The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-11-13
UOHHEgppHD EUuE.
The Crescent Gity-I,y pisosmeal

that, "sa.lang' and away they rush
one after another, up and down
The otnnlhasEss roar and thunder
IN one eternal stream, as If to con
found or run over you unless you
hurry Yonf stumps and look fpnr wafs
1T once while you venture down IT.
Charles, ur attempt to cross 10 the
other side. hnd.yet these intertnina-
hle veheeles afa just The thing for yot,
Of y wet day, Or after Il long md hard
days work. You can jump into one
at Fanal, mud he hurried down ltpynl.
Nhrias, l'anpart Of Claiborne 10 rs
plinhde, the Lower Cotton Press or
tho Fonelartfain l'ailroad. 1T any
minute Of avery hour frotn q A. NJ. till
10 at night. II vou live in Lafayette.
two miles above tahal, they will put
you down IN the Same manner. and IN
the aaine time, and NIL for dime.
F'lawaon Is 4 public banefaetor--his
otnnlbussps arc n great eonyehienea
aud they ought 10 be and arc well
phtFnuizbl The fRside Of New Or
lenus notrla b dull hs death aud twice
~ mhurnttl were it not for Slawson,
his omni,uaaaa and the drivers. ! any
the fRS1ff ofile city would be dull
without ihni1. and So ii would ! mean
o. course AL # tho city off the Leyee,
for on that mighty flleatre Of activity,
lie ald labor, pat aud his dray, are
the ruling apirit= that move in the
shifting Eaones there enacted.
9aWsoil md hia onnnibussas are one
IF the liked features of ia$tde New
nrleanR, Fat an1 his dfay are anoth-
er institution fixotl, prominent and
noiey ~ The other. One thtnders in
every street and avenue Of the city
proper, the other loarH along and upon
the leyee whore omnihusses seldom
ventnre4 t. appear. 0mi,ibuss aid
dtay. roar and clatter meet and min
gle pass and repass at. almost every
corner, yet they seldom come together
Or "loek hubs and Of consequence
there il we're little fighting OF quarrel
ing between Pat of the otfIibta and
Pat Of the dray. The former may
feel little more consequential as bis
#ant ls little hfEbef IN the world,
set the hitter is something more indie
pendent, for no is generally his own
mister, belng proprietor Of the ami.
mails and vehicle that he '1ushes' on
tho Levee. or up Ioydrass. And these
Two eonycyances marks more distinc-
'ly than almost everything else, the
l'tlerent parts Of the city, the old and
he now, the French and American.
he aneieut Fanholrg, the old French
and Spanish neighborhoods are very
title disturbed by the omnbuss or
drny, except as they 90 out Of their
beaten traclH, 10 accommodate be-
ated up town gent on bis way to u
rihna, Or pleayune trader in meats
ind groceries. The fusion Of races,
he mixing mp Of interests and general
,nalgaination Of casts and el1aracteris-
les that is discefnaLle above Canal
md in its immediato neighborl,ood,
las moi yet reached Fsplinade. It is
aid that New Orleans has '',noved up
he river within u very few years,
md soHo even 20 50 far M to assert, |
hat as the business gradually wilens
md enlarges above Canal street, the
'lty below it il deserted, or left 'an
tauo quo,' and therefore Of course
he city proper does not grow. Such
persons point to the dilapldated old
warehouses, DC, going to
nln, and cotton presses no longer III
'se, as proofs Of their assertions. TO
he casual observer, these evidences of
lecay on one hand, and the thrift and
nergy on the other may be deceptive,
s to the actual growth Of the city;
'ut to one who studies carefully, the
he causes Of the decay Of the one
art and the nature Of the growth Of
he other, will not be misled ~ to the
'rogres New Orleans is making TO-
Yards her seat upon the Imperial
'hronc Of the Southern Commercial
world. Fever may aee'imatc her in
abltants, croakers may cry down her
redit, snivelIing penny-a-liners may
rrite ont her epitaph and prophecy
er early ruin and death, yet will she