New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-26

is aware of the quantity Of produce and merchan-
disc now transported this road, yet in an in
fant state in fact, it has not got its swaddling
clothes off. If many of our presumed or w0ud-be
leading citizens had taken half the interest in the
completion Of this road that they have in patron
izing and encouraging Northern watering places,
towns, cities and villages, the road would now
have been fully finished and opened for travel to
the Sabine river. If our citizens subscribe and
contribute quarter of million dollars to erect
and build splendid opera house, Gt is doubtful if
it will ever pay a diyidend} why not come for
ward and take quarter Of a million Of the
mortgage bonds Of the 0pelousas Railroad, draw
ing f2ct. per annum interest, and which, with the
principal will be promptly paid2 Why not, the
talk is, advance and take the same amount in the
bonds of this road, to finish the road and give
to our country denizens a chance to come to the
opera This is worthy Of being taken into consid-
GRAFTON individually. The talk is that the opera
stock way down ON rue Bourbon will not pay a
dividend for some time to come.
/ 1t was very dusty on the streets yesterday.
Complaints are made by the residents of Caronde-
let street that the pavements not kept clean;
in fact, there appears to be great accumulation
of dirt and rubbish Inquiry is frequently made,
where are the contractors for keeping the streets
clean? where is the Street Commissioner? The
habitues of rue Carondelet wish to see Mr.. Com
missioner Relf on the flags they will point out to
him causes for complaint Remarks of a similar
| character will apply to Camp and other streets.
The talk is, why not the streets kept clean,
when they might be with SO little trouble, particu-
arly the new square-bloek pavements? What are
the reasons ?-questons often propounded.
There was some talk Of the great sale Of prop
| erty yesterday. We allude to the ground and
buildings forming the southeast corner of Canal
and Camp Streets known for the last forty years
as the Leslie corner. The ground measures 40
| feet inches Canal street, 81 feet on Camp
street by an irregular depth, with the ordinary
brick buildings; the largest, on the corner, being
ordered to be taken down from supposed insecu-
rity of the walls. This property, which cost the
/ old proprietor somewhere about thousand dol
| lars-that is, the ground-between the years 1915
aud 1920, was bid off at $4,000. Well, this will do
for these times. 1t will, however, cost about s5o
COO to remove the present buildings and erect 9th
ers in their place, after the modern style Of build
ing. OF course, it is well known that the purchaser
is Mr.. Slater, the owner Of the City Hotel. This
purchase makes his property now IN tact from
Common to Canal street fronting on Camp.
The last Of the mails by the Arabia were deliv-
cred yesterday. The first installment OF these mails
was delivered on Monday last. Now, for some ex-
position to how the mail service is conducted /:
A part of the mails by the Arabia, the first part,
was received at the office in this city on Monday
last. One of our old merchants came over in the
Arabia, and arrived here on Tuesday morning the
23d, after stopping two full days in New York
The mails were, therefore, twenty four hours be-
hind ordinary passenger travel, according to the
statement Of the gentleman which cannot be
called in question. He left Liverpool in the Ara
ba on Saturday, October 9Th, at l03 o'clock; lost
II ten hours waiting at Queenstown and ten hours at
Halifax; arrived in Boston and landed at 2 P. NJ
on Wednesday, the 18th arrived in New York
same night remained there the 18th and 9th, and
arrived in New Orleans on the morning of the 23d
inst. Therefore, by ordinary diligence, it is plain
that the Arabia's mails ought or could have been
delivered in New Orleans on the morning of the
2lst inst.
Under our financial head this morning will be
found something rich and recherche in the way of
bankruptcies in England. A creditor under exam.
nation says that in March last, the failure occur.
ring in July following, he did not think he would
lose half million dollars by Smith and Patient
but he though bankrupt himself at the time, con.
tinued to discount the bills of the firm from $780,
] 900 to 100000. One of the bankrupts, Mr..
Rider, done large business with the United States.
How fortunate it was he did not ride on Carondelet
4 street and take some thousands bales of cotton
We have copies of the balance-sheets of these
i bankrupts. They are refreshing to look a
rainy day, and will 60 fur to strengthen the opn-
ion that there is more money lost and squandered
in England than in any other commercial nation.
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Il ACCIDENT TO VIRGINTAN.-A grave accident tc
a young American gentleman, Mr.. Mayo, of Vir
gina, nephew to Mrs. Gen. Scott, happened at the
last races in the Bois de Boulogne, near Paris. Mr.
Mayo was in the enclosure on horseback His
horse suddenly took fright and reared violently
throwing his rider and falling upon him. In bis
struggles to rise, the animal placed his two fore
feet upon Mr. Mayo's left leg, bearing his whole