New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-04-18
Things In New-Orlenns.

Correspondence oil Inc irioun--
NEw.oKLEASs La April 7th, lsi6.
Nr Editor-If' a Pill showers do always bring
Nav flowers then will this land OF roses be blessed
with proiusiou when the queen month dawns upon
Us For eight days past wiki one exception. we
have listened 70 the music OF raindrops, from soft
showers 10 torrents, and there is no prospect OF
cesssiiou This, with the atmosphere, has so
thoroughly l;qwiGi-sd our mental and corporea t.
cui;ies Iaat il difficult recall our hrst lHpEes-
sions OF the Crescen. City or 10 give them rlStote
form If ihsy come Yet must the e,teT be written
marvel no If be tue last, for We arc almost IN
drowning condition. The earta arrays talL VII
not Ho@ receive the foods thai pour from the clouds
above On three sides the rising waters OF tue Mis-
si--ippi threaten US ead the fourth Lake Ponchar
train nas isiry invaded TIE city. and tdsea Z ~ so-
liz legitimate shores .e mics dssar: but x ess as
survd new ones in the OF NewOEiesns AID near
" one haf OF the CRY IS nav2aole % boats oil large
cl.sa Why ;h- s VII &c explained (Perhapsl al AL
other time meanwhile resume the connection oil :he
series The spprosch Of New Orleans as sen from me
hurricane deck Of steamer IS very fine he pianta
mons on either side OF river are n the highest STAKE
OF cultivation Farther than the eye can trace ITEM the
rows OF young extend from The houses and sugar
Mills thai line the river bank anu from your elevated Pc
-i-ion the view almost i17ltaoe AT me 1is'ancs
OF . miles the lofty white dome OF the 81 CEares
Eo,e s.ening in the SUNSHINE gives tie Hr5 IDEA oil tne
locality Of the city apparently fs1 piano q, seen scr9s
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remarkable. word Of these. O!ten n .nc voyage OF
the river obliged 20 make circuit ott"en
" 10 fifty miles 20 reach point which oy straight course
would DC from enc five miles ony-snd IN less tnan
FIVE hundred miles of latitude the river winds twelve
hundred Even Yankee enterprise would hardly
avail 10 diminish the distance The Father OF vater
will have lis own way. Arrived al New Orleans the
stranger soon ioTse:s the river amid the novel scenes
with which he IL surround.d-sireDg ger he Is yet not al
together uisns associations in any parto our own Isno
or the world must be very limited te 1nds not here
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said transient population OF not less than forty nous
and Everything has air Of busy animation WHICH IN
feS months gives place the siness ana sotCue Oh
a deserted city. The forests OF Uass WIZ nave u!ssP
pesred-and will De seen growing IN streets 'hh
now resemble our Pearl Maidenlaae bis though
true s yet future by three months and &c eaFe
il till then Glance your eye over mass OF the regions
ws,ered by the Mississippi and It's csfuent rivers sno
some idea mas b.. obtained OF the vast commerce tnat
centers al New Orleans lis disadvantages OF climate
and OF position the marshy soil and It's distance Oh
two hundred miles from the Mexican Grf) VIII a.
ways retard its growth but as there can DC no other
It viii always be the outlet OF the treasures oil Tue
mighty West lis soujrgut the Crescent Cry Is
derived from the form in which Il lies upon tue bend
inr river In length including tho Corporation OF La
fayette i, Is about miles while from the river lhst
orc-hancs IL in front the gloomy swamp thar sepe
rates il from Lake Portchsrtain except an occasion Oh
food like the prcsent there is but the space Of nail
mile such are now the form snd dimensions OF THIS great
city More land may In process OF time De rescued rom
the swamp as nearly all now occupied has been out
must ALWAYS be liable 10 !nundsons and undesirable Ior
residence Many interesting facts can he related oil the
present and the past city and liz singular inhhoian OUT
his letter must be closed FOX ire mail we VIII refer 70
them in the next. l.