The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-12-19


Levee above Mrs Kennedy property to the upper line OF
The Municipality has been to great expense to fill up the
batture along The river ne 50 as to facilitate trade and
present if the wlarves had not been built
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. G. BLANCHARD, Acting Surveyor
MIR. Lawrason, Chairman of the Finance Com.
mittee, offered the following resolution, and the
rules being suspended, it was passed:
ReSoIUed, That the Treasurer pay the following
sums on the warrant Of the Mayor, viz:
Pay roll Of saryegoE's Department for Noyember. $50,
roll Of for November 1850 three hundred
dollars and fory.fVe cents.
on Common Great se Road November, 1850, three hun.
dea ana {%s5ysA w & ioilais ana oztyES a eents ,azo
hundred and twentyeight dolars and yenty five cents
dred and seventy one dollars and six cents.
Payroll Of Laborars, etc, employed N November 1850,
seven cents.
The same gentleman offered the following reso-
luton, to lie over
RESOLVED, That the Comptroller is hereby au-
thorized to issue warrants in favor of the Recorder
to the amount OF seven hundred dollars, fer the
payment of the persons employed on the correction
of the Assessment Rolls during the months Of Oc-
tober and November.
Mr.. Renshaw offered the following resolution:
ResolUed, That the use of the Lyceum Hall be
granted to Robert G. Bamwell, Esq, on Wednes-
day evening, 18th instant, for the purpose of deliv
erlng free lecture on HindoO literature.
The President left the Chair, calling Mr.. Law
rason to take his place.
Mr. Marks moved to suspend the rules, which
motion was lost by the following vote, it requiring
twOthirds Of the members present to suspend the
rules:
Yeas = Mesrs. Hawthorn, Hooper, Bawrason, Marks
art and Yancey-6.
The President returned to the Council Chamber
and took his seat
Mr. Renshaw, Chairman Of the Committee on
Streets and Landings, presented the following res
olutons; on motion, the rules were dispensed and
they passed
Reso2vsd, That the Surveyor be and he is
hereby authorized to issue to James Irwin, assig-
nee of 2. Ford, the certificates due to said Ford
under his contract for cleaning the streets in the
district in the rear of Hercules street.
Resolved, That the Surveyor be authorized to
settle with Dennis Cronan for the paving of the
square of Baronne street between Julia and
Girod streets, agreeably to the terms of his con-
tract provided that the security for the further
completion of the contract remain the same.
ResoLOed, That the Surveyor be and he is
hereby authorized to enter into the necessary con-
tract with Messrs. Graham and Martin, and Davis
and McLanathan, as principals, and Messrs. Alden
and Mclaughlin, as securities, for the furnishing
of all the necessary MATERIAL and extending the
Steamboat Wharf and building addition to the
same at the rate of $22 per square said work to
be done and payments made in accordance with
the specifications, and agreeably to the terms of
the adjudication by the Mayor on the 2jth ult.
Resolusd, That the Surveyor be and he is
hereby authorized to enter into the necessary con.
tract with M. G.. Almindinger, as principal and
IL. J. kanney, as security, for furnishing all the
material and making Plank-road on Calliope
street. from Hercules street to Howard street. and
Liberty street, from Calliope street to the New
R3Si al ctr from
to Soils street, at the rate of So % per running
foot. The work to be done, and payments made
agreeably to the terms of adjudication by the
Mayor, and in accordance with the specifications
furnished by the Surveyor,
The same gentleman, as Chairman of the same
Committee, also presented the following resou-
tiOns, which We're, after dispensing with the rules,
adoRl8d BY tbss fPlRS|SiR9 fEec fEeccessiye votes:
Sf Hs at he Fs in TSso sss ars S be depos
Nothing has yet been furnished by exhibitors.
The Monedo from Paducah, freighted for Nasl
lille, chiefly with liquors. sunk Saturday night week,
that she could be raised.
Richard H. Bayard, of Delaware has been a
pointed Charge a. Flares to Belgium place of Mr. Cer
appointed Charge d Affairs to Portugal.
At the election held in Boston, on Monday las
for Mayor, John Big6ow ESQ., the whig candidate v,
elected by two thousand majority over his opponent, Char
Goodrich, ESQ.
session, and hassetled the question that the Governor
be chosen for yea and that there are IS be hereaf
biennial sessions OF the Legislature. The State Council
be abolished
William Audenried, Esq, one of the pioneers
Schu, XII county Pa, and former member of the legi'
tqre died on the I'd instant tie was the proprietor
all the improvements in Schuylkl county, largely dev
oping the mineral resources of that region.
The French have been so successful in cul
waiting tobacco in their possessions the north of Aiit
that they hope soon to be independent OF the foreign
article The mode OF preparing tor market, however,
I not very well understood by the colOnsts.
Y The Lake Commerce of Osweao, New orls,
stated to realize to the Government, duties, revenue
nearly half million OF dollars annually. Thirty forty
ses daily at the port, during the busy season. bring
freight of 3 600 barrels of flour and 100 900 bushels vile
| The Boston Apothecaries have held meeting
consider the expediency Of establishing Pharmaceutical
aye during the present Winter series of lectures for
/ instruction of those engaged in that business.
| A memorial has received the signature of nu
9er Of the leading mercantile houses of Baltimore, for aid
l. e Government, by contract for carrying the mail by
OF seamhps between the ports Of Norfolk and Baltimore
+ some port in England.
| man was recently arrested at st. Louis, up
where he boarded Will intent 10 oyehear conversations
wen ] lady boarding in the house and rival of
l. The Virginia Free Press saws, "The first stea
boat eyer the Shenandoah River passed up on Mon
s asl She 6sLGmgs to company of which Col James Cas-
ht boat on the river whose name she bears ''
b. The London correspondent of the Pbiladelp
Id American, writing Nov 22d, states that Mr. ShinleV of
well known rm Ct MeSsrs. Brown, Shipey & "a Of ii
e pool, Is seriously ILL., MIR. Shpley was formerly ni m
5, ton, Delaware. '"''i' u " N'N
| meeting was held at Richmond Va. on the
r. nst to denounce the Compromise, and also Prelsnt
affair was failure Out OF those present onIy P5t t6 se W.
dsumon and without doing anything the meeting SdouT