The New Orleans Democrat., 1876-08-20
crowd never seen anywhere out OF a
New Orle ns swamp or Hades.

crowd never seen anywhere out of a
New Orle ms swamp or H.deg
Our streets would show us equally
mixed In our Mythology, for the stern
Norwegian god Oiin - in company
with Mrs. Osiris. Of Egypt. and. ia our
GEOGRAPHY, where Mexico lies be-
4 tween Phrig and Frankfort and New
York. Vienna and Brussels are next.
door neighbors.
Botany and Natural History com.
! nlrte this part of town with Goose.
Snipe. Quail. Coq. Robin, Sussarras,
! Pine and Cotton streets
Up-to"'n IL is much the same. the
| frat and second wards were originally
given up entirely TO Mythology. but,
| fortunately, most Of these classical
names have disappeared. and only the
nine muses. and n few more dsrepntable
| characters Of antiquity are left TO worry
aud spoil orthogrophy; the Fourth Dis
trict, the back part OF IL ut least. Is
sanity; and the Sixth District
chronicles, like the Louvre gallery,
Anst.rItz, jena and Marengo; his de-
fruts are forgotten.
1t Is strange that throughout we
have altogether forgotten Louisiana
and It's heroes. Not n river Of this
State, not even the great Missis-
sippi itself, Is commemorated in our
city. DeSoto, Lasaile, Marquette, Jol-
let. 1berville. all are ignored, and the
very founder or our city, Bienville.
wonld probably have nothing here to
perpetuate his name, had he not fore
seen our inRratitude and named one of
the streets OF the old city after himself
There has been good deal OF chang
Ing the names Of our streets, but we
have never carried 1t to the ex tent OF the
Parisians, who change the title Of the
streets With every one OF the many
changes in their government. But then
we have not reached the boldness Of the
Parisian, who had such 'horoughfares
after the revolution, as the rue de Lib
rte-Fraternite-et-Ey Il yaiite, the rue des
Droits de rhomme, (Rights OF Mem,
the rue de PInvisibilite Indivisibility
street.) Still more awkward have we
the titles proposed In the present
French Legislature. One bold Repub-
lican In that body desiring to com
memorate the dethEonemAnt OF Ma
Janvier tJanuaIy oath street). His idea
was adopted. Another proposed TO
commemorate another Republican
triumph by IL rut D,x-huit Septrinbre
(SepI eiiiber 18th street,; and thus the
nirmners kept on until Victor Hu 20, in
DIS gust. wanted to Know whether they
Intended TO change Paris into an
aim tuac. A E@
Tuese changes, however. are some
times an advant ige. Giru,l street-w.
have two OF them now, and to confuse
matters one Is Grod, the other Je-iu--
once suffered under very unenviablt
reputation. The 10 yer part of IL. ne.l,
the river, hal become the Resort o.
sailors, thieves aud rutfians or all kinds,
snd Was crowded vii h low drinking ga
looms and dance houses. At the ret,i~st
VI quiet and respectable citizens iivlnx |!
On the upper portion of the street, and
u, whom its nutoriety was unpleasant, |
the name was changed. For u few years /,
e figured rs BroOme street, anil when !
this Broome hal swept away the evil |
clingin1 to it, 1t dropped its |
alias aud became GirOd again.
An exactly opposite thing was done !,
Ia New York by An extension Of Fifth |
Avenue some dozen squares further |
town town and among tue lowest slums |
VI New York. IL Was = terriuls blow to