The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-03
NUMB Err 276.

suburbs OF our city the threshold Of every door OF
whicn was adorned with the graceful forms and
beauteous faces of one or more Creole fairy.
Inc excursion solved great problem with us:
We have found where all the children come from,
and great many negroes. The whole popula-
ton on the route had turned out 10 witness the
event, and gave US an idea Of the establishment Of
the Indians upon viewing the first steamboat that
ploughed American waters. The Orleans Rail
road Company have our best wishes for its sue
cess. The directors of the company, besides the
officers mentioned, as follows: George W.
hynson, ID. d. Mccarthy, B. Salvy, Joseph Her
nandez, l.. Z. Lemarie and Francis Mooney.
The LKvEE.-Business on the levee is almost at
adtad stand-still. Few steamboats,, fewer square
Hggers and dozen Of oyster boats, now that the
oyster season Is over, loaded with water aud
musk melons in mlllions-no, thousands. draw
or cart or furniture car is as rare On the levee
these terrible times as black swan In the time
of JuveDal or 10 speak more inteliOibly before
the discovery of Australia. We heard Peter
Farley" remark in The collectors Office Ia this
cry, twenty odd yesrs ago. that the levee of New
Orleans presented Vhe most wonderful sight he
had ever Witnessed In all his travels 10 Europe aud
America. Equal to the dykes Of Holland In their
stupendous size, the leves OF the Crescent Civ
he said, far exceeded anything he had ever seen,
except IN the Liver gool and London docks for
teeming indUstry and inexhaustbe wealth of
exports and Imports. Alas, how changed Eight
years ego the levisthans of ocean Law even AT
TINS season or the year, In tiers five and six and
Eight years ago, steamboats, were hourly arriving
and crowdng each other at the landing with a
countless variety Of Western produce, both for
home ard for foreign consumption. The immense
levee space Was numbered with tobacco, sugar
and cotton, with hides and coffee, with corn and
wheat and flour, for export as well from import:
ard The wayfarer had TO pick his way he had TO
mehnder through streams Of mofasses among
bales Of moss, and tierces of tobacco and sugar:
he had to circumvent tiers and mountains of cotton
bales, and after he had safely ESCAPED
the ever.ruuning streams aud counter
streams of drays, If he wanted to get on
board some ship or steamer he was obliged to
spring with the agility of a sailor boy from
craft to craft until he reached his destination III
you desired in old times TO buy q few oysters, a
melon. or pineapple, anywhere near the Plea
yune tier you we're beset with a crowd Of To-
qnaeious hucksters, speaking OF rather jabberin0
IN every dialect. and frequently coming to blows
In order TO acquire your patronage. Now good
reader, go down TO the Pcayune tier-you will
md score or so OF luRgers, or chicken thieves,
as they are frequently called. freighted with lus-
clous fruits ask the price Of a melon or basket
OF peaches, and, ten b one, you will get no an
swer. The times are out Of Joint. There il an
apathy upon the people engaged in small trades
all dependent upon the uncertainty which lay up-
on Ancient Pistol, when the rumOr reached him
Of King Henry's death:
which kfny