The New Orleans crescent., 1868-03-31

tempted to create disturbance on the levee on
Saturday, are to be held by the police authorities,
subject to the decision Of the freedmen's bureau.
The controller will commence at noon to day car
ryng into effect the ordinance Offering for sale for
ten years the stalls. tables stands and appurten-
apces IN the marke Is Of the city. The sale will
commence st the French Market. at IL o'clock.
The Modern Spiritualists Of New Orleans cele-
brate their twentieth anniversary ct Eagle Hall
this evening. There will he vocal and insrrumen
tai music, speaking, and q christening BY spirit
Three thousand three hundred and thiry-ons
coored children have their names on the public
school rolls of New Orleans. s.sN
Richard Mcdonald has been sent before the First
District Court under bonds Of $500 on charge pre-
ferred by VIM. Cullinane, of having stolen his
mule and cart valued at $3.50.
The gentleman referred to by contemporary
yesiercay as having stabbed a woman while under
mental alteration 10 whose b, use he was room.
ing, has beea here bat few months, is between
4o and 90 years OF age and is In no wise connected
with Mr.. VanBenthuysen of Canal street. 81
The temperature, yesterday, as shown By the
thermometer at Q. Dnhamel's, corner Bienville
and Chartres streets. was as follows: At t6 A.
NJ, 40 degrees; at IL NJ, IS; ct 3 P. n, So; at
6P.N., So. 4rirat
We learn that the Senorita Filomeno proposes,
before her departure, to give an entertainment
for the relief Of the suffering people Of Eastern
Prussia. In this charitable object we trust she
will be handsomely sustained. ~
The police have not yet been paid for February.
Eighty dollars a month in city money is little
enough, even if paid with promptitude. But how
on earth can men be expected to support their
families and walk their beats twelve hours out of
twenty-four for such small stipend, SO irregu.
larly paid themg
1t has been grave question with us for some
time why there should be such difference be-
tween the charges of the artists of the boot black
persuasion around the Poydras market. and those
ST Charles street The pOvdraa r ot n Ia
charge dime to I" shine 'em up while those OF
st. Charles street charge only picayune. We
have for several years been giving our custom to
Poydras genman" of the colored persuasion.
aud we asked him the other day the reason for
tliis difference. Why. you see. boss" he an
swered, de difference is dis. Dem little nggers
on Sin Charles street, dey aint got no aouse rent
fur to pay. Dey amt got no wife and chilIun fur
TO feed. Sides. it cost dime fur TO git cup of
coffee now in de Poydras markit u " Bot why
do you drink coffee ~ was our reply. "You see
before you one who has not tasted coffee or tea
for three weeks" "Yes, but boss. seed you
jest now drinkin ov cocktail 10 the cofeehouse
opposite my standu We gave it up. s
His majestic hRhness, Prince Joseph Napoleon
Bonapsrte, previously consigned 10 the Work
house BY Recorder Neville, was yesterday liber-
sted by Judicial mandate.
We learn that Street Commissioner Baker was
Canal street, at Moody's corner, yesterday, by
Major Dave Powers, late U. s. A. The unpleas-
sniness arose, it is said, from the major inquirng
after those little pigs" s1
The flag at military headquarters was at half
mast Yesterday in respect to the memory of Gen.
Watkins.
bone boilery diffuses its gentle aroma over
portion of the Fourth District every evening" rem
deriDg the atmosphere all but intolerable.
The DEMocRATIc MEETISGs LAST NmHr.-The
Democracy of the Third Ward, last night, passed
resolutions requesting the State Central Committee
70 retire the ticket put in nomination, and elected
Messrs. Nj. B. Brady aud NJ. Lardner representa-
tives Of the ward in a parish committee. the crea-
tion Of which is recommended by the resolutions.
