New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-17
NEW-ORLEANS.
Cholern-pnhllc RuiIdings. &c.

Correspondence o. The ITbuAe
NBg-ORtEASs. Thursday, D &c
Heavy mists hang ever our city, and the warm
sun and occasional showers make every thing
plashy and wet Disagreeable it Is IN the ex-
treme.
The Cholera is working its way slowly aud
noiselessly, though certainly, in our midst yet
has not assumed that degree that Doctors call
endemic. and trust viii not We have powerful
medicines and sIi!lfuI Doctors to meet the conta-
gion as it approaches, and there is great comfort
in knowing that. The disease 50 far as ii has
manifested itself has passed by the stranger and
the homeless, and fastened on those who, having
passed heretofore through all the epidemics,
might with reason think themselves eTempt@. 1t
has wrested with many Of our old residents,
and thrown them-distorted and pale,
LIES ftfii fever DER, hey sleep well
But though epidemics have ravaged our city
and floods have encroacled, and fire devastated,
vet are we increasing in numbers ard in pros
perity, ...-..,...-....-..u-,-
Like the refined gold seven times tried IN The
furnace, we are but tried that our dross may be
purged away The citizens Of this city have from
this REASON become proverbia for being benefcent'
kind and generous and know not where you
can find, il this respect their supeTiors if Their
equals
The new Custom. House shows, as yet only the
foundation and lower story. 1t is progressing
very slowly--vqhether from want Of means, or
wozknen, or both know not Certain it IS that
if it does not progress faster for the time to come
than it has done, It viii be at Least ten years in
the building.
The new Hal being built by the corporation Of
the Second Municipality is nearly completed, aud
will be one Of the handsomest buildings IN the
United States II is about go feet in length by
about SO in breadth the whole front IS Of marble
with columns Of the Corinthian order it is sur
mounted by statues representing Justice, who has
81, either side Of her Commerce and Liberty. The
rooms in this building are lofty and spacious, and
arc well ventilated. 1t contains a room dedicated
as the "Lyceum Hail, g feet vide by so feet N
enetb and so feet between the ceiling and floor
Library Room 10 feet long by "a in bre adth, Is
feet TO the ceiling, and fitted up IN the interior
similar to the Mercantile Association Library OF
Philadelphia The Council Chamber IS OF the
same dimensions as the Library Room 1t con-
tars many other rooms used by the different 9TH
GERS OF the Corporation. I. s District Court, 10
Marshal Clerks &c; its cost, when completed
viii he about S350.O00. II is located Immediate.
" opposite the La Fayette square, and ga the north
SIDE ofit-on the south side the Odd Fellows are
putting up a large building to be used Us Il " Hall;
so that VIXEN these buildings are completed La
Feyette square will has the finest buildings inthe
city fronting upon It
There IS also magnificent Gothic Cathedral ia
the course Of construction in the lower part oftae
city, which will soon be completed, 3eside other
churches which are being built up in the upper
limits of the Second Municipality and in add
ton. we have new stores aud dwellings going ap
IN every direction, so that the Crescent City is
putting on a new face aud VIII soon be so much
extended and beGutifed that cid absent friends
returning will scarcely recognise her
am yours LAIDLAN.