The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-07
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEl
Municipal Elections.

A"iy Whch Tic Hiinolity always ENJOYS ds Po' 1ai
compensation for its exclusion from power Two
of the papers in this Municipality oav'ed and con-
trolted below Canal street, have surfeited them
selves, and their readers, with denunciations Of the
dominant party in this Municipality. One of
these papers is so senselessly abusive, that it has
just the influence and respect which belong to a
common scold and we shall not waste time in
any reply to its vulgarity. If it is to be believed,
this city is second Sodom-itself the only Lot.
The city revously sick, and it the only panacea.
But our lively, piquant good-natured friend Of the
Delta gives his cuts and thrusts with such exquisite
grace, that it is pleasure read his trades and
all are wrapt in admiration at the exuberance of
an imagination which conceives, and the courage
which sends FORTH as truths, those daily columns
of lively ictions.
The Delta says that the dominant party have
plunged the Municipality in debt, and have moth
ing to show for it. In 1885, when the Munich
pality was formed the city owed $3000,O00.
This Municipality had received the only benefit
Tor this outlay, the paving of Camp street, high
as Poydras. 1t had no watchmen, no fire compa-
MES, no lights, no markets. 1t was regarded as a
mere taxpayer for the city proper So intolerable
was the rule Of the ancient population, that civil
war was close at hand. A meeting was held in
Banks Arcade to adopt measures for separate city
organization, when the idea of the present system
was suggested, and carried out. The Second
Municipality was compelled to take more than one
half OF debt incurred for the benefit Of what now
constitutes the First Municipality The paving
for the year 1884 cost $264O3O. In 1S4J $30S 400.
All OF this was expended below Canal street. The
American Municipality had wharves and no
levees; consequently it had no commerce. 1t was
compelled, at once, to expend large sums for the
construction of wharves and the maintenance of
the Batture. 1t has paved all of the principal
streets it has built the market-houses it has
erected Hall which, for architectural beauty, con-
venience and safety, is unsurpassed in the United
States. 1t manages to draw very tangible revenue
from nothing. Thus, the Levee dues received du-
ring 1850, were only S14S,4 ,4S4 80. The markets,
which We suppose only exist in nubibus, paid the
Insignificant rent of S75,3O0.
The Municipality has revenue of $500 900, de.
rived from its investments in Wharves, Levees,
Streets and Markets while the interest on the
debt created for this purpose, is Sl50O00. The
Municipality has expended five million dollars for
improvements. This amount was expended, and
the debt now due incurred prior to January L. 1874
At that date, a committee appointed to examine
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Ahe committee have been agreeabiy surprised
at the result of their examination. They find not
only that the Municipality is unembarrasssed, but
that its Financial Condition is e,sentiav nrosner.
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