The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-24

as all who know him will certify to. The
President of the Relief. Committee refused
TO accept his offer, asserting that the best
plan is to ship it to Columbia and there let
the supplies be stored and let the people
send after them. He we'll ought to know
that the whole country is overf1owed.
THE NEWPORT FOR NEW ORLEANS.
Pilot Town, La, April 81, 1874.
To the Editor OF the Bulletin:
| have no reference to commercial port.
but real, genuine, watering, sea bathing.
hshlng. boating, sea-breezing port. The To-
callty has been known for many years.
even before the founding of New Orleans,
and recently has received a world wide
fame owing to the jetty discussion between
man by the name of Eads and the United
States engineers. The place has long been
celebrated for having the most extensive
and costly bar in the world. The bar defes
all municipal regulations and detains scores
OF vessels and millions of property in spite
OF tine protests of the whole civilized world
Partly to see locality that attracts so
much public attention, and also to see if /
could not, by "roughing it" for few
days, find some relief for an ovcrworked
stomach, g. whose functions ceased to do"
and to put my earthly tabernacle in good
repair, l accepted an invitation of Capt.
Bassett, the popular commander of that
model of beauty, the mail packet Marie,
which makes two trips week, leaving the
foot Of Canal street on Tuesdays and Fri
days at 9 o'clock, A. NJ, returning on
Wednesdays and Saturdays at 4 o'clock,
7. NJ. chose Good Friday-that is, it was
good day. The Marie is not as spacious
as the Great Republic, but a much more re-
liable and safe boat to travel on after you
get below the forts. The captain informed
ma hat 1o hoI 40. ~, ~.
Florida coast and to Havana, which infOr-
nation gave ME confidence in her sea- going
qualities.
Tue law OF compensation holds good on
this boat as well as elsewhere. The want
of space to spread our phylacteries or hide
our diminished head made us feel little |
awkward at first in apologizing for stepping
op some fellow passengers corns or intrud-
ing our elbow at the point where angle is |
formed against that part of his corporation
from which Grandmother Eve was taken,
invited to Bay st. Louis. l have the repu- |
tation of being dead shot, which accounts |
for my good fortune. We were from the ma !
ture Of the case obliged to get acquainted
and after few hours You would have |
thought we were all from the same State.
The orange groves the great sugar planta-
tions (the finest in the State) the numerous
rice plantations, the quarantine the forts,
and the Fort St. Phillip Canal, all passed
rapidly as beautiful panorama. Our only
detention was to land with the United
States mails
Our destination, Pilot Town or Newport,
was reached at 8 o'clock in the evening.
We were not annoyed with runners to check
our baggage, to get into this or that car
riage, or to go to the City or ST. Charles.
but from intuition, instinct or the aroma
Of brOiling pOmpanO, we rowed gently and
peacefully in a special gondola, to the very
iOor of mine host, Smith, who not only
knows how to keep hotel, but is Mayor,
Postmaster, and one Of the princcly mer-
chants Of the port We found everything
g orr taste; clean and comfortable beds,
resh oysters, soft shell crabs and shrimps
II abundance. The most delightful surf
bathing, plenty Of boats for sail or row,
With everybody trying to make our soioum
pleasant II yon are ambitious to take a
short turn at sea, the pilots will take you
with them on their professional trip and
consider themselves obliged for your COM
'any. more kospitable class Of men can't
,e found.
Clean beds, fresh oysters and even the
ame of Smith might be found elsewhere in
louisiana, but nowhere | have been equals
newport for the delightful sea breeze and !
vi odlHihS. Ion uflHS along any NOS
nito bars, for they are not wanted. If any
ONE here they never stop, but are carried
ut to the Gull Stream, or, more probably,
0 the Rigolets, where l once slaughtered Il s
ew millions. | won't tell that mosquito
tory, for am afraid you would not believe t
:. In my next | will give you an account !
f grand ball which l attended here last :
cght. LEA EAGLE.