The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-02

schot ner load oi shells which he bou yht
| OF j. G. Weems. Stokes never gave witness
Sl5 ard does not owe him 81 so. Never made
! sDy arrangement TO divide money he might get
from McGinD; ten dollars borrowed money, at
dherent times. will cover all the monetary trans
seuons between witness and Stokes never sold
ballast or lime to the city Mr. Keane. witnesses
partner, sold q load Of lime to the city for about
| 81, which cost them $40. 1t was used for disin-
| fectmg purposes. Witnesses partnership with
keane was dissolved when witness went into the
department, and they were loading their last yes.
1 sci when some lime was sold by them to the city
( does not know how much knows Green, who drove
I awater cart around General Sherdan's residence:
| knows OF $40 he received from a man who was
| oveTpad by the city; the man told witness about
| it; witness asked stokes how it happened. and
witness told them the cart must be worked next
month without pay aid not know that Stokes
eveTreceived that money from Green until il Ias
stated in the papers since the investigation
opened; witness never got il from him, OF Green,
or any one; Baker instructed witness TO watch
Stokes, complaining that bis grounds were not as
remunerative to the city as the Second aud Third
Districts.
Gross, Erdmined-w Watched Stokes; discovered
nothing, except that the returns from Stokes
(FouIth District pcund) increased; did not warn
him, but attended the pound sales more closely.
The pony was brous hit to witnesses house about a
week before the date Of the sale or advertise
ment of the sale. Does not know who scratched
ont the date "Aug. Sd on receipt shown.
Wound up accounts with Kean over three months
sgo knows nothing of what became of the
money received for the horse that Recorder Ven
nurd bought from the pound. II is the duty OF
the assistant deputy street commissioner to re-
ceive and account for the money.
The committee then adjourned till Wednesday
evening at O'Clock.
THE OPERA HOUsE.-The drama has possession
of the boards al the Opera House tonight uDon
which occasion EugeHe Nuss French version Of
BOucicsult's sensational drama Of "Arrah-Ns
PCguO," entitled " Jean la POste," will be pre-.
sented, with a powerful cast; the fascinating
Amee Hlnry taking the part of Nora SteYng.
Mile Marie Hnry, Tile ThOler, Messrs. GrAvier,
seguin and others will appear.
THE LoTTI GRAND GERMAN OrERA CoMPANY.-
This remarkable opera company will appear for
the first time in this city. at the National fheasr
on Wednesday next, in Flotow's poetical opera of
Martha" which they sang last Tuesday in
Memphis to house so crowded that admittance
had to be refused at the doors of the theater.
The highest enconiums are paid to Signoras Frede.
rcci, Clara Lang, Dziubs and the gentlemen
members Of the company by the Memphis press.
We may therefore expect to see the National
crowded on Wednesday next. Single seats can
be procured in advance, without extra charge, at
the box office of the theater, or at Mr.. Louis
GTunewalds music store on Canal street.
The ALLEGED INFAETICIDK.-Mary Mitchell was
arTaigned before Recorder Neville yesterday
morning, to answer a charge of wlfuy commit
ting iDfanticlde by throwing her newborn female
infant into the sink Of the dOmicil No. 220 Thaa
sutet, Dul WIS ulsCndIgeu on lne lOllONlng yer
dict of the cOrOners jury of inquest: After
hearing all the evidence, and after an elaborate
post mortem examination by DR.. Francis Barnes
IN our presence, we, the jury, say that the said
child came to death by some natural cause M
known TO the jury, and that we exOnerste the
o.her from any guilt in procuring the death of
said child"
TIE DEMI-REPs ON THE RAMPAGE.-Ella Haynes,
Mary Powers, Amelia Jenkins, Hattie Wilson,
Jennie Holmes, Nellie Brooks, Alice Harrison,
Addie Freeman, Lilly May Addie Hughes, Nellie
Harding, Sarah Jones and Jennie Brooks. all
hoarders at a house of ifame kept by Nellie
OTIS on Basin street, enjoyed a general fight on
Friday night before the door of the establish
ment above named, aud the consequence was that
they spent the night in the First District station.
ArTaigned yesterday morning before Recorder
Neville, they were each fined $25, thereby in
creasing the treasury of the city three hundred
and twenty five dollars, for they were each pro-
vided with q sufficient quantity of money to ap.
pease the exgencies of the Law.
The ARREST OF MEssRs. F. J. sroKEs AND
j. O'HARA.-These paIties-the former an inl-
porant witness in the Baker investigation and the
latter foreman OF Mr. Marquee prosecutor of Mr..
Baker-who were arrested on Friday evening, un.
der circumstances already known. we're arraigned
yesterday morning before Recorder Neville upon
charges, the one OF carrying concealed revol-
vtr, and the other Of disturbing the peace OF the
City Hall. Sergeant Grey, who made the arrest.
stated on the stand that be had met Mr. Stokes
and inquired of him whether he carrisd con
cealed weapon, to which Stokes had responded
hat he had revolver and be offered to deliver
Il to the officer who took it into his possession.
witness then arrested Stokes upon the order Of
the mayor.
Recorder Neville did not proceed any further,
and upon this evidence dismissed the accused 70.
marking 10 the officer that the arrest was au ar
biuary and malignant one, and that the mayor
had 10 right toorder it. The following is the Law
Of the State applicable to the case
when an officer has good reason to believe
that any person has weapons concealed about
him. on proof thereof being made TO any justice
Of the peace, by the oath Of one more credible
Witnesses it shall be the duty of such Justice of
the peace TO issue warrant against such offender
ana have him searched, and should he be found
wiih such weapon, 70 bind him over to keep the
peace Of the State for year and on his fail.
Ing 10 give good and sufficient security he shall
commit the offender TO prison for any time not
eeediIg twenty days. BE shall also be bOund 10
appear before the District Court to answer the
charge"
After the action Of Recorder Neville had come
to the knowledge Of the mayor, he called upon
tie recorder and exhibited 10 him Gen. Sheri1sns
special order No. IS, dated March Is, 1867, for.
bidding the carrying of weap ms openly or secretly
The interview did not result in any change in
the decision Of the recorder.
The ROYAL STREET BURGLARY.-Four indi-
yiduals, who are charged with being concerned
10 the robbery Of the cigar store of Messrs. Fer
nandtz villa, corner of CustOmhouse and
Royal streets, few days ago, are, We under
stand, now incarcerated in the Parish Prison, and
between Sll00 and 1920 of the money stolen has
been recovered. One Of the parties Catalan
it is Tumored, has friends who must be very
wealthy, for they have offered bonds in extrava.
CANT sums TO have him released. Mr.. Villa, how
eveT-one of the parties TObbed-pe sistsntly re-
fuses to accede TO the proposition, and means 20
have the affair thoroughly slfied. A fifth
Isrty, reported as having he stolen lottery tick
cts in his possession, is said 20 have made good
his escape. We give the above from informa-
tion-not from the police-and if we are not cor
rect in the details, we believe that are in the
main. But we repeat it, we have heard nothing
from the police on the subject.
FIRST DISTRICT COURT.-The following sentences
were passed by Judge Howe yesterday:
Charles Joseph. negro, for the murder Of his
wife, Laura Joseph, by stsbbiDg her eleven times
with bowie knife, WIS sentenced 20 be hung on
such day as the governor shall appoint.
Anderson johnson, a negro, convicted of the
murder Of Celia Augustus, a colored woman, with
whom he was living a paramOur and who he
killed when she was asleep, in the middle Of the
night. by chOpping her with the edge and mash
il g her with the pole Of an ak, was sentenced TO