The New Orleans crescent., 1868-11-22

vipIette " X's." and upon the face two numbers
40" were similarly pasted. bot so incompleteiy
that the edges turned up and exposed the sltera
ton st onte. ltmay be that the bill had just be q
received in good faith by the person who offered it,
and that he had no know edge OF ITS real charac-
Ter. Rnt st all events he was arrested by Corp
raj Craig and confined to await examination.
A coLoEsD BOY NAMED JOS ALBERT. aged four
teen years. shot in the mouth and dangerously
wounded white boy six years old, on Port
street yesierdsy afternoon. The ball was ex-
trscted by DR.. Lewis, and the asssilant was con-
fined in the Third District station.
DAVE HAWKINS was arrested last evening
charged with Tob0ing the till Of grocery store,
corner Grsvier and Liberty streets.
The MAIN POLICE JAIL illed, last evening.
with persons arrested upon charges Of "drunk
and disturbing the peace"
THE CHANrICLEER CLUB hold meeting Monday
evening. at their headquarters. over Pis.ers feed
store. opposite Magazine Market, at precisely.
New Constitution to be adopted. BE punctual.
DARrKG Acr.-sergeant McCabe reported
last evening, between ten and eleven O'Clock, that
a man, whose name he had not yet ascertsined.
was gsrrOted at the corner Of Common and Maya
zine streets. and robbed Of $365. Further par
sasrs no. Swag Spaa e 9Ol RS asA hour
lMPoRTANT ARREST OF THIKvEs.-Three special
officers, dispatched by Superintendent Cain to
Keuuer and furnished with a special locomot i've
Tor their conveyance thither, by the courtesy of
L. B. Williams, Esq, superintendent OF the Jack
son railroad, yesterday boarded the down train at
that point, and arrested FIVE noted Chicago thieves
bound for this city. They were brought in and
locked up at the central police station. The ar
rests were based upon dispatch from the chief
OF police at Jackson, Mississippi.
THE cosNANDISG OFFICER of company G, sixth
cavalry, has been ordered TO detail one non com
missioDed officer and six privates Of his company
TO report To Lieut. j. NJ. Lee, twenty-nnth infan-
try, A. A. ]. G. bureau OF refugees +. and A. L.,
for temporary duty in St. Bernard parish.
FIRST DISTRICT CeURr.-Frank Brown, colored
was convicted yesterday of having. the 10th of
June last on JohnsoD street. Third District of the
city, stabbed and cut, with intent TO murder,
colored woman named Ellen Elliott, colosed,
whom be followed and attempted tc rob. The
woman was stabbed in ten or twelve places, very
seriously. He was sentenced TO be hanged at
such time as may be fixed on by the governor.
John CTump, indicted with one james Gibney
for mule stealing, was convicted and sentenced
to one years hard labor in the penitentary.
Gibney was acquitted.
Dennis Robinson, colored, two years in peni
tentiary tor larceny.
FIFTH DISTRICT CouRT.-The Right Honorable
Osc " J. Dunn has as many titles as the late Mar.
quis OF Hastings was endowed with by birth. The
Right Honorable, ID bis simple canaciiy of chair.
man Of the Metropolitan Police Board, sues out
Injunction against Roberl L Diamond 10 the
words following, to.wit:l That by legislative act
September IL, last, all power over the subject OF
eqUippine, organizing, commissioning controlling
ami forcing police authority is vested in tie )ard
OF oce aud it is made their duty to preserve the
peace snd enforce the law and pOlce authority.
That by said act John L. Conway, mayor, Is ex-
pressy divesled of sll authority 70 make any ap.
pointment on the police or 10 interfere with any
th ne which concerns he police organization; tn At
by said act the appointment and control OF the
police exclusively vested in the Right Honor.
able Dunn. That Conway, mayor aforesaid, Is
also prohibited by two other acts OF the Legi-li-
ture OF. 1865 from making any appointment on the
police.
That notwithstanding the clear and expressed
probation OF said law and ia contempt OF any re-
bellion against the same, said Conway has CON
missioDe6 Robt. E. Diamond tas chef Of police.
That Diamond asserts his right by virtue OF said
commission to act on, control and organize
police force in New Orleans, and to deprive Dunn
aud tie board of the rights, powers and privi-
leRes vested IN them
That Diamond persists in his unlawful acts aud
iDteDts 10 disregard and set a. nOught the prOvl.
siODs of the act, destroy, overthrow and over.
power the authority vested in petitioner and the
board, and thereby create anarchy, riot and
blood and unless restrained and enj oned will in
fiict eparsbe injury the rights of petitioner
and the board and those of the public, which
they have in charge as members of the metrOpol.
itan police.
Therefore. pray the Right Hon. Colored Gent
and his board of metropolitan police that writ
of Injunction issue against said Diamond from act
ing as chief of police.
Judge Leaumont ordered the writ to be issued
on the Right Honorable giving security in the sum
of $1,000.