The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-17
Adjutant General.


BY order. r. JONES,
Adjutant General.
The following letter will, we doubt not, be
as interesting TO our readers as if il were dated
at Paris or London.-ED MAD
Fl ON the Char lesion Courier.
New ORLEANS, Aug "a, ls42.
MEssRs. EpIroRs: In anticipation Of visit to
your city during the approaching winter preparatory
to permanent location in tits, in every of the
word ''crescent CITY," permit old subscriber,
through your valuable columns, to attempt at once
refutng the opinions of some of your readers on
more subjects than connected with New Orleans.
The correction of error any subject, however in
significant irrelatve to immediate interests is
at all times entitled to respectful consideration. /
am emboldened therefore, to hope that, although
this letter may not prove generally interesting, still it
may be the means of extending the necessary nfor-
nation to some one who may be dubious of the
strange reports from this quarter curious to learn
something positive concerning the most heurishing
city in vast extended territory No city has been
more sandered with regard to its climate, civil
moral, and political condition, and health than this
So in proceeding to the last most important subject
will here, as Cicerone, request the stranger-reader
to move along slowly with me, or, in more classical
language I" festnare lente," as we are now in our
hottest aestivaton, and think of nothing so much as
keepi ourselves cool. The wea' her, however far
from being oppressive, is like every thing else
that we have experienced in this country, except the
dOctors--tO whom we will pay respects after dis
cussing mortality-Aind, generous, and hospitabe.
cannot exactly define it, although fully appreciate
it, as its soothing influence steals with magnetic
6nesse along the senent nerves. The nights, unlik
those Of your "hot Harry Percy State" dubbed by
one OF our Creole orators, are always cool and en-
couragng, and as to the mosquitoes those formidable
bugbears of all of tropical cities they are the DO
litest Of the chronological world and sing such me-
lodous lullabes fully make amends for their vam-
pyre ntents Our semi-annual birds-of passage citi-
Zens have gone to look again at the DEAR familiar
faces of the far North, and to renew at their early
paradiscal homes, those notes of remembrance which
accord in unison that diversified land of beauty
| and fertility, the American proudly calls his country
those bonds which h Id the hearts of its millions
of inhabitants in vast chain of love and brother
hood. May this forever be tie only chain that fet-
tiers u.s. and may always feel the potency Of those
magic words of the lamented Caronian
"Our country our whole country how affecting
the ties that bind US to thee.'
| Business now of all kinds is almost entirely s,is.
| pended and every thing as quiet silence. " 81
lence," however, as read and perceive is the ele
men in which great things fashion themselves toge-
ther that at length they may emerge Uniformed and
majestic into the daylight Of fe" Let us therefore
imagine the silent summer over, financial affairs ar
ranged, and the banks more paving Specie and
will introduce you to business day Of last fall, ir
| prospect of coming events which notc cast their
shadows se, up, ore a s e%pha
caIIv an ea-y fsi-cy, oariy To bed, Woodworking b
sness city-and the banks of the father of rivers
is the theatre of action. Lo! what scene of COM
mercia enterprise, of interchangeable industry and OF
agricultural riches presents itself during our peripa
| tetics The whole panorama of nature can in nc
other one place present such meange Of things an
| innate and inanmate, of tongu and nations. All
| L tr.hAs &c H., ~l.lu II.
features and costumes the different shades by which
the Great Creator has characterized the whole hu.
man family from the Caucasian to the Malay. The
turbaned Turk, and the mantled Castilian, mngl.
with the moccasned Indian, and the Iight-cothed
| Anglo-Saxon; while the Herculean English porter
contrasts strangely under his weghty load with the
delicate maccaroni-sel ng Italian and the slow drag
of the Dutchman becomes the badnage of the light.
skipping Frenchman. Quarteroons, mulattoes, and
blacks horses, mu es, and asses Wagons carts and
drsys; all this immen.e multitude is moving to and
fro without the sIghte disorder kept in its proper
by the invisible but controlling hand of an al
most Partisan police, and faithfully fulfilling while
plying the " roaring loom OF time" the acknow-
| lodged destiny of man--"by the sweat of the brow
shalt thou eat bread" Ay toll on, toll on man
| here is in his Duty be GU of it where he may; for
soon must this tropical work-day of existence die
away, like the glowing sun, into dust and darkness
and with all its life-toiIings, its heart joyng and
soul-mourning noises, sink in the still eternity
OnWaTu we Will Walk, ana see now tne banquet
groans under its precious loads. The manufactures
of Europe--the merchandise of the Indies-the
fruits of the TrOpicsthe staples of the far west
the fowls Of the air, the fishes of the sea-great
arks of live stock Of every description, and huge
fats Of coal mammoth ra Is of timber all borne
down for hundreds of miles on the long liquid road
with the iDexhaustable magazines Of provender that
the rich Delta of the Mississippi and its tributary
waters are actually pouring out (of which have
been an eyewitness, having voyaged up and down
the whole extent of the western highways from Pitts
burg to the GulfD these are congregated in this vast
| Southern market Ships, briggs schooners, and
sloops of all the maritime powers of the world are
| ranged in triple-panked column along the banks OF
the turgid liver, which the nces,ant going and
coming Of the hgh-pressure steamboats, witn their
loud sbllant respirations, keep in fe-giving agi-
| tation.
Some idea may be formed of the immensity of the
shipping, and the demand for freight, when it is
stated that the custmhouse duties require the SER
vices OF about 30 officers and inspectors that
the amount of oxpvr OF produce in year is about
20OO,00O. About $50 700 bales of Cotton 30 600
hhds Of Tobacco, and $4,000 bbls of f our are re-
ceked from the interior in year The sugar crop
Of Louisiana alone, averages annually about 10000
hhds with its proportional of moasses These are but
some of the items-for the Mississippi and lis mapy
tr utaries empty into the bosom of this commerce al
emporium the products of 10000 miles of internal
| navigation. Such then the evidences of those
resources, that industry productiveness and wealth.
Whcn prove mat socially, as well as politically New
Orleans Is and must remain independent Of the world
and never can be ruined, let misfortunes and bank.
ruptces howl about her and within her as they do
and demagogues al sophi IS argue as they please
We have now arrived at The Place d'armes The
venerable Cathedral, Spanish monument, encrusted
with the sediments of olden time, Hanked with its
bexagonal turrets and beries, and capped with its
Roman doric columns above the massive antae, with
most antique wreahs on the frieze of their entaba-
lures, commands our notice. The low sem-circular
arcbed door, with two clustered Tuscan columns on
either side, openlet us enter in reverential admi-
ration. The matnal mas is in course of celebra-
ton. The august corps ecclesiastical is on the tomb
shaped altar. The concentrating boys are ranged
on either side The great waxen candles she'd "a