New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-10-28

street from Front to Eighth streets, full mile
High, or Market street, as it is more familiarity
termed, has become the centre OF the business
part Of the city, and the bulk Of the private
residences are yearly tending away from it,
This makes it inconvenient for our citizens to
attend these markets, and besides, trade de-
nands the street for railroad which shall
unite the Central railroad with the waters Of
the Delaware The market houses therefore
are doomed Private market houses. Of which
one or two have already been erected, will
supersede the public structures.
The sum Of $4,000. necessary to secure the
charter for our new opera house, has been sub
scribed, and an eligible lot, at the corner of
Locust and Broad streets, selected as the site
of the proposed building. The further amount
of $150,000 has to be subscribed before the
directors are permitted to contract for the
building. Whether this will be obtained, and
whether the building can be sustained when
finished, are both problematical. New York
has not yet been able to support an exclusive
opera house, and it may be doubted whether
our quieter and less densely populated city can.
The building proposed is to be of magnificent
proportions and capable Of accommodating five
thousand persons
The Rosine Association here, started and
maintained by pious and philanthropic ladies
is doing good service in reclaiming the nymphs
Oh tbe pave IToH tnelT lmiuoIh liNco. Cihce
its organization, three hundred and six Of these
unfortunates have been rescued from lives o
prohgacy and restored to respectability and
usefulness. ..
Quite chapter Of accidents have occurred
| in the city during the past few days The last
| and most shocking occurred on Saturday, and
resulted in the loss of the lives Of seven men
| The unfortunate men were laborers in tht
| employ of the Camden and Amboy Railroad
Company, and had been engaged in clearing
out the dock below the Walnut street landing
Two scows, loaded with mud, had been made
fast to the stern Of the steamboat Washington
for the purpose of being towed to Camden
| Nine men were in the scows. Just as thu
steamboat and the scows reached the channel
the swell from the former swamped one Of tn,
scows, and it instantly sunk, sucking the othel
down with it. Seven Of the men sank with th
boats and were seen no more. Only two men
| who acted as captains of the scows, were saved
They were preserved by clinging to some matte
which remained ahoat.
A colored family residing in Camden, op
posite this city, came near losing their lives
few nights since by their indiscretion. Befor
retiring they filled the stove, which is insid
the room in which they slept, with coal, shu
the draught off, and lifted the cover The con
sequence was, that in the course of the nigh
the room became filled with gas, and the entir
family, consisting Of five persons, the husband
wife, and three children, were suffocated an
rendered insensible. They were discovered i
the morning almost lifeless, and although med
cal assistance was Immediately obtained, it
feared that the attempt will yet prove to one
two Of them very serious, if not fatal. QUIZ.