The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-08-14

servation in the vicinity Of our Office,
there il not house in town. that has
not leaked more or less. to the danger
Of walls, carpets furniture, elc. True
1t Is The storm was very severe, and
tho rain came down in torrenlH. but
house builders. carpenters. skaters and
timers should calculate for such. md
not for ordinary weather. Roofs are
made too fiat slate is put on care
Iesaly, without sufficient slap" gutter
my IL TOO small-genoralIy made with
out the proper figuring TO know what
amount Of water it has to conduct TO
the earth, in n severe storm The con
sequence Is, that they overrnn, and
miserable piece Of plasterog yellow
and water marked in tbo drying. falls
off to the damage Of furniture and the
discredlt Of our resident mechanics. 49,
The pursuit Of the mechanic arts.
cannot be successfully aud creditably
carried on. without knowledge Of
some Of the fixed facts established by
science. Thus: no ono who knows
any thing Of tho action Of tho sun on
all metals exposed to its rays at mid
summer in this latitude, would put
inside cutters Of copper, or any other
metal for 1t Ia most certain to work
out the fastenipgs by daily expansion
aud contraction. A scientific arcbi.
tect or undertaken would never re-.
commend any such thing upon house,
whereon he would like to risk bis rep.
utation az n workman. But now, when
people build houses, as women paint
their faces and chalk their skin with
cosmetles--to make n proper outside
1t IL not to be wondered
1t, that inside comfort and convent
snce, is sacrificed.
There is pbyaiognomy about
houses, as much as any thing else. by :
) little study, you may tell who lives I
within, with as much certainty as you '
an arrive at The character Of forked /
adish by the complexion Of the en- t.
asements Of bis neither extremities. j
The character Of the man, may bet II
3r be arrived at, from the house he 81
uilds, than from the book he writes. /
In many instances the architect is W
'ss to blame than bis employer. Ev. I,
~ man is his own architect, and this y
,counts for the fact that we have 80 ~
ANY pyramids of brick and mortar ~
I'd mopgeral hus after no fashion, y,
ut in the face of such difficulties il M
ems to us, that an architect who has IN
AIDE this science his study, might N !,
lih good grace stand back on his dig wl
ty and refuse to violate the cstab. pe
he'd orders of his profession. 1t is ed
serted without the fear of contradic. =
IN that there is not a house in this W
city, built according to III,
10. The Capitol itself--were there thi
other objection to it, than the fact sta
the abortion of its roof, with inside e&'
tiers, and heating pipes in the walls,
an abomination. II will leak to the
mage of every thing in it, until the ,,
If is removed aud another takes its ~ s
ice /; built upon common sense prin- ms
lies, II not science. NJ
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COMMERCIAL PRospERl1y or New off
city OF New Orleans, Six
appears to be growing sun
y rapidly. The domestic exports
foreign and coastwise ports, for the ,
al year just closed, amounted to 49,,
which is an increase n''
II the year ending the 30th July, tina
5,685,0l0. The increase in exports Ro,
foreign countries for the year doe
ches the extraordinary sum of S24,-
),41l, or within a few hundred dol !
Of twenty five million of dollars, vo;I
an increase over the great year of wy,
o3 of $12, 746,330. The domestic "h
orts from New Orleans exceed tbosa INN