New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-11
DAILY CRESCENT

SIGNIFICANT. The Westminster Rsviev for
years past has let clip no opportassry If f,;s-
pafaging, to use 3 mild term, everything Ansr-
ican, until within the last Twelve montbs. vhe,
Its sentiments appear 70 have undergone a
change. In the last number there is an article
on America, in which the following passage
oecurs: @
One knows not what is to be most admired in
sse Mexican war; the facility with which al army
81 81 volunteers submitted to discipline, the per.
t i.Sssyn so Of their weapons, new inventions Of
.eas handled with skill previously un-
snoNn he comnisssriat in a wild and vast
Or tne fexibility of their mechanical
az 70 reporting, printing and COM
]. u e homsaard- For fifty years past,
s.sv VIZ sans ships Of the United States have
Vesn oetssr oniit than those of Great Britain.
and as in 1872 our guuners vers inf 4r;ar ~
theirs, SO at the crisis Of tho Mexican w,r.
into which they plunged cut q !. io.a ',esoa
their prac ice in small arms was iress 4, rs tiy
superior to any hing the trained British rem.
lars had at any time attained.
m A bad WAY.-New Orleans is not the or1z
city m the Union whose fnsncial condition is in
a bad way ghe Philadeiphis City Treasury
appears. 70 Be in quite as collapsed a condition
as ours. Both debta and taxes increass, with
no immediate prospects of relief The PhiIa-
delphia Pennsylvania says:
We see by erecent report Of No pa.rd ~
Supervisors and Cemmissioners thar tic rro-
perty owners of New York city pag taxes q, tbs
rate OF SI ~ on every SloO, while we in PhiIa-
deiphia are assessed at ii 90 in the 1lOO yy;Ib
deficit in the receipts ohtained by this sssess-
ment of more than million dollars in one ,sa1
Half thissum has been admitted 10 be necasssrv
to pay current erpenses. We freoueutIy hear r.
capital being driven awsy frosf=sur city for one
cause or another; hut what can more forcibly
aid in producing such result til in having onr
taxes sixty per cent higher than those of New
York, with the certainty Of an additional in
crease. s Ed rgTsr
sPLEsDID PRoJEcT.-#e find the following in
an exchange, credited to a :. Northern paper -
Send me three million dollars. fAs 10 what
want with it, word in your ears privately \
intend to lay down ia every STREE court, lane.
place and alley Of Boston, 10000 miles Of iron
main, four feet diameter, with II inch service
pipes entering each house. Sc far so good Then
shall commence At the top of the White Mcun-
! AIMS 70 lay pipe ten feet To diameter into the
ground Blk yards deep, from the said White
Mountains 10 the main in Boston. wh;eb viii
have been constructed as before rerna1 hesi this
done, shall build q steam engine seSeI hing
dred and eighteen Thousand horsagp5Her axstf
llean oser this way II You pie.ees En- afraia
soueooeS g, n'gnt near JORGE tte fresz,ng afzges-
pne'e =, ron tne mountains into soery hesfss IN
ineres no nlsssKe aoout tn's-its boand
70 goi ana "hen II y haisned, mean to buy me
pair OF boots, ana go In faaooted for q lire of
pipes 70 the tropics, to pump hot arr into the
aoases N ninter- These little jobs completed.
ana we VIII nave our cool weather IN July, aud
~ January u snail oe warm and comfortable,
ssi. o"gnt always 70 nave been guess -Aatures
jig Is ABOUT up amt IT. .
: When the enterprising patentee Of the above
inyention oets .bronsh -nis III, ,ta v,f,J 49,,
,r,.,, 10 ~ p1sese
iA Nc 7ssps - .nis a im mPef.aslon
-troin Ine NORTH fSie would ne exceedingly ae-+
+ceptabie about nov.
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