The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-10

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81 NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 16.
Eighteen miles of leveel London,
with all Che gloomy yastness Of her docks
and her .sriyer Of the ten thousand masts, !"
can, offer no spectacle Of traffic 80 pictu-
resquely attractive and 80 varied in its
attraction. -
In the centre of this enormous crescent
Cline Of sHharyes and piers lie the great
Sugar and Cotton Landings, with their
millions Of tons of freight newly un-
I shipped, their swarms of swarthy steve,
sdores. their innnmerable wagons and
beasts of burden. Above the line of
depot and storehouse roofs, stretching
southwark, rises the rolling smoke Of the
cotton press furnaces. Facing the Sugar
{ Iauding, stretching northward, extend
q line Of immense; sugar sheds, with roofs
picturesquely peaked, Sierrawise. Be.
low, along the wooden levee, a hundred
river boats have landed without jostling,
and the smoky breath Of innumerable
5 chimneys floats, pMard.eddying, into
the oyerarching blue. Here one sees .
soomely steamer from the. Ohio lying at
the landing, still painting, after its long
!: run of q thon1anf miles there . vast
Mississippi boat 1Sss groaning, with her
cargo Off 900 bpaes awaiting relief by q
legion Of ,longsh horesmen. At intervals
ether vessels afriSe, some like mountains
cf floating cotton, their white sides hid.
den BY brown ramparts Of bales built up
: othe oke-stacks, some deeply freight
ed with the. sweet produce.of the cane
fields. Black tugs rnsh noisily hither
ane thither, like ugly water gobiins seek
Ing strong work to do; and brightly
painted luggers, from the lower coasts
from the oyster beds and the fruit tree
SroYes-skim over the wrinkled water,
some bearing fragrant freight Of golden
oranges, aud pomegranates, and bananas,
richly ripe !; some bringing fshy dainties
from the sea. Ocean steamers are rest
Ing their leviathan side at the Southern
piers, and either way, along the far curv-
ING liues Of ;wharyes, deep-sea ships lie
silently marshalled, their pale wings
folded In motionless rest. There are
banks and brigs, schooners and brigan.
! tines, frigates and merchantmen, of all
tonnagesSships of. light and graceful
build, from the Spanish Main; deep
bellied steamers, with East Indian names,
That have been to Calcutta and Bombay !;
strong.bodied vessels from Norway and
fail the Scandinavian ports; tight looking
packets from the English ports; traders
under German, Dutch, Italian, French
and Spanish flags; banks from the Med
iterranean shapely crafts from West
Indian harbors. They seem ENJOYS Of
che world commerce in sunny session Al
the Gate Of the Tropicsl Look either
way along the river with q strong glass !
the fringe of masts and yards appears
infnitely extended; she distant spars
become blended together in q dsrkly out
lined thicket of sharply-pointed strokes
and thread, cutting the blue at all angles;
fnsther and further yet, the fringe seems
but 8 fringe of needle points and fine
cobweb lines; and, at last, only the
points remain visible, the lines having
wholly vanished. .
3 It is not an;easy thing to describe ones
jHrst impression Of Now Orleans; 10.
skhile It actually resembles no other city
slpon tho face Of the earth, yet il recalls
:vagne memories Of s hundred cities. il
owns suggestions of towns in Italy, and
Sn Spain, Of cities in England and ID
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