New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-09
g(eu Orleans lailp Crescent.
THURspAY LOOMING, pEcEMBER 8, Is5s


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Cheap Luxury.
In order to place the privilege within the meal
of all, the cost Of getting drunk in Baltimore ht
been reduced to the minimum price of &c cents
be 10 very poor man. indeed, who cannot afford til
luxury Of playing guttersnipe, at least once a weel
We know that this is the regular rate for such is th
amount Of fines which we observe reported as 1evie
by four Of the different Justices Of that city. NOV
Baltimore has got reputation in consequence of tn
disorderly character Of the more degraded class o
its population, and we are inclined to think that
system Of more severe penalties would have an ez
cellent effect
We do not know, however, that we would sugges
as exorbitant tariff Of police charges as is enforced
in Mobile, where man can scarcely look in glass
or call person who has knocked him down hare
name, without its costing him enough to pay board
for a month, more or less-a stringency which IN
mstakaby enures to the benefit of the community al
large, though particularly hard few individuals
for the result that our neghbor city u.s. of its class
the most orderly in the country hsstate Of affairs
was brought about by the unVarying official severity
snd energy of Mayor Withers. the gentleman who
was elected as an American and reelected on Monday
last as Democratic candidate-his change Of coat
not long after his political garb enabled him to march
triumphantly into office, as will be remembered
causing immense excitement among electors. Reason.
ably moderate penalties would have wrought as ex.
cellent results, and more Justice would have been
done, for venaly offending citizens would have been
officially plundered less, and would not have been
under the profane necessity of cursing the laws
which they had imagined were framed for the con-
seryaton of their rightsnot merely to raise reTe-
nue. by preying upon their errors Those who dance
6 Al, a ho4 in
reason the fddling is worth Well, well, perhaps
1.-THE gods are just and of pleasant vices
Make instruments TO seoprge u.s..
The Northern Labor Market.
The papers of the North. East are talking ominous
Iyof the overstock Of aborers which burdens their
communities and great distress is predicted as likely
to occur in New York during the winter, where
thousands have no employment by means of which to
keep the wolf from their doors In the face of facts
which prove this overstock the christian corporation
of that city has made preparations to employ hun.
dreds of convicts in work which should be given to
honest men. In our Southern cities men do not
starve in the dull season, despite pet preachment
of antslavery agtator to the effect that slave labor
ers take the bread from the mouths Of white men
New Orleans is liable to be flooded with hosts of
stranger laborers, but we believe they always find
something to do, despite the numerous slave work
Mere Items.
Rarey, the horse tanner has been astonishing the
modern Scandinavians, having completed a success
full tour in Lapland and Sweden souUenir Of bis
soiourni in Stockholm is a gold medal presented by
the crown prince. : Mime Ristor is studying
up three new characters to add to her sensation roll
which is getting little stalea Cassaadra q Fora,i.
a and Palina We expect soon to hear Of her emu
latng her illustrious rival deceased Rachel and com
ing over to take the New World. An English
author named Trevylian has published small octave
volume Of only $50 pages, the object Of which is to
prove that Louis Napoleon is the Beast of the Apo
calypso This enterprise rather beats the transla-
ing Of the Mysteries Of Paris into the grand old
language Of Moses. y 1t is stated that Pow
ers has consented to accept the commission by which
he is to furnish statues Of Washington ad Of Frank
lin for the national capitol H. Emile Gil
rardin is about to get up literature exclusively
for the benefit Of rich Frenchmen-a book which ia
"not to be sold" but merely FURNISHED to those sub
scribng price equivalent to Ola per copy! The
work is republication of his leading articles written
for the Pres8e.
What's to be done
St. Charles street is fairly o7er-worked 1t has
more than it can attend to- It cannot accommodate
the tide Of humanity which has an evening ebb and
flow and flood through it, its channel has not the ca
= 90asou sees sae oioWus "heh lhfong
apL9s 'e siueflslhs more entfey
. ll ~ ~ iauisS mno would traverse
n p.,ss9 Z oalnot some praeti
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,hs.t .'aor - ouiuLloh ullnas' ana
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az " suggest t"ostoFy SIDE
ezastrion nnat,o lne concentration Of
~ ,st' Is [eahy becoming
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cool 80 se1'uia'eu u Keep the people f
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theatar which vilI soot soo =
s40oOOO This womb ~ COSY
ne Ionrisbin, in por,oiis interests
number Of III t
Now Cincinnati i not n,,,c uses
Orleans and II heinz ttat lSuous 1nau New
,,oro it rs squire o'ange IS not
's ls encouraged 10 snch enterprises as
IA, 'isuie man bad as
g.ooooo ~ the sslssppl as put it into
MI ,n5aa, 49, Il Nsm dreams, where y would be
Q. cincinnati is now
~ r. -oViooV aHu that Oh New Orleans nearly !,