New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-09

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4 decTeed to be free according 10 the law
Of the states and they were amply provided witt
real estate, SO that they should not fall as pauper
/ upon the parish: and Of the balance Of his vas
fortune he decreed to have boys and girls fret
sGheoE ito be erected upon the lake shore, to bea
! his name and appellation All these testamentary
prescriptions have, no doubt, been duly executed
yet, it appears to US, that great amount OF iahas
i arising from the subsequent sales Of the swamp
/ property, must still be somewhere, Of when the
public has not received any benefit he tn's' no"
4 ever, as it may, we have for some years inisseu
/. altogether the former establishment q sle iree
public school that existed upon the lake shore
near the Pontchartrain Railroad depot perhaps
I this institution was found to be unnecessary in
I that neigbborhood. and has been discontinued If
So we should like to know why do not the trustees
! f tbas FINDS the old residence of this
soruar2 henefactor and make use of It, after pro-
= Nor ranair for an educational institute, for which
It would be emnently proper, whilst inits present
abandoned condition it is an actual yesore to the
y neirhborhood. We make this suggestion, because
= two-fold object would thereby be obtained: in
the first place, We would snatch from Oblivion the
\ name Of Alexander Milne, who left such ample
funds for the poor, uneducated white children,
! with the proviso that his memory should thereby
be preserved and, in the next place, that resi-
dence might be restored to what it primitively
was--a most splendid building, though Of anti
4 quated fashion and conceit. s;.$S
u Indeed, when we first contemplated this singu-
arly looking building we took it for the residence
of some former Spanish Governor. 1t, was built
~
Erocks, part Of unhewn stones and mixed with
cement ofrock mortar. So were also the Enclosures
and heavy massey doorways. But since these
premises passed into the hands Ola French So
| ciety, as sort Of an asylum or hospital, it was
altered somewhat from its original exterior and
modernized as it were-the sstone inclosure and
doorWays replaeed by wooden ones, and which
| latter now are falling completely into ruin. The
| gardens Of these premises were ornamental by a
great number of fine fruit trees and shade and
| flower arbors; but all this, which it took long
| years TO bring to perfection, has become abso-
lntely waste It would, therefore, as sng-
gested before, be area1 benefit no doubt to the
estates If this property were again in the posses
| sion Of the Milne Trust Fund Agency; and mas
much as the French society has been willing to-
resell it, not having any longer use for it, on ac
count Of its own new establishment in St. Ann
street, we imagine no better occasion will offer to-
carry out the real intention Of its former owner
and no doubt founder. We cannot help observing
upon this occasion that our city authorities, to
whom generally these trusts have been devolyed,
should not neglect in strictly conforming to the
testator's intentions, for in moral point Of view,
suehis the actual duty fthe city fathers
those that stand in their place; but tits moreover
good policy to prove to the public in generathat the
intentions of public benefactors are kept sacred as
an encouragement for other benevoenty disposed
people to practice the like generosity with the no
doubt excusablel human frailty of being remem-
bered hereafter among the living as those that
worked in their time and day for coming genera
tons. Such thoughts and feelings would find due
appreciation by the observance of strict execution
/ in the testator's benevolent disposition.
Brick making. in the vicinity Of our city, has
always been very lucrative business hence bill
those that could embark in it with some adequate
labor force, did realize great fortunes as il proven
by the late Alexander Milne, of whom We have
just spoken, late Judge Martin and Towards, who
had their briekyards upon the GENTLY road, John
McDonogh, on the other side Of the river, who had
but to traverse or cross the stream III order to land
his bricks in front Of the city wharyes; for this
| was the great advantage Of those that were close
to the city enyirons that they could at any time
supply the ARCHITECTS with the necessary building
materials, whilst those that found themselves at a
distance, were prevented often by the bad condi-
ton of the roads, to comply with the exact stipu-
Iation of their contracts in delivering, upon the
building localities the bricks required by the
undertakers.
How New Orleans will be supplied in future
with this indispensable material, seems yet an un
solved problem Nearly all the brick yards in the
neighborhood Of the city have lost the slave labor
hands, and ne do not know whether this business
can be carried on to advantage by hired hands,
white or black. Perhaps, under the circumstances,
foreign made bricks may again be brought to our
city as ships ballast, as this was the case in 1916
and for several years thereafter, until the low
price at which the home made bricks could be
sold drove away the outside competition. Asst is,
we have observed some efforts being made by one
or two of our downtown brick yards. in securing
the necessary river or batture Sand Of earth, for
the making of bricks therefrom. These prepare.
tons denote that all hope has not been given up of
resumng this branch of our local industry, and it
is perhaps possible to engage white labor at suff-
ciently moderate hire 80 to furnish the article
at the present high rate of quotation, say SIS per
thousand, when in former times we have known
the common country bricks to be as low as So and
81 per thousand, delivered on the building ground
We must also wait and see how far the currency
question may modify the outward prices of this
article, for under that aspect in case of decline
there, Northern supplies may be expected, should
prices with US keep permanently yup.r s,,.++.s,s,
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Congregational sf
PROCEEDINGS or CONGRESS- ON THE %.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2.-Senate.-Mr Nesmith
introduced bill to grant lands in aid of the CON
struction of arailroad and telegraph line from the
Central Pacific Railroad of California to Portland,
river. *Sasg+ Y
Mr.. Howe presented petition of the citizens of
Wisconsin, asking that persons of African descent
in lately rebeliousStates be admitted to- citizen.
ship and equal rights as a condition precedent to
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