New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-05-11

generally easy. Upon basis not very dispro-
portionate, she has a larger proportion of bank
ing facilities. We must enlarge our banking
facilities; we must call the basis of monetary
matters into the line and order of credits and
by no system can we proceed more safely than
by Free Banking This is another want of New
Orleans.
The next want is permanent and stay at
home population. With an uncertain future
with trade, which, we presume to say, fuctu-
ate $50 unhealthily only from such causes as the
lack Of internal improvements, the want of more
extended monetary facilities, the instructions
and uncertainties of navigation, and similar
causes; with a market for domestic supplies, for
like reasons exhorbitant in it's prices; with in
ducements to gambling commercial speculations,
originating in the wants we have named is it
at all curious that we have not reliably per-
manent population-that men come here to-day
to sstry their luck for fortune, and if by
chance successful, to flee away tomorrow (? If
they are successful nine chances to one but
they drain away from NewOrleans every dollar
realized by their hazardous and often times
reckless, if successful speculations If they leave
anything, it is real estate, which they look upon
with uncertain interest, as ssforeign possess
sons,'' the tenants or renters of which must pay
out the last exactable dollar, to pass northward
and return to NewOrleans no more Magnif-
cent in the dowry of Nature is the queenly city
which has so long and so bravely defe such
despoilment!
But even her permanent population bring her
a new wrong and injury. In the summer time
thousands of her sons and daughters know her
not They flee away to the North-to hot and
crowded hotels or noisy and uncomfortable
watering places. They return when they have
spent thousands that should have remained
among us. Here is another drain, and more
serious one than many think. We can not see
why people flee in such desperate haste from
New Orleans in the summer time. We have
never found the summer as delightful elsewhere,
or if that be not the expression, as endurable.
and we consider it even more healthy. But to
pass on, a permanent and e stay home ~
population is one of the greatest wants of New
Orleans.
{Closely connected with these wants, is the
want of mechanic population, after all the
most solid basis of city's prosperity. No popu-
lation is more useful, respectable and progress
sive Now, we have it-but, in proportion to
limited extent! st. Louis, Cincinnati, Louis
vile, have in proportion ten mechanics to our
one. Why is it so with us Because, first, for
want of railroads. provisions are high; second
on account of the natural and financial obstruc-
tions of trade, charges are high on every thing
dry goods, ETC.. third, the merchant, pressed
for money, procrastinates the payment of the
lawyer, doctor, ETC., and they all seek to put off
the demands of the mechanical feeling the
want Of free banking fourth, there is a want
of a permanent and &c stay at-home'' popula
ton, and, therefore, in the summer time, the
gains of the mechanic are worse than uncer-
tain. and the necessities of life high fifth, none
Of our landlords, like those of Cincinnati, Louis
vile, and st. Louis, have ever erected rows of
houses peculiarly rentable to mechanics, but
all seek ambitiously to build three story brick
shells, on which they can ask most ridiculously
eytravagant rents,
1 These are the chief wants Of New Orleans
list. The deepening of the Mouth of the Mis-
sissippi. I'd. Railroads. 3D. Free Banking
4th A permanent and ''stay at home popu-
lation 9Th. A larger number of Mechanics.
9Th. A Navy Yard and Naval Depot located
Here.
| There are others; but they are not of SO
bnuch moment, and we do not wish to make our
article Of an unreasonable length.