New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-02-16
Sunday Morning in the Creole Market.


we are up with the lark and as with all events of nos
n,A >. az an era W our Bves We had resolved to
nave on snbhatss morning
Babbel. the down town markell rrue
We shake Off the fetters of sonnus ard walk ant
carry morning air lie Lillputi refrsshedf The
pied Clouds begin TO grow grey east aud Old Nx
in her 'sl-drawn chariot hastes westwsrf to Nor
caves fleeing the gaze Of the rosy featured Day f
The solitary policemen their nocturnal yies ended
fit at the approach Of dawn like frightened bats to then
holes Market wagons rumble over the stony pave with
so'nbre sound and rnouaing pussy from his mdngiA
tryst turna upon suspicious gfare as With hound
he clears come forbidden garden WALL we are ue witk
the larkor would be- did that early warbler Wait
mursy air Of the crowded town but he has taken hi
flight in far purer fields and in place of his merry mott
we have the newsboya shr shout and the cry Of fsi
women, mngliDg in harsh dssonance As We slide aor
the Shiny sidewalks of the Rue Royal ft5ie raw ~,
for there is skating in all weathers ,ere-yse eueo,,
the living tide that Hike ourselves wends to the one es
rendezvous. the Creole Market 2''R
On way We pause to listen TO the merry Tongues q,
the bell as with manyyoced melody they proclaim the
mathis and lingering awhile in the shadow of the v
church. delight eyes with the sight of the %
forms jet locks and speaking graces Of the sohs
daughters who with cross and rnsarv crowd tre
precincts and chaunt their chaunt Of penitence o,
the stir, the hustle and the hum of the tusy ar,r4
We dash into the crowd. like bold swimmer
make our way but no! step ia arrested bv hin
eyed lase fresh and innocent from the Yiueyards ~
Danube or the Rhyme. whose offered cup Of snaoei,
Mocha tempts the appetite and pause to sio tbe
fragrant beverage. That girl has eye and lin to
Shake the sainistdp of an Anehsrss y
She receives your contribution of small coin and as h
boards it carefully away muses. on the blessings her r
ing store will bring to the hearth of her yinecover FL
tage under the shadow Of the Bernese Hills Io an ~
right stands bury butcher red to the eIbes nJ ia
strong contrast to his delicate ris-a-vis o;ye inst be
contemplating, hammers away obstinate Joint the
while swearing with might and main. and yeno his
cab,lary for harsh quaint oats. sour armies o,otb
Uncle Toby swore dreadfully in Flanders but
like thisi . In the middle of the market-way ,so nav,
hard work to get along but fight our way ragaptv
despite OF the press OF numbers that make feel they
have elbows and of tie well-lled Sa4kets oyerr,n-
with meats and vegetables that soil our yestment a5
knocl, our outer man into anconth disa5i-we are in
for it, and with the selfdeyoon of martyr win res;e
ourselves to the sacrifice.
All nations under the have here vomted forth their
specimens OF human cattle from the trim well dressed
of civilization to the long hceed native of Nnhi,
sands the turbaned Turk, stupid With dignity and orn
and the hued emgrant from the .Ceestia,
worping strange gods and writing strange characters
from right to left There stalks an old woman with
"a
frost of unnumbered seasons vending her toteri5g
and led by laughing Hour her descendant in the fourth
generation brilliant in her young loveness as the blsh
of early Spring Near her is beggar speaking with the
silent eioquence of seeming tender hearts unused
to his tricks: and goatng with miser's Joy over The
small coins that jingle in his dry and sriveed pa, and
which will 60 the morrow to swell his already LARGE
and gltterng heaps . ....... .'DH
Hard by is woman with Twins Done three wears
ploring aims Give literally unto her tilou good sam
itan for the herself must be clothed and ;ea
and her babies borrowed for the noncc must be paid
at a right round rate l..,..
Hark, Strange sounds and dissonant saluta tb ans
There is confusion of languages various as Mt Rab,
when strange gabbe possessed the tongues of e, .i
the mother understood not the accents Of her cb,5
There the spaniard ennnclates in dgnied and rea d
cadence the GaIcian pours out his volumes NJ +,,
with gestures rapid and significant while Tho b,.
Goth gives vent to his expressions with spasmoa;
jherk.' -s.7. 4t.4t..l t9.r I9'1li s l.
Here may the epicurc find wherewth to please tho
petite or to offend and the bue-nosed Down
may discover his favorite molasses dshed ont b
swarthy Ethope (whose whereabouts YOU snpT in 81
tainted breeae,) from the depths of an open tub
with stray trn4h and substances uInieuto1shle
the middle ground you emerge into the markets further
extremity, where heeatombs Of fish TINT swan in y,t,ra
long dried up are offered on the affairs of Epicrus and
birds of strange feather the date of whose demise Ii;
wrapt in the mystery of forgotten times There are ees
from Lake Borgne. eroaker and crabs from pontchartrai
red fish from the brny surf and there by all That's isby
scarcely in his last sad preserved in ice imported
from the far East There is picking the arer of the
very best, and if you choose not guardedly of the
worst. too
Leavng the crowded market place on our homeward
walk we inger brief moment the newly cbrsteued
jackson Square, where the sacred memories of ty,
good old times have been studiousy effancd Here are
strawberries in embryo and never tree to shut ont t
scorchpg rays of the At the four corners of the
enclosure are statues representing the seasons Btle
Spring stands in the East holding in her hand 5mo,,t
of Foras first gifts to the early year and on her brow
gariand of flowers Summer, faces the South lightly
clad and displaying sheaf and reapers hook Autumn
looking from the West, bears clusters of grapes and
rpened grain sacred to Ceres and universal Pan whilst
Winter placed at the North wraps about him his town-
mantle and gives to the wind his snowy tressesan red
and sriyeled manapt type of dessoation and the DYING
year! And so, Illuminating many things our morning.
jaunt is at an end,