The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-09
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RAIN AGAIY-nothing but rain. Since years
and years-going almost beyond the memory OF
the ''oldest inhabitantr there never ms been SO
any and 80 warm winter in New Orleans. IL
this change caused by the convulsions of the
earth and ocean in and around toe island Of st.
Thomas: aeeelerating the currents of the Gull
Stream
TIE EFFICIENT SUPERINTENDENT of the New
Orleans Fire Alarm Telegraph, gives notice to
the people that between the hours of three and
hslfpast four this afternoon the city bells shall
toll one hundred strokes in token Of esteem, re.
gret and reverence for the great and honored
man who late commanded the fifth military de-
psrtment tits well, Mr.. Mngle, and very sppro.
priately and gracefully done.
Two CAR LOADS OF WHEAT, being portion Of a
lot of 800 600 bushels purchased for transhipment
at this port, upon foreign bound vessels. left Cedar
Falls, Iowa, on the 30th ult., aud being thence
conveyed by rail to Cairo, will there be shipped
via the river 10 this city. This will 10 all proba.
bity be the first lot of western grain to be stored
Il the warehouses of the New Orleans Elevator
Company.
THE TEMPERATURE yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer at G. Duhamel's, Ill Canal street,
lately corner Bienvile and Chartres streets. was
as follows: At A. Il. 62 degrees; Ia \. IS; 3
Pm. 6S; P. NJ. 66.
PosTPoNEMENr-The dramatic entertainment Of
the Stonewall Dramatic society, which was to
have taken place on Thursday night, has been
Of the illness of one OF the principal performers.
The NUMEROUS FRIENDS of that jolly tar, H. E.
McDufie, late navy captain in the so-called,' y
will be pleased, Just es we have been, to learn
that he is now living in clover at Oxford, Miss,
after having recovered from long and serious
illness. Watch out for McDufie, young ladies at
Oxford. If he proves as gallant carpet knight
as he was a brave and steadfast soldier, both on
the sea ard on the land. God help your hearts.
Mac has the gift of the Dlarney and, true as steel
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all be can: F." and, like all sailors. particularly
those from the green shores, he has sweetheart
in every port.
LAST NIGHT the weather was unpleasant in the
extreme, drizzling misty rain making every one
more or less gloomy. The glorious Eighth, under
the circumstances, was universally deemed fail.
ure, and an impartial observer would have been
forced 10 acknowledge that so far as any public
or general demonstration was C concerned the llth
or 18th or any other ordinary day would have dis
played as much.
There was however. one notable exception to
the prevailing apathy. The ball OF Magnolia
Lodge No. %, /. o. o. f.. was well attended and
served in some measure to show that heroic
achievement could still be commemOrated and
that the recollection of the gores of the past had
not altogether been absorbed In painful reminders
Of degrading present.
The stay of this reporter at the ball was neces-
sarily brief, but one glance was sufficient to
convince him that the numerous guests were en-
hour with several of the members prompted the
thought-rather depreciatory of any hallowed re-
collection supposed to be prompted by the ami
verssry-that the popularity of Magnolia Lodge
and the well known attractiveness of their balls
may have had as much to do with the unusually
large attendance of the fair sex and their gay
cavaliers ss the " day we celebrate"
The BICYCLES IN TRoUBLE-A young man
named E. ID. Eongsworth, while riding upon a
velocipede up Camp street yesterday, about one
ofo I1aE at0 hxva q nnlio ruhn I'd
ed him Of the sidewalk into the street. Not com.
plying 10 suit the officers taste, that functionary
arrested the rider and escorted him, with the
vehicle, to the station whittier they were followed
by a considerable number of men and boys curious
to witness the upshot of the matter.
The police claim that the propulsion OF veloci-
pedes upon the sidewalks is an infraction of a
city ordinance; and yet We are positively assured
that at the time the officer was pareying with
Mr.. Hollingsworth, a colored man passed by on
the sidewalk with a wheelbaIrow before him. 1t
is but justice TO say that the arrestng officer was
acting under direct orders issued that morning in
reference to velocipedes by his superior officer.
night a gentleman wfiIeE O'CLOCK, ong nru Front
Ieyee street, between Customhouse 9-oss-
man. knocked down and stunned by paving
stone thrown by an unknown miscreant. A
crowd of thieves speedily surrounded him, and
robbed him of s204.
FIRE broke out in and totally destroyed a
stable owned by Mr. John Hacks, and situated on
two O'Clock yesterday morning. So rapidly did
the flames spread that it was found impossible TO
rescue q mule which was confined in the stable,
and the animal perished. lncendiaTism is sup
posed to have been the cause Of the fire. The
property was insured.
ROBPERIEs.-As q citizen was passing along
Front Levee street, opposite the Custom House
on Thursday night, about half-pas nine O'Clock,
he was asssiled by thieves who, first stunning
HIM with piece of paving stone, robbed him Of
mr. m 10 n
Thieves burgariously forced open and entered
! the cigar store at the corner of Canal and st.
| Charles streets during Thursday night. and stole
thence cigars, tobacco and Havana lottery tickets
| TO the value Of about $500.
About eleven O'Clock on Thursday night, Capt.
| White, chief Of the detective force, saw boy
enter the oyster saloon on Gravier street, under
| the st. Charles Hotel, snatch some money from
the till. ard run. Capt. White gave chase, and
overtsking the boy with the money (s3 l5) in his
hand, led him, still grasping the stamps, to the
station, where he gave bis name as John Healy.
Boy THEA boy, only twelve years old
named John Delaney, was arrested yesterda!
afternoon, at AZ O'Clock, charged with the larceny
| of three coats and two pairs of pantaoons. The
| goods were stolen from store on Canal street.
TIE COURTS were all closed yesterday, and, as
a matter Of course, there was nothing to report IL
| the papers.
The cases before Recorder Gastinel were of q
/ trivial character.
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| whose arrest upon a charge OF highway robbery
| on ST. Charles street was mentioned yesterday
| was remsnded until further orders. Charles
| Moran and John McClosby. charged with firing a.
the occupants Of river police boat with intent tC
kill (as published yesterday morning., were also
| remsnded.
MILITARY I1TELLTGENCE-General Thomas III
Neil assistant adjutant general OF the department
reached the city by rail on Thursday night, aftel
| brief absence at Washington. he was at his
| desk yesterday, as usual.
Gems. Babcock and Porter, of the staff Of Gen
| Grant, returned on Thursday evening, from thel
| trip TO Galveston, Texas, and remaining here to
| attend the interment of the remains Of Gen. Rous
seau, will afterwards proceed TO Washington.
A general court martial is appointed to meet al
Jackson Barracks to-day, for the trial OF such per
sons as may be properly brought before it.
Detail of the court Brevet Brig. Gen. Lewis
| Hunt, lieutenant colonel, Twentieth infantry
| Brevet Msior Leslie Smith, captain First infantry
First Lieut.. John Hamilton, First infantry: FRS
Lieut.. John L. Worden, First infantry; Secont
Lieut.. Geo. W. Roby, First infantry; Secon'
| Lieutenant J. Sumner Rogers, First infantry; Sec
| npd ;aut Frank w Russel Sixth cavalrV.