Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-12
oARrsroSDrscr OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEMOCRAT.
Nav onIrANs, January 90, 1915.

NEW ORLEANS, January 30, 1915.
Mr. Editor: If you do not know tina
NEW ORLEANS is a place, permit me 10 in
form you that it is, with its 10000 in
habitanis, It's six miles front on the grea
Mississippi, lined with noble and counties
vessels from every cline, steam boats ant
flat.boais almost without number; IFS street
of spacious stores, for the transaction 0
the great business of the West; its row
of splendid mansions, and its rows Of man
sons not splendid; with dozen cottor
presses, those pests of the cotton plant
er, and naisances to commerce, its vas
warehouses for the storage Of western
produce; its grand mart of sugar and mo-
lasses; its grand and magnificent hotels
The st. Charles, La Bouse 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 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 well attended; its well patroniz-
ed theatres; its bathrooms, where do con.
gregate the aristocracy of wealth, brass
and impotence, the patrician and the ple-
beian, the pert, obsequous Yankee, the
nonchaidnt devil.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 to this great metropolis; then we have
concerts Of sweet music and singing, al
most nightly, given by the greatest musi-
clans and vocalists 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 gi-
antess here for exhibition, the man being
seven feet FIVE inches high, weighing 432
lbs, the woman six feet six inches, natives
If Scotland, thar ,ho.o 80 hnnd.oJ, &c
other objects TO vile away time-but stop:
LEI us take walk over a small portion OF
this improving city. If you are disposed
TO lecture on medicine, cutting up a
mans body, &c. we will walk few steps
down Common ST. TO 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 adjoin-
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 nom
sense, striving 10 earn four dolls per day,
by enacting few laws and passing a few
Notwithstanding two months time
10 do what might be done in two weeks /;
by the way, they have lately passed re-
solution instructing our delegation in Con-
yress to obtain an appropriation to build a
new smoking saloon for the benefit Of the
revenue, in place of the old smoke-house
now on Custom-house square, and should
,ur worthy masters at Washington conde-
icend 10 allow a few crumbs 10 drop from
he Treasury tables, and be discussed in
his little village, you may, Mr.. Editor, IN
'our visit next season, have the graiica-
ion, when you land here, of pulling off
FOUR hat, and making your obeisance TO a
,ile Of brick and mortar, which will be an
to that part of the landing--bdi
am DEPRESSING. Leaving the legislative
rails, we will proceed with you down to
he magnificent building in ST. Louis 81.
.aIed the St. Louis Hotel; we will walk
q, pay our respects and our extra dimes
o very gentlemanly and courteous pub
lean, Senior Alvarez, after moistening our
lay, and tasting his tempting luncheon,
We will proceed up stairs into the spa
,ious and splendid ballroom; here we see
eveniy-nnd.s of the luminaries Of the
ge and State, from the youth Of twenty
i'd up 10 the venerable gray hairs Of three
core.and-ten; this is the State Conven-
ion to form new Constitution for Louis