The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-09-05
New Orleans Correspondence.

NEW ORLEANS, August Goth, 1866.
Friend Democrat This, season will
certainly be long remembered as one OF
the most disagreeable ever known in
our city. The weather has not only
been terribly hot but we have been
very nearly all the time without that
cool refreshing breeze which used to
make our evenings so pleasant. In
former years no matter how hot the day
a gentle current Of air always came,
with the closing rays Of the sun, which
gave a new life to us poor "stay at
homes" 'spect it is all owing to
Congress, seeing that we are such dis.
loyal set down here they won't even
let the North winds blow" for us,
or else it is because Butler and Banks
made such clean sweep there is moth
ing left to "raise the wind on" A
change has come at last (Which / at
tribute to the great Philadelphia Con-
vention,) and for a week past heavy
showers Of rain have fallen daily, cool
ing the air and restoring some Of the
good old time comforts. Rain was
much needed, the streets were full Of
dust, which would.have covered every
thing in the stores and houses, if there
had been any wind to take it there. -
The cisterns were nearly dry, and the
gardens were burning up. Trade has
been extremely dull, much more SO
than most Of our merchants had anti
cipated.t There is a great deal of
" croaking" going on here. "Hum,
dull times" says one, type Of thou
sands, "yesI should say so, but you
haven't seen the worst. No sir, we'll
have no trade this Fall, no cotton to
ship, no sugar being raised, rice crop
nearly ned-where's trade to come
from. NJ money in the country, mig
gers stealing everywhere; and tax
es." Here he boils over in dispair
and goes away to preach ruin, desola-
ton and beggary, to some one else.
Buff you take stroll through our
city and note the improvements going
on, you will hardly think that all the
energy and enterprise of the place are
dead. To anybody but croaker :"
prospects look brighter, as if our city
was now entering career of substal-
tial prosperity, which viii increase
yearly. In a mornings ride in the
street cars to-day, passed sixteen new
houses, either being built or just fin
ished and throughout the different dis
tricts, excepting perhaps the old
Third" new buildings are being con-
structed and old ones remodeied.
Rents whew! they are way up, and
everything in the shape of house is
rented before the old tenant has left, or
if new, before the paint is dry. Think
it more than likely that landlords will
have to lower their pretensions some,
as $500 year for house that for
merly rented for 5000 is rather I" too
much of a good thing" but this does
not predicate stagnation or ruin to the
general commerce of our city. An ar
tiele over-valued must meet deprecia-
ton, and that decline will bring heal
thier tone, producing beneficial results.
We have had very much of a scarce
about Cholera this season, more than cir
cumstances justified. Every sickness now
is pronounced to be that much dreaded
disease, although some physicians say VIZ
have not had a genuine case of Asiati,
/ Cholera yet. It is confined almost exclu
Isively to the quarters of the black troops
and the filthy shanties in the poor neigh
.borhoods of the city, when from four to ,
dozen negro families are crowded into on,
house. That sickness should prevail il
such localities is not a matter OF surprise
I'fhe habits of tebanchery and idleness 0
1.-THE negroes, and the dirty, rotten condi
| ton oftheir houses, is sufficient cause 70
great mortality amongst them. The advic
of our doctors on the subject is to kee]
perfectly sti-possessed, quietly pursue tn
! even tenor Of your way, keep every thin
around perfectly clean, avoid exposure, an
if taken sick send for a physician at onct
/ The deaths from Cholera are only fror
jseven to fifteen day now, which is grea
4 decrease
i Our streets have been in a very dirt
condition this Summer, which has cause
much newspaper discussion. The gutter
of the cross streets were many of them fill
ed with staenant water, green and slim,
The supply of water from the WAITE
J, Works was not sufficient to wash thi
away, and the question was how to get ri
of lit. A good plan has been taken, a
: whose suggestion I have not heard, tn
steam engines belonging to several Of on
Y fire companies are stationed along the leye
and they pump water up into the gutter
from the river by this simple process a
our streets can be cleansed independent {
the odd fogy" concern styled the "Con
mercial Water Works"
The great riot Of the 3Oth Of July
heoominr an old ctor1, fho nnIrnon a e.,