The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-29

| Jmmon deal tables and wooden benches. The
couneii, therefore, have furnished the apartments
oi the chief magistrate In manner some what be.
| hitting the dignity Of his station and the uses for
| which they may be occupied. In doing so they
had rgnt to consult not only convenience and
me ntness OF things. but good taste. The articles
| FOUND Do these rooms are placed there in aid Of
general design, and whether useful or ornamental,
| object.
In Egerton VS.. The Third Municipality, taxes
are held 10 be exempt from seizure since their
absorption in that way would defeat the objects
for which they levied, and might embarrass and
perhaps destroy the very government they were
designed to support.
seizure it seems to follow that the articles pur-
chased Tor public use, with. funds collected from
taxation, are also exempted.
WIN this view of the case the Judgment of the
court below must be reversed. M
Let the judgment of the sixth Justice of the
peace dlssolying the injunction filed in suit No
lOS2 Of the docket of said Justices court be re.
Versed, and let the said Injunction be maintained
and made perpetual, and let the articles and pro-
perry seized under the writ OF feri fdcids issued
IN SAID suit, be released from further seizure.
REcoRDXR NEvLIE's CoURr.-The business in
this court was not of a very interesting nature
Yesterday. number Of drunkards vagrants and
lewd women were disposed Of, in the usual
manner.
Washington Chsppell was arraigned before the
recorder, on charge Of stealing lumber from the
premises of Richard Murphy, on Liberty street
and after preliminary examination, was sent for
trlal before the First District Court. Bonds $3.50.
RECORDER GAsTINEL's CoURr.-Jean Montaine.
alias Bayou John, the genuine African with
tattooed face, who has been for many years prac-
tcing as "voudou" doctor among Ignorant ne
groes and creduous whites in the lower art of
the city, wss before Recorder Gastinel yesterday
10 answer complaint that he had frauduently
obtained from Spaniard named Cordero the sum
OF one hundred and thrty-fve dollars for healing
services, by falsely pretending that he was phy.
sicisn. John hed an array Of able counsel to de.
Tend him, in Messrs Wells, Gastinel and Drouet,
and as they extracted from the duped Iberian the
TACT that when he employed John as his " healstn
be knew the gentleman from the coast,of Guinea
was not regular DOCTOR" and depended upon
his charms. not bis physic, the recorder came to
the conclusion that no deception had been prac.
tced, and discharged the mystic John, who left
the court escorted by his counsel, with the air of
a man who might be paraphrasing a line of
Burns's-
The diploma is but the doctors stamp, the
man 8 the doctor for a. that and a. that"
justin ZarrassiD, boy about fifteen or sixteen
years OF age, was examined on charge Of per-
jury, alleged to have been committed in testimony
lie gave before justice of the peace in a case in
which bis father was interested. The recorder
did not think the evidence against the youth sufi
cient to substantate so serious a charge, and dis
missed the prosecution.
The case of William Norris, accused OF stealing
leWelry, worth 5000, from the premises Of
Jenny Deforrest, on Rampant street, was con-
tinued to the Sth OF next month, although the
Witnesses for the State we're all in court. The
continuance was granted upon the representation
that the steward Of a steam packet, plying be.
tween this port and New York, aud now at the
former city, is q material witness for the de-
fenFe.
d. W. Cummings, who was arrested some days |
ago for rObbiDg Mr.. Tobias, on the steamer La. |
foul che, was sent TO the WOrkhouse for six months
as vagrant, because Mr.. Tobias could not re. |
main in the city to prosecute.
Peter Leopold was sent before the First Dis |
trict Court 10 be ttied for having in his posses.
sion, knowing it to have been stolen, gold |
chain.
The charge against 7. Barclay OF having burg. |
laTiously entered the premises of Sarah Belay, at
the corner Of CustomhOuse and Treme streets, on |
the night of the 18th inst, was dismissed.
Henry Halleman, accused Of aiding William i
Sullivan, alias Desmond, in fraudulenty btaining /
several trunks containing clothing, etc., from Mrs.
l.. E. Winters was discharged, the prosecutor in
the case stating that be had no proof to substant
ate The accusation.
John Chain, colored, has been arrested, and is
held TO answer charge of stealing quantity OF |
clothing from the premises Of Mr.. Charles Laven-
Ter, at the corner Of Bienville and Rampant
streets.