New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-28
AUCTION SALES.
BY GARDNER SMITH 4 co.
EIIR OF TwsNrY.FOUR CHOICE PLANTATION FIRLD-HANDi
HOUSE SERVANTS AND MECHASICs WITHOUT ANY

sAIR oY TwsNrYFouR CHOICE PLANTATION FIRLD-HANDs
HOUSE SERVANTS AND MECHANICS, WITHOUT ANY
By GARDNER ssIIn Co.. successor. to "A Beard CO..
day, MsIeh 20 1901 viii be sold auction IL o'clock
ths 81 Charles HOIe Exchange the following Choice Slaves
SAN sgei27 years. No hand likely fully guaranteed
JIM aged 10 No heldhsnd defect in one arm fully
LETIs aged p years No field hand very likely fully
MSERvA ased Yeas No. field hand, very likely fully
s EHSA aged Is years. No. field hand, very likely, fully
g. CATHARiyE aged IL years No field hand very likely
BErTY aged Is years. ard child months No field hand
and house servant very likely fully guaranteed
o. Macy aged 10 years and boy years, No. held hand
aged 80 years No cook washer ironer and house
10 PiI aged IS years field hand very likely fully guaranteed
H. derry, aged I'll years field hand likely fully
CLARA field hand lump the neck fully guaranteed.
The above slaves all superior Plantation hsnd and very
Tefm-one half cash. balance at months credit for ap.
the oSnr eS b.nds doot and mechanics for
Y. AuES; 81 Yeas, No. field hand fully guaranteed
is. E1DhrD, 81 years. No. cook.
To- WIZ, 20 years. No field hand and tesmster fully
ALLEN years No. field hand and drsymsn, fully guar
I oE so yeas No cooper carpenter fully guaranteed
49, PENNY "a years and child years No field hand fully
J4cE 20 years field hand and wagner fully guaranteed
except having vertigo occasionally.
81 WALKEE Is years field hand and general labore fully
guaranteed.
Of befre A. Abat notary public at the expense Of
the purchasers
These slave auctions occur three or four times
q week. They are almost the only public places
in New Orleans where the primary social forma-
tiOn of the South crops out perceptbly. They
are especially interesting to the seeker after
truth who would follow The CreSceRfS recon-
mendatiOn to study Southern institutions,
Southern society, and the character and sent-
Z" ments of the Southern peope." / will give you
brief account of the sale advertised above, and
Others of more recent occurrence:
SLAVE AUCTION.
The ST. Charles Hotel is much the largest in the
Southwest. IL occupies the entire end of a square,
fronting on St. Charles street. with enc wing extend
ing to Gravier and the other to Common Archi-
tecurally it is pleasing edce and the effect Of its
imposing Corinthan porlico is very fine The old ST.
Charles, which occupied the site and was burned
down few years since, was precisely like this with
TIE addition Of huge dome the top, which, accord
ing to Lady WoItley made it look in the distance
little like st. Peters"
The edfce is five stories high; the basement Of
Quincy granite, and the walls above of stucco-that
bead and endall Of New-0deans architecture. Sioce
its completion il has settled nearly two feet into the
earth but the sinking has been uniform on all sides
IL has done little harm. The soil OF NewOrleans owes
s yielding, damp nature TO the fact that the whole city
Is fome two feet and upward-if may hazard the bull
lower than the river and only protected from over
fow by dixie or leyee IL reyeIses the ordinary rule
IN excayatng for building; the lower you 80 the less
stable yonr foundation The Custom. House has sunk
aborta foot since It's commencement fourteen years |
n9o; and the front part Of Lyceum Hall has settled
three or four inches. There is not cellar in the
whole city, &c water is found only few inches below
the sdriace; and all the csterDs, as well az the ombs
" TIC ssUs!elies, arc sb0ye ground ]