New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-03-07
From cur Special Correspondence
Graphic Descr'.p ption of n Mexican Norther-
An Prose and Verse.

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abb out a "northern which prevailed when thef
wrote. 1t was the suddenest and most violent
norher that has visited this old track of northers
this season; that is if the old citizens are to be
believed. 1t was certainly enough for me, whether
| it was the worst or not.
The early morning was clear and calm, and Al
ten O'Clock you might have roasted eggs in the
sand, SO hot and uninterrupted was the sunshine
At eleven, drifting clouds in the sky and drifting
clouds of dust all from the southwark, passed ovei
and through Matamoros, the dust rendering out
| door travel rather unpleasant than otherwise
started cut to the plaza, but was driven back b
one of these southern dust-clouds. Meanwhile til
cloudsin the armament dissolvedinto aleadenh haze
and the atmosphere became peroeptibly cooler
Taking advantage of a lull in the wind and dust,
jumped into cab to 60 over to Brownsville
When near the north edge of town, where dust
roads converged, the nortRer, laden with dust
struck us almost with the violence of hurricane
The cab had to stop; the dust was thick enoug
to cut with knife; driver and myself and fellow
passenger had to turn eur backs to it, and polk
our noses down in the cab to breathe. Thus vi
remained fer about fire minutes, the wind bowling
| and the dust speedily making US all of color
l 1.-THE weather had been dry for some weeks.1 A
u at lsst took place, and the driver started again.
But we had not gone two hundred yards when
another dust sRoom came bowling from the direc-
tion of Brownssille-Texas dust, much of it was
and then got scared, and gave up ship, trip and
all, Jumped out and bcited into peon cabin,
waere was Hospitality treated for an hour or
Eore, until the first grand blast Of dust was over
After that returned en the street, and at several
t;sr durt
managed to get baok to my lodgings. There
are gusts of dust in New Orleans once in WHILE
| and especially ea the levee but those are
| mild end brief compared with this Rio Grande
dust, for the latter on this occasion came almost
thick as mud on regular gale.
All tile afternoon the dusthurricane passed over
Masamoros, keeging everybody in doors, and the
Temperature descended nearly to the freezing
psint. All night the wind howled and whistled,
and next morning did the same, but there was no
more dust-it had all been swept to the south of
the city BY the strong and steady current of the
norther twas freezing cold, and all the pedes-
TRANS out were mufled in shawls or overcoats. In
the afternoon the current of air abated in violence
broke up into little gusts and the Temperature be-
gan to rise in warmth.
Next morning all was quiet, and the sun irving
70 peep through the clouds. Since then we have
had such weather as is common to New Orleans in
he winter season-that is, little of all kinds, cold
and warm, wet and dry, gently let on in variations
If a few hours for each.
Whilst auarantined by the dust on the first day.
vented my agony in the following lines. "Uncle
GEORGE" l may state, is an old New Orleans nut.
or further particulars of whom ask any old Third
district nut, or Dick Murphy, or Dave Bidwell OF
he old Creole Fire Company boys. His being
Irish Consult is a joke gotten up on him by his
riends here. His left bower is Big Frank. y
veil known around Mobile. The two are a "team,u
md no mistake. But to the sspome:''
THE MODERN MARINER.
Ifter Coeridge's "aneient by foreign poet who was
caught ont in the Norther of Wednesday, was |
Give me your ear, and patience take,
Ny dear Heroic City;
j have fearful 'paint to make,
That sure must stir your pity.
Twas yesterday-it seems an age
When l, my good civilians, 4t...
A cabman bold did sooth engage
70 mix me with BrOWnsyillians -
cabman brave, he scudded swift
III Along the Gale Cesar, IT, 5aazg
And though the gusts his mare did lift,
iAO uo Oi Wouiu sup 70 please ner. fE
G'lang I" he cried, he cursed and blow,d,
But not a In Louisiana;
He CARRIED me and carraioed,
In deaf7ning Mexicana. .
Fierce he piled on the old mares hide,
Ills rawhide, long and trusty; a
And a nd must you finch and halt,n he cried, Fl
Because the roads are dusty?n
Thus on we sped, till, dread surprise,
gale, like all the furies, aasMn j
Did throw more dust iato cur ewes. .g .aJ
Than lawyers in those of juries. na In
The mare stopp' .still-poor frightened beast /
The driver halted also r. y,
Much noise he made, but hadn't the least Y
idea what made him bawl SO. +
Fierce and wild the dust still rose . G
In hellish concentration % a.@a
Choklng up eyes and ears and nose,
And threatning suffocation.
Turn back ~ cried, for Gods sake tnrnr, .
:. Ihe driver was not willing; Il
He'd die before he'd fail to earn ia
His paltry little shilling. a s,
And iercer blew the binding gale,
With earthly clouds still thicker; @
felt myself all over pale, z',I
The frightened mare did nicker. "
Thus five long minutes-ages say m
For breath and sight confounded, re
we shrenk from Death, who seemed to play, IL
With Earth to atoms pounded.
Terrific clouds from Brownsvilles shore al
Came wildly glad to yex us hi
we suffered one invasion more h,
BY the very soil of Texas. o,
Oh, heavens, I'll die and If must, Ia
This Bible error see: til
~ says must return to dust, -
While dust comes after me! th
Still roared the gale--the mare and me n
:, IN husky wheezes signing, at
but !i me tawny driver breathing free,
With meier thought Of dying. tr
And there we stood, in fearful hush, ~
We living creatures three, W. VI
Like ghosts Of dust with dusting brush. "a; Ia
Dabb'd on dusty sea. ~ ~,
Good Jesu! it was fearful there; d.
Inc irlghtfu scene soon closes; pl
AT, Wild air, was everywhere, an
But none for our poor noses
But ere yielded my last sigh, Fl
-, A horrid thought came oer me: ga
.Iwas this, that was doomed to die tai
FOR the horrid wretch before me we
I Fiend = cried his throat / grippe5- ha
!" You shot no albatross,
but W Inns al comes IN Of the way you whipped GU
Here, take your bit, and get away, eri
You dirty, bloody heathen- al
No longer here wish to stay, Co
Where scamps like you are breathiu't bi'
And my sad fate the world shall hearv ine
l cried in shrieks frenetc mo
In the CRESCENT it will all appear, sti
T.. l.. ~ Al H.