The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-02-09
our CIV Anairs,


and regard for truth, which should characterize
those striving in what they think good cause,
and who entertain proper regard for the intel-
gence of their readers. In this disappointed
The remarks Of the Delta on portion Of our art-
Gle of Monday last are so disngenuous that we are
compelled and with much regret, to expose the
unfair resorts which those who feel and know they
are wrong, but have not the moral courage TO avow
ii rely upon to deceive and mislead the people.
II is true the Delta has some cause to be encour-
aged in its course for, it informed us on Tues
day, il is supported by of the richest men in
our city, and who, as it sneeringy remarked, are
more wealthy than any of those who are opposed
to the movement We are willing to concede all
| that We free to admit that this destructive
| project by which the people of the Second Num-
cipaty to be deprived of the right of selfgov-
eminent, is fathered by men of wealth. But as
we have been. reared in the plain school of repub-
licanislnS we are not quite so ready as the Delta
to admit that wealth is, in such cases, so preami-
nently, powerful as TO silence the voices of fifty
thousand intelligent freemen.
We cheerfully concede, we say that the project
ors of this wild and we had almost said, reckless
scheme, are men OF exceeding great wealth nay,
we will go further, and admit that their wealth is
in an inverse ratio with their intellectual gifts
intelligence and common sense ; and in this admis-
sion we trust the Delta will be satisfied for by this
rule CrGsus, in comparison, indeed pauper
But reUeH0nS q nos BtoUtORS." The Delta
objects to our estimate of relative taxation here
and in New York II does not exactly venture to
deny our statements, but it repeats the stale asser-
tion il has so often made, that the Second Munich
pality has nothing to show for its debt while New
| York may point to its Water-works This is too
preposlerous to need reply. In 1886 New York
already possessed everything else essential to the
convenience and prosperity of great city, and the
Second Municipality had nothing Let the people
of the Second Municipality remember that: and
! when they look at the reverse of the picture so
| fancfully drawn by the Delta, we think they may,
with equal PRIDE point to their Public Schools,
and say there are 100000 Of debt laid out at
good nerest-if the fountains of virtue and intel
ectual culture may, without offence to the Delta,
be compared with Croton water.
| They might also point to over two miles of ex-
| tensive and commodious Wharves, which have
cost over million of dollars, and which, during
the last year alone cost Sl56,000. Our streets,
too-many OF them no doubt in bad condtion-are
certainly far better than they were prior to 1886
when they were utterly impossible, and when one
dollar bale was paid for rolling cotton from the
Levee to a Cotton Press, and two dollars hogs
1 head for rolling tobacco to a Warehouse. This
item of expenditure is certainly good for million
of dollars more. Then they might turn TO our
| Market Houses, giving an income of 900 per
annum, So@ething, paying, as they do, one-half
the whole interest debt for which the Delta,
with bold front, says we have "5tothingn to
show. This is characteristics.
| May they not also point with some pride to our
Fire Companies, with their Engines unsurpassed
for beauty and efficiency; their numerous Engine
houses and that noble band of patriots, our Fire
men, who, under the liberal and fostering protec-
ton of our Council, have become an example wor.
thy the imitation of the Fire Departments of the
oldest cities of our Unionl Are these "nothiae'
in the estimation of the Delta and its "ricA y
hackers
Then, there is cur Work house and House oil
Refuge, where moral discipline is combined with
humane punishments, and the labor of the delin-
quents made to compensate the public for the ex-
| pense incurred by their confinement; and last but
not least our Municipal Hail. destined, ere long,
to become the centre Of our city--already dispeu.
| sing its benefits 10 the community as the grea
focus Of our educational systematic University O
our Public Schools, and the seat of Justice This
| we conceive, is an item worth at least 100000
for il pays an interest on this sum- and that is 3
rule well understood by the Delta's men of wealth
who really, we fear, comprehend but little else
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and well ont hotels M i iai
ters-on business and pleasure--noyy in the cily
that il is difficult for the hotels to answer all calls
we Know strangers who have been compelled tt
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verv snperior character = ljo5;Io III, III g.,
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DEATH hNELL'-Jacob Nell has received his
ueath sentence at Toronto, Tor the murder OF his
wiie'
MOBILE AND Ono RAILROAD. Herald
anu h''u,'e Puoi'shes 'he proceedings OF the Sec
o"' ann" meeting oi me mobile ana ONO hail'
.oau oinPahy' winch was hela at the Alhambra,
IN that CITY on the evening OF the 9th inst.
The chairman submitted an able and interesting
report on the affairs of the Comnanv dur;ng tho
mast war, ,,,r;ol nos o,la..I - ~
~, =. W Os Piinte"'
'ePo'' VI tle Oh'ei Engineer, capt John
surveys which have been conducted ,,,5a, NJ
direction and the praotieabilitv Of The work has
not only been ampIv demonstrated bpt If 10 Eo,rd
that a road of' the hos, cb,r,o,or ,,J .a;.,- g..
'0P%o'ty O'
r. ''''''' E1i " '"''e" l'olh Niople 10
The ONO river at less cost than has been required
for any road of similar length now in operation in
the United States. The 57,y,Jt,,,,, estimate oj