The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-08
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alter meeting held yesterday, telegraphad the
engraver in New York, and instructed the engra-
yer here, TO print no more city notes.
The First District Court was not in session yes
terdsy.
Mr.. Roberts, recently q registrar Of voters, has
been appointed secretary OF the finance commit
tee, to fill the vacancy occasioned By the resigna-
tion of Major Carr.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis Is absent from the city, and
is on visit to some friends in Plaquemines par.
ish, previous to his departure In few days for
Virginia.
The temperature, yesterday. as shown by the
thermometer st g. Duhamel's, corner Benville
and Chsrtres streets. was as follows: At A.
NJ, GA degrees; at IL NJ, u; ct P. NJ, "a; at
Seventy i've delegates to the reconstruction
convention yesterday signed the Constitution
which has been in process Of incubation for
months past. Messrs. Barrett. Cooley, Crawford.
DeariDg Ferguson, Harrison and Ludeling refused
their signatures, and entered pointed protests
against the instrument. full report will be
found elsewhere.
The steamer "Lsst Chance, . while on her way
the foot of Washington street, and was so badly
stoved that she went to pieces. No body lost or
hurt.
Mr.. Samuel Weeks, the untiring superintendent
OF the fire alarm telegraph is still ,simplifying his
apparatus. The complicated machinery OF the
gongs at the different engine houses are tbeing'
changed for much simpler1ones. The houses Of
Nos. Is, "a, q and others have already been pro-
,i1ed with the new instruments
There was great futter at the City Hall yes
terday. The pretty and ugly teachers OF the
public schools were paid their salaries for last
month.
Mr.. VIM. Baker street commissioner, has either
removed accepted the resignstons of the
appointees Of his predecessor Mr.. Field, and re-
nstated the former incumbents who served un-
der him previous to his removal under Gen.
Hancock.
great many dogs are rowing about the city,
and are the subject of many complaints.
ST.. ANNA's AsYIux.-The lady directresses and
other friends Of this excellent institution have been
fortunate in securing, mstron, Miss Mary S.
Hill, q lady who distinguished herself 10 the late
war, by her sacrifice OF means in contributing to
the necessities OF the sick and wounded in Con-
federate hospitals, and the devotion with which
she attended them, gratuitously, as nurse.
During the few weeks she has been in the asylum,
the condition of the inmates has been sensby i'm
proved, for with fine administrative abilities and
great energy OF character she has that all essen
tial quality for one in charge of charitable in-
stitution-a tender heart and respectful sympa-
thy for the unfortunate.
Dolly DAvENPoRT.-This genial and accom-
plished gentleman, whose qualities an actor are
too well known in this city to need repetition, will
take benefit at the Academy of Music on T1es.
day next. The bill for the occasion will be most
varied and Dolly himself will appear in a select
piece. II the Academy is large enough to con-
tain the friends of the beneficiary, we win begin
to believe that Socrates was right in occupying
main skeptical upon shat historical point.
THE OPERA" The Grand Duchess Of Gerol.
stein" at the Opera House last night attracted
one of the largest and most fashionable audiences,
| and the operetta sung as well as could be
expected at first representation. Lambele,
however, was not in as good singing disposition
as we expect TO find her on Monday and tuesday
next, and when the same Operetta will be re-
| pested. To-day, Sunday, "0rpheus in Hades'
| and lie Capitaine Tic'' will be performed. OF
| course, the lovely Lambele will take the part of
E.rydice in the former operetta, which, as every
body knows, is by 0nenbach.
| A THIRD VEIN OF GAS STRUCK The Fire
| Alarm Yesferddy.-The Ere alarm about o'clock
| yesterday was caused by an extraordin ry rcum
stance. Some workmen were engaged in boring
for pure water, in the rear portion of the old
Washington Artillery Armory, on Girod street,
| which is being converted into soda water manu-
/ factory, when the shaft. having reached depth
of nearly forty feet. struck vein of gas, which
| is still rushing out of the hole with astonishing
1 force. One of the workmen imprudently ap.
| piled match to the spot, igniting the gas, and
the flame, soon reaching the ceiling, threatened
/ for q moment to consume the whole building.
| Columbia 8 and American Hook and Ladder,
| whose apparatus ere housed next door to the
| armory, were promptly on the spot and extin'
gushed the fire. This is the third time within a
month that gas has been struck at about the same
depth in this city; the first at hessrs knight
| Co.'s, on Gravier street; the second, day before
| yesterday, at the Shakespeare foundry, and the
third one yesterday. The subject is an interesting
| one, and well deserves the earnest consideration
| Of our scientific men.
ALLEGED RoBBERY.-A Strange AfdT.-Last
night young man, apparently about twenty.
| eight years Of age, whose legs are paralyzed and
| be moves by the use of bis hands, dragging bis
| lower sxtremities after him, came to the police
station Of the First District, and complained that
be had been robbed of about three hundred and
| ninety dollars.
His statement ia as follows His name is ]. p
| Wilkinson, and his family reside in South Car
olina. Having been in his present crippled con.
dition many years, his family sent him to the Ho
| Springs, in Arkansas, hoping that he might be
cured. After remaining there some time, with
out any meliorstion of his condition, they directed
him to return home, and RENTED him four hun
dred dollars. He arrived here yesterday on the
Jackson railroad, and, as he was endeavoring tc
make his way into the St. Charles Hotel, a cat
driver accosted him and learning he seeking fol
lodgings told him he could take him where hS
would he lodged cheaper than at the hotel. The
| driver helped him into the cab, and drove him Il
Weibel's. There the driver got of, and another
took bis place and conveyed him to coffee house
and boarding house, at No. SO TchoupitOulai
street, kept by Frederick Oertling. Mr.. Wilkin
son adds that be was put in a room of the upper
story Of the building, aud, while there, Mr.
Oertling came in with the last driver Of the cab
and the former presenting pistol, they com
PEELED him TO give mp all the money he had
about $500. They then left the room, an'
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crawl TO the police Office. where he made thes
| representations. Mr.. Bradley, aid OF the chief
was detailed to attend to the affair, and upon thi
| information given, arrested Mr.. 0ertlinR, and on
| John Gibbs, cab driver. Upon their bein
| brought TO the station, Mr.. Wilkinson identities
| them as the persons who. he says, had robbed him
and both were committed to prison on the charge
RECORDER NEvILLE's CoURT.-Recorder Nevill
osD congratulate himself upon the moral health 0
his district. There were very few individuals ar
raigued before him yesterday.
Nine drunkards we're fined five dollars each. an
three disturbers f'the peace, together With q
individual charged with insulting and abusing
| fellow-cfestufe, shared the same fate.
| G. Williams was sent to the Parish Prison 70
fifteen days, on charge Of stealing a pair @
| boots.
Ed. Murphy and Dominick Burns, charged wit
| creating row on st. Charles street, were ad
! nitted to bail In $3.50, TO appear and answer o
| the llth, and Patrick Hughes and Scotiy Brow
| were arraigned to answer a charge of violentl
asssalting and beating John Moore and fracturip
bis jaw on a line from the center Of the lower Ii
downward. The result was that Scotty was di
charged, and Hughes sent to the First DistriC
Court under $3.50 bonds.
Several other unimportant cases were COT