Col. J. o. Nixon, member of the State Gen.
trail Committee. was at the meeting and explained
the motives influencing the committee in making
nominations; that the committee did not regard
the election Of any one to Office, as OF the
slightest consequence, in comparison with the
paramount duty of defeating the Constitution
that is TO be voted upon, aud the supposition, in
the committee, was that the ticket put forth, il
nominations we're to be made, afforded as much
security as il was probable would be found in any
other set Of names, against a support of tle
Constitution. springing from thirst for Office.
Col. Nixon also stated that be believed the com
mittee would, at its next meeting, Withdraw the
ticket that had been nominated.
WTbere were numerously attended meetings In
the other wards, and at all the prevailing spirit
was adverse TO the introduction of any dscordsnt
or corruptiDg influence into the election, which
may JltTdCL INC puDuC mlDu lIOu1 luc great l3su6
involved in the Constitution, which is TO be voted
upon. ts9s
THE VACANT REcroRsHrP OF TRrNrrY.-A reply
has been received by the wardens and vestry Of
Trinity (Episcopal) Church. from the Rev. j. a..
ID. WiDgfeld, of Portsmouth, Va, declining their
cali to the pulpit vacated by the departure OF Dr..
Beckwith. A telegrapbic dispatch has since been
sent Mr.. Wingheld inviting him to visit the parish
and become acquainted with the congregation, ia
the hope that he may be induced to withdraw his
decIination the church literally Offering to pay all
bis expenses, If be come. Mean while the Rev.
j. Z. G. Smedes of Pass Christian, an elo Iuent di-
vine and esteemed minister Of the gospel, tenn
porarily fills the pulpit.
MoRTuARY REPoRT.-The total intermeuts in
New Orleans reported last week, by the sextous
OF the different cemeteries TO DR.. G. w. Drmeyer.
secretary Of the Board of Health, was so, of which
IA died Of consumption, from juries received,
committed suicide, of congestion OF the brain, 5
yaIioue feyers, malformation, heart disease, |
old age IA were still-born, ard the balance died
of various ordinary diseases. Forty-fve were
males, so females, and fifty infsnt9. Fifty were
whites. IL blacks, mulattoes, and not classified.
Twenty seven were under year, 10 between
and 10, 3 between 10 aud 20, IL bs.ween 20 and
30, between 30 and 40, between 40 and so. 5
between so and co. between 60 aud 20, 4 be-
tween 20 and so, between so and 90, l upwards
of ll3. and whose ages were not reported.
Forty six were natives of the United States, Is
not stated, and l9 were foreigners.
CHARGE BY CAR DRIvER-Michael Bran.
nelly, The driver Of car No. 33, Tchoupitoulas
street line has made affidavit, that on the evening
of the 18th inst. he was assaulted BY George Welt
more and Peter Klein. passengers In the car. The
afhfsvit states that while one Of the accused held
the mule the other stepped upon the platform and
severely assaulted him, "aga.nst the peace and
dignity Of the state" Klein has been sent for
trisl before the First District Court, and the case
of Weiimore is set for the 10th prox.
Run OvEE.--A man named William Burns.
while employed in unloading steamboat at the
ieyee yesterday morning, was run over by q
t uek, the wheel passing over his breast. 2 e was
Immediately conveyed to the Charity Hospital.
The extent Of his injuries was not known.
0BsEQrEs OF GEN. WATKINs.-The ceremonies
attendant upon the intsrment of the remains OF
Bevet Brigsdier General Louis D. Watkins, lieu
tensnt colonel Goth U. 5. infantry, who died on
Sunday, after briet ilness, were az imposing and
solemn as military pomp and circumstance could
rebder them. BY order from headquarters. the
Is; Infantry section Of battery K Let artillery.
and company G, 9Th cavalry, ell under command
o Lieutenant Colonel Wood. lst infantry, were
Detailed a. escort, and dttachmeut of sailors
from the eunboat Nshaska was also present, un-
DER command of the captain Of that vessel. The
troops Ten6ezVoased at Tiyoli Circle, and marched
thence al half past two TO the late residence of
deceased, No. 40f Apollo street. between ferpsi-
chore and Euterpe streets, where the funeral pro-
ceesiOp was formed, headed By the military baud