The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-17
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL II. 1868.

| OF bon-bons and introductions TO the fair ana ~
eployed ourself hugely. The fair lasis for q week
you. 800 ~' ~ ~
pis NO MORE CRY MONEY TO BE IssuED-7z
Ptdtes Destroyed.-About noon yesterday a, in
uresung scene was to have been Witnessed 4
Me once OF Mr.. Schmidt. city enqraver. or
Natc6ez street. 1t consisted in nothing more q,
,sss 'nan 'ne destruction Of all the plates that
nave ever been1used In the engraving of city
currency: These plates, which have In time,
gone py been the cause Of SO many unfayorabje
impressions. were classified as follows:
Ihfee steel plates of rs, 25 IS. 25, So so cents:
n1ne sIeel plates Of I, l. 2, dollars one steel
paa'e OF ., o, o,5 dollars; one steel plate of TO-
dU' ~, ~ dollars; two steel plates OF 2O 20 20'
~ collars; all made by the American Bank Note
company; and five copperplates used for litho.
RIspnlc issue at the beginning Of the war. of de-
nominauon OF 80 cents, 81, 50, So and 81 which
were Dot made by the American Bank Note Com.
pany, but were handed over by the city treasurer
| naving been found in his vault.
nis nonor the mayor was represented bv hjs
seI,reT.sry. seI, hr. whitaker, while Controller Man.
DELL Treasurer Howell, and Messrs. CLAW. snI.
van, Marie and Sampson, of the finance commit.
zee OF the Council, were present. The destruc-
uon was effected by placing the plates success
ssy sa;sr upon ssss, s anvil and indening them with
thus efiectually cancelled. Mr.. Schmidt remsrkinr
that even million dollars worth of labor could
never render the plates serviceable again.
FIRST DISTRICT CoURT = J,idqe Ho,ce-Ap,-a
I6.-ln the cases Of William Sullivan, alias WIN.
Desmond, accused Of obtaining. by forged order.
from Mrs. A. Ludwig, three trunks and some had
DING. the property of Mrs. Lucille E. Winter. and
owen Duty, charged with receiving plated ware.
worth eighty dollars, knowing the property Ia
have been stolen from Mrs. Mary BIocke, the
district attorney entered noHe proseqa.
John Cunningham, tried for the larceny of two
sacks OF corn and two sacks of oats from John
n. White, was acquitted.
RECORDER GAsrNELs CouRr.-A charge against
Jefferson jackson, colored, of assaulting and cut.
ting J: b. Martin, with intent to kill. was ex.
ahmed yesterday. and was dismissed.
complaint against Henry Gayis. charging him
win stealing keg Of butter from on board the
steamship Victor, was also dismissed -l.IT
Samuel Martin, Fred Anthony and George
smith, negroes, were sent to the Workhouse
MARIN and Anthony for ten days, and Smith for
niesn days. for pilfering from freight landed on
John Henry, colored, arrested with chickens in
Dis possession, and unwilling to say how be got
Them, was sent to the Workhouse for sixty days
as vagrant.
=, The following cases we're sent before the First
District Court for trial:
Joe Paul charged with stealing three dollars
from Christian Roth.
George Taylor and Mac Alexander both colored
charged with the larceny of bolt of domestics |
nom on board the schooner J. d. Hnde
u. Russell, colored, accused OF stealing two
Market.
James Burden, colored, accused Of thu larceny
d PEPPERS valued at five dollars, from the stand
of Adele Roman. colored, in the vegetable
market. es
, Upon an affidavit made by Edward G. Kelly.
ssq., colored woman named Ellen Heath, re-
ldlng at No. 245 St. Louis street. has been ar
esied and held TO answer a complaint that on
eVeral occasions she has brutality beaten an or
'han girl, Lizzie Campbell, who is but seven
ears of age. '.'-