Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-09-24
DR.. Mackay and New Orleans.


cdiicc somewhat in the style and appear
anee of the palace of the King of the
Bclgians at Brussels. During the twelve
days that our party remained under It's hos
pitable roof, it contained from seven hun
dred to seven hundred and fifty guests,
and it's great entrance. hall, where the gen
tlemen congrcgatc from nine iii the morn
ing I'LL eleven or twelve at night, to read
the newspapers, to smoke, to chew, and let
me add, to spit, presented u scene of bus
tic and animation which can be compared
to nothing but the Boursc at Paris during
the full tide of business, when the oguin-
crS and the ogrmt$ lie chdnge roar, and
scream, and gcsticulate like maniacs. The
Southern planters, and their wives and
daughters, escaping from the monotony of
their cotton and sugar plantations, como
down to New Orleans in the early spring
season, and, as private lod gings are not tp
be had, they throng to the St. Louis and
st. Charles Hotels, but principally to tho
st. Charles, where they lead. life of con
stant publicity and gaiety, and cndeavour
to make themselves amends for the seclu-
sion and wearncss of winter. AS many as
an hundred ladies (to say nothing of the
gcntlcmen) sit down together to breakfast
the majority of them in full dress rs for
an evening party,-and arrayed in the full
dress as for an evening party, and arrayed
In the full splcndour both of their charms
and of their jewelry. Dinner is but re-
| petition of the same brilliancy, only that
the ladies are still more gorgeously and
elnborately dressed, and make still greater
display of pearls and diamonds. After
/ dinner the draw, g.rooms offer a scene to
which no city in the world affords parcl-
lei. 1t is very court of Queen Mab whose
courticrs are some of the fairest wculthiest
and most beautiful of the South, mingling
In true Republican equality with the chance
waytarcrs, gentle or simple, well dressed
or addressed, clean or dirty, who can pay
for mighty lodging or days board at
this mighty caravansary. To rule such an
hotel as this in all its departments, from
the kitchen and the winc-c cellar to the trea-
sury and the rcception,ro roonss, with all its
multi!arious array of servants, black and
white, bond and free, male and fcmale--to
maintain order and regularity, enforce obc-
! dlcnce, extrude or circumvcnt plundercrs.
mtersopcrs, and cheats, and, above all. to
keep strict watch and guard over that
terrible enemy who is always to be dreaded
in America-Fire--is "a task demanding
no ordinary powers of administration and
government, but it is one that is well per-
formed by the proprietorS, Mcssrs. Hail g.
llildreth Their monster establishment
is a model of its kind, and one of the
Sights" of America.
Z" So much for the indoor life of New
| Orleans. It's out door is seen to great adj
vantage on the lcvcc, where steamboats, un-
loading their rich freight of cotton, sugar,
and molnsses from Mississippi, Arkansas
. and Tennessee, and of pork, -four corn and
whiskey from the upper and inland regions
OF Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, and Kentucky.
present panorama shat may be oxccllcd
in Europe for bustle and life, but not for
pcturesqncss. The river can scarcely be
seen for she crowd of steamboats, and of
shipping that stretch along the evee for
miles and the levce itself is covered with
bales Of cotton and other produce, which
hundreds of negroes, singing attheir work,
with here and there an lrishman among
them, are busily engaged in rolling from
the steamers and depositing in the places
set apart for each consigncc. These pla-
ces are distinguished one from the other
by the little flags stuck upon thcm-Aags
OF all colors and patterns; and here tho
goods remain IN the open air, unprotected,
until it pleascs the consignees to remove
them.
"Ncw Oileaus would seem, at thc first
glance, to overflow with wealth to such an
extent as to have no room for storage The
street pavcments actually do service for
warehouses; and are numbered with bar
rels Of salt, corn flour, pork, and molasses,
and bales of cotton, to sRch an extent az
to impede the traffic and Justify tho belief
that the police must be either very numc-
rous and efficient, or the population very
honestly disposed The docks of Liver
pool are busy enough, hut there is no life
or animation at Liverpool at all equal to
/ those which may he seen at the levee in
the {" Crescent City" The fine open space
the clear atmosphere, The joyousness and
aherity of the negroes, the countless
throngs of people, TIE forests of tunnels
and niasts, the plethora of cotton and corn,
the roar of arriving and departing steam
boats, and Che deeper and more constant
roar of the multitude, all con bine to I'm
press tho imagination with sions of wealth
! powerand dominion, and to make the lo-
wee as attractvo,to the philosopher RS IL
| must be 90 the mofehant and man of busi
j ness"
SAID a man TO "A little boy, siratting up
| street with his cigar, before breakfast. 1Mv
| hnyfyou wouldalools better with bread ana