The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-11


now-don't say it is because the season is the
! dead of summer-it was the same way three
| months ago-hardly half dozen old ocean
brusers at the levee, sweltering aod bisterinR IN
| the heat Of dog day sun; nobody on DO ard but
keeper or supercargo; no freight on the levee.
none to be had by the cOnsiguees and the tars
that manned her on hervoyage across the Sea loaf.
ing about town and applying nightly for lodgings
at a police station.
A STEAMBOAT, q small sternwheel affair, touched
at the levee, below Canal street, few days ago,
and landed some bales of dry moss. The swarms
of negroes that impede business and passage at
the steamboat landing surrounded the pile of
bales. The owners, aided by the police, who
smelt very large mouse, pushed their way
through the OdOrous crowd, and found darkias Of
both sexes and all ages tearing the moss out Of
the bales and stufing 1t about their persons.
One OF the females had a protuberance pOsie-
TiOrj which could have rivaled the most recherche
of the traveller Bruce's Hottentot bellies. National
voters had pounds upon pounds of the valuable
but expansive commodity about their corporation
which gave them the obesity of London alder
man. The police arrested most of the moss thieves
and carried them off to the Second District sta
ton. The idle and reprobate negroes that fire..
quent the levee front, and impede all travel and
commerce, ought to be dispersed or arrested.
TIE BODY of an unknown boy was found float
ing in the river about II o'clock on Thursday
night, by one Of the river police boats in the vi
ciniiy OF one OF the Algiers dry docks.
sAM. B. EsPER, found lying sick and destitute at
Milneburg, on Thursday night. was brought in
and sent to the Charity Hospital.
ABOUT NOON YESTERDAY Officer Robinson, of
the river police, attempted to arrest a man named
Duffy, who had cut into a sack Of coffee lying on
the wharf, being himself in q dug.Out under the
wharf. The man. however, on being discovered
made his escaped, leaving the boat behind in the
officers possession.
A MAN NAMED j. ]. Ross, supposed TO be in.
sane, was taken TO the Charity Hospital from No.
1913 Canal street, yesterday. DR.. White accom-
panied him.
COMMISSIONER SHANHOE's COURT.-Mr. Victor
Anderson, of st. James, was brought up for
hearing yesterday charged with having, on the
10th ult., upon Madame COntesses plantation in
ST. James parish, assaulted one Stephen G bson,
colored. striking and knocking him down with a
piece Of scanthng with intent 10 Kill. Accused
was required to give bends of $1,000 to keep the
peace for six months.
RECORDER BECKER's CoURT-James Durham,
thief and vagrant, was sent for thirty days to the
WOrkhOuse.
p. Goodwynne and Mary Cavanaugh. for being
drunk, and Stephen 0'Leary cOlored for disturb
log the peace five days in the Parish Prison.
Ellen Moran, ten days in the Parish Prison for
drunkenness and obscene language.
Polk Hancock and Robert Manaska, for vagran-
cy, thirty days each in Workhouse.
Mike McCabe, arrested in the police Office as a
vagrant, was sent to the Workhouse for six
months.
Miles sharkey, charged by Ex-Coutr oller Man.
dell with embezzlement was sent before the First
District Court having waived an examination be-
fore the recorder. Bail fixed at $4,000.
r. Sinmiliue, charged with obtaining money
under false pretences, was sent before the First
District Court.