Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-10-22
'Ehe Sort OF Life Army Onsccrs,
Government Contractors, etc,
ARE Leading Ina New Orleans.
LCoHespondenco Of the Missouri Republican,


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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 10y our cor
respondent does not profess TO be a saint.
do not think that any enlightened syn
/ oil would consider me. in an ecclesiastica.
sense, hrst,class pillar" and yet, in
my more pcnsive moments. there arc
things in the Crescent City which look
little queer, and not entirely virtuous.
don't allude to the fact that quartermas-
ters live in palaces here. a Quartermas-
ter who does not make himself entirely
comfortable, ought to DO dismissed from
the service. mathematics get neither
glory nor credit for honesty; let them en-
JOY good times.
Nor do L allude TO the fact that officers
on duty ~ large city needs a good deal
Of money TO pay their creditors.
But what | would cite as curious, and
TO my Northern bred mind even star Ting
lis such a scene as this, for example
time P. M; place ---.- street; at
mospherc pleasantly cooled by sunset
breeze; white marble house; largo street
doors wide open; windows open, nymphs
in white muslin on the balcony; music of
a piano; a pop Of champagne cork;
two carriages ct the door.
Let us 60 in. Does It strike you as
being rather cool to walk in without an
invitation or acquaintance 4? By no
means. Madam, the proprietress is en-
chanted to sec us. She never saw us bo.
fore, and l do not think she will ever SEQ
us again. She is fresh, neat, Jolly per-
son, not bit Of harridan, and talks
like town meeting. The nymphs on the
balcony are also polite, affable, even wit
ty-and are SO exceedingly courteous as
to overlook the fact that we came without
invitation or acquaintance.
This is what the world calls very bad
place, house Of doubtful, no, very de-
cided, and indutiable character. II would
be very improper Of me to give it any dis
tinct name, for circumlocation is neces-
sary to preservation of virtue.
Now these nymphs are not alone
They have choice lot Of friends to chat
with, and to drink the festive campaigne
withal. There Gen. Asterisk in tull uni-
form, and Col. Lillypod, and Major Hol-
lyhock, and crowd of others-double
rows of buttons, and single rows Of but
tons.
The windows, as have said, are wide
open, the street is full of passerS-by,
soldiers. citizens, honest women and 9TH
ers. They know the status of the house;
they have heard of the social evil, and
yet there they see General Asterisk.
Colonel Lillypod, Major Hollyhock and
the rest, and the nymphs, and hear tho
jingle Of the piano, and fusilade of
corks
Perhaps it is the custom of the coun-
try to parade ones vices in this way.
Some one tells US that in an African
city you might enjoy yourself by walk
ing naked to market, buying water
melon, cutting it in two, scooping out
the pulp, sitting down in one half the
rnd, putting the other over your head,
and eating the pulp. Perhaps in Tim
buctoo such an amusement would meet
with encouragement. Possibly in New
Orleans the utter absence of secrecy or
shame; the putting away of the fig leaves
as old fashioned formalities, may be ex-
cused by the custom of the country. But
as | have said, though l claim no merit
Of my own, this philandering OF officers
of rank, in uniform, in daylight, in pub
lie, seems Just little odd. Officers,
day Ipast, have been cashierod for such
conduct but, then, we live in days of
progress, and the age advances rapidly.
1t seems Just little sad. too, to know
that many Of these philandering folk.
double rows and single rows, stars, Gag
les, leaves and bars, have sweet wives
at homo in Massachusetts, New York,
Indiana, Illinois, who are watching and
praying perhaps at the time when their
husbands are under the fercest fire
corks-who have great faith in their
husbands honor, and will be very indig-
nant when they read this letter +; if they
ever read it.
! But l will not preach any more to-day;
being myself but indifferently honest.
! AN elegantly dressed young lady re-
Gently entered railway carriage where
there were three or four gents, one of
whom was lighting penny cigar. One
of the gents asked if smoking would IN :
I comm ode her. She replied 81 do not
know, sir; no gentleman has ever smoked
in my presence.
A SoMEsHrRE (England) farmer
and his wife recently wound up long
course of cruel torture inflicted upon an
elderly woman servant, by forcing into
her mouth piece OF honeycomb full of
bees, intlicting great agony from the
stIngs OF the angry insects.
-Ir is not generally known that the
leaves OF geraniuins are an excellent ap-
plication for cuts, where the skin is rub
bed off, and other wounds OF that kind.