New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-21
Sle6 OrIrars 9aiIg Crescent.
TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER u, 1858.
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phrase in New Orleans as a Drink of Coohituate
is in Boston, or Drink Of Croton" is in New Yorl
The name Of the source from which it IS derived bein
the universally received substitute for the Wor
watern The deserts Of the citizens Of New Or
leans enttle them to IS good drinking water as i
enjoyed by the people Of any other oity but they d
not have it they are forced 70 filter the waters
the Mississippi of their filth before they can siak'
their thirst deoeny, else as the Children OF lsrae
did for manua in the wilderness, depend upon Thy
bounty Of Heaven to send them drink from its reser
yoiFs of clouds. There is no reason but the lack
enterprise to undertake the prot, Why we should moi
have ia EeT Orleans the greatest abundance of pure
ana healthfnl water clear and sparkling crystal
and sooner on later we will have it by, we presume
the very means which our correspondent "D.n sug
gests Id another column. His plan is for squeduci
pipes which shall run along the line Of the jackson
Railroad if no better route be selected and tapping
one Of the limpid currents which, passing through
the piuey woods Of Mississippi empty into Lake Pom
chartrsin gpide it's waters to the city. The head
water taus secured would be sufficient to lift il to
hight Of about one hundred feet by the natural Law
which causes it to seek elevation to its level Th
Tangipahoa river would seem to be an eligible stream
TO steal supply Of water from but our topography
may be at fault. Will not capitalists take prelimin.
airy measures to demonstrate the feasibility or other
wife Of this plausible waterworks enterprise We
think there is Something in it."
The COunferfeItIng Business
Is carried on systematically in New York where
bills on thousand different banks, more or less, are
in circulation, and new counterfeit makes its APP
pearance almost daily, everybody, consequently be-
ing on the qui rive fully armed with detectives and
police reports The rags" are placed in the hands
of a hundred or so Of confederates, who simutane-
ously rush them on the market, considering them.
selves particularly lucky if each rascal can get few
dollars worth Off for the game is played out in a very
brief time, all merchants being put on their guard by
the police as soon as the first bill is detected The
following report from New York paper viii give an
idea of the telegraphic expedition with which run
Of the oounterfeiters is sqnelched in New York:
NEW CoUErERFErTs. Early last evening well exc.
cuted counterfeit So bills on the Brandon Bank of
Brandon, VI, made their appearance in the eastern
part OF the city, but by means otthe police telegraph
the shopkeepers were notified, and but few were
passed.
The unnecessary DeUd.''
An association Of medical sGuants, phiIanthropists
and dignitaries of New York, among them Mayor
Tiemann, have been holding series of meetings at
the Cooper Institute for the discussion Of matters Of
Sanitary and Moral Improvement In the course of
these they have demonstrated to their own satisac.
ton, that between nine and ten thousand persons
have died unnecessarily in New York annually for
the last seven years. They seem to have proved
pretty decidedly that if these ten thousand had not
died they would have lived They summed up the loss
of money, Of labor and life in the following table, in
which the homogeneous items are oddly enough as
sorted, dollars and humanity being mixed up queery,
the former taking precedence
Total expense Of attending unnecessary sickness an.
value q ibor ost annually So So 6 u.s.
,.. gssl u. J. III. 4 .,.s g a
We wager considerable that not one Of all our
readers can surmise the foundation upon which the
calculation Of the number Of unnecessary deaths
built tor every calculation must have some data
some place to start from, or it will not stand any
more than house viii in the air unless it is rested
upon the ground or otherwise sustained. Well, they
took the ratio Of mortality in London as the standard
ofnecessary DEATHS and the excess of that ratio of
mortality in New York they set down under the "un
necessary DEATH head There it u.s. plain as pike
staff proved to demonstration by the mathematics
ofunknown quantities Postuate, X-resuit, x plus
X. We are afraid men will die despite of learned
theorists their death necessary Deaths for the
world would become too small to hold them all il they
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more people than it could support.
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serious novelette, of length and all about a the
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blood and mvsterv i IN Il done m n ia mast a.,
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aud criticaI aennen ana bow III cnndnotor, ~,
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