The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-03-29
CARoNDELET STREET,


Starting at Canal street and drawing itt
serpentine length out until first brokers
Offices and banks are passed, then
churches and stately residences, Corondelet
street winds itself away until suburban
mansions aud open fields are met. Perhaps
no more marked contrast can exist than that
Of the two ends OF this leading thoroughfare
On the first four squares from Canal most OF
the concentrated excitement Of financial life
is centered. The hurry Of the eager note
shaver, the quiet, glittering eye Of the legis
lative broker and the detected air Of the i'm
pecunious Micawber " no is trying to raise a
''small sum on his signature" all strike the
stranger as one turmoil of confusing changes
At the other end lowing cattle chew Their
cud oblivious of the rise and fall in gold
breathing the soft south winds laden with
the fragrance of the orange flower. The one
picture is that of troubled dream of war,
the other a Virginia peace study. To the
general public our financial centre is of more
interest than the breezy commons, and we
propose to devotea space to the picturng OF
some of the phases there present. At ~
o'clock in the morning Carondelet street
begins to blink in the eyes, as it's business
day dawns, and the corner of Common is
taken into possession by the first squad of
"stately ravens" after the early worm. AS
the minutes pass side streets send in stray
Cling delegations, and the hurrying patter
on the flags speaks of first skirmishes of the
day. Slowly, with all the majesty of line
of battle ship, the form of Galloway is seen
approaching, bound in after somebody who
has an appetite for State securities.
Your guide tells you that he's the one
who made good thing in Kellogg warrants,
something like forty per cent. profit" and as
we scrutinize his face, the attention is called
off to Chap. Hyams, known to almost every
body who leans against post picking his
teeth and preparing for battle. If he would
only come out and tell us what he knew
about the games that have been put up by
some of the crowd on the flags, it would be
interesting, for few know more than he does
about our financial under currents. The
crowd has began to gather, the day has
opened and the cotton houses send out theiI
Populations, who divide their time between
the Cotton Exchange and the " flags" Frank
Lee mods approvingly as some one speaks Of
"gold two points ahead" and the calm face
of Bob Moore displays the Pickering shades
of delight.
Notwithstanding the varying points Of
gold bonds and leyee stock, Maurice Abrams
does not lose his vivacity. He may try to
bull "levee /" a little now and then, but he
is always the same lively fellow. Behind
this gentleman can be seen his heavy hacker,
Alfred Mairchand, who, with his Alsa-
tian daring, sometimes sets the market agog
Saunterlnd down the street with all the
bearing OF potentate, Joe Hernandez
comes TO thke q squirt into how things are
going. He seems remarkably quiet of late,
as his past career has been of kind to
lead one to suppose that it would be diff
cult for HIN thus to settle down. There's
something up, however, for he knows what's
what.
Mr.. G. IeSassier moves through the throng
which now crowds the sidewalk, adjustinga
heavy Mortgage on q certain desirable prop
erty, and| it is said that lottery vendors flee
when he approaches. There is flash, a
shadow, and we know that Wallace Ogden
has just passed. We failed to catch the ex
preston bit his face, for his hurry only told
of pounds sterling ahead Now and then
litter runs through the assembled newspa
per men as Lucien De Buys lets out one of
his mirth-provoking jokes and constitution
al witty on dit. Few ladies succeed i'll run
ming the blockade of ''the flags" without a
sly glance at the handsome Jack Biglow,
who, late in the day, pitches in heavily Oh
the last customers in exchange.
The ladies' honors, however, are somewhat
divided between Mr.. Bglow and Billy Ber-
tus, who with sdnqfroid looks after the vary
ing prices of francs Always on guard,
Peter Labouisse strolls along, Illuminating on
the future of sterling, and coming in his
mind the effect of the imitation on foreign
exchange. 1t is difficult for any one to say
what Mr.. Lemoine is thinking Of; not much
given to telling all he knows, he preserves
the even tenor Of his ways, whatever direc- |
tion sterling takes-up or down.
By-and-by the shadows steal across the
street, and gold and sterling bic away, and
10! the flags are deserted. The fruit woman
takes up her wares, and field-day has
ended.
Congress every now and then stirs up the
matter of public buildings, to the extreme
terror of the contractors and the disgust of
MI. Architect Mullett. The Senate Commit
tee on Public Buildings says in effect, that
the cost Of the work is excessive, and that
the structures of the Government lack uni
formity and are inadequate to the service
required The Committee, however, have
only touched the Outside of the subject. If
they 60 deeper they may find many extrava-