The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-09-29

"NEw ORLEANS AS 1T Is."'-The people
of almost every country fancy the mselves TO
be superior in most respects TO the people of
all other countries. The same OF different
localities in the same country. Influenced
by this prevalent sentiment, N. O. cores
pendent Of the Concordia Intelligencer thus
sketches matters and things in the Crescent
City:
A happy liberaliiy Of sentiment, in all
things, has long characterized this commu-
MY. Conscience is essentially more free
here than elsewhere in The United States.
People worship as they please, or omit all
external forms ifihey prefer it, without CON-
neni. Men live poorly or luxuriously, in
lhree-siory house, or in hired room, with
"ul being subjected, at every turn, TO an in
quisorial eye aud an ll-naiured tongue
In New England they fine man for driving
ms own wagon through the stree Is on Sun
day. Ia Baltimore have known Jew tai
Tor to be fined twenty dollars for venturing
10 patch a travellers unmeniionables on the
S'bbaIh. In the city OF Brooklyn, aud on
Iy The other day, three thousand persons
spontaneously assembled to sympaihise with
unhappy Ireland, and were dispersed by lie
mayor, because il happened to be, by con
veniionaI chronology, the seventh day OF
the week! Here things are quite The re-.
verse, DevOut people have churches, and
ministers are paid to preach to them TO The
tune Of Sl0,O 900 per annum. Gay people
nave their amusemenis also. The theatres
and bathrooms are open. The rich drive 10
stately equipases on the shell road, TO breathe
The breezes of the lake. The poor, with
hearts foil Of gratitude for health and abun-
dance, go TO The numerous gardens 10 drink
their beer, smoke their pipes, romp with
their childieD, or waltz with their sweet
nearis.
Our military sometimes turn out on the
Sabbath, and il "a brave soldier, who has
fought and suffered for his Country, chances
10 arrive, Il is considered no offence to burn
lille gunpowder, or to sound his welcome
on the sprll-stirring drum. People at a dis.
iance will, doubtless, turn up the whites oil
heir eyes at all this, and perhaps be blind
enough 10 pray that The fate of Gomorrat
may not be ours. | give them thanks, but
If it will afford comfort, venture to say that
there is as much Of genuine piety here, OIL
charity and goodwill, the very essence ol
religion, as there is in any other city, and in
no part OF our country, in so large commu'
niiy, is there so liule crime. IL is rare, in
deed, lba, niractions of the criminal law az
charged upon our permanent citizens, and
scarcely an instance where capital offences
have been brought TO their doors. Ninety
nine ont of every hundred nisdemeanors
are committed by strangers. and even among
them, such is the Conservative atmosphere
hat seems 10 f1al around US, crimes Of The
frs, magnitude occur only at long intervals
We have fixed population OF at le1sl a
hundred thousand, increasing during the
winter perhaps fifty thousand more. Thirty
thousand troops and upwards have been al
different periods quar,ered among US, will
more or less license yet We have not, fol
twelve months, heard Ot murder. Assas
i sina,ion is unknown. DJels are becomi ns
rare. Offences agiinst chastity and public
4 decorum seldom occur. The seduciions
violations, Grim, cons, OnderdOnklngs, ant
other domestic crimes that DISGRACE the cas-
tern cities, aud exclude many of their priest:
aud bishops from every place but The pulpit
are never heard of i'm N. Orleans.
l Here il is not considered an objectionable
sin to kiss pretty woman, if she be willing
ln Boston and Philadelphia they will fin,
you fifty dollars for every smack! Here
where people dance on Sunday, that inesii
mabie jewel, female virtue, is sale and IN
suspec, ed. There, to protec, it, men ba
their doors at night, against The very minis
tiers that have preached to them in the NOR.
ming! So much for the social restraints ant
savage secre tsrianism that peryade certain
portions Of the county. We derive the ell
waited and liberal tone and the pure moraIi,,
that exist here, chiefly, from the mixed ant
peculiar character of,he ancient, indigenou
!, population OF New Orleans. They have Ion,
understood tho nature Of social and polilica
lreedom.