New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-11
a v,rglnran'. Idea Of the Crescent city.

The following description Of New Orleans, from
the Richmond Examiner, is as comprehensive and
graphic as it is succnct:
The stranger who lands in New Orleans is struck
with the marked contrast it presents with all
other American Cities Everything - houses
streets, people--.seem to wear different aspect
from what it is the usual lot to see; quite for
eign type is presented, and one might almost ina
CINE oneself there to be on the BOitleUdrd deS
ItatlenS, If 1t was not, as they say in the great
capital, there is but one Paris in the world"
The citizens make so bold as to call it a petit Paris
and, in fact, they are right Walk down its large
WelEpaved thOrOughfares; view the gay throngs
of busy men and the unusual array of feminine
beauty; look at the fine shops, the palatial and
luxurious residences hear and understand the
polyglott sounds on every side; give glance into
those Southern faces that are indeed intent after
money, but eager as we'll for amusement and en-
joyment; know them, and you can but admit that
the metropolis of the South is charming spot
its inhabitants fine race of people.
Undoubtedly the city owes its attractions to the
French element and to cotton. The latter, the
basis of wealth. reigns, but the former is fast dis.
appearing. Alas, for minOrities annuled in the
present age, tyrannically and unappreciativey
The influence of Creole society and manners has
been immense in American circles; the good
taste, ease and grace, inseparable from the
French, have well nigh become general. In this
respect there is an agreeable difference to be
observed between the natives and those ladies
from Northern climes who strut about Canal
generally that class of New England beau sege
who take care Of themselves in travelling wear
Chinese hats, and carry about canary birds and
pet monkeys in cages.
Besides the various languages that are chat
tered on all sides, and other peculiarities which
need not be mentioned, one is amazed at the
absence of negroes; but so it is-they have all
abaqGoned the city for the country. Evidently
the national wards have forever lost their foot
held in New Orleans; their places are now occu-
pied by whites. So much for the freedmen's
bureau.
Not only has this substitution taken place there,
but it is fast becoming the case throughout the
South. On all the railroads and steamboats,, white
labour is now employed very generally. But in
the cOutry, and on the plantations the negroes are
working we'll, or as well as could be expected
under the circumstances. One little drawback in
their midst is that their better-haVes refuse to
work, won't help. Those who were once accounted
good field hands now consider cotton planting be-
low their dignity of ctizenesses; freedom has in.
duced them to look at their paws, and they have
come to the conclusion that kid gloves will alone
keep the dirt away The men, it is said, work
well, being interested; but they do not produce
as well as whites can and will eventually. Many
planters obtain laborers by dividing half profits
with them; of the latter wlmake three or four
hundred dollars this year. About one-third of the
1850 crop is expected this season, or 100000
bales, and is awaited with the same expectation
that someOng for the millennium. 1t viii be &c
small because both capital and labor are want
ing. The number of negro laborers has beer
diminished two hundred thousand by the war, il
has been calculated.