The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-05
Soral anteaigenre.

YESTERDAY and last night were wet, dissgrees.
BILE and gloomy in the extreme. II was too warm
for fire 10 be comfortable and the damp was too
penetrating for household or an Office TO be
without one. Thus far the present winter has
been the most unpleasant we have experienced in
this region since the termination OF the war.
Since the beginning of November hardly week
hes passed in which rain did not predominant over
sunshine. IL is magnificent weather, however.
for vegetables and We notice in the gardens about
the environs that cabbages, lettuce, etc., are
growing beautifully. No landscape in these fiat
latitudes can at this season afford more grateful
prospect to the eye than a vegetable garden with
its fresh delicate green horticultural "sass."
MEETING OF EPISCOPAL BENEVOLENT AssocIA-
TIoEs.-On Sunday night the members Of the va
rious Episcopal benevolent associations of this
city were requested to assemble in Trinity Church,
on jackson street. Owing to the inclemency of
the weather the attendance proved a small one.
The usual evening services having been COM
pleted, Bishop Wilmer stated that the collection
to be made would be devoted to the aid of Mis-
sion Sunday school in the back part OF the city,
and then called upon Mr.. Eug. G. Meslier, super
intendent of the school, to read the report of its
workings for the past six months. The report
showed that July 5th, last. the school had been
started with but six scholars. But that since
then it has grown SO much that one hundred
and forty names are now on the rolls, with an
average attendance of between sixty and seventy,
one Sunday there having been ninety present.
The school is located on Poydras street, near Lib
erty street. The pupils are all of the poorer
class many Of them being newsboys. At the
conclusion of the reporrthe bishop preached an
eloquent sermon, inculcaiing Christian charity OF
all kinds, more particularly such as is represented
by the mission school for which he asked aid. A
collection was then taken up, the amount of which
we have not yet learned, but which, it is feared,
was smaller than what such an institution de-
served.
AS THE TAX OF one per cent has excited great
deal of animadversion among our entire popula-
CRESCENT
petition of l.. Madison Day. attorney at law for
Injunction forbidding the State collector to levy
on his property, because of his resistance OF its
payment, a very interesting item of news. Mr..
Day has all along been prominent Radical,
supporting the measures of his party with strenu
ous zeal.
DENSE FOG has spread over the city for the
last few mornings, making every piece of furni-
ture, and even personal apparel and bed clothes,
clammy and uncomfortable.
THE NEW STATE HOUSE. As the so-caled
Legislature yesterday took formal possession of
their new quarters, il may not be uninteresting to
our readers to know something of the arrange
ments of the building. Ii is the one on the cor
ner Of Royal and Cont streets, which for many
years was occupied by the Bank of Louisiana.
The main room on the ground floor, which was
the counting room of the bank, is used as the
hall of tie House of Representatives. II is not
near so large one as that of the Mechanics In
stitute. The speakers desk is on a small plat
the clerks desks. The body CT the house is only
Just large enough to contain the desks Of the
members, the lobby being very small. gallery
about three feet wide, some twenty feet from
the floor, runs around three sides of the room,
and there spectators can take their stands and
gaze upon the motley scene below. The room
lac ks size and is incOnvenent in many respects,
there being no speakers room and the acoustics
being very poor. The last fault Is intensified by
the fact that the windows open directly upon the
street, so that the noise OF every passing dray
and gon completely browns the voice Of the
person who may be speaking at the time.
The Senate chamber is up stairs. 1t is small
stuffy room, barely large enough to hold the mem
bers, ard some ten or fifteen lobbyists. II also
lacks the usual spurtenances to chamber for
deliberation. There are but few rooms in the
building that can be used for committee rooms,
in consequence of which rooms in the neighbor-
hood will have TO be engaged. Altogether the
exchange from the Mechanics Institute is poor
one. That building was by no means perfect
State house, but the present small, cramped-up
quarters in which the Legislature is confined, are
much worse. Yesterday workmen were busy
getting a new flag staff up. from which, aeoo d.
ing TO the diotum of the Legislature, is TO float
the flag of "the best government" etc., etc.
THE TOTAL NUMBER of deaths reported at the
Office of the board of health for the week ending
at O'Clock on Sunday morning, was SO. One
died of guDshot wounds, of burns or scalds,
apoplexy, l CONGESTION of the BRAIN IL consump
ton, / pernicious fever, typhoid fever,
typbus fever, l fracture of thigh,
/ lockjsw, l paralysis, l smallpox, still
born, and the balance various ordinary diseases;
40 were males, As females, and not stated; 5S
were whites, 80 colored, and not classified; So
were natives of the United States, Is not stated
and % were foreigners; ~ were children under
10 years, between 10 and 20, l3 between 20 and
30 10 between 80 and 40. between 40 and so,
between so and 90. Z between 60 and 20, be-
tween 20 and So and between so and 80, and
whose ages were not reported.
A FRIEND of the writer has a favorite New
foundland pup, about two.thirds grown, which is
one of the most mischievous imps this side of
H-ades. New Years Eve as " Mouser," was
cavorting along Royal street with his keeper, he
spied large toy which afforded an excellent pre-
sentiment Of black wooled sheep. Ia two bounds
Mouser had the toy by the throat rolling over and
over with il in the crowded store, wraDgling and
tearing awey like mad, whilst the clerks, the ladies
and children Jumped back aghast, fearing the
dog really Yves rabid. The crash Of one Of the
show cases. upset during the one-sided struggle,
reused the clerks to a sense of the situation. They
seized upon pop guns, busters and other harmless
weapons at hand, and beat such tattoo about
the puppy's ears that he let go his hold upon the
maDeled sheep and took to his heels around the
corner, distanciBg his pursuers, who are now
making every investigation to discover his mas
ter. Mouser's peregrnetiOns have been postponed
indefinitely, or at any rate until the hue-andcry
dies away.
FORGERY on TIE UNITED STATES SUB TREASURY.
W 2 learn lldI Oh Inc @Od uit n lOfkcu CucNh iOt
thirteen thousand six hundred sl3 ,6O0) dollars,
drawn in favor of a we'll known mercantile house
in this city, and purportiDg to have been signed
by the chief commissary of subsistence OF the
department of Louisiana, in this city, was pre-
sented at the Office of the assistant treasurer and
paid. Several days elapsed before the forgery
was discovered.
Suspicion rests upon young clerk 10 the com
missaIy's Office by the name of Ryland, as being
connected with the affair. He absconded about
the time the check was paid, and his hand writing
appears in the check. The commissary pro-
nounces the check forgery in all respects, and
from the character OF the check, is able to deter
mine to a certainty, that the blank could not
have been obtained from his Office.
The person who presented the check at the
bank appears to have been q stranger, and the
check paid without any Identification or refer.
ences usually required in such cases. Detectives
have the matter in charge, but no clue as yet has
been obtained TO lead to the whereabouts of the
clerk or the person who presented the check. II
is supposed they left the city Immediately after
having obtained the money.
THE TEMPERATURE yesterday, 50 shown by the
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