New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-21
Cevington Defended.
EDITOR kEPUBLICAN:


hardly think that your local makes ont
| his case. when in the article in last Sunday S
paper he endeavors to account for the IN
popularity of Covington as a watering place,
by stating that its citizens some years ago
aided in the escape of criminals, and threat
ened the lives OF posse Of officers who
were seeking to apprehend them. Certainly
such an occurrence could hardly have pro
duced SO serious an effect upon the minds OF
residents of New Orleans, for the people of
that city can no. be unacIuainted with acts
of a like nature. perpetrated, not once, but
often right here at home; and should by
this time be too much accustomed to seeing
justice defeated by the murderer, the thief
and the assassin to be easily alarmed by
any of the little 'Une-horse' shows of the
kind which small country village could
be capable of getting up.
The idea OF any old resident of the Cres-
cent City beng scared away from Coving-
ten by the very few rowdies which could,
under any circumstances, be brought to-
gether i'll II rotous assemblage there, seems
. to me to be as unnatural as the frightening
Of locomotive driver by means of steam
whistle. The veterans who have witnessed
the Cuban riots, the Know nothing demon
strations, the vigilance committee. etc. of
the days before the war, and the very fire.
Iuent and terribly sanguinary riots of later
days, can not certainly fail to know how
it is themselves" and should be expected
to evince little more pluck than to be
afraid of going to spend the summer at
place where the blood of the inhabitants is
kept below fever heat by the balmy breezes
from the pine woods and the laxitive waters
of the mineral springs.
No. sir, depend npon it. your local is on
the wrong track. The real cause is more
likely to be that the people here were afraid
the place would be too dull--that there
would not be riots enough to give them the
excitement to which they were accustomed:
that they would rust out and "spile for IA
light" amid the soft sOughing Of the pines,
and that the Sterling Nichy water would
SO regulate their digestions that they would
no longer witness i skrimmaue with salts
faction.
Seriously, ] AM not disposed to believe
that the affair mentioned by your local had
much influence for bad upon the fortunes
of the metropolis OF st. TamInany, as such
affairs were Of too common occurrence
about that time all over the State. and pn-
ice officers have had a pretty rough road
to travel in every locality. The real cause
of the oblivion in which this really eligible
locality rests is that 10 one has ever felt it
worth his while to interest himself in it's
favor; and besides, 1t is a sort Of out of the
way place-there being no direct mode of
reaching there oftener than twice week,
at present.
But now that We are soon to have daily
trips OF the Camelia at reduced fare, and
when Castle Sterling is known through
your columns to- be the best kept country
tavern in the Scuth-when your readers
have been told that there is a possibility
that residents there will not be entirely cut
off from their fayorite amusement of wit !
Messing the spring and summer fights. and |
that they will not die of cnnui in the alb |
sence OF the hum of the pistol bullet or the |
chimes Of the derringer-n0w. say. we |
may expect a change. am: Ccvington yet |
become what nature intended her to be,
the country house of the Crescent City.
ENAPE