The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-01
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eight Of his finest and best officers 20 attend the
fail meeting OF the Jockey Club.
As Indication OF the patronage awarded the
| private markets recently opened In the city, may
| be taken the fact that yesterday morning, az one
| Of these establishments, one bullock ana a half
i've sh,,ep, one hog and one calf were cut up and
| disposed OF 20 customers.
Our friend, Col. Dumopteil, at Bellanger's old
stand, corner Of Canal snd Bourbon streets, has
one Of the arsst and most delicate assortment OF
| fancy baskets and bon-bons poches that can meet
the eye. Oar personal experience teaches US
| that his prices are Of tie fsirest.
The umperatnre, yesterday, 90 shown by the
thermometer at q. Duhameis, corner Of Bieavie
ard Cha'trrs streets. was as follows: At 6 A. NJ.
a degreesi at IL N. AZ: aiSP. N. 4Oi, and r.
| n. 40.
Drunken men were unusually numerous on 81.
Charles street last evening -Four soldiers In blue.
efm In aim, were particularly observable going
down thu street, pitching from side TO side, and
followed closely by two or three policeman, wait
ing for the overt act sufficient to Justify the
merited Incarceration.
We suspect that the means taken to "see the
old year cut prevented good many from seeing
anything Ivy the time that midnight came.
GooD-BfE ls67.-It was q long sad year for
many TO some, though very few they are, 1t hss
brought no grief. Looking pack, most Of us can
doubtless nee down the vista the dark shadows Of
great sOrTOws, Of mistakes and errors. perhaps Of
grassy mounds where loves lie forever buried.
Here snd there rays Of sunlight fall upon the
path, brig hter for the darkness that surrounds
ihem. Bot. through it all. here We are safely.
Thousands have gone down in the storm, aud we
have been HpsTed W see Tie New Year, eo-ailg &
us with all its fair hopes and promises. Let us
take heart then; and as one who pauses for a
moment IN the struggle 70 breathe again. let ~
gird ourselves anew for the battle, and encounter
lifes troubler with strengthened purpos~-
ARRIVAL or Nh. DAvs.-IAst evening there
was considerable excitement on the levee OppO-
site Jackson Square. In regard 10 the expected
rival OF the Hon. Jefferson Davis. At six o'clock
there was gathering Of people on the leyee,
waiting for the arrival Of the Cuba, on which Mr..
Davis was passenger, but the ship was delayed
somewhat beyond the expected tive, and many
who where anxious 10 greet our distinguished
visitor were driven away by the keen, cold, raw,
air which swept over the wharf. Nevertheless,
some two or three hundred people waited for the
arrival Of the ship, and when Mr.. Davis came on
shore, greeted him with hearty aud continuous
cheers. Mr.. Davis, accompanied by Mrs. Davis
and another lady, entered carriage aud was
quickly driven of to the st. Charles Hotel. The
reception given TO him was very cordial, though
the extreme incemency of the weather made it
much less enthusiastic than would have been the
case under other circumstances.
THE LIEUTENANCY OF THE SECOND DISTRICT
PoLICE.-We are informed by legal gentlemen
that il is the intention of Mr.. O'Donnell, removed
from the leutenancy OF the Second District police,
by a judgment of the police board finding him
guilty of receiving brbes from gamblers, to con.
test his removal. The grounds Of contestation it
10 Us, are lndt t1e BOARD OF HOllce mas
legal existence, because, it is assumed, an order
OF Gen. Sheridan's, which has not been revoked,
suspends the provisions of the State Constitution
under which the board exists, and that, admitting
the board to have legal existence, it is Illegally
constituted, for the reason that there are colOred
persons members of it, who are not qualified TO be
members under the laws Of the State, aud who
have been enfranchised by the acts Of Congress
to the extent only of voting at teections connected
with the framing of an organic law, which en-
fanchisement does not give them the right to hold
office of State or municipal authority.
Mr.. Bradley aid Of the chief of police has, II ia
understood, been appointed to succeed Mr..
ODonnell. He is at present temporarily in CON-
maDd, and seems TO be very efficient officer.
THE NOMINATING CoNvENrIoS.-The convention
to nominate candidates for State officers under
the Constitution, which it is supposed will be
framed by the reconstruction convention now in
session; which il is hoped, by some, may be in
dOrsed by a SO called people, and which il is ex-
pected will be approved by a so-called Congress-
net last night in what has been respected as the
Senate ch amber of the State House.
The convention was a mosaic of unjust distri-
button, for the black the mulatto, and the quar-.
teroon to say nothing of the octaroon, surpassed
the pussy whiskers of the poor white trash SO
immensely that the black man trsmpled upon the
white trash " as superior men will trample upon
inferior men, when the inferior men assume supe.
riority.
The convention passed through ell the troubles
OF conventions ST the kind. 1t had its disputes
serious matters; but at bottom, the great dis
pute was, who should get the ascendancy.
In that "Our race" beat tha pussy whiskers.
The contest underlying all wa, who shall be
governor? "Our race" " intends that Thomas J.
Durant shall be governor. 1t is objected to him
that he has owned slaves that he has bought
and sold slaves, and thas, although, he says, he
has been an abOlitionist all his life, during thirty
years Of that life, as q prscticing lawyer in New
Orleans, he has instituted innumerabe suits,
claiming men, women and children as the
property of his clients.
The whites in the convention, and some colored,
favor Mr.. Yarmouth for governor, who at one
time was q supposed congressman, and, in his
progress to that high position, was mentioned as
genius who had the levity of a monkey aad the
gravity of an owl.
The difficulty of the convention was in the re.
port of the committee on credentials. There were
some disputed seats, which both the Durant men
and the Yarmouth men wanted. and the opposing
forces being unable to agree, it was resolved to
allow the committee time, until Thursday evening
next TO report to which time the convention
adjourned.
Cutting AFTA1R.-A quarrel occurred on st.
Charles street, near Common, in which one of the
cut by the other. The affair was the result of i'm.
bibstions consequent upon the holidays.
A BURGLAR SHoT.-Yesterday morning, about
quarter after O'Clock, a burglar who
had ei tered the residence of Mr.. Theodore
MarkB, NO. lU4 orange street, was 6n0t and
died soon after. Mr.. Marks and his wife
were awoke by hearing a noise in a room
adjoining their sleeping apartment, and pre-.
sently door was opened, when Mr. Marks
demanded who it was. Mr.. Marks is un Ter
the impression that at least two persons
rushed down stairs after be spoke. His
revolver was between the mattresses, and there
was a slight delay in getting it. With the
pistol in his hand he raised a window on the front
gallery, and got on the gallery just as one Of the
men was stepping out Of the hall door into the
street. Mr.. Marks fred every shot in the revolver
and the man staggered few steps and fell on the
baDquette.
The police coming up, he was conveyed to the
Psccshier station, where, having been examined
it was found that one of the shots had hit him
in the right side, and lie died in about an hour.
He was so exhausted from the effects of the
wound, when brought to the station, that he could
notspeak loud enough to make his name intelli-
gble.
He was of medium height, decently dressed
and seemingly from forty to forty-fiye years Of
age. Nothing was found upon his person but q
ten dollar Confederate note and an enveloO ad-
dressed to Henry Waller, on which was printed
the words, Postoffice Department. Texas" An
inquest was held by the coroner, and the verdict
was justifiable homicide.
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