Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-09-08
FROM NEW ORLEANS.


NEW ORLEANS, August ~ 1907.
Gsutlemeu-Altlough the heat of dog-days, and
the duluess OF mid summer, are sitting like an incu.
bus upon u.s. and news so scarce, that one might
Justly be regarded as preaumptuous, indeed, 10 al
tempt letter, still, rs Passed Worshipul in that
most honorable Society, yciept The Can't Getaway.
Club, will erteavor ~ chronicle lis sayings ana
doinss. for the benefit OF our b'ethrea 10 b' Nicn
inoud."
have observed, as the first thing worthy Of atteu
tion thst we have now fuller attendance than
ever remember to have witnessed in the Crescent
city. This attribute partly 10 tbs entire absence OF
the yellow fever, q visitor whowith Paul Pry ASST
duty has steadily persisted in just looking in for
so many years, that his failure 10 do so this season
has created feeling OF intense surpr'sel but prlne
psy to my belief that the people OF New Orleans
oar solid men have ~ last ascer,ained poetica
sentiment TO be q practical TRUTH that There's no
place like home that years OF repeated saunterngs
and sojournings anomS the Yankees, have served at
last TO convince them, that Will the dust Gin ana
discomfur; generally OF Northern cities and watering
places, they have paid dear for their whistle
II does very well, 10 talk OF the delights OF
Northern tour; the subimity of Niagara, the
brilliant sssemblsge OF Saratoga, the miraculous
cures OF Sharon, the unequailed surf OF New
port, Rockaway and Cape May, and The bracing
effect of the While Mountain breezes, upon system
all unstrung and relaxed by tropical suu All this
say, presents ca aspect wonderfully inViling 10 Tue
merchant and professional n.n, whose WINTER OF un
upon his constitution. He cannot resist packs hls
trunk buys a through ticket, takes the Southern
mail route, and il n week lands III New YORK. But
in what plight Travel.worn and weary, 1t 10 ed
fying truly 10 hear him eXecrate rail roads, stehm
boats and every other ingenious invention, by which
man is hurried from home. He begins to lind that
distance does in thts case, most nssuredly LEND
enchantment to the view but alas poor wight, his
mseries are only begun, he has only been undergo
ing d preparatory training, by which he is to come
out saarnander like, from the fiery furnace Of North
ern tanaticism, Northern heat Northern extortion'
aud (more trying still the impudence OF Northern
waters And thus we see him. wandering ABOUT
from place 10 place i'll search OF Inc promised Il Do
RADIO, which he finds, aud then returning 10 the
congeriality oil his Southern home, with arestered
vow, that never again, will he by "deil or angel be
tempted beyond Masou's & DixOn's line. And 1t may
be asked what have We 10 usr To the invalid or man OF
pleasure, as compensation! why, eirs, Tor " sara
toga, we point Pass Chrstian, which, az its al
fractions offers gay, brilliant society, No hotel
al elegant beach, for the enjoyment OF the eques'
triau art, the Gulf breezes, bathing and bshlng lis
adjacent woods inhabited by every species OF game
ts nightly hops and weekly balls and as 10 lis cut.
sine. have only 10 mention that John Mcdonald
Whose fame as reStnuraicur il Union-wide) mas
command there, TO render ''ht suranCe doubly sure
that ii is exquisite and complete. Aud her sister wa.
terng places, Mississippi City, Biloxi, the Pascagoa
las, &c., making rapid strides into public favor
In addition to the amusements above mentioned,
cannot fail to notice that is peculiar to the sra
shorethe Regatta-ths very name of which ls sutli'
cient to excite 10 ones bosom emotions that tell too
well Of the fun and excitement that always attend us
meetings. We have an organized "Southern Yacht
Club" whose headquarters are n. the Pass, aud
which gives us n race, as often as possible. Dut
should the invalid feel that his system needed an I'M
preguaton OF sulphur hero Gan It bei:er DC iouhu'
than ut Bader Springs, Ala Or should pure noun.
tain air" be the desideratum such can be smiled IL
It's highest perfection among the Blue Ridge, ALE:
ghany aud Cumberland bills oithe good old State
Now, I fear somewhat, gentlemen. that you
Will think that have been giving you homily upon
al uninteresng eu1ect; but II il time that tue
Southern people should bs reused to just under.
standing at their advantages. Tosee them flock III
vast hurdes to the nhospitabe shores OF reesolisn,
scatter their money broadcast and With lordly pro.
digalily, among people who reylle with iendish ia.
natcism every institution that ia sacred aud dear to
Southern heart, is bumiliating aud degrading. In
my indignation would gladly behold all below Ma.
and Dixons line rise as one lnan, and that man
mbued with the feeling Of John Randolph Of Rbau
oke, who would never buy from nor sell 10 the North,
and who would not even permit; a Yankee to bind his
books
We all watched, with considerable degree of in.
terest, the proceedings OF the Knoxville Convention,
aud they have at last come 10 US IN mass OF reSo-
Iuions The South has been making resolutions long
enough, aud the time has now arrived tor ACTION
Hon. A. Dudley Manus enterprise has met with uni.
versal appreciation here, and we all hoped that 1t
would be put into practical shape. But the Conven.
ton merely resolved twhat We had all doue beiore)
"thst We consider it good idea.
The approaching Congressional elections seem 10
Cause very little excitement in the political circles,
and the papers have par consequence sunk into KIP
Van Wrinkle state OF apathy aud reposs. The Bule
tin gives us daily. digui6ed, but somewhat sio~
leader upon cotton the commercial capacity and In
dusris resources OF he South, mob law. The Delta
fumes and rages with Liputan fury over the course
Of the Administration more particularly as il Is e1-
hibised in the Wslksr.KsDsas policy, aud rings the
changes upon its snge prophesy that Ths South Sold
The Crescent makes estimates OF the strength OF the
know nothing party concludes that il is the mos; pow
ertul, ye, bemoaus the tact that beyond few parish
offices, it has none of the >poT> The Picsyune fur
uishes ts reader Gay record OF The weather, aud
minute report of the rising and falling Of the Their
uoueror; while the True Delta gives its columns to
letters from Lsavenwor,b, Kansas Territory. signed
"Ab.enee and supposed 10 be written by its talent
ed editor DR.. Kennedy, who is out there specuating
IN land. Aud 20 We vi tbs T.. G. Club wag.-hH re-
r0U. NoRBs.
We shall be pleased tc Lesr ofcu from "Nor5s -
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