The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-05-11
EW ORLEANS s:


r.~ The water night before last and yester
continued to steadily in the back portion OF tine
uper part of the Second Municipality The rise DUNG
~ time we should take to be about twenty Two inches
IL food has now advanced far Bacchus street, and
to extend further. The Dryades Street Market is
surrounded In order TO protect the lower por
of the Municipality from inandation leyee had been
estructsd along the New Canal The people above were
at this thinking tended to raise the water in
iii part of the city. At time night before last was
ought would be disturbance resulting from the
ced feeling of the people; watchmen were placed to
ad the levee but in spite OF their precautions several
penngs made thus letting the water Though into
Ne lower part of the Municipality We have heard it
lated that Of Aldermen is responsible for this act
Cnr intelligence from the yesterday leads us to
beeve that will be closed. Those who ar
vel from there this opinion decisivey Yet the
pd rise Of the waters in the of the city shows that
quantity must still be pouring through the opening
&bove. How long this is to continue will soon be settled
IN Great excitement prevailed last nigh along the canal
where vast number of people assembled-some ex
pressing determination to cut away the levee and others
protect it, 1t feared that serious results might pc e
onseqnence, and that collision would take place mere
large force of policemen and citizens ready 10 prevent
any denomination that all quiet up to IL CLOCK
last night.
has been made toward stopping the crevasse at the
Powder Magazine has increased about ten feet in width.
md thus far defes all attempts to fill up The water is
pidy covering the plantations the opposite side OF the
river below The country the other side Of the river is
widely Inundated by the large crevasse at Mr. Forer
Exclamation.
e THIRD MUstcrrALITY ScHooLs.-Mr Raper has been
sected Superintendent and Principal Teacher of the Third
Municipality Public Schools.
+ A SCRAP OF HIsToRY.-On the LIST Of March,
4 1B49, there was special meeting OF the Second
Municipality Council. There were present at this
i meeting Recorder Baldwin and Aldermen Barnes,
q Cook, Gleason, Golding, Hall, Leeds, Montanye,
q Marks, Peters, Renshaw, and Thacker. A mes
wage from the Mayor was read, enclosing report
from Mr.. Dunbar, Surveyor of the Second NUM-
cipalty, and Mr. Pile, Surveyor of the First Mu-
nicipality. The report, which is in the shape of
/ letter from Mr. Dunbar to the Mayor, contains the
E Following sentences:
The levee about twelve feet above the soil and need
make y the s to Ds %sn
in the f ss snd hs
and in nothing I has been \
S % bs Ths Goane viii .sep5
fy find sas: ss viii
means were mot taken for our sscuy Iee IL, my GUY
70 apa osl sabaS are With
live. Of citizens and Sir wsh m to create o
.tant when they will regret it It may be years a bs0is s
s. days-the latter the more probable"
Mr. Dunbar went on to show how and at what
expense the city might be secured from the dangers
of food and closed by saying that MIR. Pile had
accompanied him in his examination, and fully con-
& Cured in his views.
After the report had ben read, Mr.. Peters rose
and after some preliminary remarks said he was
h not pleased with Mr.. Dunbar's report-Mr. Dun
bars remarks on the course of the Councils were
l.timed and uncaled- for and his recommendations
were absurd and extravagant.
But little more than two months have passed
and we may see now who was right and who was
wrong Mr.. Dunbar's views were not acted on
Numerous suggestions which have, for severa
wears past, been made to the Council, were disre
garded And now the water is in the streets of the
city; thousands of dollars worth of property has
been destroyed, and no one can tell what awaits
Sls in the future.