANE
Republican demonstration.
Governor Warmoth signed the Metropoli
tan District Police bill Yesterday. 1t will
be officially promulgated as law in a day
or two.
An attempt was made Sunday night t
enter the dry goods store of H. st. Armand
corner Chartres and Ursuline streets.
An attempt was also made to enter store
No. % Chartres street. In both cases augu
holes were bored around the locke.
The house of Mr.. Louis, No. 277 Caron-
delet street, was entered Sunday night. Tn,
burglars stole three coats, three pairs o
pants and four vests. The thieves vert
pursued and one of them turned and free
one shot upon his pursuers. A double
barrelled shot gun aud crowbar were lef
on the premises.
The body of white man was found yes
terday in the river at the head of Cana
street. An inquest was held by Corone
Ayila.