Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-05-24
Correspondence fthe Portland Da.ly .qdr.,,: >.
4 SUNDAY IN NEW ORLR.NS

say, Of the suburb. Of N. Orleans. VA, f,o,,
Pontchar'rsin. II was Sunday norni,s o. ' : |,
landed. The steam bat. a. soan az W. mo-.
ed the shore, Was crowded with face, Of IN co.,.
speaking ell kinds Of languages. trsn,;a,,Ss .'i
untrsusistabie. The passepye,. v,,h sa
we're soon mounted on rail road car ,,d "''
PEELED by hand few rods undc' " Larc d. ~ r.
omPhs," which vas . wooden building. pa,n,sI
white, orSrarching the rail road and 80
90 either sHe..-a Hotel | think Then .. w,
few minutes for III. locnmot,ve, which had -.
yet arrived from the city, to which and f., ~.
which it goes every half hour, distance a. m;I.'
These few minutes employed in looking s ,,,,
All around, except the neat and rather eI,v,.
buildings, and the pathways, was swami. or D.
NAL swamp.-fuli Of s.asnant water, and rous
looking bushes. Hooked into hotel. Th..
were many persons. suine drinking all sort. Y
liquor, from an elegantly furnished bar. .o.'
playing back CANNON and chess, some chat
French that was comprehensive. and som.
language known only to themselves. E,iI,n,
it was holiday. There was mirth and ,nl,!
and loud obstreperoas joy. The crowd wa, eo
siderable; the NOISE deafening. I looked in,
another hotel. An awning and o curtain ,h,1
owed one dnor. through which heard the eIis
Of dollars. With the curiosity Of MY coun,r,
men, for which all Of us are 80 famed, dreu
side the curtain. and stood before row Of oar
blers, some white. s,me muiattn, Some cb,l,;,,
French. some broken Eneish-aii paraded k'
or around table crowded with large piece, /
silver. playing roulette. The presence Of
stranger created no interruption. Others xen
a, ny heels. Only one Of The players looked u
frum the table, and he only turned up his spect
5'es aud then looked down again. ltwas bro.i.
day business. There was 10 couceaInrnt. n
man VAS ashamed. No man objected TO bsir
seen. The gamblers did not seem to be the ber
Of men in appearance, though they played hi.i
| have seen many better looking men in New O..
leans.
The locomotive soon came along with yet
rapidly, smoking aud putting loud, and drasip
in it's trail long row Of large cars, full from 10
to bottom it'll newcomers Perhaps one hvs
dred and fifty persons jumped from the Car, viii!
in three minutes after the locomotive stopped
This crowd was 50 much mure added 10 the e.. |
msr eruwd,-and ! soon learned, that tn
Lake. o. il is called. is the resort Of hundrea
and thousands from New Orleans on Sunday
party assembled the cars.-fi fine large cars, We
cushioned, and curtaned, and in very few IN
nutes we we're in New Orleans. landed in III
street, where IS many more people were watq
to 60 to the Lake.
"My plumber" or baggage disposed Of, wall
ed around to see the city. The market VAS ope
with almost every thing for sale, from green pea
black-berries. pine apples, and the vegetables
have 10 July or August, to al kinds Of meat
and it was crowded with negroes, mualOe
quadroons, 10 short, With men and women oil q
colours, from total blsckness, and their prett
brunette, TO the 6ne showy features Of the qust
roons.-and talking French without in'erruPua
in the full vivaci,y Of the language, thus mako
the long arch bound and rebound with voices ne
unlike that Of the foil chatter oil New En-
land mUnotorial school.
At the Hotel where I am. at Bishops ahe'
Americans chiefly stop. one Of the most moral
the city, and one Of the best in the Cn'on' bette
by far, because the walters are irish. and not NJ
gro slaves. with their attendant filth and n's'
ce,-there. Sunday as it was, the Bar w
crowded with visitants, and the chess and W
chequer boards were al employed.
l looked at the American part Of the city
There the stores 10 genera! were shut-thous
not all Of them. went to the French par
There the shops, almost all, were open. G00c
we're displayed ss in . week day. Purchase
we're active in the dry.goods shops, and shops
that descriptiou-snd the grog shops were GRO.
ed. wandered up and down the hrse. vino
is the embankmcnt on the Mississippi. and ~he
many fat boats lie, and there many, very man
were playing whist, loo, and four andfour''
think they call it.
Iwent to meeting Of the Colonization scel
~, but it was dead failure. The "promIne
MANI who had undertaken TO preside, dare
appear, or did not like here to assume the du''
Of such an Office. and the " distinguished men
who we're to speak. "backed out" The nee
ing was in the Presbyterian Church-and y
musicians played part Of the Cinderella w'''h''
IN overture!
! looked into the. Cathedral-an old Spans
building, rough cast, antique, and now rus'l
and there the choir were chanting. aud the pre-
doing something. I knew not what Inc
diencc was principally coIOred. There was'0
French and Spanish women, without OoIa'
and with wells thrown over their heads n ~,
were on their knees before the cross NV
we're guins out and 10, as 10 the Jewish ~!
,ogue. The doors were vide open Oh te pr
cipaI street. with no ascending step. S'ssps'