Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-12-04
IN KELLOGG's DOMINIONs.
The Visit of the Nashville Knights
Templar to New Orleans. =
Expensive RatiOns-A New Municipal
Observation-Disclosures Peculiar 20 the
Crescent City.


Our special representative with the party
of Nashville knights Templar and Their
| friends, now in New Orleans, writes as fol-
| lows:
New ORLEANS, Dec. 1, 1S74.-The Nash
vile Knights Templar and their party
reached this city at 100 yesterday morn
| ing, the regular Nashville train which
started Saturday night having overtaken
our special train at Mobile, in consequence
of our having stopped Saturday night at
Montgomery. Among the passengers on
| the regular train were Sir knights John
| Frizzeli and w. C. Smith.
We found New Orleans in a hustle of
excitement and the hotels full OF strangers.
| Indeed, so great is the crowd, many pri-
vate houses have flung to the breezes pla-
cards of various colors and designs, but all
bearing the motto lodgings TO Let" In
the central portion Of the city these
lodgings have been gobbled up, the occu-
pants taking their meals at restaurants,
aud thereby making their expenses about
four or five dollars and half per diem per
head. Talk about the charge at Ba-
laklaVal Ii is nothing to the charge OF a
New Orleans restaurant proprietor. For
instance: He asks a dollar for a porter
house steak, forty cents for mutton chop,
ham omelette ditto, twenty-five cents for
two boiled eggs, etc, oysters being as dear
here as in Nashville.
Notwithstanding the immense concourse
of people already assembled, they have not
yet all arrived, but are coming in on every
boat and railway train. IL is impossible TO
get correct idea of the number of stran-
gers that will be in the city by tomorrow
night. The register of the number Of
knights already arrived added to those
reported as ca route, conveys but an made
quate idea of the number, as there will be
thousands Of people in addition, who do
not know the difference between a knight
Templar and Good Templar. The New
Orleans Communicates have gone to
great expense in order to make the affair
grand success, and the people of the city
generally are very enthusiastic over the
matter and are exercising that hospitality
for which New Orleans is famous. But as
teleeraphic reports of the knights Temp.ar
and their doings will be published in the
UNION AND AMERICAN before this letter
is put in type, l shall say something of
other matters.
THE NEW CITY GOVERNMENT
Of New Orleans was installed to-day.
mony took place and consequently am
compelled to draw Oh the evening papers
for information Ia regard TO it. Consider
ing the importance of the occasion, the
published reports are very meagre indeed,
the Picdylue making less than half
column Of it. The following letter was
sent to the outgoing Mayor yesterday:
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20, 1S74.-HOn.
I A ON aru 4 lrla
Sir-In compliance with a resolution
adopted last night al meeting of the MEM
bers elect of the incoming Council, / have
the honor to inform You that we propose to
wait upon YOU, at the City Hall, on Mon
day, 30th inst, at O'Clock p. NJ, to as
sumo the functions of the city government.
L remain, sir, very respectfully, your ODE
dent servant, b. l.. BOUNY,
hAActing Secretary
After having set thus the hour at p.
NJ. for the installation, the gentlemen COM
prising the new city government made their
appearance at the City Hall at noon, and
were ushered into theIMayor's private office.
The usual congratulations, on the one
hand, and the expressions of regret on the
other, were then INDUCED in, after which
the outgoing and incoming administrations
adjourned to the Council Chamber, where
an address was read by Mayor Wilt, who
then resigned his seat to the new Mayor,
Charles j. Leeds; the oath Of office was adj
ministered and the ceremony was over.
was talking to-day with MileSian GEN
tleman, who has accumulated considerable
wealth in the hack line, coming here with
out dollar twenty-seven years ago. He
made the acquaintance of leading under
taker, bought hack on time, and prosperi-
ty has attended him ever since.
''Is your new Mayor a popular mani" l
asked.
you're moighty right" said he; sand
We should 'av seen him on the l4;h day Of
September, when the people here marched
agin LOnGstreet. Charlie-that's the new
MayOr-has big foundry here, an he took
hundred of his men an lid 'em himself,
be CORA. He didn't want to run for
Mayor, but they forced him TO 1t and elect
ed him by 1900 majority. But then" he
added, ''if the Democrats had nominated
dog, he'd bin elected, fur the people here
are moighty tired Of the Radicals"
NEW ORLEANS IRREGULARITIES
are numerous, and some Of them are very
striking to the stranger. As the water is
allowed to run freely from the public ny
drants in the business portion of the city,
in order to carry off garbage, it is a serious
thing to get tight and fall in tue gutter, as
the water therein is deep enough to drown
an intoxicated man. This fact, however,
does not deter a certain class from imbib-
ing to excess, and have seen to-day more
drunken men prowling around than could
be met with on the streets Of Nashville in
a week. One very much demOraliZed chap
whom | noticed, had just fallen into the
gutter, but had been fished out by some
kind hand, and spread out on the pavement
to dry, his clothes saturated with dirty
water.
On prominent street corners, even in the
heart of the city, cobbleis may be seen
busily engaged in mending shoes. Tie !
streets and sidewalks are paved with rock |
in very substantial manner, and the wear |
and tear of shoe leather is so great that |
cObblers, and many of them, are an ALSO |
Lutte necessity, but it is something unusual |
for this class Of wOrkmen to be made So
prOminent-such public institution, as it
were.
In answer to question as to the present |
population of New Orleans, a gentleman /
remarked, this morning, that no one could |
give a correct estimate on that point, bat |
that business was very dull and cOnse-
quently many people were going elsewhere.
He also said that there were at least 6,000 /
vacant houses in the city, whereas, a few /
years ago, it was almost impossible to find
a spare room.
The streets of this city are on a dead |
level, hence the cars on the numerous
street railway lines which traverse New
Orleans in every direction, are easily |
drawn by a single mule, though the cars
are larger than the Nashville cars. which |
tax a good double team when full. As /
there is no railing to the rear platform-or
rather the step which projects from the rear
of the car, and serves as a platfoTm-cOn- /
siderable experience is required in order |
for one to alIght while the car is in mo- |
ton, without sacrificing his divinity and a
large portion of the skin on his nose and |
knees.
Another popularity, which commends |
itself at once to Nashyillian, is the great |
width of the principal streets of New Or |
leans. Many of them are very handsome,
with long lines of live oaks, or other ever
greens shading the sidewalks.
THE NASHVILLE PARTY
are in excellent spirits and are enjoying |
themselves finely, having spent most of |
in, ciul,t-Saaiur A mort To-, nftIo