New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-06-17
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live and admins portions lit, we mean The
Mayor elect, Hon. Charles NJ Waterman, has been
regularly Installed So have Messrs. Thomas Theard,
Comptroller, and P. Amadee Guyol Street Commits
sioner. The interesting event was enlirened by
roaring salute Of thirteen guns from Lafayette
That all will make able, faithful and efficient Off
GERS, We entertain an abiding conviction. When
they leave the Offices which they have been elected
the award Of well done, thou good and faithful ser
want Y will be freely rendered them BY grateful
constituency, unless we are much mistaken VI
We suppose there can be no question but that the
Common Council will, in due season. choose " essrs
Adam Gifen for Treasurer, and Louis Il. Pile Tor
Surveyor. Indeed, We have heard Of no competing
parties public sentiment seeming 70 flow nnnter-
rrptadly in favor of their selection We Know q no
more competent and trustworthy gentlemen !. than
Messrs. Citizen and Pile. They command we IN
limited confidence Of the community and are Justly
| entitled to it.
n INA subordinate departments Of the city govern
ment.-ii the Police Department especially the mass
of tba appointments has yet to be made. The Mayor
has appointed his Chief Ieutenants and sergeants,
torather with some others all Of which will be found
n our local column, duly set forth. Mayor Water
man has We believe, some three hundred police ap-
pontnents under his control. For these stations he
has already received something less than fifteen hun
dred applications Ofcourse, he cannot appoint ALL
promising all were worthy. The unfucky should bear
this fact in rnind and govern themselves accordingly
There are not offices for all and the Mayors power
is limited to the fllingof the Offices prescribed BY
law. Hence, when the applications are enormously
in excess Of the posts to be supplied by the appoint
ing power, there must necessarily, be correspond
ing number Of disappointments. For our part, we
are sure the new Executive of the corporation will
exercise the appointing power vested in him with an
eye single to the honor and prosperity Of the city
None who know him, and there are few people in
New Orleans who DON'T will question the integrity of
his intentions. He may err, but who amongst us is
free from error? And, as great responsibility rests
upon his shoulders he is alone answerable to the
people for faithful discharge Of the duties he has
making selections, and the officers Of his choice should
have fair trial before the community before they
either condemned or commended
a As was to have been expected, there was some
feeling by the friends Of disappointed ap
plieants for the leading offices yesterday. This was
but natural It was an inevitable result flowing from
disappointment. We have lived a good many years
in the world-have seen many persons appointed to
known an instance where grumbling and recriInina-
ton did not follow rejection. We all think friend
just the very man for particular office. So do the
friends Of eleven other applicants for the place.
There must be eleven disappontments and conse-
quenty about eleven times eleven growing friends
Of the disappointed! This is an inaenable privilege
Of oSaxondon ; it is q part Of nature we
inherited it from our ancestors and we don't see why
il should be cavilled at this late day.
We consider the officers already appointed by the
Mayor quite good ones; and feel sure they will not
abuse the confidence reposed in them If they do,
they may count upon summary dismissal. But, as
they are to stand or fall on their own merits, they
should have q fair and impartial trial. s$
Great things are expected from the newly indicted
Common Council Unrefecting people will expect
them to perform inpossibities Such is the tendency
and habit of too many Of our citizens. We have only
to express the hope that the prudent and economic
policy inaugurated BY the former Council will be per
sisted in; that the system of expenditures will be well
weighed and judicious; and that while parsimony,
which is the worst Of extravaganza in the long run,
will be avoided, that necessary improvements and
aneliolations will be entered upon and completed In
order to save few dollars, hundreds and thousands
should not be rsked. The old adage that :. stitch
III Gll1e saves INIT ~ SG DIS W tle seees
etc Of city, as it is to personal garment The
streets cannot be kept in repair without the
ture Of money. The city cannot be kept clean and
the general health preserved, without the expendi-
ture Of money. And good order and quiet cannot be
had without an efficient and sufficiently numerous
police, and the police department costs money.
This brings US to another consideration, which we
will briefly glance at. The impression prevails that,
because the Mayor is invested with the control of the
police, he maintain order at any rate. This idea
is fallacious. The Common Council fixes the pay and
number of the police, and can, at any moment, by
reduction of salaries prevent the employment Of trust
worthy men, or by reducing the number Of employees
to low figure, put it out of the power Of the Mayor
to guard the city. We have no idea any such thing
will be done; but have brought forward these illus
trations to show how the efforts Of the ablest and
most efficient magistrate might be frustrated.
We predict and believe the city's Executive and
Legislature will get along tremendously, and that
their joint efforts will rebound to the honor pros
perity and advancement of New Orleans. For the
first time in history, the American party has con-
troll of our municipal affairs and it will depend upon
the action and policy Of those in authority whether
that control will be continued