The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-03-01
EDIT RIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
New ORLEANS, !
Feb. 26, 1876. {

the regular departure day Of our
Packet, the Bart. Able, with the lar
gest, finest and gayest crowd of pas
sengers ever taken from the Alexan |
dria wharf, consisting of over 250
cabin passengers, II Of whom were
the better portion of Gods creation,
we reached the Crescent City inside
of 81 hours. To say that we had a
pleasant and delightful trip, with
such an immense crowd, is only to
repeat thrice told good tale, that
Captain Dick Sinnott can and knows
how to run steamboat.
We missed on our down journey
our first sight of the many sights we
had mapped down on our pleasure
trip-Boyton, the great man-fsh and
word-renowned swimmer had post
poned his start II hours, thus leav-
ing US to see him reach here in his
given time-this he did on sharp
time, making the 100 miles swim in
"a hours, landing safe, sound and
fresh just at the stern Of the 'Big
Injun." To-day and to- morrow he
repeats, on the Lake, some more OF
his aquatic tricks. A short and good
description of his water suit you can
find in to-day's New Orleans Demo
crat, by the reporter of that Journal,
who accompanied him, in Tug how
ever and was in that way his com
pagaon de voyage.
Our second sight was one noble,
grand, instructive, and certainly Of
itself sans rie1, entire worth the full
price of our whole trip, and of itself
ahead Of anything the most of us had
ever seen or dreamed of in the phil
osophy of our most sanguine expec-
tations-we aalude to the procession
and turn out of Menus, the god of
Mirth-and if this is the opening key
for what is in store for us on Mardi
Ora; you may all we'll envy US our
trip-for one this excurtionist is sat
isfied, we'll paid for his trip already,
and would go home in that pleasure
BILE mood, except that he can't afford
to quit and abandon his crowd, such
o crowd, that wildly reminds him of
the old 1854 crowd of Lecomte and
Lexington-but we must not pause
but hair line on old memory's keep
sake just now, but rally along with
our theme.
We have been and seen it, heard it
and for the first time, and would we
could take it back, our visit to the
Legislature-and could fill your col
umns about it-for in the short space
of that two hours visit we had min
gled and driven into us more sad re-
membranes of the downfall of our
Louisiana, than Bancroft could page
in her history in half century-but
pass that by for we have no desire to
mar our homely and hurried letter
with any tinge Of sorrow or pain
By the time your readers will take up
the present Democrat for its weekly
perusal, the harsh and death knell of
sine die will have been scrolled as the
funeral dirge of our present Legisla-
ture, and with it's faults, misdeeds,
and good intents of the majority por
ton of the lower House, will be
housed more securely than the tomb
of all the Capulets. We reserve the
Democrats epitaph for it to our
next, when we shall know the termi-
nus of its last three days delibera-
tions and what the last resort of our
members, impeachment, will bring
for veal or woe. There's something
in it more than we now scent, and in
our next we are pretty certain of do
ing some repeating in history's
tracks. Till then we must hold our
peace and not go off half cooked.
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, is
here, the great statesman, the unsul-
lied and gifted Democrat, and we
have seen him and shaken hands
with him-here you can score one
more for the Democrat Editor,
and wager your bottom dime, that we
seldom had a more distinguished
honor lavished on us, and we are to
listen to his speech to-day at three
o'clock, at the Fair Grounds, where
all the world and his wife will be on
hand in their best store clothes. I
may be back to the Bart. Able before
her departure and tell you what we
think of him as an orator. In the
meantime we feel honors thus far are
easy on this our pleasure trip, and
all it's gala and exiting scenes and in
cidents are tinged with the thought
that you of the office and la famille