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

A SAUNTERING FRIEND in the First District has
brought to our knowledge distressing case of
ableet poverty and the starvation OF a family
composed of a mother and i've children, living Ia
back yard on st. Mary street near Constance
We already hear q thousand voices raised in in
credulous expressions, but we assure our read
ers that nothing is truer than this bare assertion
In the very heart of our city, within a block or so
of the Magazine Market, poor widow is lying
very i'll, with her five halfstarved children, tor
want of the immediate necessities Of life. Some
charitable persons, among whom the Howard As
sOolauon is Represented, accidentally learned of
this extraordinary case of destitution yesterday
afternoon, Immediately secured the services of a
physician, and are having their poor fellow crea-
tuIes kindly cared for.
This is not the only case that has occurred re-.
Gently in this city. Crossing the line of the First
and Fourth Districts, we had occasion, a few
minutes after hearing this strange intelligence to
drop IN at the drug store of DR.. POelman, at the
corner OF Magazine and st. Andrew streets, to
whom the case was being related; and, TO our
utter surprise, he stated positively that about five
weeks ago be attended a man who had had only
tWD crackers to eat IN seven days, and whose lite
was SO far exhausted when the doctor was called
that, notwithstanding the care bestowed upon
him, be had TO be transferred to the Charity Hos
piial where he died. The direct cause of his
death was starvation Ia the case of this man.
the doctor informed us that pride had prevented
him from applying to his friends for nourishment.
These two painful actualities did not conduce
ID render very pleasant our promenade in search
of items, and we returned homewsrd. On our
path striking contrast presented itself at nearly
every hundred yards; Notwithstanding the exces.
sive heat, music, dancing, singing and gaiety pre-.
vailed. Walters loaded with cakes lcreams, confec-
Il, neries, cOTdiaals and punch were passed around
amidst the laughter of handsome young men and
women. few blocks of death was slowly creeping
in at doors where bread had not been tasted for
days. Such is life.
The INTRODUCTION in this city of Mr.. J.
O'HSras plan of indicating the names of the
streets on strips of stained glass set in q light
tin frame and applied to the corner street lamps
is decided Improvement, the convenience of
which we iully tested last evening while vending
our way through the labyrinthine cotton
press streets of the upper portion of the First
District. Yet 1t must be remembered that Mr.
o EaTa's contract binds him only to place these
strips on the lamps and leave them to take care
OF themselves. The council could do nothing bet.
ter at the present moment than to provide for the
keeping in repair. of the excellent indie ators.
The cost could not be much.
The DEFICIENCY in the line of amusements at
this time of the year was supplied, a couple of
mornings ago, about o'clock by foot race BY
moonlight on Washington Square, although it is
whispered that the race was not entirely on the
square, ia which our powerful friend Col p was
Triumphant and the stakes good bottle Of Krug
with which the participants, bottle holders and
spectators dampened their excitement.
Apropos of physical feats, sometime ago allu-
sion " as made in the CRESCENT 10 a personal en-
counter that took place on the tags, in which
cane was rather vigorously used. The end of the
affair is not yet, but seems TO save assumed po-
etical turn, I'VE gods y creating no little mirth
among our German merchants of Carondelet and
neigbboring streets. The unfortunate gentleman
who was the recipient of the cAstigation was not
little surprised day before yesterday to receive,
through the Postofice, a recital Of his nisfor.
tunes IN pure German poetry, not the more fat
tsring for being in verse, however. His suspi-
cIOns falling upon noted Oculist of Canal street.
as the author of the epigram, our hero, who is
more expert with the quill than the sword replied
in the same vernacular, and in accordance with
the rules OF prOsOdy. Yesterday morning the
reply reached several prominent gentlemen of Ca
rondeiet street, through the boxes of the Post
Office, and was the most interesting topic of the
day.
AMONG SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS
stolen from the pocket of a gentleman, a few
nights since, by a crafty SIREN there was one five
hundred dollar note, which was marked in the
upper left hand corner of its face with either the
word June" or July" the loser does not re-
member which. The public will please take
notice, that is those of them who in the habit
Of receiving or handling bills Of the denomination
in question.
kHOOTING AFFAIR AT Pass CHRIsTIAN.-Beni.
II. Orr, late registrar of voters at Pass Christian
his g., and prominent member of the radical party
in that section died on Thursday evening" from
the effects of gun.shot wound received st the
hands of p K. Mayors. editor of the Handsboro
Democrat. The accounts of the affair represent
that Mr.. Mayors acted in self-defense, and that
the circumstances of the rencOunter were as fol-
lows: Mr.. Mayors, ii is said, had been threatened
with ASSASSINATION on the morning of that day,
and had in consequence armed himself with a
double'b arreled shotgun. About o'clock in
the evening, while passing along the front
street OF the village, a short distance east of
the central wharf, he met Orr and his son. the
former of whom accosted him and asked If he
lMsyers) had called him liar. Mr.. Mayors re-
plying in the affirmative, Orr drew a pistol,
" hereupOn Mayors fired, lodging a charge of
buckshot in his opponents side, so that death en-
sued in half an hour. Mr.. Mayors was himself
wounded by pistol ball in the left fore arm, but
whether the shot was fired by Mr.. Orr or his son,
We are not informed. The ball was extracted by
Dr.. Smith, and Mr.. Mayors subsequently left for
his home at Mississippi City. The deceased was
a member Of the Louisiana Convention Of 1854
Of the late reconstruction convention in Missis.
'ppi, and was at the time Of his death, acting in
he capacity Of q. S. commissioner at Pass Chris
ian. One Of the reporters of the CRESCENT went
10 school with Orr, at Jackson in this State, a
good many years ago. His reputation even then
VAS not to be envied.
A CRESCENT REPORTER had occasion to 90 out,
asst evening, on CustOmhOuse street, below Cla-
borne, Curiosity induced him to leave the car
hear the so-called lieutenant governors dwell
ng, in order to see if it were really true that
Oscar j. Dunn had relief Of United States
white regulars 10 guard the street on which he
ives. There was nothing of the kind. Dunn was
10 be seen lolliDg in rocking chair, in his shirt
'leeves, apparently just happy as big sun
lower that mods and bends in the breezes."
About the bsnquette, not far of, were half a
lUzen little olive branches of Dun color playing
md singing, who reminded the reporter of Dele
lsnty's chorus:
Happy little darkiss well have you all to know,
With the scientific movement Of the heel and toen
THE SHANIsH MAEo F-wAR STEAMER that came up
rom the Passes Sunday evening, still lies at the
GOT OF Canal street, in the stream. She is look.
ng out sharply for fbusterOs, and is doubtless
iere for the purpose of backing her catholic
najesty's consul in any remonstrance he may
make against armed expeditions, or bodies Of
leaving for any portion Of the Gulf
coast or the West India Islands. The ship is a
ocular clipper, low and rakish, and apparently
exceedingly swift Her only defect, il that il q
ieiect, is that she is q side-wheeler. She was
)uilt on the Clyde, opposite to Glasgow, for
blockade runner, and was sold in Havana, about
he time Of the downfall Of the Confederacy, to