The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-11-08
4C01R ESp0ND 8 NOE.
The Crescent City-By Pisosmsal.


Z Here they 60, there they 60. cross
and recross, up this street and down
that, "gd-iang" and away they rush
one after another, up and down !;
the omnibusses roar and thunder
IN one eternal stream, as if to con-
found or run over you unless you
hurry your stumps and look four WAYS
at once while you venture down 81.
Charles, or attempt to cross to the
other side. And yet these intermina.
bic .veheclss are just the thing for you
Of a wet day, or after long and hard
days work. You can jump into one
at Canal, and be hurried down Royal
Marias. Rampant o. Claib ,rne 10 E<-
plinade, the Lower Cotton Press or
the Poncliartrain Railroad, at any
minute Of every hour from 6 a. NJ. till
10 at night. Ii you live in Lafayette.
tyo miles above Canal they viii put
You down in the same manner. and in
the same time, andall for a dime.
Slawson is a public benefactor-his
omnibuSes are a great convenience
and they ought to be and are well
patronized.-. The inside Of New Or
leans would be dull as death and twice
as nournfuI were it not for Slawsop,
his ornibusses and the drivers. 4 say
the inside oftl.e city would be dull
without them, and so it would mean,
of course all of the city off the Lesee,
for on that mighty theatre Of activity,
life and labor, pat and his dray, are
the ruling spirits that. move in che
shifting scenes there enacted.
Slawson and his omnibusses are one
of the fixed features" sof iusMe New
Orleans; Pat and his dray are anoth-
er institution" tixaa, psomirent and
noisy a. the other. One thunders in
every street and avenue Of the city
proper, the other roars along and upon
the Levee where omnibusses seldom
venture to appear. Omnibus and
dray, roar and clatter meet and min
gle pass and repass at almost every
corner, vet they seldom come together
or .lock hubs and Of consequence
there were little fighting or quarrel
ing between Pat Of the omnibus, and
Pat of the dray. The former may
feel a little more consequential as his
seat is little higher in the sworld,
yet the latter is something more indie
pendent, for he is generally his own
master, being proprietor OF the ami
mails and vehicle that he ''rushes" on
theLevee, or up Poydrass. And these
two convevanccs marks more distinc-
fly than almost everything else, the
different parts Of the city, the old and
the new, the French and American,
the ancient Faubourg, the old French
and Spanish neighbolhoods are very
little disturbed by the omnibuss or
dray, except as they 60 out Of their
beaten tracks, TO accommodate be-
lated up town gent on his way to "A
friend or "A picayune trader in meats
and groceries. The fusion of races,
the ngXing up of interests and general
amalgama'ion of casts and characters
ties that is observable above Canal
and in its immediate neighborhood.
has not yet reached Esplinade. 1t is
said that New Orleans has moved up
the river" within very few years,
and some even 90 so far as to assert,
that as the business gradually wiJens
and enlarges above Canal street, the
city below it is deserted. or left in
uauo qao," AMI therefore Of course
the city proper does not grow. Such
persons point TO the di'apidated old
buildings. warehouses. &c. going to
ruin, and cotton presses no longer in
use, as proofs Of their assertions. To
he casual observer, these evidences OF
decay on one hand, and the thrift and
energy on the other may he deceptive
as to the actual growth OF the city;
but tSene V1nns studies carefully, the
the can~es q decay Of the one
part and the nature Of the growth OF
the other. will not be nisled as to tn
progress New Orleans is making -
wards her seat upon the In
Throne OF the Southern Comll j
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