The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-12
TUEsDAY MORNING. JANUARY -. 1869.
CITY TOPICS.

After several tedious. almost interminable days
of rain aud mist. gloom and mud, the sun rose
Monday morning,
$50 cloudess, clear and purely beautiful.
That God alone was to be seen in Heaven
A stiff uorthwester careered through the streets,
drawing copious tears from the eyes of those who
faced IL, romping with ladies' skirts, sffording
shadowy glimpses of snowy stockings and nim-
bic ankles, ard at times with playful gust dis
coveringi the fashion Of garter. Everybody
seemed TO walk with more elastic steps under the
influence of the bracing atmosphere.
The readers of the CRESCENT will be delighted
to learn that the martial Colonel Edmonston, ex-
commapder.in. chief of Governor WeIls's militia,
has succeeded in obtaining federal Office in Mo-
bile. No military chieftan living deserves more
from grateful country. Long may it be before
the gallant colonel shall be called upon to draw
his treHcbant and unsullied blade
The wordy war between the school board and
Warmoth has resulted in enlisting the scalawsg
Legislature on the side of the carpet bag gov
ernor. Yesterday two bills were introduced into
the lower house, both providing for the immedi-
ate adjustment Of the present school board, and
the appointment of another by Warmcth. One
was introduced by man named Carr. II makes
the board to be composed Of seventeen members,
to be appointed by Warmoth, by and with
the advice and consent OF the Senate. The other
was offered by Rey, colored man, who was elect
ed to his seat by the House itself and not by the
people. 1t gives only five members to the board,
and provides for their absolute appointment by
Warmoth. Both bills were referred to the edu-
NIT fa wzof 81 h I1,b 49, koA
one or the other of these bills will become law.
One similar to them was introduced last session,
but dropped simply because the members thought
they had then gone to the very furthest verge of
outrage that they would be allowed to go. When
the bill does pass. Warmoth will undoubtedly sp-
point negroes on the board, when the question of
mixed schools will be brought very plainly before
the people. Time alone will show how they will
receive IT.
The business Of coroner is neither easy nor
profitable nowadays. Sunday was very rainy,
bleak and uncomfortable season. But, notwith-
standing the inclemency of the weather, DR.. Es-
pinoa. the clever, amiable and efficient deputy of
DIR. Ayila. betook himself to the Pontchartrain
lake to hold an inquest over the body OF "a man
found drowned" somewhere between the pier
head and Lord knows where. Getting out of the
cars, he Aied him to the spot described. There
was nobody to assist him, and the fishermen
along the shore were toe ignorant or too surIy to
answer his questions. He investigated on his
own hook. he finally espied the body of the
man, half floating, half submerged-his head
rocked with the rocking biIow-thirty yards
from ths shore. where bis heavy boots had an
chored him. DR.. Espinola rolled up his pants to
mid leg. and waded into the cold water.
To reach the corpse. he had TO enter
deeper thsn the height of his thigh and even there
he had 10 push away drift-logs and weeds before
he couit disengage what he was after and bring it
TO terra nrma. Then he had to summon a coro-
ners Jury, hunt for the members Of it along
through every by-way, in his wet clothes, the cold
wind blowing pitilessly. When he had got them
together, all speaking different LIMOGES, and none
understanding his own intelligbly-when Espinola
had dobo all these things and explained their du-
ties to men from the troubled shores of the Bay of
Biscsy, from the Mediterranean, from auld Ire
land, France, Africa and Lake Pontchsrtrain
itself when he had done all these things, we say,
he had done good days work. But just when
he hsG reached home, changed his clothes, and
seated himself at bis warm and cheerful table,
10 came another summons to ofAciate upon
the body OF corpse at Chslmette,
(battle ground) of a man that had died
through maltreatment at the hands of a niger
doctor, whose Office ~ is on Goodchildren street,
in the Third District. between st. Ferdinand and
Poet streets. The dinner was left untasted and
the wsym, cheerful FIRE unenjoyed whilst our poor
friend bad to obey the summons. The case is not
ended Is yet, for Doctor Avila is determined to
bring 10 justice all these Voudou doctors and
midwi}es who practice their ridiculous charms
upon ihe III in flesh and the poor in spirit.
wouId.that the Legislature, the governor and his
lieutensnt, as well as the Continental Congress
had TO be investigated and purged by so efficient
q brnae of officers as the coroner and the deputy
coroaer of the lower part of the parish of Orleans.
A few evenings since, three festive youths,
while emerging from q theater, were pounced
upon by 9 metropolitan, who declared that ne
seized them as suspicious characters. They were,
of course, aghast at this announcement, and be-
came more so when the metropol commenced TO
escort them towards St. Charles street corner of
Lafayette. Visions of free lodgings, visit to the
recorder, and possible parish prison in the dim
perspective, began to form themselves in their
souls with frightful rapidity and distinctness But
fortunately, some friends were in the neighborhood
and they rescued the trembling trio from the in
satiAte clutches of the liveried mnion of the law
by assuring him that the young men were call
Bightn Once released, they turned to their