New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-06-01


Abseuteeism has done New Orleans almost as
much injury as the yellow fever, and all other dis
eases with which we have ever been afflicted The
large amount Of property owned by persons who re-
side abroad, the revenues OF which are annually
drawn to enrich and beauty other States and coun-
tries has had, and has now, an mpoverishng effect,
although not to as great extent at present as for
merly. The yearly hegira which commences about
the middle Of May and continues up to the first of
July, has ever been attended by depressing conse.
quences, commercially and municipality. Millions of
dollars are made here annually to be spent abroad
TO aggrandize other cities and commonwealth, by
men who have no more affection for New Orleans,
and care no more for her welfare except as basis
for future profitable speeulations than they do for
the chief hamlet in the Congo Islands, This is a
lamentabe TRUTH and no man who enjoys a reputa-
ton worth the smallest effort to preserve, will at
tempt to deny it.
Yet, notwithstanding all these drawbacks, the
Crescent City has wonderfully increased in wealth,
population character aud influence To what is this
increase attributable Who have been the sole
architects, struggling against almost insuperable
difficulties, Of the good work Why, the permanent
popuiationthe resident population those who stay
here year In and year out and whose entire pecunary
interests and sympathes are ndissoIubly connected
with the growth and prosperity OF this metropolis
These are the men who have made New Orleans
what she is and IL is upon such men that her future
exclusively depends-not upon the hy-a-ways, the
here to-day and gone tomorrow men, who think
nothing Of this community except to make money
out Of II.
We have beed led into these reflections by a iaci
that has been communicated to us that two OF tat
prominent candidates for the Common Council OF
the Independent Ticket, have already left town fol
their hyorite places of resort in the North, wher,
they usually remain the best portion of every year
and that there is no probability Of their return unit
late in the fall or the opening Of winter This is
kind Of absenteesm that cannot be too severely re
pretended. The services of the Common Council
may be more Indispensable during the summer thar
at any other time, but if the members thereof al
clear out North, Or sufficient number or them, i
will be impossible to obtain quorum, and the city
will be left destitute Of municipal legislature. o.
course gentlemen have an ndefeasble right to spen,
their money wherever they please and they please
but while enjoying themselves ia their own way with
out let or hndrance. they have right to inconveni
ence and possibly bring caamites upon the public, b.
accepting official trusts, the proper discharge Of whicl
requiresa constant attendance at home Absenteeisu
has brought evils enough upon US without our regu
Iary licensing it by eecting inysrable absentees AL
dermen and Assistant Aldermen, no matter how grea
their wealth and unquestioned their respectahility
These facts and observations we spread before oul
readers with a view Of awakening the attention 0
the public to proper appreciation of the points in
volved.