The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-28
OFF TO THE MARDI-GRAs.
Something Of Trip to the South.
And Sunday in the Crescent City


New ORLEANS, Feb "a, rs.
EDITOR ARGUs.-Before leaving your
city The ARGUS published a somewhat
learned account of the celebrated carnivals
held at Rome and Venice for the osten-
slble purpose of information to friend of
mine who is the manager of one Of the
large manufacturing firms of that city, and
who, | will here say, is accounted a fee
scholar, something OF an artist and was
we'll pleased With your article.
1t is therefore quite probable he and
other readers of THE ARGUS may be 10
terested in imperfect account of how the
carnival is conducted in this city. | have
not been here long enough to be able to
say very much at present. | arrived here
Yesterday morning and am stopping at a
French place and trying to get used to
their bill of fare, hours of meals and their
anti American customs. We take our
cOtfee--gOOd cOfee-at A. NJ. and break
fast at 10 when each takes his pint .oi
claret. Dinner comes at P. NJ. with more
claret. Then for amusements, none the
worse for what you have mixed with your
meals. Yesterday in the line of amuse
ments We took in the Mary Anderson
matlnee-no relation of the returning
Ooard-at | PM. In the evening we went
TO Simmons l. Slocum's Ministries and a
little church, this afternoon Fanny Daven-
port in Pique, and this evening we will
patrouize Elizabeth Van Stamnitv-bow
is this for Sunday?
BY the way, we had jolly time coming
here. Ga the way | met young lady and
u widow widow is good-and we rode
outside from Nashville Tenn. to Beunipg
ton Ala. on Friday. There WASH t much to
see through Tennessee but the scenery in
Alabama was grand. There are coal and
iron mines all through the state and other
elements OF wealth which 10 time will bring
wealth to the state.
We went thirty miles an hour all the
way, SO 1t was pretty fast panorama. We
were in valley for q little while
where every thing Was green and
bright then we were Cd top Of a
mountain, with gray rocks and pine trees.
The rocks are very dark gray and very
rugged and as we pass through the cut and
there Is no end to them, they hang right
over the cars. Some of the cuts are sixty
feet high and there are u large number of
tunnels, about halt as long as the one at
Jersey City.
We had the porter to call us at S yes
terday morning just before we got 10
Mobile bay We saw that by moonlight;
at 6 80 we got TO ST. Louis bay. the sun
was just up and never saw anything SO
lovely. The bridge across that is two
miles and half, from the bay to the city
we saw nothing but trees from hundred
to hundred and twenty feet high covered
with long gray moss, palmetto aud pine
trees and bushes of some kind covered
With rcd blossoms. The effect of the scar
let, gray aud green was beautiful. The
Conductor OF the car has promised to take
US out some morning and spend day il
the woods, | shall want to bring IONS Of
me stuff away but am afraid it will be i'm
:, You would think this was anv dav bu
sunday all the stores will be omen anc
every body at work, it is the gayest Mac
| ever saw. p'"o'
DO not suppose it would suit vonr p.
iiglous disposition. but if it interests von
may send you more anon.
Yours Lu.