The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-24
See Third Page for CRY News, &c.

COMMITTEE MEErMa.-The Joint Committee Of Con-
ference yesterday morning at the Mayors Ofce II
O'Clock There report received, and the business
principally confined to the exchange of opinions the
effect to be produced by cutting additional drains tbrou
the Metairie Ridge Mr. Preston said that il the Daqun
and Labauve Canals deepeped hehad doubt they
would rslisvs the city from inundation. Mr.. Commuuy
was Of the opinion. He said there dam at La.
bauvss Canal which had been built prevent the
the Lake Ovsf0wing the plantation. This dam should
be cut resolution passed nstructing Mr. Dun
bar to open the Daqun and Labauve Canals and also
resolution to send nhysicanto the Csvasse Of
sickness having been reported there.
The COMMITTEES then adjourned 10 meet this morning.
persnce and ability of Mr. Grant, the gentleman who
supentends the work of stopping the would have
enabled him to speedily stop the breach and relieve from
the further i'll effects of inundaton We have not yet lost
oil hope that such will ultimately be the yet must
confess that the accounts received yesterday from the scene
OF operations sufficiently dscouraging No
seems to have been made far the water PUSHES through
the breach with great velocity and the most that
has been done the opening becoming any larger
There has been DEATH and there of
sickness.
The OvERFLow-The rise of the water still continues.
and the area of the inundated district sorry say
becoming extended. The position of affairs sad in
deed yet we lkehood of remedying it, except
BY going to the Of the evil and stopping the cevas
The plans for relieving the city by cutting through the Meta
iis Ridge and by deepening the D'Aqun and Labauve
canals although they sound very well will we think fail of
Let for moment estimate tho quantity of water
which flows through the cevasse Admitting the dimen.
sons of the opening to be in width 100 feet depth TO-
with current of 10 miles, the quantity of coming
through would amount 70 900 cubic feet per hour 1t
Is evident that unless this much be carried off through the
various openings made with that vew the city will not be
at oil relieved We question whether this can be done.
The principal canal yet in the Ridge only carries off
As 900 cubic feet per hour which, in comparison with the
amount coming In scarcely appreciable quantity.
Again. do not bsevs that thousand drains would carry
of as much through the cevasse admitting
the fall to be great Until the volume of water between
the Ridge and the evee becomes great that the Mis-
sissippi. it impossible that great can be OBJ
tanned exists at the for the PRESSURE and
qusnty the momentum less. For these reasons think
the only effect that be produced in the proposed
by Mr. Preston and Mr.. Communy. will be to prevent a
further advance of the water and that only the that
the quantity coming in and going out equal
CONCERT AT THE ARMORY.-Hen Krauss gives a Con. |
cert at the Annoy Hall this evening" for the Benefit of the
Sufferer by the flood He will be assisted by Mad
anne FleuyJoy and Nj. Conad. In the coune of the |
evening Herr X will introduce his grand Pot Pourr on the
Confuson of Babylon in twenty We different anguages
This will be the first of Herr Krauss in this city.
LADIES FiIR.-The friends of the sailor are reminded
that the ladies hold Fair tonight Espanade street, 3D.
posite the Mint in aid of the Protestant Episcopal Bethel
for Seamen. See advertisement.