New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-01

which, when lodged on the table, we discovered
to contain piece of cold bacon and cold corr
| bread on tin plate, small pitcher of milk
and two knives and forks The bacon and
bread were the leavings of the dinner furnished
| the feld-hands, and, had we been entirely be.
| You'd the bounds of civilization, and absolutely
| in want, might have made q good meal but as
it was, we laid it all aside, babe our Dutch
driver go to bed, took our seats out in the open
air, and quietly but impatently waited for the
morning. But our driver had the start of us :
he had brought along his own bottle of beer
and some lunch, :" because" as he said, Ish
| bin dis road afore.'
| AT daylight we were on our road again We
must do justice to aunt Tilly-it seemed as if
| she never could make up her mind to cease
| apologizing.
=" You mustn't blame Aunt lilly" she said ;
sit amt my fault-Massa got company to-
| night-dis amt no place for white gemmens but
| Aunt lilly do best She can
We assured the old woman she was all &c O.
X that we would pray for her, and to assure
her OF our good wishes, placed in her hand a
| small amount OF the one thing needful.
But We We're again ON the road thank God !
The horses were seized with an uncommon de-
sire to travel. The fresh morning breeze famed
our brows SO refreshingly, and the air was fra
grant with the odor of the many hued flowers
that grew in protusion around 1t was lovely
ride, and somewhat robbed us of the dark and
msanthropical thoughts which the events of the
past night had crowded in our brains There
was not cloud to be seen-nothing to
dim the Splendor of the rising sun: not
speck IN space save here and there an
eagle penetrating its solitudes. The hoarse
cough OF the steam-engine as it propelled
some stately craft to this great commercial mart
could be heard on the bosoms of the mighty
waters that, on our left, sought their way to
the great gulf And to our right were noble
dwellings at every short distance, with gardens
crowded with shrubbery and trees all clothed in
the regaHa OF summer, in the branches of which
sat nnumerable birds, chanting the sentiments
OF the season to the ascription of the Almighty
But this was all dispelled by the prospect of a
hafu days work under the hot sun on the
leyee 1t was Sunday--a holiday to ali but the
lelegrapher Many carriages rolled by us with
occupants for church or bent on neiehborly
greeting, and many pretty face peered out the
window to gaze at US in our work Many a
young man passed by, unnoticing us, as he
wended his way to the presence Of his beloved
we have travelled much--North, South, East
and West. Our business forces us to frequent
dependence on the Kindness Of strangers We
cannot make certain points in the disposition of
our time, for we have TO work where the line
requires it, and work while the day lasteth
Night has often surprised US miles from any
dwellng, but never until we Travelled the Mis-
slsslppi coast Of Louisiana have we been denied
shelter by any one, rich or poor, and always
received it according to the ability Of the host
But even along the coast there are some with
the milk Of human kindness in them, rs we
learnt before our journey ended--some whose |
names 1t would be pleasure to publish, were
such a course proper.
Hospitality! What word ! have heard |
much of Southern hospitality, seen much Of il |
md @m proud Of IT, Is Louisiana hospitality |
'ontrad.stingui he'd from the rest Is it sim |
1iy because the man a; your door IS a stranger I
hat he must starye or rot Is it because you |
ire often hesieged that you must always refuse |
VIII the stranger across the threshold of your |
mansion pollute it is there more satisfaction, |
; there greater security in rest, when you
know the man you refused shelter from the |
hight and the storm is making his bed on the
-eyee in the open air, contracting disease, and
| victim to want, than If you took him by the
land kindly and welcomed him into your dwell
ng Think well Of it for your own sakes
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