Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-12
OF THE mississippi DEMOCRAT.
New ORLEANS, January 20, 1s45.

NEW ORLEANS is place, permit me TO IN
form you that it is, with lis l5o,0 900 in
habitants, It's six miles front on the great
Mississippi, lined with noble and countless
vessels from every cline, steam boats and
hat.boats almost without number; its streets
Of spacious stores, for the transaction of
the great business of the West; its rows
of splendid mansions, and its rows of man.
sions not splendid; with dozen cotton
presses, those pests of the cotton plant
er, and nuiSGnceS to commerce, its vast
warehouses for the storage of western
produce; its grand mart of sugar and mo-
lasses; its grand and magnificent hotels,
The ST. Charles, La BourSe Ste. Louis, the
Verandah, Hewlett's, the National, &c. );
its great levee for the protection from in
undation; with the splendid smoking"
saloon, belonging to Uncle Sam, erected
in the year 1921, for the purpose of aid
ing in the collection Of the revenue of this
great government, and called the Custom
house, but looking more like a good size
pork smoke house, and stares you immedi-
ately on your landing in the city; its nu-
merous churches, which, by the bye, are
generally we'll attended; its we'll patroniz-
ed theatres; its bathrooms, where do con.
gregate the aristocracy of wealth, brass
and impudence, the patrcian and the Pile
beian, the pert, obsequious Yankee, the
nOnchalant deviI-may-care Kentuckian,
the precise, formal Frenchman, "bearded
like the pard;"-and then, again, those
which are patronized by every class, CO.
lor, and hue, from snowy white TO sooty
black, 10 suit and accommodate the taste
and caprice of all the thousands of visi-
tors 10 this great metropolis; then we have
concerts of sweet music and singing, al
most nightly, given by the greatest must
clans and Yocalists perhaps of the age;
then we have thousands Of loafers and
loungers, TO be seen at all hours of sun
shiny day; then there is giant and gil
antess here for exhibition, the man being
seven feet five inches high, weighing 432
lbs. :, the woman six feet six inches, natives
of Scotland; then there are hundreds of
other objects 10 vile away time-but stop ::
let US take walk over a small portion of
this improving city. If you are disposed
to lecture on medicine, cutting up
mans body, &c. we will walk a few steps
down Common st. 20 the Medical College
of Louisiana, now in session daily, and at
tended by a numerous and respectable bo-
dy of students from this and the adioin
ing States. If this does not suit your
taste, you can walk around the corner, and
in that odd.looking French-ifed building,
once used as public hospital, you will
find convened the legislative wisdom of
Louisiana, curious mixture Of honesty
and knavery, common sense and legal non
sense, striving TO earn four dolls per day,
Il by enacting few laws and passing few
notwithstanding two months time
to do what might be done in two weeks
) by the way, they have lately passed a re.
solution instructing our delegation in Con.
gress to obtain an appropriation to build a
new smoking saloon for the benefit of the
1 revenue, in place Of the old smoke house
now on Custom-house square, and should
our worthy masters at Washington condo
. scend 10 allow a few crumbs 10 drop from
3 the Treasury tables, and be disbursed il
this little village, you may, Mr.. Editor, II
= your visit next season, have the grati6ca
/ ton, when you land here, of pulling of
e your hat, and making your obeisance to +;
: pile Of brick and mortar, which will be al
:. ornament to that part of the landing-bu
! | am DEPRESSING. Leaving the Legislative
! halls, we will proceed with you down t
Y the magnificent building in ST. Louis st
i called the st. Louis Hotel; we will wall
e in, pay our respects and our extra dime
10 very gentemaniy and courteous pub
{ lican, Senior Alvarez, after moistening on
clay, and tasting his tempting luncheon
II we will proceed up stairs into the spa
e cious and splendid ballroom; here we Sc,
e seventy-and-seven of the luminaries of tn,
9 age and State, from the youth of twenty
odd up to the venerable gray hairs of tire,
score-and-ten this is the State Conyen
lion to form new Constitution Cor Louis